My understanding is the outer pipe above the BOP is too thin to hold the pressure of the well - 8000 psi or some such crazy number on a 22 inch pipe, it woulda blown out. The BOP would throttle pressure down to a managable level - if it worked. So they never could 'cap' the well above seafloor, they need to plug it below the seafloor. That's why the mud & the junk shot was tried - not easy to make it stick, but the only way to do it is to get the plug to form below the surface.
The BOP failed, and had a drill pipe stuck in the middle of it, so couldn't do nothing with the BOP.
Not much left to try. The only sure thing is the deep releif wells, which are a tricky aiming deal & take months to drill, but will work.
Anything else is a crap shoot, they tried, they didn't work.
I see a lot of comments on the net about using hay tosop up the crude. Now, are the tests we see being done with refined oil, or crude oil? There's a difference, will the hay soak up crude? And then what do we do with the soaked hay, there would be - a lot - of it?
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