Why the hell hasn't this oil well been plugged yet?

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loosening compressed geological layers could make it easier for a high-pressure jet of fluid to escape
 
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light it on fire
 
This whole situation is fucked up.

Why couldn't this have happened to George Bush, and Katrina happen to Obama? Bush would shut this country down to stop us from losing oil, and Obama would have put New Orleans under a glass dome to save some black folk.
 
they're doing this now, but it's not an easy or quick process. The deepwater horizon was the leading fucking rig at doing what it was doing. The thing holds a world record.




What's out in that part of the gulf is massive. They sold all the new leases a few years ago for billions
 
Well you'd have to overcome that oil pressure with a higher concrete pressure obviously. Were not talking about a truck chute and fire hose here
 
it's costing BP mega $$$$ for the government to work and contain it....as well as the money they're losing in Oil and you suppose they're not trying hard to fix it?

If it's such a simple solution....don't you think they would have done it?
No one benefits from inaction.
 
Because BP is trying to dick around and reconnect to the pipe instead of just sealing the thing off and drilling a new hole. If they wanted to just seal it, they could have a long fucking time ago.
 
I know, I was being sarcastic Haven't they been continually trying to get the BOP to close?
 
no way... if its cold enough to form ice crystals on the bell, the heated metal would almost immediately solidify itself. you ever seen a blacksmith work? i think the trickiest part is heating it in the first place.
 
BP has a live stream from the damaged riser. The link is on their main page.
Here it is:
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html

edit: posted already
 
I believe there was talk about nuking it shut. Then somebody said they might blow up the world if they did that so I think they didn't want to try.
 
because we don't have tons of resources working on this. Shit isn't magic.

You are talking about a well 5,000ft down with a fucking oil rig on top of it.
 
so we dont have the capability to blow into the bedrock?

clearly im ignorant on underwater drilling and explosives, but these are reasonably solid ideas assuming we can do that.
 
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