I'm so old I Remember when:

[BigBlueHen53]

Basically... The oil rig lost its mooring and went adrift, which sheared off a big pipe, and caused an underwater explosion. The crude oil burned underwater when they tried to cap (weld) the pipe.

This might get a bit technical, but my idea was to sleeve a pipe over the fractured pipe, using special bolts with a butterfly valve (open) and weld the pipe sleeve to the broken pipe using "T-nuts"

Hopefully I explained it correctly. The guys I was working with told me I should have filed for a patent.

I was a young dumb kid back then (but I was also smart)

And I also got no credit even when though I was working at a BP refinery.

Thank you for that. I don't completely understand it but it sounds brilliant. And it worked, so apparantly it was brilliant. You saved the ocean and the planet.