[BITList] dnv farce

[franka]

colin
hate to think what they are paying for this farce
frank

On 4/5/2011 12:38 PM, x50type at cox.net wrote:
> this is what dnv came up with...............................?
> ‘farcical’ springs to mind!
> the hearings are usually televised, so far this one hasn’t – wish it 
> was; so far the dnv report appears to be of little help!
> ct
>
>                 But in testimony before a joint Marine Board panel
>                 <http://topics.nola.com/tag/oil%20spill%20hearings%20update/index.html>of
>                 Coast Guard and Interior Department investigators in
>                 Metairie on Monday, lead forensic investigator Greg
>                 Kenney said his team didn't have time to disassemble
>                 and review the valves that got the pipe stuck in the
>                 first place. Some previous testimony by rig workers
>                 indicated that a valve at the top of the BOP was open
>                 when the blowout happened, but the Det Norske Veritas
>                 report assumes it was closed, causing the pipe to bend.
>
>                 And yet, the evidence recovered from the BOP showed no
>                 physical signs of any bowed pipe. Kenney said the
>                 assumption that the pipe did bow was based on computer
>                 models. Det Norske Veritas' project manager, Neil
>                 Thompson, said the pipe was found straight when the
>                 BOP was lifted to the surface in September /_because
>                 it was elastic and returned to its natural position
>                 some time after the event._/ [drill pipe has a
>                 ‘natural’ position?—ct]
>
>                 oil-spill-hearing-neil-thompson.jpgDet Norske Veritas'
>                 project manager, Neil Thompson, answers question
>                 during the Deepwater Horizon joint investigation
>                 hearings Monday.
>
>                 But under questioning by a lawyer for BOP manufacturer
>                 Cameron International, Thompson acknowledged that one
>                 of the models depicted in the forensic report showed
>                 the pipe in thewrong position, adding again to the
>                 uncertainties in the Det Norske Veritas report.
>
>                 Thompson also admitted his team never conducted tests
>                 to determine flow pressures or figure out what forces
>                 might have caused the pipe to bend inside the BOP in
>                 the first place. One computer model showed that it
>                 would have taken an incredible 113,000
>                 pounds-per-square-inch of force on the pipe to bend it.
>
>
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