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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (134721)6/12/2010 3:03:25 PM
From: Aggie1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 206201
 
Hi Elroy,

Let me clarify: ROV spreads typically have very good cameras, but are limited by oceanic visibility. The pictures in the ROV cabin are often quite good if the water is clear. The pictures onshore are more a product of the bandwidth available with the vessel's VSAT system. What we are seeing on the internet is that feed. It is sharing bandwidth with every other communications device on board. Those systems range from 512K to 5MB, in my experience. Usually it's not terrifically important that the landlubbers get great video feeds from the rig.

I guess Congress saw what the ROV operators saw because they got the DVD from the boat.

All that aside - and bearing in mind that I am unequivocally NOT a defender of BP - I would say it is still profoundly more difficult to estimate a well flow on a silent TV screen subject to water visibility, than it is standing next to it.

Aggie
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