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Hurricane Question

Posted on 5/6/10 at 2:20 pm
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 5/6/10 at 2:20 pm
Let's say the contraption successfully covers the wellhead and allows the pumping ships to control the leak while BP drills the relief well. What happens if we have a hurricane? Does the ship disconnect and return to port? What happens to the contraption?
Posted by Oyster
North Shore
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 5/6/10 at 4:36 pm to
What happens in rough weather?
Posted by Sid in Lakeshore
Member since Oct 2008
41956 posts
Posted on 5/6/10 at 4:42 pm to
The ship will likely disconnect in rough seastates. Disconnection will probably result in continued spilling untill reconnect and processing. Hopefully relief wells are successful before disconnect is required, assuming the contraption works, which is likely but not guaranteed.
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
21415 posts
Posted on 5/6/10 at 5:51 pm to
Do they connect the pipe to a buoy or something or do they disconnect the pipe at the sea floor?
Posted by Sid in Lakeshore
Member since Oct 2008
41956 posts
Posted on 5/6/10 at 6:26 pm to
Not sure....but I doubt they will use a bouy.

Probably will disconnect at top of the "box" and haul arse when Hurricanne comes. Hope the "box" is undamaged by the passage of the storm. Designing a bouy system to withstand a hurricane would take longer than the time they had.

Just conjecture though.
Posted by back9Tiger
Island Coconut Salesman
Member since Nov 2005
17547 posts
Posted on 5/7/10 at 8:41 am to
Sofec designs and fabricates mooring systems for fpso, drillships etc for this specific purpose so they would have a quick solution if this happened.
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