-=> DAVE DRUM wrote to ROSS CASSELL <=-

 -=> Ross Cassell wrote to Earl Croasmun <=-

 EC> or c) his belief that having an extra switch to trigger the blowout
 EC> protector would do any good when the hydraulics on the blowout
 EC> protector failed.

 RC> Did you see his suggestionthat they merely pipe liquid nitrogen down
 RC> there to create a "ice plug"?

 DD> It has at least as much chance of working as any of the shit that BP
 DD> has thrown at the problem, so far. Do YOU have any better ideas???

Just an idea.

It doesn't require anything technologically advanced being brought onto the 
scene.

It's simple using in situ materials as in the oil itself and
the flash freeze would allow a cement plug to be poured over it
capping the well for once and all.  


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