On Jul 17, 5:26*am, mm wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:14:34 -0400, "Charlie"
wrote:



"mm" wrote in message
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OT *BP again

So they capped the pipe.

Where was this cap for the last 89 days? * Why don't they have three
of them or more, at least one on each continent where they have
off-shore wells?

This cap was made to order to fit the application

It could have, should have, been made in advance.



Why was every procedured they did reported with the caveat, This has
never been done before. * Why not?

That's the trouble with this deep well. There has never been an event quite
like this one.

That's no reason not to plan for it and create tools to deal with it
in advance.

Why haden't they tested all the procedures and devices when they first
started underwater drilling, again when ty started deep water
drilling, and again every time a new procedure or device was
developed?

The he first blow-out protector was tested and failed some of the tests.
They used it anyway.

Wow. * I didn't know that.



Probably a combination of greed and incompetence.

Stop reading the funnies and pay attention to the real (such as it is )
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That was an American company BTW.