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QUOTE: "The problem with this whole scheme is that they need to intercept the bore that is currently turning the Gulf of Mexico into vinaigrette. "Intercepting a bore" in this case amounts to aiming a 36 inch tube from a boat....down 5000 feet of water [current; and the boat is fighting current too-] to start drilling into mud and rock. Many of those levels of rock are filled with methane gas under pressure, and lodged within very soft rock that keeps cracking and forcing more gas pressure up the well. We aren't drilling a hole with a solid bit- we are drilling a hollow hole with a hollow bit, so when we encounter a gas pocket, the pressure shoots up the pipe, looking for a place to explode.
Then, this 36 inch tube needs to find its way down to another 36 inch tube, while being remotely drilled from 5000 feet above. It needs to curve to find this tiny tube; The difficulty of this is mind boggling! "
Relief wells are often drilled. The technology exists. Not saying it will be easy or without issues.
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1987 Carrera, Venetian Blue.
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