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Ishmael says:

So when did Matthew Simmons become a petroleum engineer. He is a number crunching bean counter. The type that lead to the original problem to begin with.

Turn the problem over to the government/military. Now that is a great idea. Anyone dealt with the government lately. Only the worse and the dimmest work for the government. How would anyone in the government or the military have any idea of evaluating the solutions to this problem. Well blow outs have happened for 80 years and they have all been solved. Yes this one is a mile down but it is not on fire. A little patience instead of knee jerk reactions are needed and people like Simmons should shut up.

This is the kind of shoot from the hip, do something quick thinking which led to the dispenserate being used without for thought. Give me a freaking break. Put a nuke down the well bore.

This guy is talking out his ahole.

mannoclay says:

In fact, a couple of weeks ago the Media reported that Obama was consulting with some nuclear engineers regarding the “nuclear Option”. So this has been in the pipeline (bad pun, I know) for awhile.

It scares the bejeebers out of me for 2 reasons: Could we compound the problem by contaminating the Gulf with radioactivity; could it simply cause the existing hole to widen or collapse and have the oil seep out in a multitude of smaller leaks that might prove impossible to contain?

The above comment that it would turn the sand into glass is compelling. If it is true that the Ruskies have succeeded in making it work, then it becomes a legitimate solution.

What I can’t understand is why they can’t insert a tube of a slightly smaller diameter than the existing riser far enough down it that it would shoot the oil to tankers on the surface. Obviously, this is too good to be true, or the simplest solution is beyond the ken of the experts.

As far as the military goes, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that they have the ability to commandeer every tanker they can find and send them to the gulf to drop tubes into the underwater oil “lakes” and start pumping the oil out of the Gulf. Yes, the military doesn’t have the expertise in oil blowouts, but it can avail itself of certified oil experts, scientist and engineers to guide it in its efforts.

The Taming of the Shrewd says:

Here’s a better explanation from Matt.

http://www.netcastdaily.com/broadcast/fsn2010-0306-2.mp3

Ishmael says:

One other thing on the Russians using nukies, I doubt they have been doing this because I believe this would be a violation of the nuclear test bans. If you have banned detonating nukes for testing due to various concerns then I doubt they would be detonating nuclear weapons to cap blown out wells. That talks seems to be coming out of his backend.

Valissa says:

It blows my mind that so-called rational people are considering a nuclear bomb solution to the oil leak. Perhaps if this had been done before and been successful the idea would have some credibility, though I would stillbe against it. At this point it’s a “drawing board” idea and I have no confidence that it can be translated to the real world without adding problems. Murphy’s Law applies here! Then you would have an ocean full of oil sludge AND radioactive materials.

Alan von Altendorf says:

When Matt Simmons speaks, I listen. His theory of a subsurface blowout is plausible and explains the observable facts. If you know anything at all about the Macondo well history, then you know there is a “lost circulation” zone above the high-pressure reservoir formation. Oil could be migrating through that friable shallow section and then up a salt weld or fault to the seafloor. Simmons is correct about the geology, and likewise correct that shutting in the Macondo wellhead achieves nothing. You have to kill the well at the reservoir, which is the purpose of BP drilling relief wells to intersect Macondo. His suggestion of using supertankers echoes a similar operation in the Persian Gulf and will ultimately come into play in the current disaster until Federal orders sooner or later.

john bougearel says:

Anecdotally,

On Wednesday May 26 I fished the estuaries of New Orleans. Our captain however informed us that we (and everyone else) were restricted from fishing south of the 29th and 30th parallel.

We booked another fishing expedition for Sat May 29 with this captain. Unfortunately, this fishing trip had to be canceled because all commercial and recreational fishing had been restricted in New Orleans, supposedly more than 100 miles from the platform blowout.

Doctor Stock says:

Listening right now to the latest update… not surprised this continues to drag on… after all, like most bad news, it was minimized from the beginning. Unfortunately, all the bad news will eventually rise to the surface, literally in this case!

DWIGHT BAKER says:

NOT UP TO US TO BLAME IT IS UP TO US TO:
TAME NATURE PLAN the way to stop the oil flow.

From the time that Deep Horizon started to burn until it hit the ocean floor about 40 hours elapsed.

