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Nuclear option not feasible for BP Deepwater Horizon

Rick Outzen May 24, 2010

Over the weekend, I interviewed Dr. Ted Bourgoyne, LSU Professor Emeritus, petroleum engineering about Deepwater Horizon well. He said that he hadn’t seen the so-called nuclear option ever used underwater. If BP tried to blow up and collapse the well, he fears it could make matters worse by fracturing the sea bottom and thus create more leaks.

Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”