Posted by Kromey at 1:19pm Apr 29 '10that a simple valve at the wellhead could have cut off this entire problem the moment the rig went down. Makes me wonder why there wasn't one in the first place.
(Admittedly, I don't know much about the specifics of undersea drilling. I'm envisioning the "wellhead" as some kind of man-made cap that the feeder pipe connects to; I suppose it could just be the pipe itself plunging down into the earth, but in that case a valve in the pipe then at the wellhead?)
(Admittedly, I don't know much about the specifics of undersea drilling. I'm envisioning the "wellhead" as some kind of man-made cap that the feeder pipe connects to; I suppose it could just be the pipe itself plunging down into the earth, but in that case a valve in the pipe then at the wellhead?)
It seems to me - Kromey