Recent content by Bernie100

Thanks for your comment and I sincerely hope you're right. The difference though might be that normally the flow has to be brought to the surface with the full 5,000 ft. of head at the well head considering the pipe frictions. In this case, the flow is unrestricted as far as the pipe frictions.

Thanks for your input. The gas portion is a very valid point. However, the gas is compressible but many multiples under these pressures including the sea water pressure. As far as i know, in mechanical piping the quoted line size is the inner diameter and not the outer diameter. An example is...

Thanks for your response. I agree with you as far as the Bernoulli Effect but not completely. The BOP just ahead of the cut pipe has some restrictions in it but let's not forget that the body housing this stuff inside is quite a lot larger. I don't believe that the design would allow for much...

BP gushing well flow calculation Do we have a mechanical engineer here somewhere? In my view, the flows provided to us are ridiculously low. Am I not right that assuming a flow velocity of 10 fps, which I believe to be rather low considering the pressure behind this, for a 21" pipe would...

Leaking Oil Gusher in the Gulf Does anyone know what the approximate temperature of the oil as it comes up the well is?