By Kim Stablespoon - Published: Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
BP Oil Spill Must Stop, we need a new BP Oil Spill Solution – this is the clamor of all people worldwide. It seems that actions taken to contain BP oil spill which started in the Gulf Coast of Mexico were all unsuccessful. As long as I can remember, the oil spill containment method started with the use of BP Oil Boom Equipments. After that, BP implemented a huge containment dome about the size of a four-storey building but that particular oil spill solution did not prove to be successful. Even the million dollar project of actor Kevin Costner which involved oil separators using several centrifugal machines to separate oil from water proved to be no match to the pressure of the BP oil leak from the broken oil pipe.
BP and the US Government have taken joint actions to contain this BP oil spill, the latest of which was a plan called BP Top Kill Procedure involving huge amounts of mud used to block the broken oil pipe causing the oil leak. What could be the next oil spill solution that BP and the US Government would take? Will this be successful enough to at last seal the broken oil pipe? What are your suggestion to finally contain this BP oil spill to stop the BP oil leak from continuously spilling oil into the ocean?
We here at Mioboo together with the US Government and British Petroleum (BP) were all thinking of the best oil spill containment method. We should be united in this BP oil spill. If you have any suggestions of the next BP oil spill solution, please let us know by leaving a comment below:
Alternatively, you can also tune in to our partner site for BP Oil Spill Live Feed HERE for you to witness the ROV below the ocean bed and watch the BP oil leak. We’re all in search for the Oil Spill Solution that will finally contain this BP Oil Spill. For more updates on BP oil spill live feed updates, tune in to us here.
Meanwhile, if you want to know what really happened in the oil rig which caused this BP oil spill, then we have the story HERE. The Oil Spill must stop now. We need to take the necessary actions to solve this oil spill.
Author: Kim StablespoonCategories: World
Tags: BP Oil Leak, BP Oil Spill Live Feed, BP Top Kill Procedure
May 31st
The sucktion pipe within the pipe was a good start. The problem is that we need to make a seal between the pipes to prevent oil pushing past the smaller pipe. The solution is a donut like seal fitted aruond the smaller pipe that can be inflated once it is inserted. This would simply require an air hose from a compressor on the ship above. Please excuse the spelling. I don’t have time to get this message to more websites so if you think its’ worth persuing please feel free to pass it on. Maybe if its’ ment to be it will eventualy reach the right ears.
May 31st
why not make a long retainer clip,like they use on vehicles and insert it in the pipe.the pressure from the well will seal itself.
Jun 1st
Why can’t the well be flowed up the pipe that was used to pump the mud for the top kill operation and the bop plugged off from the outside.
Jun 1st
While I know a complete fix is necessary, I think a containment procedure would probably be the best way at this moment. the only thing needed for that is a large tube to be placed on top of the spill. This will lift the oil to one area where it can hopefully be collected and best of all not spread.
Jun 1st
Continuously pump high pressure SEA WATER into the top, to suppress and even STOP the oil leak until such time as relief wells are drilled – better to have water leaking than oil! KISS
Jun 1st
Cut the pipe at the surface and clear debris and then insert a new drill head into the pipe and screw it down to a point that it stops some to most of the flow and then try the drilling mud and concrete method.
Jun 1st
Thinking too small . Part of the problem has been hydrates forming from the frigid temperatures at this depth plus the expansion of gas in the riser . with a larger pipe there will be less chance of these hydrates forming.The larger pipe should be fitted over the existing leaking pipe, not in it. At the surface a large bore submersible pump can be run on a smaller string of pipe (41/2 or 51/2″)inside the larger pipe . When they begin pumping the fluid out of the larger pipe sea water will be sucked in at the bottom and prevent any oil or gas from escaping. If needed surfactants and methanol alcohol can be injected at the base of the larger pipe to help prevent the buildup of hydrates and aid in the separation of oil and gas and sea water on the surface. These large bore centrifugal submersible pumps are readily available and are often used in high volume oil wells.This is not rocket surgery !
Jun 1st
Stop trying to contain. Drop sections of pipe from spill to surface Load onto freighters
Jun 1st
Announce a reward of $ 20 million for the engineer who finds method to stop the leak.
