Posted by paul on June 03, 2010 at 09:53:47 from (66.44.133.37):
In Reply to: Re: Gulf oil well posted by supergrumpy on June 03, 2010 at 09:17:00:
Seemed they were aweful close to that flange, didn't understand that. I'm sure there was a reason; Based on my farmer efforts, not where I woulda cut if it were up to me. Leave some room for a 2nd attempt. With the drill stem inside the pipe & these are big 22 inch outer pipe, 6 inch inner pipe, with _serious_ wall thicknesses, you kinda would _expect_ it to bind up the first time....
If it's too rough, you got a grinder that can buff it down a little bit and smooth it out?
Wish the cable news shows would get into the science of all this more, instead of another shot of another tar ball on a beach. I understand tar balls will wash up on beaches, I'm beyond needing to see that. Again. Again.
Show me some science.
I guess news is all talking heads, no informed people on the networks or cable channels any more. Just puff & fluff.
We'll have lots of time to blame people for this over the next decade, and lots of time to watch tar balls wash up here & there.
For now, get someone _educated_ in front of the camera and explain what the heck is going on! Sheez.
The question is not: Tar balls are coming tar balls are coming, what do we do??????
The question is, what are they actually doing, and why, and what else can be done?
I have to assume there is a reason that pipe cannot be crimped off, nor capped. If it could, they would work on that. Instead they have always worked on letting it flow, but collecting what flows out of it. There must be something strained or cracked or weak that will not hold if you stop the flow above sea-floor. (The top kill deal was an effort to put heavy mud or tennis balls deeper below surface....)
Where is the press frittering out those questions????? Won't change anything, but it would inform us, it would look at the problem. It would be interesting.
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