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Hurricane Question
Posted on 5/6/10 at 2:20 pm
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 on 5/6/10 at 4:36 pm to MSTiger33
What happens in rough weather?
Posted on 5/6/10 at 4:42 pm to MSTiger33
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 on 5/6/10 at 5:51 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
Do they connect the pipe to a buoy or something or do they disconnect the pipe at the sea floor?
Posted on 5/6/10 at 6:26 pm to MSTiger33
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.
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 on 5/7/10 at 8:41 am to Sid in Lakeshore
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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