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To: dalight

Have they got that thing capped or is it still spewing oil into the Gulf?


7 posted on 05/02/2010 7:30:35 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Spewing.


10 posted on 05/02/2010 7:33:59 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("It's not the number of burnt cars that worries me. It's the fact that everyone finds this normal..")
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To: metmom

Still spewing.


12 posted on 05/02/2010 7:35:10 PM PDT by JABit (oathkeepers.org)
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To: metmom
It's a gushing still. There's three leaks.

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16 posted on 05/02/2010 7:40:14 PM PDT by CajunConservative (Shut Up Mary!)
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To: metmom
Have they got that thing capped or is it still spewing oil into the Gulf?

Still Spewing

21 posted on 05/02/2010 7:49:08 PM PDT by dalight
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To: metmom

From an email I recieved:

WE have a big problem folks and the media is not even talking the worst truth of it. I went on an international forum and people from all over the world spoke about it. People who seem to know how things work. Here is a piece of it.
Found on a forum today:
Re: First hand account of what happened that caused the oil rig to blow!

My son who would not lie to me talked today with the primary rig engineer .

I just got off the phone with him and what he told me is not good.

They hit oil at 15,000 ft! I had no idea they drilled that deep.

They capped the well and was preparing to move the drill rig and bring on the production rig.

They don’t know why but they lost pressure control and as they lost control they lost all ground works at the BOP valve.

As the gas oil mix hit the air it exploded. No bomb and No attack!

There is a massive 90 degree piece of pipe and the major hole is in that 90.

There are 2 pins in the BOP valve that when you pull them the valve is forced closed and will not re-open. Both of those pins have been pulled by the remote subs. They both failed.

There is no plan B except to drill 2nd well to remove pressure. He said 30 days is very best on stopping this flow of oil.
I just got off the phone with my son and that is what I got.

Another post:
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Re: First hand account of what happened that caused the oil rig to blow!
This was on George Ure’s site this a.m. If it’s already been posted, I apologize:

2. A reader who is an engineer of considerable experience says watch this one evolve carefully because it is destined to continue to grow and he shares this long (but worthy explanation why:

“Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.

First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they’re saying 200,000 gallons a day. That’s over a million gallons of crude oil a week!

I’m engineer with 25 years of experience. I’ve worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that’s why this mess is so clear to me.

First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.

When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.

Now they’ve got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!

First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.

The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I’m not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.

If we can’t cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?

We’re so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren’t recognizing that we’re staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.

Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We’re humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that.


30 posted on 05/02/2010 8:18:13 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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