On Jun 26, 6:44*am, dave wrote:
Joe from Kokomo wrote:

wrote:

BOYCOTT BP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cuhulin

On 6/25/2010 8:14 AM, sctvguy1 wrote:

You do know that BP does NOT own those stations? They are locally
owned by people who buy the gas from the company. Boycotting them
doesn't do a damn thing.

Not a damn thing...except make a local business man go broke.

If you sleep with dogs you wake with fleas.

Same goes for the Louisiana fisherman. *He shouldn't have trusted the
oil companies.

- A subsea blowout preventer should get the
- same official scrutiny as a nuclear reactor,

Agreed,

- because there is equal potential for disaster.

Agreed.

-*Why don't they make shear rams

Instant Pressure Surge and a potentially
bigger Blow-Out of the whole Well Head
and/or the Area around it and/or the Pipe
below it.

A Gental 'controlled' Shut-Down is what
is required to ease-off on the Flow and
ease-off on the Pressure.

- with explosives in the cylinders? *

That will do a Bang-Up job.

- That would be more "fail-safe" than hydraulics.

Not necessarily.

Better would be a Cam-Valve with a Dead Weight
counter-balance : Pull/Blow the Up-Lock Pins and
Gravity over time {Minutes to an Hour} does the rest.

Dave - You are right on the basic premise that
High Level Redundant Engineering on the Risk
Level of a "Nuclear Reactor" is required and
should be the World Wide Standard for all Deep
Water Oil Drilling Rigs.