Simple Solution for Oil Leak…. What am I overlooking??? | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1007391 United States 07/06/2010 11:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dear Trinity, SHR, and GLP participants: Quoting: YooperGuy 788095I’ve been giving much thought regarding a way to stop the horrible Gulf oil leak and have come-up with a possible solution. Please review this idea and let me know what (if anything) I’m overlooking. What if BP took solid steel rod….. 1” in diameter and 2 miles long…. and pushed it down the BOP hole from an oil rig on the surface. The underwater robots can be utilized to position the steel rod into the BOP and then drop the rod down another 5000 feet. Then, take a 2” inside diameter pipe, and slide it over the 1” steel rod and push it down 10,000 feet from the surface of the sea. Then, take a 3” inside diameter pipe and slide it over the 2” diameter pipe and push it down 10,000 feet. Then take a 4” I.D. pipe and slide it over the 3” diameter pipe and push it down 10,000 feet. And so on… And so on….. until the entire 30” diameter hole is filled-up with new steel pipe going from 5000” beneath the seabed to the surface of the sea. This concept seems to be too simple to actually work….. what am I overlooking? a shitton of pressure |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 706008 Canada 07/06/2010 11:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dear Trinity, SHR, and GLP participants: Quoting: YooperGuy 788095I’ve been giving much thought regarding a way to stop the horrible Gulf oil leak and have come-up with a possible solution. Please review this idea and let me know what (if anything) I’m overlooking. What if BP took solid steel rod….. 1” in diameter and 2 miles long…. and pushed it down the BOP hole from an oil rig on the surface. The underwater robots can be utilized to position the steel rod into the BOP and then drop the rod down another 5000 feet. Then, take a 2” inside diameter pipe, and slide it over the 1” steel rod and push it down 10,000 feet from the surface of the sea. Then, take a 3” inside diameter pipe and slide it over the 2” diameter pipe and push it down 10,000 feet. Then take a 4” I.D. pipe and slide it over the 3” diameter pipe and push it down 10,000 feet. And so on… And so on….. until the entire 30” diameter hole is filled-up with new steel pipe going from 5000” beneath the seabed to the surface of the sea. This concept seems to be too simple to actually work….. what am I overlooking? What would be holding these rods in place exactly? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1027670 United States 07/06/2010 11:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1) Equipment to feed steel rod into a 20K PSI jet @ 5000FT underwater simply doesn't exist. The rovers have nowhere near this level of capability. New systems would have to be custom engineered from scratch. 2) Your plan with the rods might help if the pipe wasn't leaking below the ocean floor. The pressure would simply cause those leaks to gush more and the top leak to gush less. No net benefit. Shoving a rod 1 mile down is also utterly impossible. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1025046 United States 07/07/2010 12:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Granted!!! Lots of pressure.... 5000 to 20,000 PSI... who knows. But all you have to do to get the "plugging process started is to thread one 1" solid steel rod down the BOP opening. Quoting: YooperGuy 788095Too much thought and not enough research. 1st - The well is leaking at 40,000+ psi 2nd - Where in the hell is anyone going to find a 2 mile rod??? |