Oil blowout retaining device

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E - Fixed Constructions

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E02B 15/04 (2006.01) E21B 43/01 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1063367

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A device is provided for containing and allowing disposal of oil and gas from blowouts from an undersea well. It includes (a) a dome having a peripheral downwardly depending skirt; (b) a central oil outlet tube, the tube having an inlet communicating with a floating layer of sub-surface contained oil; (c) means associated with the bottom of such skirt for anchoring the device over the region of an underwater blowout; (d) a plurality of peripherally disposed, space-apart gas outlet valves; and (e) a central control system for such gas outlet valves. The device can be placed over a blowout after such blowout occurs so as to contain a large quantity of the oil to the vicinity of a plume where the oil can be burned.

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