re: #206 Bagua

My answer is a moratorium on offshore drilling until new technology is developed, and proven which can quickly seal off a leak like this. Then the equipment must be available for quick deployment. The current kit is obviously not fit for purpose.

The Tech is there, it just didn’t work in this case. A double stack of BOPs might have done the trick. We don’t know if this was a backside blowout (around the production string- a bad cement job) or a primary blowout (through the production casing- not maintaining sufficient weight to keep the downhole pressure from overcoming the hydrostatic head.).

This is not rocket science, but BP isn’t talking.

Oh, and by the way, I used to be a wellhead geologist and did this for a living.