Reply #198: More engineers doesn't typically help

[quaker bill]

This is not a design problem. People have been plugging wells for a very long time and even I know how to do it. This is an execution problem. Generally more than a small handful of "suits" just makes a hash of things. Cleaning up the spill does not take much engineering either. There are plenty of folks familiar with the technology involved. It simply takes a lot of labor and supplies.

I would like to get to the "afterwards" so we could send them the bill.

Charging the executives is a lovely thought, and probably appropriate, but does not clean up a single drop of oil.

No point or time for messing around with most of this until the leak is stopped.