mm wrote:
OT, but would be on topic for alt.gulf.repair

What gets me about the Gulf oil leak is that they seem to have not
planned ahead for what would be a remedy for this situation. They
seem to have done no testing at this depth, and are just trying
possible remedies on a guess as to whether they would work or which
would more likely work, or maybe trying those which worked for wells
less deep, but were never tested at this depth.

I don't think it would have required an actual leak to do testing.

I think the pres of BP admitted there had been "not enough planning".

Plus the dead battery in the BOP.

Article here about a plan that was in place: http://tinyurl.com/24z6auq

I guess the engineers did finally get a smaller pipe inserted into
the drill pipe to get some/most of the oil. I wonder if they have
some sort of expander on it to seal up between the two pipes.