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In this clip the ROV (remotely operated vehicle) is trying to look at the level bullseye on the well casing pipe the goes down into the sea-floor. There is so much drilling mud piled up around the base of the well below the BOP (blowout preventer). You can see what looks like black oil seeping from around the pipe at the sea-floor.
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This is indeed a tragedy, How about a simple fix! Unbolt the vertical flange near where they cut the pipe. Install a new pipe section containing a large valve. Then close the valve slowly, this will stop the outbound flow from the pipe then all thats left is to patch the seafloor. More wells will need drilled to eleviate the pressure. But why are they messing around sometimes Simple is best.
Apparently they took quite a few shortcuts in building this well, so the strength of the well is probably much less than it should have been.
At this point I’m just hoping the well doesn’t implode on itself and we will just have a giant oil-spewing hole on the sea bed
@elchivonoir Good theory but have you every used sand paper in oil. See oil is a lubricant and the sand would be while lubricated. Have you ever heard of any oil well that has had a sandblaster pipe take it out. If that was the case then under normal operations the pipe would get thinner? A working well has the same pressures and conditions unless this is a special well they drilled just to wear out.
The oil, spewing out at 20,000 to 70,000 psi, and the sediment within it has eroded the very walls of the well itself in several areas. This means that this is now an uncontainable gusher that is literally spewing oil up from dozens of sites across the gulf floor. The massive oil pocket tapped under immense pressure is now spewing out into the seabed. Capping the well does nothing.