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what happened, keith, they shut that ram in a couple of hours ago. in fact, it was right after kent welles technical briefing. and that s done hydraulically, and it closes pretty quickly, because it s a ram, and it s a blind ram that closes off that entire opening. that diverts the flow to these side valves. there s two in the old legacy stack and there s two in this new stack. and they ve been gradually closing the side valves. the only one we can see is on the rov feed is the one on the left and it looks like only one is open, but you can t see the bottom valves, so i m not sure exactly how many they have closed. any idea why the government s delay could not have come before bp took the last cap off? i mean, why ask for a delay once the oil is gushing even more than it had been, about concerns that had been raised during top kill months ago? this sure seems on the fly. this totally ad lib. at this point, that they didn t have all these steps worked out. and what tells me that ....
Welles technical briefing. and that s done hydraulically, and it closes pretty quickly, because it s a ram, and it s a blind ram that closes off that entire opening. that diverts the flow to these side valves. there s two in the old legacy stack and there s two in this new stack. and they ve been gradually closing the side valves. the only one we can see is on the rov feed is the one on the left and it looks like only one is open, but you can t see the bottom valves, so i m not sure exactly how many they have closed. any idea why the government s delay could not have come before bp took the last cap off? i mean, why ask for a delay once the oil is gushing even more than it had been, about concerns that had been raised during top kill months ago? this sure seems on the fly. this totally ad lib. at this point, that they didn t have all these steps worked out. and what tells me that this was not a planned step was that there was nothing in the communication written between the coast ....
Hours ago. in fact, it was right after kent welles technical briefing. and that s done hydraulically, and it closes pretty quickly, because it s a ram, and it s a blind ram that closes off that entire opening. that diverts the flow to these side valves. there s two in the old legacy stack and there s two in this new stack. and they ve been gradually closing the side valves. the only one we can see is on the rov feed is the one on the left, and it looks like only one is open, but you can t see the bottom valves, so i m not sure exactly how many they have closed. any idea why the government s delay could not have come before bp took the last cap off? i mean, why ask for a delay once the oil is gushing even more than it had been, about concerns that had been raised during top kill months ago? this sure seems on the fly. this is totally ad-lib at this point, that they didn t have all these steps worked out. and what tells me that this was not a planned step was that there was nothing ....