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User ID: 1003564 United States 06/18/2010 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well.. Ho, it is NOT B.S., it is 100% accurate. They could have clipped the riser above the bend which would have restricted the flow considerably -- and then place a top cap over this. However, they opened'er up all the way for exactly the reason described above. Not new information for many on here but certainly not B.S. Have a nice day = GFY. GFY = Go Fuck Yourself. If this offends you then have a nice day. |
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User ID: 988768 Australia 06/18/2010 08:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.theoildrum.com] Quoting: Inquiring MindGo to the comment about half way down the page written by dougr on June 13, 2010 - 3:17am This is the scariest thing I've read so far. Based on this article, I am going to do everything I can to get my husband to let us move off of the East Coast of FL - it won't be an easy task. The Oil Drum is a forum where industry insiders discuss topics related to energy. Quote: "I took some time to go into a bit of detail concerning the failure of Top Kill because this was a significant event. To those of us outside the real inside loop, yet still fairly knowledgeable, it was a major confirmation of what many feared. That the system below the sea floor has serious failures of varying magnitude in the complicated chain, and it is breaking down and it will continue to. What does this mean? It means they will never cap the gusher after the wellhead. They cannot...the more they try and restrict the oil gushing out the bop?...the more it will transfer to the leaks below. Just like a leaky garden hose with a nozzle on it. When you open up the nozzle?...it doesn't leak so bad, you close the nozzle?...it leaks real bad, same dynamics. It is why they sawed the riser off...or tried to anyway...but they clipped it off, to relieve pressure on the leaks "down hole". I'm sure there was a bit of panic time after they crimp/pinched off the large riser pipe and the Diamond wire saw got stuck and failed...because that crimp diverted pressure and flow to the rupture down below. Contrary to what most of us would think as logical to stop the oil mess, actually opening up the gushing well and making it gush more became direction BP took after confirming that there was a leak. In fact if you note their actions, that should become clear. They have shifted from stopping or restricting the gusher to opening it up and catching it. This only makes sense if they want to relieve pressure at the leak hidden down below the seabed.....and that sort of leak is one of the most dangerous and potentially damaging kind of leak there could be. It is also inaccessible which compounds our problems. There is no way to stop that leak from above, all they can do is relieve the pressure on it and the only way to do that right now is to open up the nozzle above and gush more oil into the gulf and hopefully catch it, which they have done, they just neglected to tell us why, gee thanks." There is a LOT more text in the article - I only posted a small bit... RELIEF WELLS ! |