Posted on 05/04/2010 10:27:42 AM PDT by Raebie
NEW ORLEANS — BP reported some progress yesterday in its efforts to stem oil leaks from an undersea well off the Louisiana coast that have created what President Obama called a “potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.’’
Bill Salvin, a company spokesman, said that crews had finished building a containment dome, a 4-story, 70-ton structure that the company plans to lower into place over one of the three leaks to catch the escaping oil and allow it to be pumped to the surface.
Two more domes would be completed today, Salvin said, and crews hoped to install all three domes by the weekend.
“That will essentially eliminate most of the issues you have with oil in the water,’’ he said.
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Ok the logistics of lowering a 70 ton water tight chamber down 5000 feet and hitting an area probably 10 ft x 10 ft is pretty amazing.
Praying this works.”
You just GOTTA ask...why didn’t they already have these made up?
It will. The people in the oil industry are damn smart. They actuually do something for a living and create vvalue unlike politciians and union govt employee leeches.
I’m sure that question will be beaten into the ground over the next year or so.
Ok the logistics of lowering a 70 ton water tight chamber down 5000 feet and hitting an area probably 10 ft x 10 ft is pretty amazing.
It would be amazing if it worked with all the currents, wind, etc.
They were still testing smaller prototypes...
That’s what I was wondering.
You’ve got how many wellheads in the Gulf?
Shouldn’t something like this, DOZENS OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS, already have been constructed and ready?
Build one around the White House. Better yet, contain DC.
This will be like trying to lower a soup can from a helicopter from a mile up to cap a burning cigarette. Good luck.
It’s a tad heavier than a soup can.
Of course.
And let’s hope NP installs automatic shut off valves on all other wells too...whether or not they are required or not.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html
In zero-visability water nonetheless.
Shhhh!... Keep that quiet.
Unnecessary as every producing oil or gas well in the gulf has a sub surface safety valve and an excess flow valve in place which will shut the well in even if the surface platform is completely removed by impact with an aircraft carrier or some such thing.
There are about 5K active wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
Are they building these from scratch or retrofitting existing ones? Because I know they’ve used them before after hurricanes...in shallower water, but this isn’t something brand new.
Sounds like a plot to a movie starring John Wayne or Charleton Heston or even Bruce Willis doesn’t it.
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