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To: fso301
There is a large Blowout Preventer on the sea floor.

It is multistage and certainly not cheap.

It did not fully actuate and when robot submarines tried to manual actuate it has not shut off the flow.

My personal speculation is that it nearly closed, but not completely. The flow rate from the well is only 29 gpm, or about 3 garden hoses. It seems to me that it is partial shut off.

5 posted on 04/28/2010 6:56:52 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
It did not fully actuate

Do they know why the BOP failed to actuate? I worked on a Transocean rig years ago and we had a BOP guy that thoroughly tested the BOP before it was used. That's all he did, work on that BOP, making sure it was working right.

15 posted on 04/28/2010 7:26:17 PM PDT by tommix2
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To: thackney

Covered under warranty


16 posted on 04/28/2010 7:36:12 PM PDT by Orange1998
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