That starts off with a "junk shot, " in which material such as rubber tires and golf balls is pumped into the shut-off valve, or blowout preventer, that sits atop the well.
Among other response activities are on-water skimming, subsurface wellhead operations, continued efforts to see if they can get that shut-off valve to close, and significant booming efforts underway to protect vital shoreline.
Risk assessments on the next stage, to close off the valve where the oil is coming from, are still being carried out.
Safe to say that the Department of Defense does not have a submersible with arms to shut off the valve of a deep-water oil well.
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He said in such a situation, normal procedure would be for the contractor's crew to secure the well by closing off the huge valve sitting on the seabed known as a blowout preventer.
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The Blow Out Preventer is off the well which is being controlled by a down hole safety valve.
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Studies of the blowout preventer's two control pods suggest that a flattish battery and a dodgy valve meant that neither was in a fit state to close off the well automatically when they should have, which BP takes as evidence of poor maintenance by Transocean.
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