Comments on: BP Oil Spill Live Feed, New Live Oil Spill Feed Bypasses BP Site

By: Tice_2

Tice_2 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:02:00 +0000

you f**kin greedy bastards you f**ked up the whole world

By: J Deane

J Deane — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:05:49 +0000

no 7 Pump a apoxy- very fine cement mixture or simller down betwen the smaller inside pipe and outside casing. The uncaping and capturing of the wells contents from the smaller pipe should releive enough pressure for thisoperation to be carried out.

An old Kiwi no 8 fencing wire codger from downunder.

Cheers J D .

PS If thay had done this right from the start this disaster would have been done and dusted by now.. Keep it simple…

By: J Deane

J Deane — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:45:08 +0000

What you are dealing with here is massive pressure, both on the sea floor and that which is pushing up the drill pipe(2000-3000psi) so the tophat idea was never going to work, simply to much volume + pressure + contents(oil and water) = cristlization.
no 1. Get replacement rig over wellhead,(done) no 2, Clear and cut off wellhead so you have a straght and direct entrey .no 3 Insert smaller diameter (the graeter the pressure the smaller the diameter)drill pipe,this will be kept capt to prevent oil from gushing from it whilest being pushed down inside the old ,well pipe,this pipe being small enough to allow the oil to pass up the outside.no 4 After reaching the reqired depth (this depends on how much down pressureyou can excert on the upwelling)slide a larger outside caseing pipe down to the wellhead but far enough above it to allow the oil to escape.no5. Uncap and capture the oil from the smaller inside pipe.no 6, Slide larger outside casing down over or preferably butt joint to old well pipe.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:47:44 +0000

wtf is going on now???

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:46:15 +0000

you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all of the time ……………………………………

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:00:44 +0000

The idea of a large containment pipe, no need for it to be solid, simply a "curtain" of chain mesh lowered down would prevent the oil flowing out for miles around. The oil could be sucked up if the quantities are accurate. . Rather like a fine meshed fishing net. These are made by the kilometer, cheaply, and is available NOW. This could be dropped and steadied with a convoy of small boats, anchored around the perimeter, a tanker with the appropriate pumping equipment placed in the center. The oil would be contained in that specific area. This assumes the rates of discharge is manageable. Leaving it to dispurse in miles of ocean is ludicrous.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:26:19 +0000

In reply to Minz. Thats what i have been thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: guest

guest — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:15:16 +0000

In reply to Andrew B.. have to be on target, as at that depth the water pressure is @2250 psi so your weight wouldn't even hold down a square foot

By: guest

guest — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:03:59 +0000

In reply to YO MOMA. no, not racist, just the inaction of the gov, not acting and standing by while BP continues to mess things up

By: dus

dus — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:55:43 +0000

In reply to Goran. and of that many, how many were terrorist's, and how many innocent people did they kill !!

By: dusty

dusty — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:45:07 +0000

In reply to Shylocke. not positive but do believe that's about 2200 psi kind of makes you think at what pressure the oil is gushing out at?

By: jamesbp

jamesbp — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:23:17 +0000

Send the good ideas to BP… They are not reading this comment board. they have a phone number to call on their website for ideas.

By: gabe1233

gabe1233 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:38:05 +0000

Obama still is a dumbass

By: joe

joe — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:47:39 +0000

PS I have no job for doing the right thing. I ask the "CEO do the right thing and QUIT" Donate your salary and time for clean up effort.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:34:14 +0000

Let us all thank the Bush administration for all the deregulation. Nice job Bush, we will live with the Bush mistakes for generations to come. it's not over. B.P. Stop treating people like slaves and double up on the clean up effort 1 billion dollars is not an effort lets go. One trillion + it's only money, think of all the lives you have destroyed. Time to pay the piper. Next time if you are going to do this kind of work. #1 think worker safety, use top of the line equipment that won't fail at the depths that you work at, And stop rushing things the job will get done. There is no one in this rig makes enough money, to rush things, The job will get done and you still make a trillion. What you go on rushing workers cutting corners, save 1 or 2 million, for what this is what happens there is no amount of money worth what damage you caused the WORD. Not right is done, God help us, and forgive us.

By: Sumit Khanna

Sumit Khanna — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:26:16 +0000

In reply to 1thought. I think the reason they pulled off that dome to begin with was because of the risk of the pressure. They can't just pressure lock it. It will explode again. That's why there was talk of installing another blow-out-preventer (a multi-million dollar device designed to withstand that pressure) From what I've read, the BP and US Government engineers working on this are really questioning the condition of that well. It's flowing a lot of liquid and may be wearing out inside. If they try to squash it and the pressure blows out the sides, oil could start coming up around the surrounding ocean floor which would be much harder to stop than just trying to seal the wellhead.

