Containment Dome In The Gulf Of Mexico

Containment dome in the Gulf of Mexico BP, which is held responsible for the costs of cleaning up the oil spill, hopes to contain the oil leak with the help of specially engineered concrete-and-steel domes which would trap the leaking oil Deepwater Enterprise drill vessel 3 Here the oil is being separated from the water at 15,000 bpd 4 Carrier barge Delivering the oil to the coast Capacity: 137,000 barrels 2 Pipeline Delivering the mixture of water and oil from In theory, the containment dome should collect 85% of the leaking oil. However, such technology the dome to the surface has not been used before at the depth of the current disaster Dome specifics Weight: 125 metric 12 m tons Containment dome Pressure There will be three of these. The first one will cover the worst at the depth of the disaster: leak (from the broken oil pipeline) within a week 150 atmospheres 7.3 m RIANOVOSTI © 2010 www.rian.ru