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Description Q4000-Discoverer-Enterprise.jpg |
English:
The mobile offshore drilling unit
Q4000
holds position directly over the damaged
Deepwater Horizon
blowout preventer
as crews work to plug the wellhead using a technique known as "
top kill
,". The procedure was unsuccessful in its intention to stem the flow of oil and gas and ultimately kill the well by injecting heavy drilling fluids through the blow out preventer on the seabed down into the well. The
en:Discoverer Enterprise
is in the foreground.
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Date | |
Source | http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=887421 |
Author | . U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley. |
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