0
What else can I help you with?
Can water used for extraction of oil?
Yes, certainly. When the pressure at the bottom of oil well is too low, oil cannot flow up without help. Pressurized water or carbon dioxide can be forced into oil deposit from another drilled well to increase the pressure at the bottom of the original oil well.
Why can they not use explosives down hole to collapse the well to stop the Gulf Oil Spill?
No Use Of ExplosivesIt is my understanding that the particular well was dug much, much deeper than usual wells and tapped into a very large pool (not sure that is the right word) of oil nearer the core of the earth, which makes using explosives or a nuke to implode the well questionable. Also, there is the matter of 5,000 feet of water above the well being involved. At that level, there is massive pressure and cold temperatures. That also affects use of explosives or nukes. If what I've read is correct, it's not a matter of the oil coming out of the mouth of the pipe, but leaks in the pipe where the pipe has cracked. That would also be a factor.
How do you stop the gulf oil flow?
It isn't easy. The BP oil spill results from uncontrollable flow (a blow out) from a well. The oil flows from a reservoir about 13,000 ft below the sea floor. The oil is flowing at very high pressure. The well's opening is about 5,000 ft below the surface of the water. BP understood that they could stop the oil from coming out of the well, if they drilled another well (called a relief well) that intersected the blown out well. They also knew that it would be faster if they could stop it from the top. They were able to stop it from the top by attaching a "stand alone riser", which is a pipe with some big valves, to the well. This stopped the well from flowing but it wasn't the permanent answer. The permanent answer was to drill the relief well, and pump a lot of cement in the bottom of the blown out well. This way the oil can not leave the reservoir and no more oil can flow from the well.
Why is it difficult to clean up the Gulf of Mexico's oil spill?
Oil spills are difficult to clean up in general. If oil spills from a tanker, the most oil than can go into the water body is the volume of oil in a tanker. However in this case, the well is producing approximately 5,000 barrels of oil per day (210,000 gallons). So, even mobilizing everything available to control the spill, oil booms, skimmers, use of dispersants, controlled burns, more oil keeps leaving the well. The large canopy that they are preparing to put over the well is not the final solution, but it should reduce the rate of oil that is entering the gulf waters. It should mitigate the damage. It is necessary to kill the blown out well, and BP is in the process of drilling two relief wells.
What is the deepest oil well?
Answer34,200' in the Gulf of Mexico35055 feet in Gulf of Mexico plus 4000 feet of water above the sea floor. From Associated Press article by Chris Kahn Sept. 3, 2009 in Topeka Capital-Journal
What is the well head pressure at the Gulf of Mexico well?
It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch).
Why did BP's 'top kill' effort fail to plug the Gulf oil well with mud?
The pressure of the oil was grader then the weight of the mud.
How many gallons of oil is in the oil well in the gulf?
Oil is flowing from an oil deposit, up the well and into the gulf water. So, I think you are asking how much producible oil is in the reservoir. BP indicated that the producible oil is approximately 50 million barrels or 2,100 million gallons. So, letting the well flow until all the oil in the reservoir is gone is not an option.
What caused the spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
What caused the the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was an oil well blowout and explosion.
How much oil is leaking in gulf every day?
42,000 gallons of oil leaking in Gulf every day
How far down in the gulf is the oil well?
2000ft.
How much will it cost to fix the gulf oil spill?
to much
How much oil was spilt in the Gulf Oil Spill?
This could refer to any of:Gulf War Oil SpillBP Deepwater Horizon Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill 20101979 Ixtoc I Gulf of Mexico oil spill.See related questions.
How much oil is the BP well losing per day?
BP is losing about 100 000 barrels of oil a day due to the recent and on going oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
What ocean did the oil spill hit?
well....... the oil spill hit the gulf of Mexico
Highest pressure psi ever recorded in oil well blowout?
Highest pressure in oil well
How much oil has been skimmed from the BP Gulf oil spill?
About 24 million gallons of oil have been skimmed from the Gulf of Mexico so far.
