Cool! Do you have even one example of where an oil well has been controlled using this method?>>>>>>>>
Explosives have only capped wells above ground as far as I know. There is stuff on the internet claiming the Russians used nukes to cap oil wells that got into trouble
Some people are overplaying it like a Global Kill Event, but others like Rush are downplaying it way too much.
The truth is in the middle, but as usual the hot potato game makes it opaque...not to mention there seems to be a lack of clear information.
You don't cap an oil well by blowing the wellhead off. Explosives are used to snuff out oil well fires by depriving the fire of oxygen. That does not seal the well, it changes the problem.
The trick is to get in there and get a valve on the well, flanged up, bolted down and closed before the well reignites, which it can do just by static electricity discharges.
Dangerous work, but generally simpler than what BP is doing now.
Keep in mind the fire isn't extinguished until the means are available to shut the well in.