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Posted on 4/30/10 at 6:14 am to Jazzyjoker
I don't know why everyone is so focused on the next 3 days. They may not be able to stop the flow of oil for 60 days or more. The entire U.S. Gulf Coast will get Oil on their beaches. Big Oil has never committed the appropriate resources to preventing disasters like this. It's all a bottom line cost item.
Posted on 4/30/10 at 6:50 am to TenTex
Where are all the experts who at first were saying the oil would disperse and this wouldn't have much of an envirionmental impact? 
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:08 am to DeltaDoc
Catastrophic
They better get some giant arse corks and plug those 3 holes
They better get some giant arse corks and plug those 3 holes
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:12 am to ike221
they only need to plug one hole
think of it as a hose and it has 3 holes in it. same amount of liquid will flow through. they just need to shut it at the base
think of it as a hose and it has 3 holes in it. same amount of liquid will flow through. they just need to shut it at the base
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:13 am to ike221
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They better get some giant arse corks and plug those 3 holes
they are trying some chemical process to stop the oil, will this work?..anyone know info about this new technology?
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:14 am to mylsuhat
Serious question. I know there is a whole hell of a lot of pressure pushing this oil up. But would shooting torpedoes into the well not maybe collapse the well? I heard it discussed but didn't hear why it wouldn't work.
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:16 am to CootKilla
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:18 am to mylsuhat
thanks
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:23 am to CootKilla
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maybe collapse the well?
Why not incase it with a concrete like substance?
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:23 am to CootKilla
Any new developments overnight? On my phone on the way to hammond, not too safe to try and read through 9 pages 
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:23 am to Clyde Tipton
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Why not incase it with a concrete like substance?
because its not 350 ft below, its 5,000!!!!
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:25 am to longhorn22
eventually once the relief well is drilled they will pump it with HEAVY mud to stop the flow
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:27 am to CootKilla
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Serious question. I know there is a whole hell of a lot of pressure pushing this oil up. But would shooting torpedoes into the well not maybe collapse the well? I heard it discussed but didn't hear why it wouldn't work.
Make it much worse as you would blow the top off the bottle. The well is lined with steel casing all the way down to the oil reservoir. If you blow the top section of pipe off the well there nothing restricting the flow at all.
There is still a chance they can get the control mechanism(BOP) on the top of the well to close it in.
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:32 am to Oyster
This really sucks is all I have to say.
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:34 am to Oyster
they have closed the casing shear rams on the BOP which has restricted the flow some what. They are in the process of closing the blind shear rams and they believe this will greatly diminish if not shut of the flow.
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:34 am to trident
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they have closed the casing shear rams on the BOP which has restricted the flow some what. They are in the process of closing the blind shear rams and they believe this will greatly diminish if not shut of the flow.
this happened late last night. great sign
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:35 am to trident
Just waking up on the west coast and checking in. Let's all hope those little robots and the people controlling them can get this thing stopped sooner than later.
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:36 am to mylsuhat
what is your dads initals. he is got to be a higher up
Posted on 4/30/10 at 7:36 am to longhorn22
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because its not 350 ft below, its 5,000!!!!
You can run casing down deep as you want I would think. However, obviously that won't work or it would have been done.
Cost can't be a factor in that...
This post was edited on 4/30/10 at 7:38 am
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