Unless they were all lying, many oil company execs told Congress that they would have handled this mess much the same way, with probably the same results.

I doubt you could seriously tout Bush's record in business as qualifying as anything close to being an oil man. There's a reason you don;t hear too many (none) execs offering too much insight in this case. Believe it or not, I think they're flat out.

Here's the overview of the wellhead failure;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP8iN...eature=channel

thanks cat a solution idea for the future
Don't take that as sarcasm we need idas to move forward

I have been wondering if they could slip a pipe ove the existing on but must be really a tangled mess down there

not sure how it would have helped here with the rig collapsing though

I have read some therories that by trying to put out fire they waterlogged the rig and caused it to sink which was probably inevitable any way

what a friken mess that is being politisized on both sides of the isle

I would be surprised if 50 billion can clean this up

I didn't see what they fought the fire with, but if it was straight seawater, they might as well have been pissing on it. They needed foam and lots of it. it wouldn't have stopped the pressurized fire, but it would have seriously impeded the secondary fire.

Relief well
 

Well I feel a little more confident now that I have read some of the technology on how the find the original well

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ief-well_N.htm

It would seem many are represented here, in this article about what foreigners think of this mess. Amazingly, some of the same people have been on two sides inside of a month or so.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nation...&asset=&ccode=

thats an amazing technology. How they can drill to those depths from a floating platform is just beyond me. Are there and graphical representations as to what is involved in this type of drilling?

I like the ROV's they are very cool and could use a couple around the shop.

Nice find Steve! I wondered what the other countries were doing about their oil drillers and their safety procedures.

heres an interesting method of containment that could have been quickly implemented using readily available resources.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbUAAHuJUHs&NR=1