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Originally Posted by aceventura3
The only way I can think to respond here is with an extreme example. A local Fire Department has plans in place to protect life and property. A house burns down and there is loss of life - then after the fact you come along and say there was no plan because they did not have a station next door to the house that burned. And, even if there was a station next door with "fool-proof" monitors, sprinklers, etc, the house could still burn and their could still be loss of life. So to me it seems you want things to be risk free, this risk free world is fantasy.
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Ace, I've worked in the mining industry before, I know this risk free world doesn't exist, but you don't seem to grasp the concept of relief wells being drilled at the same time as the producing well. To drill the relief well after the fact does nothing, the damage is done, the oil is already in the water at that point, the point of them is to relieve pressure in case of a blow out, hence the name relief well, not relief after the fact wells. Drilling one after the fact isn't a plan, a plan would have been to have one drilled alonside the producing well in the first place, to relieve pressure in case of a blowout.
Comparing it to having a fire station next door is well to use your own term, complete idiocy.