Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Blow the Well Up

Okay, who besides me thinks it's time for the United States Marines to shove BP the hell out of the way, and blow the Macondo well up? BP keeps screwing around trying to put a dome over it, and trying to draw oil off through a straw, and shooting junk into it, etc., failing again and again, while meantime the Gulf coast is being destroyed. Oysters, shrimp, fish, birds, beaches, marshes, and many people's livelihoods and ways of life are being destroyed. Blow-the-well-up technology has been around since at least as early as the 1960's, and many oil well blowouts have been stopped by blowing them up. But if BP did that, it would lose the investment it has made in the well and all the potential future revenue from the well's production. BP estimates that the oil seam holds 50 million barrels. Consider that 50 million barrels of oil at $50 a barrel is 2.5 trillion dollars. Blow the well up, for God’s sake.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

The more I read about the problem, the more this makes sense.

The 73rd Virgin said...

I can't grasp the mechanics of an explosion at that depth and pressure. Would it be less effective at closing the hole? Does blowing up wells EVER fail? This would be a bad time for failure. I can only imagine the s--- storm if there were now four holes venting oil instead of one.

Unknown said...

You are way the hell off base on this one, John Philip. Talk to Don Remson and learn something.

Gary