by Joseph Mcneil

Created on: June 15, 2010

BP has never had any intention of shutting down the spill until after they got a replacement well drilled. The so-called relief wells are basically just a replacement well and a relief well that might soon become a legal requirement for deep wells to operate. As of today, June 15th, it appears they are already saying that they need the oil while at the beginning they said they would not again try to tap the reservoir after shutting off the leak. If the leak gets shut off they would have no excuse to be allowed to continue drilling the other two wells, because they could simply encase the stopped well in a large cement block to permanently seal it shut.

I guess BP engineers don’t understand that rubber seals don’t have to be on pipe edges only, but the truth is that from the very beginning they have proven to be totally unconcerned with actually stopping the oil flow for even a brief period of time. They have been quite casual about all pollution concerns.

So from here, where they have foolishly brought things, they should now build a cage with a real containment attachment instead of acting like a bunch of ignorant Neanderthals who are totally unconcerned with the damage they are doing. Real sealing can be accomplished by installing a larger diameter pipe with three inner metal seals that seal under the cut of the riser pipe. The upper most seal could be non adjustable and cover only most of the gap, so as to allow for easy installation of the pipe over the riser pipe, and properly sealed hard to the outer pipe to add strength against any upwards forces. A bottom one could be the same, but with additional strength against downward movement, with only the inner one being adjustable hard to the inner pipe with O-rings joints at the inner pipe connection and the metal ring pie-sections connections. The rings would have to be of machined level tightness to each other, and there would be no need to be concerned with oil pressures during the installation adjustment of the center ring because it will not be in the oil stream. The design would of course have to take into account the sealing of any screw-wrenching openings that are needed for the adjustment with rubber sealing. Of course full testing of the chosen design variables, that includes above-the- operating and above-the-oil pressures expected, of everything should be done before dragging it to the bottom of the ocean.

A cage could be built to be attached to the protruding rings used to secure

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