Posted on 05/01/2010 11:50:15 PM PDT by American Dream 246
I agree. We are up against a very evil bastard. His name is Barack Hussein 0bama.
All I can say is in the beginning they said (the media said) that there was no oil leaking from the well, then a day or so later they said it was 5,000 gallons a day now it is 200,000 gallons a day! I have seen the sheen on the water when they fly over it! It does not look as bad as they the media is saying! this well has been leaking for 2 weeks and the oil is just now reaching the beaches? Why haven’t they burned the oil like BP wanted on the first few days? For some reason the emergency shut off valve failed!!!!
I think the Government did this on purpose so they wouldn’t have to drill!!!!
I have worked in the offshore oil for 27 and I dont believe it was a conspiracy.
The rig crew had cemented the casing and displaced to a light fluid to pressure test and thereby losing a barrier.
They had a channel in the cement and it came back at them. They tried to shut the BOP and they had a running tool which wouldnt shear over the shear ram. If they could have shut the BOP it would have been a standard procedure to kill the well and bleed off the gas.
A similar incident occurred in the north sea some years ago but they were lucky and had no explosion.
It was just plain unlucky and statistically something that occurs in our industry every so many years just like a helicopter crash.
Incidents or accidents on rigs often involve human error or defective equipment. It could have been a combo of the two here. I dont believe it was a death wish on the part of the driller or sabotage.
In addition, most oilfield employees are loyal to their companies and employers and sabotage with a huge loss of life I cant believe is something they would willfully participate in.
There is no info. only speculation at this time because they dont know exactly what happened, and they wont until they get the BOP up and inspect it.
Thanks for saying what many of us are thinking. Of course, like birthers and tea partiers.. we will be scorned and humiliated for believing what the MSM will surely never investigate. So now I become an Oiler... wait a minute..
This was a planned attack with NO warning to any sensors that may have been in place to protect this type of thing from happening by accident.
I personally agree with you. The conspiracy is how the administration has handled the crisis.. not letting it go to waste.
Lol! An oiler - that’s the way to go. Add the er to everything we hate with the one and we have rewritten the english language! Great idea.
Heh, heh, yep, now we’ll be called OILERS! This just benefits the big O and his camel jockeys!
Where are the family members of the 11 missing, and the media coverage?
Are people who work on the rigs union?
Probably scared to try something like that. From what I read several kinks in the riser above the BOP are the only things stopping the well from flowing full force. If they cut the the riser it could potentially start flowing at such a rate nothing could get near it. You could jump from 5000 barrels a day to 100000 barrels a day or more reaching the surface. High pressure gas and oil coming at you under water makes for a lot of turbulence.
The conspiracy theorists are rightly considered the equivalent of UFO nuts--they line up certain facts in certain ways and have the answer that's convenient to their beliefs.
Some people have to have everything explained just for their mindset, when in reality, when dealing with a specialized situation, most of us have to educate ourselves just to understand the bare minimum. That doesn't make us instant experts, and no, everyone is NOT entitled to their own opinion, they're entitled to their INFORMED opinion.
Remember in the day when we were the rational ones who mocked DUmmies for being so conspiratorial about9/11, and "Bush's war cooked up in Texas" and all that crap?
Sometimes there actually is a conspiracy. FReepers have picked at and speculated about every single large scale event such as this since the site's inception. You have to admit, the timing of this is interesting. Not burning off the oil slick as BP reportedly wanted to do is interesting. Several interesting things, under a very interesting administration.
My own first thought was, well there goes the oil price right on schedule, Somali pirates used to serve that purpose. The second was that this will be handy cover for Obama to renege on his oil rhetoric, which will save him grief from the moonbat base.
Are any of these "true," even my own initial reaction? That's not known. Time will tell. Are some avenues of speculation silly in hindsight? Yes. Are all of them? Clearly not.
just curious but is it standard practice to dispatch SWAT teams to all Gulf Coast platforms following this incident?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/29/national/main6444311.shtml
or for the US Govt to take 9 days to get the Navy et al involved? (yes, I know the CG was onsite from the git-go).
I can understand a pipe coming back up thru the rig from down-below from some freakish pressure-equalization thing, but wouldn’t some of the force dissipate somewhat in the mile to the surface? and would that cause a complete sinking of the rig so as to be in such a position as to be over/blocking access to the wellhead? it was a ‘floating’ rig, I think?
I’m sure it was an accident but the SWAT thing ? That I do Not understand...
He is just another opportunist. Hitler didn’t set the Reichstag fire, he just exploited it when it happened.
Reality.
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