Actually the technidue isn't to blow it up on the surface. It is to blow it up 14,000 ft below the well in order to collapse it in on itself. The russians have

Actually the technidue isn't to blow it up on the surface. It is to blow it up 14,000 ft below the well in order to collapse it in on itself. The russians have done this 6 times and been successful 5 times.