“It’s not going well,” Tad Patzek, chairman of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin, said yesterday after reviewing a live video of the leak.
“You have more or less the equivalent of six fire hoses blasting oil and gas upwards and two fire hoses blasting mud down,” Patzek said. “They are losing the competition.”
It is so much money. It had to cost at least $200 million to rehab one of those from the stockyard. Plus, look at the fuel cost to run that thing. A trip past the equater was cancelled, due to the cost of fuel. USS IOWA (BB-61) To build one from scratch has to be at least $500 million.