Opening the well for a few minutes revealed a true gusher: a flow rate of 37, 500 barrels per day.
They are aiming to establish the tidal flow rate at various depths in order to assess the river's potential to generate electricity.
It quickly became obvious, however, that there was more oil accumulating at the surface than would be possible at that flow rate.
We had new flow rate numbers several weeks ago, as you know.
The remaining criminal count pertains to two BP communications made to a member of Congress during the spill response about flow rate estimates.
As water is flowing, the throttle is manipulated to control the water pressure being supplied to the discharges, this in turn affects the flow rate.
But this is -- simply observing where the oil is coming out is insufficient to really calculate any flow rate with any degree of accuracy.
The trick is to find a way to make this flow rate change when the chemical that the sensor has been designed to detect is present.
Mix and other engineers had worked tirelessly to calculate the flow rate of oil from the Macondo Well in order to develop a means of stopping the spill.
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We have two models for a flow out of the wellhead that were done by our Flow Rate Technical Group under Marcia McNutt of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Bullard seems to agree, even though he does suggest the flow rate, or pace, of asset purchases, should be the way for them to signal their intentions to markets.
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Assuming an average flow rate of about 1.5 million homes per year, you can eyeball the stock deficit by comparing the mass above and below the zero on the following graph.
Understanding that, again, the Flow Rate Technical Group was stood up -- and as Admiral Allen has said countless number of times, our response was not dictated upon a flow mechanism.
The whole system could cope with a flow of 200, 000 barrels a day more than three times the 63, 000 barrels a day the government estimates was the Macondo well's peak flow rate.
The flow rate group, using new information and pressure readings -- Secretary Chu asked and directed BP to take pressure monitor readings from inside their two top vents inside the top cap itself.
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Is the flow rate still, slow or fast?
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We ought to be ruthless in our oversight of BP, and trying to understand what oil is not being contained that's leaking out around that rubber seal, once we know what that flow rate is.
He is creating computer simulations to model the liver, so optimum channel size, flow rate and density of cells can be calculated as accurately as possible, before the artificial liver is constructed in the laboratory.
While Bullard said forward guidance is ineffective, and asked for a modification in the flow rate of asset purchases (Fed code for more money printing), they both agree the Fed has to do more to stimulate the economy.
"Before Top Kill commenced, Mix and other engineers had concluded internally that Top Kill was unlikely to succeed if the flow rate was greater than 15, 000 barrels of oil per day, " the Justice Department said in a statement announcing the charges.
So the Flow Rate Technical Group is going back and looking at the information that we have now, the information post the shear cut, and whether or not, as the Admiral said, we can get a closer range as to what has happened.
Understanding that the latest flow rate estimate that we have is 60, 000 barrels per day -- with the Helix online, which was scheduled to happen at the late end of June, you had the potential capability of almost 53, 000 barrels, which is 90 percent.
"It is telling that the Department of Justice's charges against Kurt Mix surround efforts to cover up the fact that BP's public estimates of the oil flow rate were far lower than the actual flow rate, " the group said in a statement on the arrest.
But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model which can be used by doctors and environmental specialists to quantify the effect of the pollutants on the lung function as measured by the peak expiratory flow rate-- which is essentially how much a person can breathe out in one breath.
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But the Flow Rate Technical Group was set up, and because we had a better idea and could use better equipment, NASA equipment, equipment from all over the government, to get as best an estimate as we could for an event that is happening 5, 000 feet below the surface of the water.
With the majority of CDOs being backed by mortgages, the principal-only tranche has a known future cash flow, but at a variable rate of return, while the interest-only tranche has both an unknown cash flow and an unknown rate of return on that cash flow.
Some newer engines also have flow-rate monitors for the discharges, these show the rate of water flowing in Gallons per Minute (GPM) instead of raw pressure.
Mix had been assigned to estimate the size of the spill, and one of the messages investigators recovered "includes real-time flow-rate analysis" during an effort to plug the damaged well.
Oil should at last start to flow at a rate of more than 2.5m barrels a day, the figure two years before the American invasion of 2003, but not by much more than that.
If a firm can deploy the incremental dollar of cash flow at a rate of return greater than its cost of capital, it should pursue acquisitions or internal capital projects, as these methods will be the fastest way to build shareholder value.
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