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Originally Posted by CajunCamaroChic
You are very correct. We tried to continue with shallow water drilling as this type of accident could have been fixed fairly quickly with minimal impact. Yeah, I should have known better than to respond to the guy, just very passionate and touchy about it right now.
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Understandable given the circumstances.
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Originally Posted by Muscle Master
why not extract the drill and bomb the oil well shut?
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Don't quote me on this, but I thought I had read somewhere that one of the main reasons they can't stop this leak is because if they plug the main hole, oil starts leaking out further down the well somewhere (think of a leaky garden hose). So they are worried if they bombed it the oil reserves underneath would just get busted wide open instead of the well collapsing on itself.
