A dome to cover the well and siphon off the oil
Posted by
Target on 5/1/2010, 6:18 pm
BP may not have known how bad it was at first until they saw the satellite images themselves.
The individual Haliburton subcontractors were probably in shock, dead, or considering how much money they could pocket (3 million?) if they just kept their mouths shut....
I guess the way they stop these wells typically is to drill another relief well:
'The request for help reflects growing desperation within BP. The company was initially sure it could deal with it offshore. But the subsea robots it deployed to the seabed failed to activate a device called a blowout preventer that would have closed off the well. BP has come up with an alternative-a dome to cover the well and siphon off the oil, but that could take weeks to install. It is also planning to drill a relief well to permanently isolate the leak, but that will take even longer.'
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