Keywords: Deepwater Horizon oil spill recovery context bigfont.svg en contextual overview of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill recovery area showing both sea surface and subsea Scale has been distorted for clarity and only the main equipment is shown At the centre is a subsea blowout preventer stack installed on the seabed with a riser insertion tube in place to its left and kill and choke lines connected to a top kill mud manifold to its right Relief wells 1 and 2 are shown at the extreme right and left each drilling down to meet the blown centre well Legend red represents the blowout preventer stack grey represents the oil flow passage white tubing represents the kill left and choke right lines brown represents the top of the subsea well casing the five grey rectangles within the lower red shape represent ram-type blowout preventers the two grey rectangles within the upper red shape represent annular-type blowout preventers the orange pipes are flexible hoses connected to various rigid pipes Own illustration created with approximate reference to the following sources http //www offshore-mag com/index/article-display/323550/articles/offshore/equipment-engineering/us-gulf-of-mexico/cameron-wins-evo-subsea-bop-stack-contract html BP technical briefing linked at http //www offshore-mag com/index/article-display/5210928327/articles/offshore/deepwater-horizon/deepwater-horizon14 html Kent Wells technical update video linked at http //bp concerts com/gom/kentwells_update24052010 htm especially the illustration at time 6 54 BBC diagram at http //news bbc co uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10159626 stm Economist diagram at http //media economist com/images/images-magazine/2010/21/ST/201021STC294 gif Using Inkscape 0 47 2010-05-27 User 84user thumb left Similar context with smaller font thumb left Subsea blowout preventer stack with top kill mud lines shown unattached thumb left stack with top kill mud lines attached thumb left stack set up for a top kill plus riser insertion tube thumb left stack in top kill mode plus riser insertion tube and kill mud manifold thumb left context diagram with large text font validSVG http //validator w3 org/check uri Created with Inkscape Oceanographic diagrams Blowout preventers Deepwater Horizon oil spill |