Garrick, the idea of the small shaped charges is to surround the pipe with them and blow it closed, or at least down to a dia. where it could be capped. Blowing the whole thing even wider is not a good idea, and anything on a scale you envision would probably produce cracking and widen existing faults which would lead to a catastrophic impossible-to-control blowout of the entire pocket. Wrong way to go.
Malcolm On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 13:32 -0400, Garrick wrote: > 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 > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com>
