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To: NickSE who wrote (17068)	5/26/2010 11:44:40 AM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 24758

Do we know whether the existing pipe is breached above or below the seabed? Above. If its above, you would think encasing the top with concrete would make sense. How would the pressure of the oil coming out impact that? You only need sufficient mass of concrete for bell mass + concrete mass to be greater than pressure. Wouldn't it just keep pushing the concrete out of the way before it hardened? Rapidset hardens in 20 minutes. I tried googling the bell idea but couldn't find an example of it. They don't call it that. I used "bell" to convey the overall concept. Should I have used, "caison"? If its breached below the seabed, No. I would think putting a mound of concrete on top of it would just redirect the oil to come up somewhere else beyond the cap, no? The well pipe casing prevents dispersion. You have to make your concrete mass big enough to overcome the pressure. Given the pressure explosion down there, the odds are high the pipe is screwed down below No. The problem lies in the blowout preventer, the control valve above the sea floor. It's partially open. as well and putting the bell on top would kill any off any other options aside from a relief well. Options to do what? You want to plug the well. Plugging will have to be done one way or the other. Right now BP is trying to control the flow by diminishing its head first through pumping heavy high viscosity material into the gaping hole, and then incrementally adding to this effort to eventually reduce the flow to zero. What I have in mind moves along the same line. It's just more robust although it may take twice the time to implement.