Thursday, May 6, 2010

Stopping Gulf Coast oil leak could take weeks

The goverment has many people working in way to stop the leaking. they already found three possible solutions. The first one is to send remote controled submarines to active the Blowout preventer, but it should have activated the day of the explosion, so it will onl work if crews get it to work, which will be very hard. the second option is called stopgap, this consist of putting a chamber that will capture the crude and send it to a boat above, but this one is preventive, it will works for some time until the third option is done. The third option consists of making a relief well, this means that the company will make a new well that will intercept the failing well and then it will send concrete to close it.

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