Posted on 07/03/2021 12:59:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The leak near dawn Friday occurred about 150 yards (meters) from a drilling platform. The company said it had brought the gas leak under control about five hours later.
But the accident gave rise to the strange sight of roiling balls of flame boiling up from below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.
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This story makes no sense whatsoever. Number one, what was the ignition source to start the fire. Number two, why would you bring in fire boats to try to douse the flames, which is not going to happen on an HVL fire. If you manage to extinguish the fire, which you probably won’t, then you’re dealing with a gas cloud which is exponentially worse than just letting it burn off while you block the pipeline in.
Do not confuse the issue with logic.
My guess is that the boats were dispatched to keep the platform safe, and since you don’t want to have four boats idling by an ongoing disaster, they turned on their hoses in part to look busy and in part to keep the flaming puddle of fuel from spreading toward the platform.
Another excuse for the ‘rats to destroy the fossil fuel industry and get prices to go even higher.
“Never let a crisis go to waste.”
Yup. New improved meaning for “lockdown”.
Cleveland was a bunch of pikers.
City of light
City of magic
Protecting the perimeter..
One of the dangers of gas leakage under water is the loss of buoyancy should a ship enter the upwelling gas infused waters. Gas leakage underwater needs oxidizer to combust, thus needs to reach surface air for ignition to become possible.
The fire depicted is not large for a natural gas leak. Had one near Morgan City which blocked a waterway in the late 1990 period. Was visible from the 310 bridge near New Orleans at a distance of about 65 miles. It burned everything for a three-hundred yard radius about the wellhead.
I should’ve looked a little bit more into it but I couldn’t find much information .Being that close to the platform, it makes sense. If you can get enough water on it, you can kill the fire. Kill all ignition sources on the rig and wait for the product to bleed off,
Flames - in the water? C’mon man.
Lot’s of folks on Twitter blaming this on Capitalism...
...not knowing that Pemex is owned by Mexico.
Capitalism?
What does that have to do with a fire?
Capitalism?
What does that have to do with a fire?
HOW DO YOU PUT OUT A WATER FIRE WITH WATER ?
By using the fire hoses as siphons by reversing the flow.
Capitalism? What does that have to do with a fire?
Beats me. If you dare: https://twitter.com/LauraPidcock/status/1411236165378789378
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