Posted on 05/04/2010 10:27:42 AM PDT by Raebie
It would have been nice if they had one or more containment domes ready to go, but with all of the safety valves etc., they may not have foreseen a situation quite like this. I’m actually a little surprised that they will be ready to attempt this sort of direct containment by this weekend, I thought it would take even longer.
While they are at this, they should take into account the difficulty of having to remove the thing at some point in the future
Two months to deal with the well. Years and years to deal with the fall out.
Just do the math Big Pollutor.
Zero took nearly TEN DAYS to respond to this Global Ecological Disaster on his watch.
Where are the Greenies?
There’s a white vehicle parked in front of my house. It’s “potentially an unprecedented parking disaster”. But it’s probably just the mailman.
private enterprise and ingenuity is pretty amazing-
imagine if obama had put the EPA in charge of a solution, instead of just sending teams of govt lawyers to collect evidence for lawsuits to bring down BP
...because the blowout prevent has always worked?
...who knows where in the world they would be needed?
...we don’t know how to transport them? Need big boat with crane.
Maybe someone can help me out here. My understanding is there are 3 leaks, all coming from the crumpled riser pipe which appears to be in one piece.
Which leak are they placing this first one on, and if the riser pipe is in one piece, won’t it essentially come down on a portion of the pipe, either severing it or sinking it at the point of impact?
What’s interesting about the coverage is that The BP Pres. told Business Week two days ago that the break up efforts were working and no oil had come to the surface that day, and BW was the only media source that reported it. Instead we’re getting reports on the deaths of turtles that are nowhere near the spill.
“You just GOTTA ask...why didn’t they already have these made up?”
Because this leak is a worst case disaster, and you don’t make up these kinds of expensive special tools until you need them. These are being specially made to fit the necessary configuration of the damaged riser without damaging it further.
This is like expecting your city to buy a lot of expensive snow removal equipment that they may never use. Yes, big plows are very useful in that occasional heavy snowfall but it is not cost effective to buy them if you have no immediate need for them.
Instead, BP has insurance and other contingency funds to cover the construction and placement of things like this.
Pretty simple with current technology. The hard part is getting the robots to hold their breaths that long.
If they clean it all up will they still be Big Polluter?
Please tell me that Steven Baldwin and Pauly Shore will be in...
Biodome II
They DID install the automatic shut off valves. Read your link.
“This is like expecting your city to buy a lot of expensive snow removal equipment that they may never use.”
Please...it’s nothing like that...unless the town is Key West. And this is not an inconvenient snowstorm.
Listen to...
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Got anything I can read?
NO they did not.
“U.S. regulators don’t mandate use of the remote-control device on offshore rigs, and the Deepwater Horizon, hired by oil giant BP PLC, didn’t have one.”
from link
If they were dealing with 30,000psi the last thing you want to do is assume a well is dead and start opening valves.
Had they not removed the mud from the riser, that gas bubble probably would have split the riser and gone out the side instead of going up into the rig.
A bit too much overconfidence, Cement just doesn't hold all the time.
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