10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOP KILL»
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top kill in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
top kill and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Finite Frames: Theory and Applications
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sequence {kmmjzgl that majorizes {,lLm/}Z,:1 into a shorter sequence {)im_1;m/}$
,_:11 that interlaces with {ltfiumrmel and majorizes {,umrmfzll. As such, one may
indeed ...
Peter G. Casazza, Gitta Kutyniok, 2012
2
Disaster on the Horizon: High Stakes, High Risks, and the ...
On Friday the 28th, Admiral Allen made a public statement that they had stopped
the flow of oil with mud, fueling a premature media frenzy that the top kill had
been successful.12 He later backed off that assertion when BP said they would ...
3
Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore ...
BP's top-kill team began work in the immediate aftermath of the initial efforts to
trigger the BOP166 In planning the operation, both BP and federal engineers
modeled different scenarios based on different rates at which oil might be flowing
from ...
National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Dril, 2011
4
Macondo: The Gulf Oil Disaster, Chief Counsel's Report, 2011
In BP's early analyses of its failed late-May top kill attempt, the company
concluded that the rupture disks in the 16-inch casing may have collapsed
inward during the initial blowout.101 The disks could have collapsed if
hydrocarbons had ...
National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
5
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to
Kill the BP Oil ...
In trying to kill Macondo, the engineers had already gone through plan A and
plan B and plan C and plan D—the BOP intervention, the cofferdam, the Riser
Insertion Tube Tool, and then the top kill—and were now simultaneously working
on ...
6
The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks
For example interior live oak has relatively thin bark and complete top-kill is
common even after light ground fires (Plumb and Gomez, 1983). In contrast, the
thick bark of coast live oak (along with the bur oak of eastern USA) ranks it
among the ...
Paul S. Johnson, Stephen R. Shifley, Robert Rogers, 2009
7
The 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill
The idealised action of a top kill operation given in the first two sentences of the
preceding paragraph could be demonstrated very easily in laboratory simulation
using simply a U-tube, oil being admitted to one limb and drilling fluid to the other
...
John Clifford Jones, 2010
8
Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications
After the relief wells were completed, heavy fluids and cement could be pumped
down the damaged hole to kill the well, this is referred to as a top kill. The only
problem with this plan is it would take a minimum of 90 days to accomplish. Thus
...
Lee T. Ostrom, Cheryl A. Wilhelmsen, 2012
9
The Douglas-fir Tussock Moth: A Synthesis
Grand fir and Douglas-fir top-kill related to degree of defoliation (from Wickman
1978). 4.3.2.2 Related to Diameter Classes Small trees generally suffer more
mortality from direct effects of defoliation, and large trees suffer more mortality as
a ...
Martha H. Brookes, Ronald W. Stark, Robert W. Campbell, 1978
10
Incident Specific Preparedness Review (ISPR) Deepwater ...
Top Kill The Top Kill effort began on May 26 and ended on May 28. The “official”
flow rate throughout the Top Kill preparation and at the beginning of the Top Kill
operation was 5,000 BPD. Information gained through the Coast Guard's ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOP KILL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
top kill is used in the context of the following news items.
America's Top Killing Machine
That's according to a Center for American Progress report, which cites CDC data that shows guns will kill more Americans under 25 than cars in 2015. Already ... «The Atlantic, Jan 15»
Dr. Seussian Mystery Fluid Could Have Saved Top Kill
BP, which owned the well, planned to pump heavy drilling mud into the well in a project called “top kill.” The plan was for dense mud to sink through the oil and ... «Wired News, Feb 11»
Top kill? Junk shot? A primer on BP's wacky oil spill terminology
The names of methods used by BP to attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil spill invoke, variously, B-action-movie titles (“top kill”), uncomfortably phallic imagery ... «National Post, May 10»
Top kill fails: How LMRP containment cap (Lower Marine Riser …
So it is clear that installing the LMRP cap is far riskier than the top hat, top kill or junk shot. So why is it risky? As a scuba diver, I have never gone deeper than ... «San Francisco Chronicle, May 10»
BP Prepares to Take New Tack on Leak After 'Top Kill' Fails
The abandonment of the top kill technique, the most ambitious effort yet to plug the well, was the latest in a series of failures. First, BP failed in efforts to repair a ... «New York Times, May 10»
BP 'top kill' falters: Macondo well keeps spewing oil into the Gulf
It will take 7 years for the oil deposit below the Deepwater Horizon well to empty if left alone. On Saturday, BP acknowledged it may abandon its best chance so ... «Christian Science Monitor, May 10»
The BP 'top kill' live feed: The armchair explorer's guide
BP's attempt to cork the Deepwater Horizon well is being streamed live on the Web. But what's really going on in the BP 'top kill' live feed? «Christian Science Monitor, May 10»
BP uses "Top Kill" to stop oil leak (21 images)
A frame grab of the live video stream of operations to stop the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is seen on May 27, 2010. BP has executed its "Top Kill" process, which ... «UPI.com, May 10»
After delay, BP restarts 'top kill' effort
The light-brown material that was seen spilling out of the well throughout Thursday was the previously pumped fluid from the "top kill" procedure mixed with oil, ... «CNN, May 10»
BP's bottom line on 'top kill' -- wait a day
In Robert, Louisiana, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles would not comment on the impact of the "top kill." "It's too hard to say," he said. "I think we just need ... «CNN, May 10»
