The current system involves a containment cap on top of BP’s failed blowout preventer equipment at the seabed that channels oil through a fixed pipe to the Enterprise a mile above, according to BP.Ī drillship is a vessel equipped with a drilling rig that can stay in place for long periods while drilling, testing and completing offshore wells.
“We will have a vessel called the Helix Q4000 on location and working hopefully today (Tuesday) that will be burning oil that is produced up to that vessel,” McKay said at the hearing. The increase is part of an overall plan to raise that capacity to 80,000 barrels a day by mid-July, according to BP’s plan submitted to the U.S. That system would increase BP’s capacity to handle oil siphoned from the deep-sea well to up to 28,000 barrels a day, according to BP. Hours before the shutdown was publicly known, McKay told the committee that the second system would “hopefully” would be working on Tuesday.
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The company also said in its update on oil collection for the first 12 hours of Tuesday that a faulty sensor caused another 30-minute shutdown.īP had aimed to start up a second containment system that would increase surface oil-handling capacity to 28,000 barrels a day. House of Representatives subcommittee on energy and environment where he testified with other top executives of major oil companies.īP spokesman Robert Wine said BP suspects a lightning strike ignited vapors escaping from a vent pipe connected to storage tanks holding captured oil on the drillship. operations, emerged from a lengthy hearing in Washington of the U.S. The company announced the fire and shutdown minutes after Lamar McKay, president of BP America, the company’s U.S. The Enterprise can process a maximum of 18,000 barrels a day, though BP initially said it could handle up to 15,000 barrels a day.
The system had been collecting more than 7,000 barrels every 12 hours. BP didn’t say how much it was capturing upon the restart, but the system surpassed 15,000 barrels a day on its fifth day of operation.īP said on its website that the system collected 5,610 barrels of oil during the first 12 hours of Tuesday, which reflected the shutdown. The containment system has been capturing more than 15,000 barrels a day for a week. He said the 60,000 barrel-per-day figure is “less certain,” but the need to be ready for the worst is “why we are continuing to focus on responding to the upper end of the estimate.” Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement.Ĭhu said the revised estimate stems from data gathered from pressure meters that were placed on a containment cap corralling some of the oil at the seabed last weekend.
The latest estimate “represents a significant step forward in our effort to put a number on the oil that is escaping from BP’s well,” U.S. That team initially estimated the leak to range from 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day, and last week increased that to 20,000 to 40,000 barrels per day. The estimated range includes the oil being captured. scientists significantly revised its estimate of the “most likely flow rate of oil today” to 35,000 to 60,000 barrels (1.47 million gallons to 2.5 million gallons/5.56 million liters to 9.5 million liters) a day. Coast Guard confirmed the restart, a team of U.S. The fire at the top of the derrick on Transocean Ltd’s Discoverer Enterprise drillship was quickly extinguished, and no one was hurt, BP said. HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc restarted its Gulf of Mexico oil-capture system on Tuesday nearly five hours after a small fire on the vessel capturing the crude prompted a shutdown.ĭuring the shutdown, oil gushed unchecked from the company’s ruptured well.
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