Jun 1st
I understand consideration is being given to use of nuclear power to seal the opening and obliterate the well. I found this information by googling nuclear energy gulf oil spill. How many of us are willing to grow 2 heads in our next generation to fix this? Can you imagine crabs that weigh 500 pounds or a glass sea bottom? If sand is heated enough it becomes glass. This whole thing is insane.
Jun 1st
Has anyone considered that since the water’s tempature is so cold at this depth, maybe a solution is to take the tempature even colder by shooting the site of the breach with liquid nitrogen and freezing the site. This could stop the oil from leaking by actually freezing it, and creating a window of time to bring in a permanent solution. If the site begins to thaw out, just continue the process of liquid nitrogen until a permanant solution can be implemented. Maybe a large bladder of some sort could then be put in place to actually seal the site.
Jun 1st
Insert another pipe just the right size to fit within the actual broken one. That new pipe should already have an opened valve installed on the other end, in order to ease its insertion by allowing pressure to keep evacuating through the new pipe. The main problem is to maintain this new pipe into place. For this, I would suggest that once the new pipe has been inserted, start by drilling several holes around the external pipe (drilling through both pipes), and leave the drill there for each hole, as those will act as “screws”. Once the installation of the new pipe has been secured, close the valve.
Jun 1st
how to recover the oil (oil spill) have a large tanker stationed near by. have small boats with 500 gallon vacume tanks vacume up the oil, then proceed to the tanker and un load. use pontoon boats 24 feet long they are cheaper to build than a regular boat
Jun 1st
WHY NOT IMPROVE ON DOMES BY KEEPING THEM HEATED AND HAVE VAVES INSTALLED TO CARRY OIL TO SURFACE WITH MORE BLEED VALVES PRESSURE CAN BE CONTROLLED
Jun 1st
I suggest using the power of GOD. Request an international day of prayer.
Jun 1st
Pump the pipe full of a sand and molten sulfur mix, fragmented glass fiber
can be added to allow additional compressive and tensile capability to the aggregate when it cools to form a kind of instant concrete.
Jun 1st
Pump the pipe full of a sand and molten sulfur mix. Fragmented glass fiber?may be added to allow additional compressive and tensile capability to the aggregate. When it cools it will form a kind of instant concrete.
Jun 1st
a tube from a ship sent down to the busted pipe and fits over the busted pipe and the robots clamp the larger tube to seal it and the oil pumps to ships above until the oil stops, may need some pumping assistance somewhere inbetween that divers can access
Jun 1st
Here’s 2 ideas – first of all, if the pipe is vertical, use a submarine or whatever to start wrapping the pipe (with some heavy rope or other such material) below the break, slowly wrapping upwards until the hole is covered. Then wrap something harder over that, like a big, flat sack of clay, making a big band aid to at least slow it down.
If the pipe is laying horizontally, make a massive sack of clay and lay it over the hole then sandbag it in so something more permanant can be fixed over it after that.
that’ll at least slow it down until a more permanant solution can be found. God be with you.
Jun 1st
I have a solution that will stop the oil from constantly flowing into the ocean.I dont want to post because someone may take my ideal,please respond back to me.
Jun 1st
Insert a smaller tube like before….only have some type of expanding,soft to hard material that is on the out side of the smaller tube, far enough to grab the inside……
and it will be strong enough to hold as well as allow it to flow like you want to the top.
You guys better wise up and look at where else this could happen.
What happened to better safe than sorry ?
My grand babies want to use our America Beaches when they grow up
Jun 1st
Place explosives down the present drill pipe deep enough to disintegrate a large portion of the pipe below the ocean floor. Many shaped charges placed sideways would be an option.
Jun 1st
cut the pipe off flush…then weld a huge shut off valve over the pipe while its valve is still open, therefore the pressure will just blow through until the valve is properly welded into place….then just simply shut off the valve….. DUH ….
Jun 1st
Take a very large steel container box open at the bottom, cut to fit the topography of the ocean floor and open on the top with a sliding hatch and drop it over the gushing oil. Then fill the box through spring loaded port holes on the side with concrete to anchor the box. The inside walls will have shelves or honeycomb protrusions to anchor the box to the ocean floor. When it is determined that there is enough weight on the box the sliding hatch will be pulled shut with a pulley system hooked to the hatch and run through pulleys and then up to surface ships. The hatch will ride on rollers on a rail above it to allow ease of closing and will not be tight against the bottom allowing oil and pressure to exit until it is completely shut. At this time weight will be placed on top of the hatch to seal it tight against the container.
