BP put new drilling rig over wrecked Macondo Well..Dec 4 2012

BP announced plans to further "investigate" the still-spewing oil at its wrecked Macondo Well and seafloor in that vicinity 50 miles off Louisiana's coast and, according to a Wings of Care flyover video and photos released Sunday, the company has a new drilling platform almost directly over that area

"The device will allow engineers to get a better handle on whether the oil sheen that was confirmed this fall by the Coast Guard is coming from a so-called cofferdam that was installed to capture oil right after the explosion — which is what BP has sought to claim — but could also show whether the oil is seeping from cracks in the ocean floor, a worst-case scenario," writes environmental attorney Stuart Smith Tuesday.

"We were surprised to find a new drilling platform sitting almost right over the wellhead, and a large drillship also in the vicinity," writes Schumaker. "We were dismayed to find many large surface slicks in the area, as well as some new ones along the eastern coast of Louisiana south of Black Bay."

"The new platform that has appeared over the Deepwater Horizon wellhead bears the name 'ENSCO 8502'," she says, providing additional photographs on the Wings of Care website.

"About 10 nm south of the ENSCO 8502 platform and the wellhead, we found a large mobile drillship named 'ENSCO DS-3' with two supply boats -- the C Legacy and the Jack Edwards," Schumaker meticulously reports about her flyover on Sunday. "A small oil slick was adjacent to this drillship running westward about 500 m, about 10 m in width. Another 2 nm farther south was a working BP platform 'MC474A,' which was flaring and which also had a small slick extending westward from it, about the same size, roughly 500 m in length and about 10 m wide."

[link to www.examiner.com]

PDF] ENSCO 8502
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