Comments on: Deepwater Horizon Call To Action

By: said alshaqawy

said alshaqawy — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:24:36 +0000

received the following on Jun 25th
Dear xxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you so much for taking the time to think about and submit your proposed solution regarding the Horizon incident. Your submission has been reviewed for its technical merits. A similar approach has already been considered or planned for possible implementation. All of us on the Horizon Support Team appreciate your thoughts and efforts.

Sincerely yours,
Horizon Support Team

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:12:18 +0000

received the following on Jun 23rd:

Dear xxxxxxxxx,

Thank you so much for taking the time to think about and submit your proposed solution regarding the Horizon incident. Your submission has been reviewed for its technical merits. A similar approach has already been considered or planned for possible implementation. All of us on the Horizon Support Team appreciate your thoughts and efforts.

Sincerely yours,
Horizon Support Team

By: Greystone1

Greystone1 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:33:30 +0000

In fact, each barrel of oil collected from seepage could offset the oil company’s spillage elsewhere for purposes of fines. This in itself could make the whole scheme cost-effective. A win/win deal. I could envision small start-up companies dropping donuts to collect seepage oil and selling the offsets (spillage insurance) to the big oil companies.

By: Greystone1

Greystone1 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:48:15 +0000

We are told there is natural “seepage” points all over the Gulf. I wonder if anyone has considered producing these, thus leaving the Gulf cleaner than nature intended? What I had in mind is a rubberized canvas tube with a concrete donut on the bottom and a sub-surface bouyant collection box at the top. The canvas tube could be unrolled from the surface like a fireman’s hose, with the donut lowered in a vertical position to minimize the introduction of hydrates. At the seafloor, the donut would be turned horizontal, covering the seepage point. The collection box would be drained/produced periodically. Any leaks from this system should not be considered spillage since this is oil that would have been in the water anyway.

By: Brendan Cusack

Brendan Cusack — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:03:39 +0000

Capping the well is no longer the problem anymore, they are not responding because they don’t need to cap it and already know how to. They figured something out from the top kill method, and that is why top kill was halted for almost a day before anyone was informed. Top kill or any viable option they could have tried by now, should have worked, unless their was a leak further down. Its not being publicized yet but oil has been found leaking from the sea floor, this would mean that stopping the oil leaking from the pipe would increase the amplitude of the oil leaking in through the seafloor which would begin to erode away quite quickly, causing a much bigger problem. Its sad to say but the oil leaking from the pipe, is only minor in comparison to the real problem.

By: Greystone1

Greystone1 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:19:42 +0000

My favorite is the saw jam.

Some “expert” decided to shear the riser before sawing it, not only risking a sudden pressure slam to the wellhead and BOP, but virtually guaranteeing the saw would jam. The riser was rock steady until they sheared it so that it could bounce all over the place. An apprentice pipefitter would not have made that mistake.

By: Greystone1

Greystone1 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:09:12 +0000

I would tend to agree if it weren’t for the obvious fact that the story keeps changing.

From the start it seemed fairly obvious that nobody wanted to plug the broken riser for fear of putting excess pressure on the wellhead.

But then they tried to plug it with a junk shot… and then they tried a top kill which raised the wellhead pressure to about 9000 psi… several times, punctuated by more junk shots.

Then they went back to saying it was too delicate to plug, therefore they needed to produce it.

Then they finally put the new cap on and closed (plugged) it, maximizing the wellhead pressure and were disappointed that it didn’t reach 9000 psi.

Now they tell us that going back to producing it would require opening up the gusher for three days.

BP should change their initials to BS. I don’t believe them anymore.

By: James Kelso

James Kelso — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:51:46 +0000

Thomas you are right. Take an old water hose and open up the water full turn and then shut it in , it will leak or explode. If you have ever have pulled pipe from a once producing gas well, take a mirror and look inside the pipe you will see that the gas has cut the pipe whereas it is worthless, you can make fence posts out of it and that is what is happening to the casing in that well.They could run a long string slighty smaller that the existing casing down the hole to the well bore, cement the casing up the back side from the well bore to the ocean floor. The oil flow will then go up the new pipe and not out into formations and problems. The well can be produced and the income could be attached by our government to pay damage, lost income. The income from that well could be 8,000,000 dollars daily or more.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:00:17 +0000

What was the outcome of this contest, did anyone ever win?

By: thomas

thomas — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:23:21 +0000

the problem is the integrety of the pipe below the sea floor, has was compromised in the inital explosion (its broken under the sea floor).

when BP puts the cap on the well head it forces oil out of all the crack in the pipe under the surface of the sea floor which then erodes the rock and mud from around the well pipe. if enough material erodes away then the entire pipe will shoot out of the ocean floor and the leak will be essentially unstoppable at that point the oil will blast out of the hole in the seafloor (instead of the pipe now) and it will erode the rock and mud away until its a giant chasm instead of a 24″ gusher.

this is the reason that BP so far has not tried to cap the well. all the attempts they have made to date are to tap it and try to siphon as much oil to the top as possible. the more they try to cap the well the more the rock integrety down where they are trying to drill relief wells is compromised from iol leaking from the ruptured pipe 10000′ below the ocean floor.

basically what BP is trying to do is plug a garden hose that is on full blast that also has a TON of holes in the hose all the way down to the source. when you cap the end of it, the oil blasts out from the holes along the pipe causing a VERY serious problem. if you open the end up there is very little to no leaking down below.