Jun 1st
A.Bring in BAKER HUGHES.
B.Assuming the leak shown is the full extent of it and methane hydrates haven’t blown a bigger hole than can be immediately covered by the Katrina(?)dome:suspend the “dome” over the leak/s and guide down big weights on steel cables to overcome the pressure – temp fix. No standard oil recovery until new well drilled. May have to modify dome to increase weights..have no math calcs on expelled pressure to overcome. Think Charles Atlas, Eugen Sandow.
C. Gas/mechanical LOCK cylinder ram, frame-suspended, over drill hole(sharp end first), trigger gas ram release over lock (not explosive ram)to jam the drill hole. May be screw type.
D. ..
Jun 1st
Crimping the pipe (providing the pipe is ductile enough – which it appears to be) seems the quickest, most reliable and low risk option of halting this catastrophe.
Jun 1st
There is a bend in the pipe that is already restricting flow somewhat. The robots could be used to bend the pipe even more thereby increasing the back pressure and reducing the oil flow even more. Then the top kill procedure could be attempted again with a higher chance of success.
Jun 1st
jesus christ, just fix the god-damned thing. hideous what you’ve created…I mean destroyed.
Jun 1st
Would it be possible to feed liquid nitrogen or other supercold liquid down the leak? I’m thinking freezing the oil in the pipe would form a plug that would last long enough to be able to cap the well.
Jun 1st
I am a biologist and a doctor. I generally stay away from comments but I am not stupid and somewhat non-political. One thing that is very stupid is to go to barbacues in chicago and not be on the gulf coast with your kids. It sounds better than chicago andshows u may actually care. It is unacceptable that enginers from nasa. army corp,and exxon amoung others to move on this situation. Other countries ran into this problem and various solutions were used.I am not completely sure of the results of blowing up the whole underwater rig but others do. The Russians did it in a day. If we can send missions to Jupiter I have to believe we should be able to at least contain this. To try to criminil.ize BP tomorrow wastes everyones time.. There is a better time and accidents do happen.My take is people and land are being destoyed and little is being done to help BP solve the problem. I pay alot in taxes to say the least and am not rich but all the money that has been paid by all of us should have the government with many options-cleanup.experts.help from other nations. When we have an earthquake we rush aid-where is the aid to fisherman and businesses? Boycott BP- I guess few people know that the gasoline in a station is often from other companies-they sell to each other. My granddad owned gas statios so I know an exxon truck carries Chevron gas all the time. I think politically we are wimps and don’t say what we mean-enough of sendind less qualified people to college.med.dental,engineering school and others on race,gender and who u know. This is what is going on here-not the most brillant people are being consulted as operation top kill was not remotely intelligent with anyone who has a slight physics bacground. I f you were a politician and your house was under siege from oil spill u would sleep very little until all assets were in place tp protect your house. Something is terribly wrong in this situation.
Jun 1st
best idea is to have experts see how to bury the tower. If we can demolish huge buidings we shoud be able to implode this and it should close the hole. In many of these ideas water is most dence at 37 degrees and causes many of these ideas to sound great but not as simple as suggested.
Jun 2nd
It would seem that all should read doolins principal of partial pressures first, then you would understand why trying to contain a gas/oil in water leads to freezups and explosions due to the gas not being able to escape without the oil, this is what probably caused the explosion in the first place.
Really the same principal as Costners Bro. suggested (centrifugal separator) to remove oil from water just use a water to gas (oil) separator not liquid to liquid as he suggests, that (costners bro’s idea) will work by the way, we use the technology in our industry every day.
This plug the hole daddy, plan/s really scares me. How do you install a valve and simply close it, really how do you do that without taking in to account the potiential gas hazard. What happens when/if we then blow the pipe several feet or miles below the surface?
I agree, cut it clean & cap it slip on screw on cap with an inflatable differential pressure triple seal leave the valve open,,,then install an oil to gas separator as mentioned before to centrifugally catch the oil and vent the gas with (two pipes) to either vent or again burn off the gas or BOOOMMM!!
An operational rig has gas natural or methane burning above the rig, all the time, ever wonder why, if not BOOOOMMM?
The oil/gas mixture is moving at an uninterupted pace fueled by differential pressures, the heat and magma from the earths core is fueling it. Simply closing a valve is not the answer honey, it is much more complicated than that.
