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BP Brings oil spillage to a temporary stop
http://news.ca.msn.com/world/cp-article.aspx?cp-documentid=24887064
Oil has stopped flowing from the broken well. The new cap is in place and valves have been slowly shut, however tests are still under way to fully determine it's stability and effectiveness as a temporary fix before considering it successful.
A piece of advice given is for people to not celebrate as it is way to early to be doing so.
certainly with all that pressure and what not, i find it hard to believe that this would be any more then a temporary fix, i myself am disappointed that mans technology is so weak that it took this long to properly place a temporary fix that could of stopped hundreds of millions of oil from flowing into the gulf.
Especially while the relief wells are still being drilled.
Oh well this is good news, for the momment.
thoughts?
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Permalink Reply by Gibson on -
well i'll just say for one, that's ALOT OF OIL that we could use, instead i hear of them burning it.
Wtf, that's a great enviornmental Waste, just like the spill itself. Ugh.
Yeah makes it alot easier to focus on the clean up when you don't have to worry about the well spilling.
I Found it rather useless to even be cleaning up when the well was still spilling, regardless i don't think 100% of the focus is on the clean up till those relief wells are finished, and then when we know the spill is done for good.
perhaps they won't be SO DUMB this time, and not drill so damn far, regardless of how rich of resources gained from it (clearly seen flowing in the gulf)
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Permalink Reply by Anubis on -
The government has forced them that far out.
Obama lied when he said they were drilling that far out for oil, the truth is the government has made it impossible to drill for any new oil on land and in near shore waters.
-Anubis
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Permalink Reply by Gibson on
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as much as it would devastate me, i would love to be one of the hired hands to help with the clean up lol
their getting paid good, it's an oil company, this isn't hurting them financially as bad as they make it look, though the loss of the horizon rig is, i question whether or not the american government is going to allow that thing to ever operate again if they choose to rebuild and fix the wells, which i doubt it
lol.
that woulda been easily stopped quickly if it wern't drilled so deep.
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Permalink Reply by Gibson on
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they actually stopped drilling them while they were working on this cap stuff, but they should be drilling now yes, it's just as dark down their as it is during the day anyway so.
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Permalink Reply by Gavin Roskamp on -
Somehow, I don't trust BP's "solution". Seems way too easy to just fall off or get punctured.
Think about it. McDonald's cups are a type of cap... But if you flip the drink over and put too much pressure on the cap, it pretty much declares itself useless as your overpriced drink rushes out the top.
I can't really word my solution correctly, but it's something like this: Build pipeline down from the pumping station, reconnect the two pipelines, but make sure they do it right, as in like no cheapo solutions. Like they could put them there and then have like metal plating around the connection and make a seal over it so it can't leak there. It still isn't very safe, but then we don't have to have tons of little wells trying to relieve the pressure. AND we get the oil back.
But it probably isn't as easy as that. Now I shall prepare myself for the hate that I am going to get for having a "flawed" plan. Shut up. I know it isn't perfect, but nobody is. Heh. I just trolled myself. Ouch!
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Permalink Reply by Gibson on
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why do you think this is only a temporary fix
When it's that far down i doubt it's going to knocked off by anything.
Relief wells are the permanent solution, they Shoot tons of mud and cement into the wall, keep shooting it till it's enough to plug the well, stopping the flow for good, they are doing this at the bottom of the well. So were likely going to see the oil flow again when their in the process of doing this.
you know how hard cement gets =/ If they shoot lots of it, it will plug it.
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Permalink Reply by Gibson on
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well that's why their still testing it and watching it.
they said that high pressure is a good thing, but their also keeping an eye out on the well and stuff for other leaks, problem is if it leaks again the cap must come off, otherwise more problems can arise.
The relief wells will fix this i'm sure, Alot of mud and cement are a dam good mix.
excellent points
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Permalink Reply by Anubis on
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Regardless of whether the cap hold for long, I am just happy they have stopped it for now, every day that cap is there is another day there is no oil leaking in the gulf, and another day toward the completion of the new well being done.
-Anubis
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Permalink Reply by Eric Fox on -
I heard in the news the other day that the only permanent solution to the spill is to permanently cap off the well. I'm all for that solution. Perhaps this little episode combined with this solution will force energy and oil companies to finally decide to go with cleaner solutions.
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