In The Gulf Of Mexico, Progress Is Being Made
Posted By thestatedtruth.com on June 19, 2010
More ships are on the way……
Sometime in the next 10 days, the Helix Producer processing ship is due to arrive on the scene – and start pumping up 20,000 to 25,000 barrels (840,000 to 1.05 million gallons) of oil daily from yet another line connected to the Gulf of Mexico well’s broken blowout preventer. That will provide a huge boost to the oil-capture capacity. It’s even conceivable that BP could discontinue the Q4000 oil-burning operation, if the output from the broken well is toward the low end of the current estimates (35,000 barrels leaking per day). By mid-July, still more processing ships (including the Toisa Pisces and the Clear Leader) will be collecting oil. The capture capacity would rise to 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day, which would cover even the most dire estimates to date. By mid-July, the cap on the blowout preventer and the hookups to the well would be replaced with equipment designed to weather the hurricane season.
 BP
This diagram shows how the oil-capture operation should look by mid-July.
More at:http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/18/4528626-oil-suckers-running-at-full-tilt
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