MB Civic

By Joel Achenbach and Alec McGinnis | Sunday, May 30, 2010 | The Washington Post

“…Sitting on the sea floor and awaiting deployment is a new containment dome, what the company calls the Lower Marine Riser Package cap. With robotic submarines, the company will sever the leaking, kinked riser pipe that emerges from the top of the blowout preventer, the five-story-tall contraption on top of the wellhead. Then engineers will guide the LMRP cap onto the pipe. The cap is fitted with a grommet designed to keep out seawater and prevent the formation of slushy methane hydrates that bedeviled an earlier containment dome effort…”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/29/AR2010052900561_pf.html