Deep Sea Oil Well Tech
Can somebody explain why the folks trying to stop the Gulf oil blowout can't lower some sort of caisson—like an enormous inverted concrete funnel with a hose running from the outlet to tankers on the surface, over this thing?
What a mess. dcb |
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That was one of the first things that they tried, which didn't work. :(
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Hearings were also interesting where government officials knew beforehand that there were some problems and even more potential for bigger problems. Lee |
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Isnt that because they want problems?
So that there will be no new offshore drilling. To help keep oil prices up. Which is all that is propping up our Dollar. |
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I didn't put this in the "Political" forum for a reason.
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I'd just lay a big ass rock over it.
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Given the pressures at that depth, imagine the force with which the oil and gas is being ejected from the well. I would have been astonished if pumping-in drilling mud and assorted other muck had actually stopped the flow. dcb |
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That is going to be a very hard fix. About a mile down and with the pressures that they have to deal with. :(
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Amazing they never had a contingency plan for something like this.
Gee who could have thought that the propulsion system used to keep the free-floating oil rig in place could have EVER failed, ripping open the oil pipe. I would not want to be a BP shareholder right now...... |
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Guess I should have been paying closer attention early-on. Honestly I didn't pay this situation much mind when it first happened, then weeks passed.
I know; a mile of water is a fantastic depth. Still, if they can retrieve a spoon from Titanic—over TWO miles deep—one would think they could clumsily guide a big ol' concrete box over a busted oil well. It just doesn't add up. (I'm not trying to place blame or suggesting some silly conspiracy or malfeasance or anything of the kind; just trying to wrap my brain around why this is happening.) dcb |
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The main problem with the 125 ton container dome was not a positioning thing but rather a chemical reaction where the top of the inverted funnel got clogged with ice crystals formed by the cold temperatures and gas leaking from the pipe along with the crude. There are so many issues that come up at these depths. |
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isn't clogged what they are going for? if the funnel got clogged, and it settled over the leak...........Is my deductive reasoning not sound here?......Would that not stop at least the main leak?
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