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.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

I heard that the well built up too much pressure and the big safety valve that SHOULD have sealed it didn't work because there was a pipe in the shaft when it happen. (Not arguing. Not my field and you were there.)
I only know about the valves because a friend used to build them.
I helped build some of the Deep Water rigs. Nothing fancy, HVAC contractor in the shipyard.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

And your left arm was the turn signal.

No, they had blinkers. Round headlights weren't THAT long ago!

 

[5Australorpasaures]

No, they had blinkers. Round headlights weren't THAT long ago!

OK, how 'bout when kerosene lanterns were head lights?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

OK, how 'bout when kerosene lanterns were head lights?

Once upon a time you had to have somebody walk ahead of you with those lanterns on bridges so your automobile would not frighten horses coming in the opposite direction. And NO, I am not THAT old. I read about it in an article about old laws still on the books.

 

[tripletfeb]

OK, how 'bout when kerosene lanterns were head lights?

That's what the Amish around here use. Very effective

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Once upon a time you had to have somebody walk ahead of you with those lanterns on bridges so your automobile would not frighten horses coming in the opposite direction. And NO, I am not THAT old. I read about it in an article about old laws still on the books.

So YOU say.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So YOU say.

Believe me, today I feel like < guy! Lol.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Now that Thanksgiving is past, we all need some of these...

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Remember pumping gas behind the license plate?