Posted on 05/29/2010 2:27:01 PM PDT by boycott
yorkie01
NO WAY!
If somebody comes up with another stupid idea of blowing anything else up ...The FBI, CIA, Military, and OATH Keepers needs to step in!
Let me make my point....You have pristeen conditions nearly in the hole to this point except for 2-4 things ...casing ,drill steel, many joints of reduced casing, joints
Rock that is not in the way...just try to blow some of the casing up an you will find yourself looking at a hell of a mess...
It was. It failed.
With a fail safe, no-human-action-required, mechanism?
the ‘bowl’ could be inflated soon after a major spill or leak or blowout
Yes.
I did search myself. Here is what wiki says:
In deeper offshore operations with the wellhead on the sea floor, there are five primary means in which a BOP may be activated. The means are:
* automatic based on excessive pressure;
* automatic based on excessive flow;
* remote by an electrical command from the surface through a cable;
* manual based on external movement of a valve lever done underwater
Obviously I’ve never worked with a valve that deep but here is my guess. Most excessive flow valves work not off of flow but pressure differential across the valve. If there was a flow valve up on the platform or if their was NG coming up the pipe, there may not have been enough dP to force the valve closed before it was damaged. That’s why I come back to the idea that an external source of stored power actuated by a “dead man switch” (a NC hydraulic relay, if you must) being required.
Plug the leak with Obama, Pelosi, Reid and BP CEO
I have drilled straight up ....Yes that is right straight up and have used fir trees to plug holes at 2000 feet down hole that was “straight up” CORING WIRELINE no one has been more sucssesful go figure... cemented a “river” 100,000 minute, underground off with cement in a cement mine in Riverside California. Drilled on Nv test site .... On how to do shit means keep the idiots out of the way
Most BOP's have 'dead man switches which actuate when communication to the actuator is lost.
You gonna dig it up? It likely would take Michelle’s too.
My idea, dig up Teddy’s fat ass, haul it out there on a barge, and use that as a cap.
LOL
“I wonder what Sarah would have done.”
Action would have been taken the day the rig went down and oil started spewing. She would have been on site, and we would have competent people in gov’t to deal with this. BP would be towing the line instead of spewing their nothingness and we would have tankers sucking up anything coming to the serface. Before now the leak would be sealed and we would not be facing a Gulf disaster of epic proportions.
Romney likely would not be doing much different than Zero has done, btw.
That would work, too!
Drill on both sides of it, insert low yield tactical nukes, Pop ‘em off underground and collapse the well with the pressure waves.
Won’t work. Lard floats.
Normally they’re dropped to seal the perforations but the kicker here is the main leak is above the BOP and they’re coming in from the side.
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