BP: Trust us, we'll fix it, this time, ROBOT SUBMARINES. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Zeke129;22248019]They should spend less money on these great 3D renders and more money on making them come true.[/QUOTE] Shoulda used Garry's Mod

Okay, so NOW they try replacing the damn valve?* Do offshore and land drillers really hate eachother so much that they won't even share plans on how to fix a damaged well head? * [i]On land, replacing the damaged well head is normally the first thing to do as all you do is cut off the damaged one a meter or so below it and forcefully replace it with a different one. It takes no more than a week to do.[/i]

Might be because land doesn't have thousands of tons of water above it.

BP should just use a massive butt plug to shut the leak.

Robot submarines, what the fuck.

This isn't the first time BP screwed over the environment. They polluted Lake Michigan a few years ago with some chemical used for the refining proccess. Didn't get much publicity, but I was disturbed by it. Now we have this. As soon as their stock goes up again, I'm selling. I don't trust them anymore.

Am I the only one who got pissed seeing the stream on Youtube. PBS Is doing a stream of the oil spill live on Youtube and theres a URL you can click to make a suggestion on how to plug it. Why should we, the common folk, have to make to fix their blunder?

They should just get a really huge block of lead and drop it on/in.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;22248849]Might be because land doesn't have thousands of tons of water above it.[/QUOTE] The process is mainly done remotely due to the risk of the well lighting. Two ROV's are really all that is needed and there have been at least two there almost since day one.

They should breed every species of fish and water bird to thrive in highly oily environments and then jsut leave the well open.

[QUOTE=pentium;22248837]Okay, so NOW they try replacing the damn valve?* Do offshore and land drillers really hate eachother so much that they won't even share plans on how to fix a damaged well head? * [I]On land, replacing the damaged well head is normally the first thing to do as all you do is cut off the damaged one a meter or so below it and forcefully replace it with a different one. It takes no more than a week to do.[/I][/QUOTE] A wellhead and a BOP are two very different things. Land rigs don't have to worry about BOP's because they are drilling right into the ground. If they have a blowout on a land rig, they just cap the wellhead (they still have a blowout preveter, but it's not as big, nor thousands of feet underwater). Now in offshore drilling, you got a good 500+ feet of water between you and the ground. So you have your drilling rig(like Deepwater Horizon) drill through the water until you hit ground(the BOP is connected to the piping before it's placed into the water), establish a wellhead, continue drilling into the reservoir, add cement well casing, remove drilling equipment, close BOP, then route a riser up to a platform(or use the same piping, i'm not sure). Some bigger platforms like Perdido have multiple risers going to multiple pumping stations going to multiple BOPs. Now imagine if that thing sank. BOP's are designed with multiple fail safes that should automatically close when the riser starts to backwash or break. What happened is while they drill the hole, they send lubricating drilling Mud down through the drill bit to carry away dirt and keep the bit cool. This mud is denser than oil, so when a bubble of gas, oil and air developed in the borehole, the mud kept it down until they layed off the mud because they reached the reservoir, and were casing the well walls with cement, the bubble shot up through the pipe, geyser'd on deck.(AKA a blowout) the thing ignited and blew up the rig, which sank, buckling the riser, causing the leak. the BOP failed to activate. So basically. Connect pipe to BOP>reach ocean floor>Establish wellhead>drill>reach reservoir>cement in borehole casing>pullout>attach to platform. [editline]11:06PM[/editline] [QUOTE=pentium;22249484]The process is mainly done remotely due to the risk of the well lighting. Two ROV's are really all that is needed and there have been at least two there almost since day one.[/QUOTE] BOP's are gigantic. Not to mention if you take off, Well, go drill a hole in your sink pumping(what the leak is now), The remove the actual pipe(the BOP) and see how much harder you make it to repair.

why don't they drop a metal box over the hole that weighs a shitload? Attach it to the ground so that bitch can take the pressure and bam.

[QUOTE=Swim;22248181]dont worry this time, were sending in the best [img_thumb]http://andthismakesaheartbeat.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/beatles-yellow-submarine-characters.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Holy shit yes.

[QUOTE=locojaws;22247163]Robot submarines? That's lazy, fix your mess with your hands assholes.[/QUOTE] Bones would turn to dust at that depth.

well at least one thing good has came out of all of this, the diagrams. they are nice.

[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;22249336]They should just get a really huge block of lead and drop it on/in.[/QUOTE] while they're at it they can dump a ton or so of mercury on it :downs: I really hope that you're not being serious.

This whole disaster is poop

Yeah but at least they're going bankrupt in style.

[QUOTE=Wayword;22252103]Yeah but at least they're going bankrupt in style.[/QUOTE] RIP Britain's economy again.

Just build a fucking relief well or two. It worked 30 years ago

[QUOTE=rampageturke;22255755]Just build a fucking relief well or two. It worked 30 years ago[/QUOTE] Are you MAD?! That costs money! D:

They outta plug it with the same bullshit they keep spewing

Is this like, their fifth try?

Hasn't the oil killed everybody yet?

BP's next official idea will look like this: [img]http://i.imgur.com/ttybG.gif[/img]

[img]http://holycrapthatsfunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/can-we-fix-it.jpg[/img]

Paul Riser subs? [img]http://www.nndb.com/people/837/000023768/pr.jpg[/img]

Fucked =/= BP's ideas

[QUOTE=Zeke129;22248019]They should spend less money on these great 3D renders and more money on making them come true.[/QUOTE] yeah they should just go straight in there without designing anything.

[QUOTE=Alyx Zark;22249239]Am I the only one who got pissed seeing the stream on Youtube. PBS Is doing a stream of the oil spill live on Youtube and theres a URL you can click to make a suggestion on how to plug it. Why should we, the common folk, have to make to fix their blunder?[/QUOTE] I think a better question is what would we, the common folk, possibly be able to suggest that trained engineers can't? I don't know shit about this sort of thing, and neither does anyone else watching the feed.