Posted on 05/02/2010 1:36:27 AM PDT by myknowledge
Interesting point. I’m sorry if I dragged that discussion to this thread. I’ll copy-paste your post to a better spot ...
According to the guy on the rig, the zone they drilled into was about 30,000psi.
Production casing and production tubing is designed to hold that pressure, riser pipe isn’t. Even pipe that is designed to hold that pressure won’t hold when ther is a quick kick in preaaure. Everything just starts coming apart.
They had cemented the well. Gas had worked it’s way through the cement. It happens. When they opened the BOP a gas bubble blew out and went up the riser pipe to the rig. They had taken the mud out of the riser pipe to unhook, and it was full of salt water. The salt water in the riser pipe blew out the hole first, then the gas blew out. The entire rig filled with gas and it ignited.
We are so vulnerable to these types of actions!
We haven’t seen anything yet!
Not “if” but “when”.
10-4!!
Thank you, blackie.
Microwave oven with something inside it. Diffused by robot, day after Times Square. A low-tech explosion could be caused — chems in a microwave oven. Urg! Very dangerous if misused.
“Fox is hinting at Islamic Terrorists as the possible group behind the bomb.
These days I’m more inclined to suspect the Obama Administration.”
What is the difference?
That do that in the movies all of the time...
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