How many holes are you going to drill. Six with six charges? I think it is best to go deep for any explosions because the oil/gas is so high pressure it will make its way past 20 feet of rubble. Even done your way
I wish a real nuke expert would give an opinion to the media but I think there is such a nuke-phobia it wouldn't be used even if it was proven to be the best course. I rather nuke it if that's a good way to go than see oyster beds and fishing grounds fouled for 20 years I wonder what Edwin Teller would say. g On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________ > > > > > > > > > > >
