BP caps spill

My hope is that the pressure shift doesn't cause a rupture in the sea floor. Then BP/the Gov't would be helpless to stop billions of gallons from emptying. That would be far beyond catastrophic.

My Brothers in the oil field and he was saying that is a possibility and if so, you would be right. There would be no way to stop it ever espeacially if a mile long crack on the ocean floor would occur. But that is just worst case scenario. He also said there is a good chance this will work we just have tap that well again soon to releave all that pressure.

I do pray this work.

My hope is that the pressure shift doesn't cause a rupture in the sea floor. Then BP/the Gov't would be helpless to stop billions of gallons from emptying. That would be far beyond catastrophic.

I admit I know nothing about the engineering involved. And yet I want to comment - go figure. It seems to me that the free flowing oil would have created more of a risk that way because when the well was working the oil was basically operating under a controlled pressure. Once the explosion occurred, there would have been a sudden drop of pressure under the ground and sinkholes could have occurred. Now that pressure has been restored I would think the system is back closer to its equilibrium point rather than a stress point.

That said, no sudden changes are ever good in pressurized situations.

It's about time they got that thing capped.

Now comes the decades of recovery, unless the aforementioned multiple disasters happen first. It will be utter chaos if that pressure builds up and they don't relieve it in time.

A good customer of mine who is a diver and worked in the gulf after Katrina as a supervisor was just in my office and I asked him why this was so hard. First he said the pressure coming out of that pipe is Hugh and thats a major issue just by itself. Then you have the ocean pressure that deep is 2,225 pounds per sq. inch so the oil flow is greater then that. He said when you combined the two along with the 5000 ft down it not easy to solve the problem.

The formula for figuring the ocean pressure is .445 x (how many feet down)= Per Sq inch
So if your diving at ten feet .445 X 10 = 4.45 pounds per sq inch. of pressure

BP oil cap may have spill under control | Environment | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/16/bp-oil-cap-spill-control)

Hey Trample, were you talking to BP?

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Hey Trample, were you talking to BP?

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It's basic plumbing. Anyone with half a brain could've fixed it. The only thing different is the monitoring device that allows for them to monitor the PSI of the oil coming out. If you listen to what they're saying it doesn't differ to much from what I advocated. The language is similar too. "We've got to bolt it down, and turn the valve, we've got to do it slowly to make sure there are no leaks anywhere else"

thank god lord Obama finally fixed this. here is to 6+ more years
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thank god lord Obama finally fixed this. here is to 6+ more years
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Yup. It only took him 3 months to plug a leak. Speaks volumes about the man. ;)

I heard it too while i was on vacation, but apparantley they are worried about another leak now somewhere else that is due to the well being capped off.

The well casing is apparantley damaged, and the oil is seeping under the sea floor or something