Blowouts like this at that depth and pressure have never happened. This is all new stuff.
It amazes me why the media never mentions the blowout only 650 miles to the west that blew oil for 9 months.
I guess that is because it was shallow and Mexican so that oil is different then BP oil and did not destroy the environment as a result....
But then we are building electric cars powered by coal to replace petroleum powered cars for 3-4 times the cost.
And we call others stupid.
It is not all new stuff. The technology of deep water drilling rests on over 100 years of oil drilling technology and experience. There was a first-ever on land well blowout. There was a first-ever shallow water well blowout. There was a first-ever well fire.