It is a consideration, but the cure may be worse than the disease. Understand that this well is pumping oil (and other stuff) at 20 - 70K PSI. There is nothing on earth that can contain that pressure. The pressure from this well are what caused the catastrophic equipment failure. It's not really that anything didn't work right, it's that it wasn't designed to work under these pressures. Normal well pressure is around 1500 PSI.
Now also understand that this well goes into unknown territory. No one knows for sure what's at the bottom of that bore. Further, the pressure from the well has caused the casing to crack/break in many other areas besides just the well head we get to see on TV. Because of the unknowns regarding this very deep well it might not be the most practical of ideas to disturb what is already known to be a volatile and fragile situation.
I already have nightmares about a "Black Sea" in both my birthplace and current home. I wouldn't want them to exacerbate that particular scenario, but in the end it may be what happens anyway. At this point that nightmare pales in comparison to the toxins in the air over the Gulf. I worry about poison rain falling all over the Southeast here in the near future.
What...both of you said.
Someone emailed me a youtube link from a pastor, Lindsey Williams (whom I’ve never heard of, but evidently has a background in the oil industry and some high ranking contacts still in the business) and he was on a show, Alex or Allen Jones, IIRC, the other day. I’m in Utah, I’ve never heard the show. But this pastor said his upper echelon contacts in oil boardrooms have considered this, but the outcome is so unpredictable, it is frightening. It doesn’t sound like they have the stomach for that.
I guess this pastor served as a Chaplain at the Prudhome Boy outfit in Alaska. The only reason I remembered it is I never knew that pipeline installations had Chaplains.
What is it, an oil volcano?
Me too.
What I think is going to be interesting is that people are focusing on the oil becoming dispersed.
Consider that 10% of the crude are volatiles that evaporate nearly as soon as they surface.
It’s going somewhere. I wonder if that’s going to end up in the water cycle somehow in a significant way. That will be the interesting part.
No. Ineptitude caused this problem.