Public: Disaster: Oil
gas hydrate plug removal system   (-3)  [vote for, against]
a simple solution for a current problem

Just use suction. But that may be too easy a solution, particularly for BP engineers who seem to ignore the obvious, such as pressure sensitive cut-off valves for deep drilling operations.

El dueno
-- el dueno, May 09 2010

Wikipedia: Blowout preventer http://en.wikipedia...i/Blowout_preventer
The Deepwater Horizon rig had one; it failed. It's not clear why. [jutta, May 10 2010]

What's a "gas hydrate plug"?
-- awesomest, May 10 2010


I don't understand what this idea actually proposes to do. (Or, for that matter, what the problem with the ice plugs is - isn't "plugging" something that we're very much trying to do here?)

Is the pressure-sensitive cut-off valve something similar to the blowout preventer that the rig had, or something different that you think they should have used?
-- jutta, May 10 2010



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