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bpuharic

On Mon, 24 May 2010 23:09:50 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 24 May 2010 18:05:10 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

as thad allen said today, who else has the expertise? what else would
be done?

Maybe another driller? The point is the feds have just stood back and
taken what BP says as gospel. People like Woods Hole have a lot more
underwater expertise and better vehicles.

WHOI probably does...but oil drilling at that depth is a specialty.
i'm not sure what else could be done at this point...it's new
territory

what i AM surprised about is the lack of planning for such an event.
BP seems to have taken as gospel transoceanic's assurances that
everything was under control

There may also be other
companies that could bring a lot more to bear on this.
It took almost a month to get decent pictures of the blowout.
I know they tried a small top hat, why not a huge one?

i think the larger one they first tried filled with crystallized
methane and became too buoyant to sit over the well head

so far no one has come up with better ideas.

It seems the only people who are allowed to have ideas are the BP
morons who caused the problem in the first place.

the real fault was drilling in areas we could not control.

yep. that, to me, is the root cause. lack of planning for a probable
event...it was just laziness on TO's part

That and a few major errors that violated the BP protocols.
They broke the BOP and ignored it. Then they violated protocol by not
plugging the well with mud when they were supposed to. This wasn't a
drilling failure it was a criminal act.

and they had indications there was methane in the well yet they
ignored that during their tests...

BTW
36 days ago Obama was still in favor of this kind of drilling, much to
the dismay of his new BFF, Charlie Crist..

i see no indication that we have enough oil offshore to even make a
dent in our energy situation. a few billion barrels isn't going to
make a difference.