I already posted my solution in previous threads so I won’t bore you with the details just use your imagination.
1) Phase 1: Inject screen mesh.
2) Phase 2: Inject Sham Wow cloths of different sizes
(Pressure should be somewhat reduced & clogging after layering into the holes and being reinforced by the screen mesh)
3) Phase 3: Inject top kill mixed with human and horse hair.
As an alternative, why are they not considering lowering a much larger pipe down over the leaking area and use that to collect the escaping oil, especially while drilling other wells into this pocket? If a larger pipe is lowered over that leaking pipe, much more controlled harvesting could be done, instead of waiting for the leaking oil to spread around the Gulf, uncontrolled.
It is indeed stunning that they relied only on a blow out preventer as their single source of protection given the potential for damage that this well could produce should the unthinkable happen. In engineering terms, this is virtually engineering malpractice and rates in the order of engineering failures that have led to deaths and should be prosecuted accordingly. Every engineer associated with this collosal failure, as well as any regulatory agencies that signed off on this should be held accountable. It is an engineer’s first duty to see to it, that any project they work on, is safe. If the industry has felt safe in drilling with single blow out preventers, they should’ve known what would’ve happened if the preventers had failed, particularly at this great depth. Now, I’d suspect, if they ever allow drilling to take place in the ocean again, there will probably be reduncancy in blow out preventers, as well as probably a relief well being drilled simultaneosly with the primary well so that in the event of a failure like this, it would only take a day or two to implement the relief well fix.