president s assurances about those safety standards are unwarranted, not true. here is why i say that. i mean it for a specific reason. this an medication shows a blowup rig. if the pressure from the sea well blows up through the pipe, that preventer seals the well, holds the pressure in. that s the way it is supposed to work so you do not end up with this, with 11 men killed, a historic oil spill that continues for months. as part of the investigation into the bp disaster, the government hired a norwegian firm to perform forensic examination of what went wrong with the blowout preventer at deepwater horizon. what they found is something that is scary and not just scary about that one blowout preventer but about every one of them. they found even when they work as designed, when they are busted, they do not work. the pressure can render them useless, even if they re in fine shape.
this animation shows a blowup rig. if the pressure from the sea well blows up through the pipe, that preventer seals the well, holds the pressure in. that s the way it is supposed to work so you do not end up with this, with 11 men killed, a historic oil spill that continues for months. as part of the investigation into the bp disaster, the government hired a norwegian firm to perform forensic examination of what went wrong with the blowout preventer at deepwater horizon. what they found is something that is scary and not just scary about that one blowout preventer but about every one of them. they found even when they work as designed, when they are not busted, they do not work. the pressure can render them useless, even if they re in fine shape. instead of working properly, you get this. despite the blowout preventer, you get a blowout. the report calls for new studies
the operator who runs the dynamic positioning system actually inputted the wrong data, had corrupted data and pushed it off location. are there upgrades? department of interior is bragging there have been safety upgrades. you and i have talked about whether or not you can do better inspections of your lead parachute, as i put it before. but are there upgrades that could be made to a blowout preventer like this one that would make it less like the deepwater horizon, that would make it more likely to five the blowout that deep sixed that preventer? it required a complete redesign, they talked about that all through the report, redesigning the rams. the only thing they can do to existing devices is redundancy. if you have two sheer rams that cut the pipe, hopefully one of those will work. just having one on the deepwater
this shows a blowup rig. if the pressure from the sea well blows up through the pipe, that preventer seals the well, holds the pressure in. that s the way it is supposed to work so you do not end up with this, with 11 men killed, a historic oil spill that continues for months. as part of the investigation into the bp disaster, the government hired a norwegian firm to perform forensic examination of what went wrong with the blowout preventer at deepwater horizon. what they found is something that is scary and not just scary about that one blowout preventer but about every one of them. they found even when they work as designed, when they are busted, they do not work. the pressure can render them useless, even if they re in fine shape. instead of working properly, you get this. despite the blowout preventer, you get a blowout.
the operator who runs the dynamic positioning system actually inputted the wrong data, had corrupted data and pushed it off location. are there upgrades? department of interior is bragging there have been safety upgrades. you and i have talked about whether or not you can do better inspections of your lead parachute, as i put it before. but are there upgrades that could be made to a blowout preventer like this one that would make it less like the deepwater horizon, that would make it more likely to five the blowout that deep sixed that preventer? it required a complete redesign, they talked about that all through the report, redesigning the rams. the only thing they can do to existing devices is redundancy. if you have two sheer rams that cut the pipe, hopefully one of those will work. just having one on the deepwater horizon, obviously even that failed, it was complete failure.