If we can't stop them drilling in the Gulf, then I hope this new invention works...

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http://blog.energytomorrow.org/2011/04/capping-stack-a-positive-outcome-from-a-tragic-accident.html

Capping Stack: A Positive Outcome from a Tragic Accident
By Jane Van Ryan | Monday 18 April 2011

It looks like a child's toy gyroscope on steroids, and it has the technology necessary to stop the flow from a well blowout on the ocean floor. It's the capping stack developed and built by a consortium of oil companies in response to the unprecedented Deepwater Horizon disaster that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico a year ago.

The oil spill containment device is 30-feet tall and weighs 100 tons. In the event of an undersea blowout, it would be sent to the nearest port, transported to the well site, and lowered to either kill the well or funnel escaping oil to ships. Although it might never be needed, it is standing by and capable of capturing 60,000 barrels of oil per day from wells up to 8,000 feet below sea level. (Rigzone)

Marty Massey, chief executive officer of Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) which is responsible for the device, says the consortium also is building another capping stack capable of killing a well in more than 10,000 feet of water and collecting 100,000 barrels of oil per day. This updated stack will be ready in mid-2012 and will be stationed along the Gulf Coast.



Why do I get the feeling this won't do any better than the "fool proof" Blowout preventor? I hope I'm wrong. Scratch that, I hope they never have a reason to try it. However, because of this containment device, the Dept. of Energy is willing to allow even more drilling. *sigh*

[FLPanhandle]

1. A pic of the device

[dionysus]

2. wow

[Overseas]

3. After receiving billions in taxpayer subsidies, BP used poisons and clean up technologies from 1979

after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Wonder if this bit of news will be trumpeted to diffuse the somber mood that should prevail in this country on this anniversary of BP Transocean Halliburton Deepwater Horizon disastrous explosion.