To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Just bought some BP @44.00 yesterday.
Hopefully Warren Buffet’s “When people hate it, I love it” pans out.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
BP: bad well design; didn’t anticipate well pressure zones. Cameron BOP was ordered to BP’s design spec; design pressure exceeded by a factor of 3 min.
3 posted on
05/21/2010 10:41:27 AM PDT by
pingman
(Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
TheOilDrum has been a pretty good source of
reliable info on the Oil Industry
If they are saying this, it is plausible
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Perhaps they should look for evidence of a North Korean torpedo!
6 posted on
05/21/2010 10:44:02 AM PDT by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’m still thinking intentional sabotage.
7 posted on
05/21/2010 10:46:45 AM PDT by
SoldierDad
(Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: razorback-bert; Bigun; TWfromTEXAS; lentulusgracchus; CedarDave; stevie_d_64
Marked and bumped
9 posted on
05/21/2010 10:50:31 AM PDT by
HoustonCurmudgeon
("I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!" ~ MNJohnnie, FReeper)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Does C4 work underwater? I’m just sayin’...
10 posted on
05/21/2010 10:51:20 AM PDT by
pillut48
("Calling ILLEGAL aliens "immigrants" is like calling shoplifters 'customers'!"-UCFRoadWarrior ><>)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; thackney
That answered a few of my questions.
1) Lost circulation in the zone...lose mud and you'll lose cement.
2) 3000 feet of drill pipe in the bore.
3) They displaced 8k feet of mud, not just the 5k ft in the riser...severe reduction of hydrostatic pressure when there was doubt of the integrity of the final stage cement job.
13 posted on
05/21/2010 10:54:10 AM PDT by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, you know chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...a flawed well plan that did not include enough cement between the 7-inch production casing and the 9 7/8-inch protection casing. The volume is a trivial calculation and they know how much cement they pumped. On the other hand, I guess you can't see the cement when it reaches the top of the annulus since the BOP's are on the sea bed; and some cement can be lost into the formation down hole while it's being pumped.
18 posted on
05/21/2010 11:01:50 AM PDT by
SeeSharp
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Call me cynical, but I wouldn’t doubt it if obama wasn’t behind this is some way to justify taking over the oil companies
19 posted on
05/21/2010 11:06:57 AM PDT by
MissEdie
(America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist thug and a dottering old fool.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster?
Shoddy workmanship and construction "shortcuts" are usually traceable to myopic efforts to reduce costs and maximize profits.
It's the beancounters' fault.
22 posted on
05/21/2010 11:13:58 AM PDT by
Willie Green
(Klaatu barada nikto)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Also, fireboats need to be more creative(i.e. dry ice foam, liquid nitrogen, steam thrusting, etc.).
The misdirected water canons just help the rig sink.
Better to have a burned rig floating and spraying oil, than a sunken one polluting the bottom of the entire gulf with loop current carrying it further.
28 posted on
05/21/2010 11:41:19 AM PDT by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Not enough “mud” I thinks
30 posted on
05/21/2010 11:55:05 AM PDT by
TV Dinners
(Hope is not a Strategy)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks. Bumping for later reading.
45 posted on
05/21/2010 1:35:38 PM PDT by
Crolis
("Nemo me impune lacessit!" - "No one provokes me with impunity!")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
47 posted on
05/21/2010 6:26:09 PM PDT by
SouthTexas
(Congress is out of order!)
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