The best idea I've heard so far is to cut the pipe much closer to the sea bed and insert an inflatable balloon-like device (sort of like a stent) to plug the leak until the well can be capped. BP is trying to save the wellhead, an admittedly large structure, but it's that large structure that is in the way of stopping the leak. BP needs to stop trying to save the well itself at the expense of the Gulf of Mexico.
I am Chip Haynes, author of "Peak of the Devil", a book on global oil, to be released by Satya House Publishers later this year:
www.peakofthedevil.com
Chip Haynes
Clearwater, Florida
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