For weeks now, I’ve seen the same discussion over and over again at the Oil Drum. Somebody looks at the picture of the sawed off riser pipe with what looks to be 2 drill pipes stuck inside of it, when they were trimming the bent over riser off the Blow Out Preventer, before they put the LMRP Oil Sucking Cap on it, and they ask,
“what is that second pipe inside the riser ?”
And the answer is, “oh, that can’t be a second drill pipe, it must have been crushed when they cut the riser off with the pipe shear. It’s a figure eight, it’s not two pipes, it’s one pipe, crushed.”
“But it looks like 2 pipes. the diameter looks too big for one pipe. ”
“yes, but it’s one. it’s crimped. ”
Guess what.
http://www.latimes.com/news/na…The gushing BP oil well is a mystery still unfolding, and late last month, a team of scientists from the Energy Department discovered a new twist: Their sophisticated imaging equipment detected not one but two drill pipes, side by side, inside the wreckage of the well’s blowout preventer on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
BP officials said it was impossible. The Deepwater Horizon rig, which drilled the well, used a single pipe, connected in segments, to bore 13,000 feet below the ocean floor. But when workers cut into the wreckage to install a containment cap this month, sure enough, they found two pipes.
Fancy that ! Bp Tony Deepwotter Spinmeister Hayward never mentioned this before, did he ?