Top fill was idiocy, due to mix and fluidity or oil and gas, they are lucky it did not work, doubtful it would have though. It is kinda like standing in front of a moving train with your arm extended, good f….ing luck!
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Jun 2nd
Take thin metal sleeves and shave the ends like a “ramp” for oil to slip over and not push on sleeve. Make sleeves thin enough to reduce chance of oil pushing it out, then have another smaller sleeve, with shaved end and slip in the 1st sleeve. Then keep on making sleeves a size smaller to keep slipping in one another. Also make each sleeve length different length to keep the inner parts of the sleeves like a “ramp” for oil to glide through and snug enough to help resist oil pressure.
Possible Problem: Oil may push out each sleeve
Possible solution: make each sleeve have a “tab” that bends downward so the tab can dig into the sea floor to help keep the sleeve from being forced out. I imagine if the sleeves are thin enough and shaved on the ends, less chance of oil pushing them out for lack of ridge to push on.
Then when the hole is finally filled with sleeves smaller and smaller. Bolt the outside through the sleeves.
Another possible solution is a giant ‘tap and die’ to screw in the end of the pipe, once the teeth from the tap grabs, be just like a bolt (maybe should use a stainless steel tap and die to limit rust. Dont know if the robot would be able to turn the tap and die enough for the teeth to “bite”.
Jun 2nd
As a follow up, this valve/separator could & will eventually be closed down just not in one (full force, to stop) fell swoop maybe a click a day and before the hurricane season, hopefully. The current heat and velocity of this “hell hole” needs to be incrementally cooled/throttled down. Hoping this is clear. By the by the valve would not be a screw on but screwed on (pre drilled with highest +++ shear self tappers & viton triple O ring seal), it could be welded at some point but it needs to be initally pinned to do so, why risk it? Finding a way to monitor gas and oil pressure and temp. would be beneficial to closing off at safe and most expeditious rates. DP & DT transmitters/ transducers should be available to do so.
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Jun 2nd
not gonna tell you like the others, but i will show you my diagram which i am certian will work. PLEASE contact me. remember all life IS precious.
Jun 2nd
Install a standpipe over the wellhead and weld to the existing standpipe. The new standpipe would have a full bore valve at the top, initially installed in the open position. The side of the new standpipe would have a 6″ or 8″ full bore on a nozzle lateral to the vertical standpipe. It too would be open initially. After welding is completed, close both valves and the leak is then sealed. Later, when convenient, one could produce through one of the valves, or pump cement through them.
It might also be possible to install a stopple that would shut the well in, but I need more info to think it through.
Jun 2nd
Remember the oil fires in Iraq ? The greenies predicted nuclear winter !They said the sky would be black ,the suns rays would bounce back into the atmosphere and everything on the planet (including us ) would die !Well Sadam lit um up and absolutely none of that happened. The same is true here. Some will beat their chest and scream bloody murder and this too shall pass. I heard today that President Obama has joined the throng of hysterical rhetoric and said that we have never had a disaster of this magnitude. Well just for your info this spill doesn’t even come close to the worst oil spill. It’s like twelfth in the order of oil spills . Don’t believe everything that comes out of his mouth or the liberal press. planes still crash and ships still sink and space shuttles still explode (by the way who did they prosecute and hang for that one ?). Nuff said
Jun 3rd
WHY DON’T THEY JUST STUFF THE PIPE WITH BP EXECUTIVES
Jun 3rd
Insert a tubular bladder about 30-feet long inside the pipe, then inflate it with instantly using compressed gas to form a stopper having enough friction to hold it in place.
Jun 3rd
To really solve a big problem like this one is to just use Symplicity..
one thought came to mind, what if some one comes up with an oversized flexible hose to fit over the broken pipe by using the robots, kind of like the kids toy “Elefun”. it may sound silly but it could work.
Jun 3rd
agree a simplistic approach to feed a balloon pipe down the hole and then inflate. Also, rather than drilling a new hole, drill a shorter diagonal hole to the existing hole to save time and concentrate on a 80% restriction in the shorter term.
Jun 3rd
Why not collect feathers from all the chicken and turkey farms and use those to sop up the oil? Oil seems to stick real good to feathers, if hair doesn’t work, feathers probably won’t either, but just a thought.
