Gulf Oil spill disaster- my comments in Washington Post

Comment on: Gulf Coast reeling as BP 'top kill' effort fails at 5/30/2010 2:09 PM EDT
Liquid nitrogen in tanks to be lowered down to the area and released near the blow out and around the pipe there to freeze the water body into a thick ice block stopping the gushing oil has been my suggestion to BP. Simple and effective but will give immediate relief. Having controlled ecological disasater engineering repairs can continue. Intermettent supply of liquid nitrogen will keep the frozen water mass seal at minus 30 deg . BP is not listening. Hope some one can get head of BP to listen.
Comment on: BP readies mud and robots to try to plug oil well at 5/25/2010 3:47 PM EDT
I would imagine the fastest solution could have been to lower 5 to 6 tankers of liquid nitrogen , arranged in circular formation to surround the oil blow out, and release remotely the hatchets. This would freeze the entire water mass around into frozen mass, not allowing any oil to leak out. It gives time to put in place more permanent remedial measures. Actually for more than a month the spill is allowed. Within 24 hrs this measure could have contained the spill saving the environmental damage. Wish I know why this could not be done.
Comment on: BP readies mud and robots to try to plug oil well at 5/25/2010 3:19 PM EDT
I would use five tankers of liquid nitrogen lowered at the point of leakage and remotely open the latches of all of them. The sea water around will just freeze into many feet of deep frozen ice wall plugging the leak pending more permanent repair.

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Unknown said…
The oil pipe can be sealed with a portland cementslurry made with water and added to sodium bisulfate within the oil pipe. When the two chemiclas mix they imediatly form a solid of sufficiant weight to contain the well presure. Test a sample. You will be impressed. This is used for soil solidification to stabilize soils for construction.
June 14, 2010 at 8:56 PM
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