The rate of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP Deepwater Horizon damaged wellhead increased dramatically today as a containment cap failed. The only plan on the table for stopping the flow of oil is a parallel relief well that will take until August or September.
A video grab of oil flowing from the damaged BP Deepwater Horizon wellhead, 06/10/10. (photo: Reuters)
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The tap could even be a hollow core one, also threaded on the inside diameter, to accommodate a bolt with teflon taped threads to seal the inside of the tap, until the well could be used at some future time.
I can't believe the lack of creative imagination by BP, transoceanic, and our own government in coming to resolution to brainstorm and find a viable plan to stop this event!!!
A tap, like a drill, can be used from above the sea surface, using proper equipment to extend down a mile, or used underwater, on the sea floor, by a deep submersible and skilled operator.
Perhaps you missed the news reports that part of the reason that the crimped part of the pipe was cut off was because the back pressure was causing the casing of the well to fail and there is a danger of what is left of the wellhead blowing out of the sea floor leaving nothing to connect to and destroying even the limited capability of collecting. In other words, shutting of the flow would make things much worse.
Next Navy underwater demolitions will implode the well using conventional high yield explosives and be done with it once and for all. No further deep water drilling will be allowed to continue ever. What is left of BP goes to pay off the 25 year clean up coming. This is the only just result to make things "right."
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