Jun 4th
has anyone thought of useing a large balloon like bag that has a very large opening going with a soft flexable container since its obvious that the amount of pressure your dealing with will blow anything off
if you catch the oil at the source and then float it to the surface and collect it their and just keep the bags rotating
from the bottom to top if the opening is large enough it would not be affected by the force of the valcano and have some way of sealing it up when it is full or some way to pump the oil out from the bottom sort of like a large version of the bladders they use to ship fluid cross cuntry on trucks or maybe a mile long fexable shoot that goes to the sorce, oil and gas float so its not like they need any pumping to make it to the surface
Jun 4th
In Florida the sugar industry burns of sugar fields. This might be the way
to go to not try to sap up the oil along the area where the oil is only
starting to come ashore. The plant life is already damaged so burn off
the oil and save it from going deeper into the soil and give the plant life a chance to grow back at a later date..
Jun 4th
why cant the people dealing with the oil spill in the gulf just create a cylinder down to the bottom of the ocean over the pipe? they do it all the time when they want to walk around on the bottom of the ocean. with all the technology that we have now days im surpised we dont have a mechine that can separate water from oil. then they could use that to filter the water out of the cilinder and put the oil that is gushing from the cracked pipe in containers for use NOT killing more animals in the world!!!!!! we already do enough of that!!!!!!!!!
Jun 5th
Why can we not slide a pipe over the outside of the existing pipe,with anumber of holes pre drilled through the wall of the new pipe…say 10 holes about 1″ in Dia. The new pipe has an open end but has a fitting or coupling end on it . Then weld (rose bud)through the 1″ holes to the existing pipe……I think we can weld underwater.
When new pipe is secure,use the new clean end to Top Cap the pipe. The new pipe could also be pre-fitted with a knife gate that could be closed afterwards.
Jun 5th
Basic physics-liquid always flow from high pressure to low pressure site. When we try to seal a hole in the heart without doing open heart surgery, we usually thread a umbrella device attached to a metal cord through the big vein. After the device reach the high pressure site of the hole, we open the umbrella, the flow pressure will push the umbrella against the wall and seal the hole(we could pull on the cord to adjust the umbrella’s position). it would lodge on the other site of the hole and seal the hole or dramatically decreases the flow. Then we use mash and coil material to further seal the hole. I guess you could use same mechanism to seal the leaking pipe, but using rubber plugs(thread the rubber plug via the cord) rather than mash material. There are other idea too, if you are interested, please e-mail me.
Jun 5th
Unfortunately, this is probably going to be the biggest disaster in the history of humankind…The people who were in charge of the oil platform were killed before they could do their job and now the government is making excuses for their lack of action…Everyone thought it would be like the Australian situation but it is not even close…The depth and volume of oil leak makes it virtually impossible to stop or plug…We do not have the technology to stop this and the government does not have a clue what to do now…That is why they are acting the way they are..
Alot of people talked about 2012 being the end of the Earth…Well thanks to this disaster, it has virtually been insured….Sorry folks but there is no longer anything that can be done once the oil reaches the Oceans…If it is not there, it will be very soon…And that will trigger the end of life on this planet…There will be no water supply within a year or two…The water supply is dependent on evaporation and that is primarily due to the oceans…WATER CONTAMINATED WITH OIL WILL NOT EVAPORATE…NO WATER, NO LIFE ON EARTH…
This disaster has sealed the fate of life on this planet…They are lying to US because there is nothing they can do to stop it now…
Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
People are thinking about this like a plumber or a hydraulics tech would on the surface. Estimates are that the pressure is between 5,000 and 12,000 PSI and the depth is over 4,000 feet. This is not a matter of swimming down and capping off, putting in new pipes, inflating a seal, etc… This is much larger. Additionally, gas pockets and expansion of such will cause temperature fluctuations that generate massive expansion and contracting of pipes. Rubber solutions will not work, nor will many of the other suggestions.
The only sure-fire solution for this is to dig a relief well which will redirect the existing pressure. It is not a quick fix, and perhaps some of the other techniques can be tried to slow the leak in the meantime, but in these cases a relief well will definitely work and while it will take months to finish, the quicker it is started the sooner the crisis effectively be averted and cleanup can proceed effectively.
But above all, BP and TO really need to ante up and take responsibility. The government needs to ante up to help keep businesses and people afloat during this time, and a long term solution to prevent this kind of disaster needs to be conceived, tested, and implemented.