On May 8, 1:03*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
" wrote:

in any case all platfrms should have the better blowout valves used by
the rest of the world. signal from surface quits for any reason valves
slam shut

The problem is that there was apparently a tool string in the pipe
that prevented the BP from closing it when it went off. *The problem
was NOT that the BP didn't trip, so what would your suggestion fix?

This is interesting. Could you point me to more information on this, I
hadnt heard about it. As recently as 2 hours ago AP was quoting
workers on the platform as saying both the BP and and the backup,
DEADMAN, failed to trigger.