Hi I'm no engineer but I think a very small nuke is what you need to to collapse the well from a hole bored side by side with the gusher hole. Drill down a few hundred feet and detonate. I doubt 3-4 lbs of conventional explosives will do it unless inserted directly down the well which sounds impossible to me. This is a very high pressure well. I could swear I read was drilled through basalt to get to the oil but can find nothing on the internet about basalt
I want that nuke to cap that well by destroying it. If that oil reservoir is tapped again BP will have to drill a new hole....Hey it's doing that anyway right now. Two of them g _______________________________ On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Bob Banever <bbane...@earthlink.net>wrote: > G, > > Why a nuke? Another engineer suggested a small (3 - 4 lbs) shaped > charge would be enough to collapse the well. You have to be careful not to > damage the rock casement of the well itself. That's the problem. > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Garrick <zzen...@gmail.com> > *To:* silver-list@eskimo.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:30 AM > *Subject:* Re: CS>Mother of all gushers could kill Earth's oceans > > There are natural oil seeps off the California coast. Think LaBrea tar > pits....oil and tar close to the surface. Santa Barbara off shore has many > seeps. The natural seeps don't put out so much these days because the oil > drilling has relieved the pressure > > About ten days ago on a forum an old guy said he saw tarballs washing up on > Southern California beaches in the 1940s...before any offshore drilling off > the California coast > > BP head on TV said last night it is now an industry wide effort to get the > best people and best brains together to neutralize this gusher. I would not > bet against these people. An entire industry's future is at stake. In other > words they have very stronmg incentives (monetary and otherwise) to cap this > well > > Me..... I would consider drilling a hole right next to the well 500 ft > down and detonate a small nuke > > g > > > > > > > > > >
