I like the idea. Properly weighted and hooked to piping. it almost seems like it would be a thing to have on hand in an area like the Gulf.
Now, obviously, 5000 ft of, what? 18 inch diameter pipe or so is a boat load...
But c’mon - we’re Americans!!! We can get this thing done! Where’s Red Adair?
Found an update:
Meanwhile, the UK supermajor is fabricating components to connect a subsea oil recovery system to Transocean’s drillship Discoverer Enterprise in order to collect oil leaking from Macondo and store it within the rig’s storage tanks.
Mechanism
The structure was already completed at the Wild Well Control yard in Port Fourchon, Louisiana but crews continue work on the equipment needed to connect the structure to the Discoverer Enterprise.
The Discoverer Enterprise is capable of receiving 20,000 barrels per day and can store over 125,000 barrels within its hull, Suttles said.
The oil will then be offloaded using the 300,000 barrel Overseas Cascade shuttle tanker, which was recently converted for Brazilian operator Petrobras.
BP expects to deploy this recovery system within two to four weeks. The same system has been used in shallow water, but never in the deep-water Gulf.
“The issue is to make certain it can withstand the pressure of the much deeper water at the side and to be able to sort out the various topsides processing issues,” BP chief financial officer Byron Grote said in an analysts call earlier this week.
Attempts to shut off the flow through the BOP with an ROV have not been successful, Suttles said, but those efforts will continue with eight different ROVs
http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article213349.ece
29 April 2010 06:32 GMT
Scroll down at the link for the part above
1 Red was a fire fighter. On an uncontrolled blowout at 5,000 ft sea depth he would be of no help.
2 Red is dead.