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BP considers smaller dome after ice thwarts containment box
The containment box plan, never before tried at such depths, had been designed to siphon up to 85 percent of the leaking oil.
It had taken about two weeks to build the box and three days to cart the containment box 50 miles out and slowly lower it to the well a mile below the surface, but the frozen depths were just too much. BP officials were not giving up hopes that a containment box — either the one brought there or another one being built — could cover the well. But they said it could be Monday or later before they decide whether to make another attempt to capture the oil and funnel it to a tanker at the surface.
2 Comments on "BP considers smaller dome after ice thwarts containment box"
Roland Auger on Mon, 10th May 2010 10:21 am
Instead of using a containment box they should lower a large parashute over the leaks. Then put a suction hose that would suck the oil up. The hose should be installed from the side and not the top. Much like using an umbralla and a vacume hose.
The oil would inflate the shute and the oil could be sucked up.
Maybe that would be a an idea?
nano on Tue, 11th May 2010 6:45 am
Nuclear bomb method is best option I think. They should do it now.