The Thunder Horse location owned by BP is flowing about one million barrels of oil per day The Deep Horizon is in the same age of oil rock looks as it is on an anticline dome in the Wilcox.

Thus, during the burn time then to rest on the seabed I estimate that One million five hundred thousand barrels of oil escaped through the piping up through the rig floor.

BP drilling engineer testified last night on CSPAN that no cement was placed between the 7” casing and the production zone. Thus a total open virgin formation flow rate was coming to the surface in excess of 20,000 pounds per square inch.

Thus the flumes that have been seen may be another type of petroleum one that has been in high heat such as when the rig was standing and burning. THUS TAR might be the residue. All the high carbons might have been burned away.

Civil courts will never get satisfactory resolutions Criminal courts will never convict people, Declaration of War against BP would be the cure, all the things needed to proceed would be at We the People Disposal.

Declaration of War
By Dwight Baker
May 24, 2010
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

Eagles Eye View Aiming at Issues for We the People Advocates

Congress has the responsibility to Declare War. In the past several wars Bush did so without Congress approval or consent, he called those acts of violence some thing other.

Now, We the People set adrift without leadership that has yet to come forward in acts strong enough to propose that War be Declared against the multinational Corporate Criminal BP. Maybe this will jog some minds to do so.
We the People have the right and the moral responsibility to demand that our Congress and Senate get off their duff and do the job we elected them to do. Saying, who in America believes all the lies and postponements that have been allowed to be input as Truth by our Executive Branch for the benefit to protect BP?

Our Federal Court systems are a part of British rule, We will never get a fair shake in any Federal Court system, Yet we stand a far better chance in a Military Tribunal.

TAME NATURE —the plan #2
To President Barack Obama and to whom it must concern at BP
By Dwight Baker
First sent May 16, 2010 today May 28, 2010
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

SUBJECT; Build install Overshot for riser
sketch of the over shot
PURPOSE; Kill the well

Should I have enough facts about the conditions where you are working, consider this: get a design ‘You have all the dimensions’ then get an overshot made to fit the top flange looking up where the riser was affixed.
TAME NATURE PLAN #3
Get 5,000 feet of heavy weight 7” or better casing loaded on board for the overshot to be attached.

The casing string should be arranged as this:
1. On the bottom the overshot
2. Next up 3 or more high pressure check valves to resist the flow of gas and fluids up to the rig installing.
3. Next install 1 or more high-pressure pump out plugs to begin unloading the loss circulation material and heavy weight mud whatever that might be.
4. When installing the casing fill the casing as needed with loss circulation material and heavy weight mud as best designed.
5. Design a cut off charge to be used to separate the drill string from the riser with intent to have it fall away out of the overshot to be installed.
picture of the BOP
6. Use the roves to set the charge off at the best time after installation of overshot is underway. Should it not fall away as expected then a grapple can be used to pull out of the way.
7. After setting the overshot around the top flange the rubber goods installed will compress.
8. Install cementing plugs as needed and begin pumping as needed.
9. I believe the entire amounts of fluids and solids will go quickly into all exit points at this time.
10. The cement should be pumped down to the setting ring.
11. Should it not go down then close in —- let set until cement has had time to dry.
12. After that time —-to release the rig a charge could be set at the depth where cement is in the setting casing — the remainder can be pulled up and hopefully the nightmare will be ended.
GOOD LUCK
I have high hopes that President Obama his staff and all in the loop along with BP will adopt TAME NATURE
As the final fix for the BP OIL DEBACLE
Now, this is a good idea much better than the current plan that is NOT SANE or SOUND AT ALL —-My thoughts and ideas are worthy of payment, please advise when we can come to terms. Dwight Baker PO BOX 7065 Eagle Pass Texas, 78852 tel 830-773-1077 Oil and Gas Engineer with USA PATENTS high-pressure gates valves. Banking Universal Commercial Code number E67344656 My genetic roots go back to J.D. Rockefeller.

Folks We all are Still —– We the People,

Time to lay down petty silly things and focus on the welfare of our communed held wealth in our Nation our People First that are suffering again then our Gulf just one of our Bread Baskets that feed us, the next all the pain suffering eleven men dead all their families and their lost hopes and dreams that got burned up that dreadful night.

So please for civil sanity lay down the spears and arrows and tend to the real business of doing things that will move this long arduous process along.

Dwight Baker