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these guys never heard of duct tape???
Duct tape is not a fix-it-all. The cap head is on the ocean floor at a depth of 5000′ of water. Any device to cap the oil spill is going to be done using ROV’s.
How about getting a rig ship to drill diagonaly into the bore below the surface of the sea bed and then injecting liquid nitrogen into the bore hole to freeze the crude before it reaches the cap valve. This would give the guys time to fix the cap valve therby stopping the leak.
It might work Ray, but I like the duct tape idea better.
Would it be possible to freeze (liquid nitrogen)the pipe below where it is broken (in a space long enough to stop the oil)- in this way it might be possible cut the pipe where it is damaged and plug it.
I think they should dig a 100 foot hole next to the leak< drop a bomb in it and blow it closed until they can drill a relief well!
I think it would be possible to use liquid nitrogen and I believe this method of stopping oil spills has already been used in the past.
Supposedly there is 1 set of tubing or pipes forced into the pipeline trying to mitigate the damage. Can’t we fit another tubing, wider than the pipeline, Slide it over the the smaller diameter pipe, but bigger than the pipeline, So, one pipe fits inside the pipeline and its external pipe slides over the pipeline spewing oil, Clamping it well down the exterior of the main pipe?