[ale] BP knew of problems 11 months before the rig blew

[Jeff Hubbs]

Colin Powell seems to get it:  
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/30/colin-powell-oil-spill-is_n_594779.html

I had wondered about binning the breach zone with steel walls, filling 
it with rock, and melting it in place with...I dunno, a reactor?? Where 
would we get a ready-to-melt-everything-but-itself reactor??  But even 
so, I wasn't sure that the oil wouldn't leave a channel through the 
homemade lava and I'm sure there are plenty of other showstoppers with 
that idea.

On 5/30/10 10:13 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30rig.html?
>
> Time to start pumping the well head full of execs yet?
>
> Does anyone know of a single component compound that reacts with mixed 
> organics to make a solid? Drilling mud is a lubricant. They need to 
> pump in a fast-setting glue. However, since the article talks about 
> the screw ups in the valve and the cement well casing I'm concerned 
> that with the well pressure a plugged head will only force a leak (or 
> blowout) near the head in the sea floor. The cement casing is supposed 
> to act as a reinforcement but there are reports that the material used 
> was substandard (thanks Haliburton!) and poorly installed.
>
> Maybe since the riser pipe is still attached to the head they can beat 
> on it with the "top cap" box and crimp it down to cut the flow. Who 
> knows. Maybe a slow crimping cutoff of the flow will not shock the 
> casing and allow a temporary blockage with the sub-floor fracturing of 
> the crappy casing they are worried about.
>
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