[AT] [BULK] Re: OT--(but tractors do use oil)

[Gordon Hart]

John
If the oil is lighter than water and it starts up the tube helped by the 
pressure from below and reaches the top and a loop was made at the top would 
not then start a siphon action?

My question is how are they ever going to be able to shut it off? Without 
being sealed off around the broken line how do they keep the water out?

Just dumb Arkie thoughts.
Gordon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Wilkens" <jwilkens at eoni.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 4:14 PM
Subject: [BULK] Re: [AT] OT--(but tractors do use oil)


> Hi Chuck.  I wasn't thinking about the pressure involved.  "siphon"
> doesn't seem to fit though.    John W.
>
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> At 11:45 AM 05/16/2010, you wrote:
>>On 5/16/2010 10:49 AM, John Wilkens wrote:
>> > What am I missing.  How can BP "siphon" the spilled oil UPHILL?    John 
>> > W.
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>>John,
>>
>>They are likely inserting a pipe into a broken end of the pipe
>>spewing oil (under great pressure) into the ocean water around the
>>break.  I suspect that the closer the diameter of the inserted pipe to the
>>broken spewing tubing, the greater the volume of leaking oil
>>they can capture.  Doubtless you will see a diagram of any successful
>>attempt at inserting the pipe in a newspaper or web article soon - perhaps
>>it is already shown. There are many factors involved in what percentage
>>of the leaking oil they can capture.
>>
>>Years ago when I was involved in quoting subsea chokes to Phillips
>>I found deep water drilling problems were complex, difficult, dangerous,
>>and flat out amazing.  It is not a new science, but the new technology
>>coming from this incident should be interesting.
>>
>>Chuck Bealke
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