BP Rejects Blasts as Oil Well Response - NYTimes

[WillyT]

BP Rejects Blasts as Oil Well Response
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
May 24, 2010, 3:22 pm

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In a telephone conference call with reporters, Doug Suttles, the chief operating officer of BP, all but ruled out the use of explosives to crimp or implode the seabed oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. (Here’s a recording of the call.)

He described blasting around the well as “not an option we believe we would ever use,” mainly because once it was attempted “we would have denied ourselves all other options.”

Suttles added that none of the experts who’ve been consulted in the brainstorming over the well “believes explosives should be used to stop the flow.”

That doesn’t leave a lot of choices should the “ top kill” procedure, and a possible “ junk shot” chaser, fail. Here’s an animation created by BP to illustrate the next procedure:



There are lots of able people weighing options, including a new Deepwater Horizon Study Group coordinated through the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California, Berkeley. To be continued…

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Link: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/bp-rejects-blasts-as-oil-well-response/

BP Cartoon: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/562243/

Well... whatever BP says, yessiree !!!

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[cdsilv]

1. damned oilionnares just want to preserve their access to the oil field.....

....it may be that the geology of the gulf floor would fracture from a blast and dump the whole oil deposit at once, but I suspect that BP wants to preserve their access to the oil field and preserve their profit$$$.

[WillyT]

2. And I'm Not Sure How I Feel About Explosive Solutions, But...

I do know how I feel about BP telling us what's what!

Seems like we are being led around by the nose while we have our boot on their neck.

Maybe we need a Yoga Master. Or a Twister mat...






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