By: Mark Klein

Mark Klein — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:11:16 +0000

@Sammy

Sammy:
FINALLY a voice of common sense! Thanks for the excellent post. You’re not alone. The media echo chamber of the extremes is misleading people to think “if you’re not one of us, you must be one of them” It is the refuge of the intellectually lazy (ok, I’m being charitable) to blame Obama (or Bush). Let’s fix the problem and make sure it never happens again. Kudos to you for your eloquence.

By: Denis Riendeau

Denis Riendeau — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:21:29 +0000

To the guys currently trying to cut that pipe.
The blade keeps on jamming for identical reasons it would right up here on the ground.
There is not enough clearing.
What you need to do is to make another cut just an inch or two from the first (partial) cut.

By: gabe1233

gabe1233 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:17:35 +0000

Obama is a dumbass

By: tta1

tta1 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:36:10 +0000

woops! – the only things they tried initially, were to allow them to recover oil from the leak (ie containment = $$). They keep using the excuse that the depth is why they can’t fix the problem. Then they should not be allowed to drill in depths that they can’t repair the problem in!!!!!!

By: tta1

tta1 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:33:09 +0000

i submitted a solution to fix this problem a month ago with no reply. If you’ve noticed, these goons tried to

By: greensthings

greensthings — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:04:31 +0000

The feed shows two distinct and separate areas of flowing oil.
the first is a pipe that really black oil is coming out of, it looks to be laying in a trench at the bottom of the ocean the end looks like it is a clean break.
The second is a pipe that the oil looks to be coming out of the top of a large yellow structure, the pipe looks bent over and the oil is coming out in a couple of different "torn" spots in a rough, bent over type of break, the oil that comes out of this is more whitish (more methane).
They seem to put the camera on the clean break pipe during the day, and then in the evening all you see is brackish water (I assume while it is moving to the other location) then at night, you can watch the robots cut, remove, weld and work on the big metal structure (last night the camera did a "recon" of top hat laying on the gulf floor).

By: Mister Rogers

Mister Rogers — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:26:50 +0000

In reply to F . m. Man, this well is blowin' it out like I do on the toilet after eating too much at Pancho's

By: Mister Rogers

Mister Rogers — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:21:42 +0000

In reply to Jackson. LOL! We could probably add some of the people that made these posts in with it too.

By: Mister Rogers

Mister Rogers — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:15:19 +0000

I say we fly a plane loaded with BP execs into it.

By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 30 May 2010 05:40:53 +0000

In reply to Casey. I did want to add that glycol can be recovered from the oil/gas w/ a glycol dehydrator. And that I should have said ideal temperture would be above 90 but i don't see any way to raise the temp from 32 to 90.

By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 30 May 2010 05:36:58 +0000

In reply to MB .. From what i'm reading now, that is basicly BP's next plan. They are going to cut off the riser/drill pipe off the top of the BOP stack so there will be just the one leak coming from the top of the BOP stack. Then run a containment dome on the end of 21" riser pipe over the well head & stack. This to me would make the most sense instead of all the other bull they are trying. This way you don't have 3 or 4 leaks just one. I just know that hydrates will once a again be the biggest problem to over come. Typically we use heat or glycol to combat hydrate formation. I hope they will try running a small parasite sting capable of injecting hot fluid or possibly glycol(and yes i know how harmful this stuff is but against the drastic decline of oil being released in the ocean i think it would be worth while.) in to the containment dome to combat this. They would have to be able to keep the temperature above about 50 degees F to really do any kind of good. Ideally closer to 65 - 70.

By: MB .

MB . — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:29:52 +0000

Casey: not sure if you're still following this thread.
The problem is the pressure. Why not eliminate that as a problem by basically building a containment wall around the wellhead, letting the oil gush out and depressurize. I'm thinking of a series of almost zero-buoyancy tubes, held together on a cable, that get lowered down to make a long, very wide 'tunnel' that surrounds the wellhead. The oil will then fill this tube and spill out the top, but as the tube gets added to, eventually it rises to a depth where it can be capped and siphon hoses can draw off the oil at a rate so that the internal pressure does not increase. Any salvaged oil would be a benefit.

By: Gibbie

Gibbie — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:26:31 +0000

thats better

By: Gibbie

Gibbie — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:07:31 +0000

uh turn the counter back on!