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Why wouldn't an oil rig have a shut off valve?
I understand when you are actually drilling then you have parts moving around but when it comes to extracting the oil, why isn't there a shut off valve? There's got to be a reason. It's just way too obvious not to have one so what's the reason? Why not just put a valve right at the point where your pipe exits the earth. Heck put in two one above ground and one below ground.
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- classicsatLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
There is usually a blow out valve installed, and there supposedly is one on the stem of the rig that went down, but has failed, or was wrecked in the accident.
- ?Lv 51 decade ago
You would think so, wouldn't you? They probably had a shut-off valve....on the oil rig that blew up.
Cost reasons, plus who would operate it from a mile above? Remotely? Where does power come from, the rig that just blew up?
Apparently they did have a remote shut-off valve...CNN reported that as the rig was going up in flames, they tried to shut it off several times.
This catastrophe is going to make the Exxon Valdez look like a picnic.
- 1 decade ago
I read that there should have been a shut-off valve, but that it was deregulated by Bush and co. because it would cost the oil companies too much! I'll bet when the dust clears from all of this that we will find that it is conservative interests in deregulation and corporate freedom which are responsible for the lives lost and the environmental catastrophe.
