The State of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has set up a page for responding to potential impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill along Florida’s shoreline. It looks like they are publishing daily SitReps. Today’s report (PDF) basically states there is no impact yet, but that they are in preparation mode. For instance, the State Emergency Operations Center has activated to a Level 2 or Partial activation.
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Can’t seem to get through to appropriate government officials, but there is a solution to stop the oil.
FREEZE THE PIPE(BOP)!!! Please ask any of your scientific analysts if the entire BOP assembly can be ‘frozen’ using Liquid Nitrogen. I have plans to send four large canisters to the location of the BOP and freeze the assembly. Consider that it was the ‘frozen methane’ which prevented the large ‘top hat’ assembly from working. Why not use this temperature to help freeze the oil and gas inside the BOP essentially creating the same ‘plug’ that prevented the top hat from capturing the oil?
Please contact the engineers at Air Products for details as to how this could be engineered.(Cryogenic Freezing)
I urge your attention to this matter, as I believe it is the answer for safer drilling at deeper depths.
My plan was to plug the bop with a tapered plug backed by a large steel lid/cup and the cup filled with cement once in position with cement added as the plug slowly took on the pressure. The plate would be lowered on a double walled steel cofferdam filled with cement (once postioned) that would serve not only to prevent the plug from
going to deeply into the riser (by supporting the lid) but would also serve as as sarcophagus for still leaking oil. Further steel and cement could be added to further contain any residual leaks. The bottom of the sarcophagus would be filled with cement to both support the blowout preventer before the plug/lid was lowered and also prevent any leakage. No one was interested even though there were historical precedents for the cofferdam and the sarcophagus.
All I got was a polite letter with blank saluation from Deepwater Horizon Response saying the idea was incorporated into several contingency plans……none of which have been tried.
BP, especially now, has no desire to completely stop the flow even though they keep getting hit between the eyes with new estimates of oil flow that are becoming a nightmare for them. They thought they had a controllable leak mainly because they engaged in wishful thinking and not science and the gov did not take them by the collar with gunboat diplomacy and task them with a job. All BP wants now is to reduce the flow as much as possible through collection and bluff/muddle their way through the next two months. Admitting now that they had the power to stop the leaks through several methods would be disastrous to the careers of many BP execs and engineers
and also would embarass the US government.