"Richard Webb -> mark lewis"  wrote in news:30789
$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 ml>> "The company failed in the days after the spill to use robotic
 ml>> submarines to close valves on the massive blowout preventer atop
the
 ml>> damaged well, then two weeks later ice-like crystals clogged a
 ml>> 100-ton box the company tried placing over the leak. Earlier this
 ml>> week, engineers removed a mile-long siphon tube after it sucked up
a
 ml>> disappointing 900,000 gallons of oil from the gusher."


 RW> The thing i find interesting in all this is that although
 RW> they can drill in that depth of ocean they have few if any
 RW> clues what to do when something like this happens at those
 RW> depths.  Yes, I've heard this on NPR, the BBC, and from a
 RW> radio colleague who's an industry engineer, albeit from a
 RW> different company.
 RW> You've the pressure of the see and the pressure of the oil
 RW> coming from that blown out wellhead both, and just getting
 RW> that "bell-like" device over it, or anything else you try
is going to
be
 RW> an adventure.

 RW> Were it a shallower depth they'd probably do it as they do
 RW> when constructing bridges, i.e. build a cofferdam, cap it
 RW> off, then let the water back in.  But, hard to build a
 RW> cofferdam at those depths.

On one of the talking heads programs they showed the 1979 "Ixtoc" well
blowout, that was only a few hundred feet down.
Yet it took 9 months to shut off that one.

BP is also practically a serial murderer, with their disregard of
safety.
The same refinery in Texas City, where an explosion happened due to
sloppy safety, just had many of the *SAME* problems caught again there.

It's almost as if BP has the attitude that safety violation fines and
lawsuits from grieving families are jsut part of doing business.

In China scummy executives like in BP get shot!

--- Xnews/5.04.25