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3rd May 2010
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Drag Race Champion
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 373
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Oil Spill and lack of technology............
I know nothing of this industry but am confident one of the resident members here may be qualified to answer a simple question that I have...........
How difficult is it to engineer a submersable capable of sawing a ruptured pipe and putting a cap on it?...... Have we no safety requirement measures in affect that require something capable of fixing a simple busted pipe?
(contrary to some mod's belief I am NOT a Know it all or I wouldn't ask this)
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3rd May 2010
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Senior Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 4,961 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 883 Sportster/Buell Year: 2007 Other Motorcycle Model: BMW R1150R Other Motorcycle Year: 2004
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How do you cap something when you can not turn off the spigot? With as much pressure as the oil is coming out, I don't know how they can put a cap on it.
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3rd May 2010
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Greasemonkey
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SW LA
Posts: 109 Sportster/Buell Model: Hugger 883 Sportster/Buell Year: 1995 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 1200 Custom Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2002
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im kinda like you, but was thinking why couldnt they make a sub that could hydraulically pinch the pipe closed. seams very feasible but i could be wrong again.
BTW the auto blowout preventer is supposed to do this same thing, this would just be a sub version
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3rd May 2010
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on a permanent roadtrip
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Ingersoll Ontario
Posts: 2,197 Sportster/Buell Model: gone Sportster/Buell Year: 05
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how deep is it at?
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3rd May 2010
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Drag Race Champion
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 373
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They cap run away oil rigs ON FIRE shooting flames hundreds of feet in the air all the time around the world.
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3rd May 2010
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Drag Race Champion
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 373
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Think I heard 1000 feet down, not sure. Too far for scuba.
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3rd May 2010
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Senior Chief Know It All 2nd Class
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Cabin
Posts: 1,445 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200R Sportster/Buell Year: 2007 Other Motorcycle Model: Honda XL 125 Other Motorcycle Year: 1982
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The oil industry is about profits only, they don't have a plan B, this is something we will be paying for for years to come in the form of increased gaprices at the pump, beacuse somebody has to pay for this mess and it won't be BP.
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3rd May 2010
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Drag Race Champion
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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Lets hope at the least they will be required to have technology in place to handle it in the future.
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3rd May 2010
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Senior Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,978 Sportster/Buell Model: XL1200L/cobalt pearl Sportster/Buell Year: 2007 Other Motorcycle Model: Yamaha XS650 project bike Other Motorcycle Year: 1980
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Quote:
Originally Posted by silver1
Lets hope at the least they will be required to have technology in place to handle it in the future.
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like they should have had in the first place. Other countries that use these rigs have secondary emergency shut-offs. A back up for the back up. But not BP, nope. They indicated they didn't need it and were allowed to go without it - to avoid added expense I would imagine. And now look.
Real princes they are.
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3rd May 2010
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Flat Track Champion
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: NJ
Posts: 643 Sportster/Buell Model: XL1200 Sportster/Buell Year: 1988 Other Motorcycle Model: Honda CB400T---SOLD Other Motorcycle Year: 1981
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From what I hear(through people in the oil industry) BP is one of the most anal companies to work for because they have so many redundant safeties...before we start persecuting BP, lets get the full story....
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