Cap Leaking Undersea Oil Wells Immediately

07/03/2010

Barrack enough is enough. Make it a law that any leaking undersea oil well must be capped permanently immediately.

Here is another way to cap it. One bolt is threaded into another and that bolt has threads on the outside. This is inserted into the pipe while the oil under pressure flows around. The end furthest into the pipe has claws that expand outward much like a drywall anchor in your home, but much more like an automotive tail pipe expander used in automotive repair work. The mechanism on this furthest in end in the pipe is expanded via a turning of the threads increasing its claw diameter.

Part two of the process. Then the external threads are utilized and pull a concentric tapered plug onto the end of the pipe and down on into it, much like corking a bottle.

The appropriate amount of torque pressure required is critical as well is the uniformity of pressure on the inside of the pipe, as well as the maintenance of dead center internal positioning that is assured by a sufficient positioning distance between two set of claw series that expand at the same time at a reasonable distance from each other on the axis.

The exact internal diameters and external diameters must be known. In fact this should also be a requirement, much like how digger’s hot line knows where lines are buried in your backyard, oil companies should be required to have documents and schematic diagrams with exact specifications of underwater wells on file with the government much like a home owner files a permit to do work at his house. This allows for easier immediate capping by a response team. The government must institute that it has the authority to immediately cap any well like this and the capability to do it. This should be part of our militaries competency and Navy submarines should have this capability.

Make it a law all undersea leaking wells are to be capped immediately, enough is enough. I don’t care what the economic impact of the lost oil is either in terms of revenue or lost utilization to our national interest’s form the well is and neither should any American. In fact the contrary should be the concern.

Thomas Paul Murphy

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