Does anyone else feel hopeless about the oil well in the gulf?

[europeanplates]

you do have some idea what those are torqued to right. Lets just say you need a hammer to get them lose.

Also the Ring gasket would never be able to be put back into place, there for never ever make a seal again. it would be virtually just as bad a leak with out the gasket as it is now.

Yes I am sure they ae torqued an extrem amount; however they can use a pneumatic cuter then they can use the right tool to release them. How do they plan to affix the new connector?

I am just talking but I think these guys are idiots. If they are at all confident in this plan why was it not done sooner?

Ty

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yes I am sure they ae torqued an extrem amount; however they can use a pneumatic cuter then they can use the right tool to release them. How do they plan to affix the new connector?

I am just talking but I think these guys are idiots. If they are at all confident in this plan why was it not done sooner?

Ty

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To be honest, I've had like 700 random ideas about how to solve this, but I'm not gonna pull a James Cameron or any other random celebrity move and try to tell these guys how to do their job, I think that for the most part, if an uneducated in the field person has had an "idea", the engineers already discounted those thoughts back on day two.

[mrsleeve]

Yes I am sure they ae torqued an extrem amount; however they can use a pneumatic cuter then they can use the right tool to release them. How do they plan to affix the new connector?

I am just talking but I think these guys are idiots. If they are at all confident in this plan why was it not done sooner?

Ty

God dammit this has been explained to you already.

they have tired to get a containment dome/box over it but that was with a fucked up riser and BOP sticking up in the way. When the did the gas hydrates (frozen gases) coming outta the ground froze it up and plugged up the works before hot water and methanol could be used to defrost it.

The smaller one suffered a similar fate but mostly due to conflicts with shit in the way.

SO they CUT OFF THE RISER and BOP. this gives them a smooth surface with no shit sticking off the well riser. So the can slide another specialty fabed up containment device over the riser with some what of a mechanical seal (not a good one but something)


This is what is called fly by night engineering, There are redundant safety systems that failed, so this should never have happened. They have had to come up with the idea build the shit then try it out. It a trail and error process, so far it been more error than anything but not from a lack of trying.

If you have such great insight fly you ass down there and tell/show em how its done. they have some of the BEST Engineers and filed personnel on the planet in this field working on it. They will get it eventually

[Farbin Kaiber]

This is kinda like when they took an inventory of everything they had in Apollo 13, and figured a way to fix some fuct up shit.

[mrsleeve]

this is kinda like when they took an inventory of everything they had in apollo 13, and figured a way to fix some fuct up shit.

winner

Farbin gets and intenetz


you were right I was going end up in here at some point