Hello Horizon Response Team Date: 23.June 2010
1. I submit since 11. May several solutions to stop the oil in the gulf and received only the following answer. (see answer at the end off this document)
The answer was without a reference. I have no idea for which submitted solution I received it.
It is really important and normal to acknowledge all submitted solutions with an reference number and use than this number also in the answers.
Questions:
Is now my submitted Idea considered or planned or not feasible or not possible?
The idea was tested from over 20 German and British engineers and not one say it is not possible.
The answer I received fit to all.
For me is it a sign that nobody checked the submitted idea. And BP sends a standard answer to all.
It is really an impossible business conduct and for a company like BP dishonourable.
2. The specialists from BP made a really bad job.
The first solution with a hood over the oil well was a good idea but a horrible design.
Your specialist ignore following:
the chemical reaction between Methane and water (methane hydrate)
the change in the viscosity of the oil
the physical problems with the high pressure
If BP carries this thought to its logical conclusion it works perfect. But the worldwide best engineers of BP made a really awful job and waste billions of $.
The second solution with Top Kill was also badly executed.
Your specialist ignore following:
The maximum allowed pressure of the pipes
The physic what happened if you change the pressure to fast. (water hammer or hydraulic shock)
I am really sure your team switched the pumps on instead of a slow increase of the pressure.
The reason why Top Kill failed was the used high speed of the pumps
The correct way for Top Kill is:
increase the speed of the pumps slowly
The oil flow goes than slowly back. At a special speed it stops the oil flow and start to press the oil back.
Press down the drilling liquid with cement and reduce slightly the pump speed so that the mud in the pipe below the BOP is stopped.
the cement have than enough time for seal the well
After Top Kill failed I submit my 2nd solution:
I suggested stopping the oil flow using the Top Kill equipment for stopping the oil with water.
With a little luck the water react with the methane and block it with methane hydrate.
An other possible way is pump a binder down which react with oil and blocked the pipe at the bottom end.
But from the horizon team no answer.
The 3rd mistake was to cut the pipe.
After that fault was the oil flow much higher than before. Every, well in physic educated person who saw the pictures of the crack in the pipe over the BOP know that. The oil flow increased much more than 20% I think it increased far over 100%.
I sent a warning to BP over several ways but BP ignored it and increased the disaster.
The mistake number 4 was the awful design of the actual used unit for catch the oil over the BOP
The diameter of the used pipe is to small, the BP specialist ignored again the viscosity of the oil
The connection to the BOP is a crime and show the luck of experience with high pressure units
Mistake number 5
BP hopes the two relief drills solve the problem, but the chance is really low I think it is below 20%.
But the BP specialists know it, as always, better and will fail again.
Mistake number 6
The horizon support team ignore help from outside or maybe the specialists in the team are not very well trained and have no idea what they do.
BP set all on one card and if that failed are BP and an awful lot of Americans bankrupt.
I am a self-employed German engineer and design since over 20 years plants for the chemical and for the defence industry.
I offered now since 11. May several different solutions each better than the solutions from your BP specialists but I received only one following answer.
With my last solution is it possible to cut off the pipe below the damaged BOP and install a new BOP in a save and from several engineers approved way.
But from BP no answer and no chance to explain the functions of my design EPR-Valve V1.1 … V1.3.
The behaviour of the horizon team is grossly negligent and I hope a few of the responsible members see for a long time a American jail from inside.
I collect all my correspondence and send it at the end of this disaster to several TV companies and also to the judgement.
Regards
Dipl.Ing.(Fh) Edwin Probst
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Datum:Sa., 19. Jun. 2010, 20:03
Dear Edwin Probst,
Thank you for your submission to the Alternative Response Technology (ART)
process for the Deepwater Horizon MC252 incident. Your submission has been
reviewed for its technical merits.
It has been determined that your idea falls into one of the following ART
categories: Already Considered/Planned, Not Feasible, or Not Possible, and
therefore will not be advanced for further evaluation. To date, we have
received over 80,000 submissions with each submission receiving individual
consideration and priority based on merit and need.
BP and Horizon Deepwater Unified Command appreciate your contribution and
interest in responding to this incident.
Thank you very much,
Horizon Response Team
