[myuhaul]

Mexico drill-drill-drill

Pelosi and Reid no-no-no

[Proverbs 3-5]

Since Peelousy won't even let Congress debate the merits of offshore drilling maybe we should consider this outsourcing?

[SwinneySwitch]

Pemex ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump! bump! bump!

[Jeff Head]

There are plenty of oil reserves out there to be tapped. The Arabs know it but want us to keep away from it. China, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, India, and virtually every other nation on earth are in a headlong rush to tap into them. China doing so all over the world, including only 90 miles off of our own coasts.

Yet the Dems, still want us to be beholden to every other tin horn on this planet when we have proven reserves of our own, wholly within our own control.

It is clear what choise faces the American people and they are feeling it like never before in their own pocketbooks. Yet the DNC and the likes of Pelosi and HUssein tell us that this is what best for us.

Nuts, Hogwash and balderdash! Pure unadulterated Bravo Sierra.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - CHANGE YOU CAN COUNT ON, BUT DON'T WANT

CHOOSING THE NEXT PRESIDENT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[ASOC]

lETS HOPE THEY HAVE BETTER LUCK THIS TIME...

On June 3, 1979, the 2 mile deep exploratory well, IXTOC I, blew out in the Bahia de Campeche, 600 miles south of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. The IXTOC I was being drilled by the SEDCO 135, a semi-submersible platform on lease to Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX).

A loss of drilling mud circulation caused the blowout to occur. The oil and gas blowing out of the well ignited, causing the platform to catch fire. The burning platform collapsed into the wellhead area hindering any immediate attempts to control the blowout.

PEMEX hired blowout control experts and other spill control experts including Red Adair, Martech International of Houston, and the Mexican diving company, Daivaz. The Martech response included 50 personnel on site, the remotely operated vehicle TREC, and the submersible Pioneer I. The TREC attempted to find a safe approach to the Blowout Preventer (BOP). The approach was complicated by poor visibility and debris on the seafloor including derrick wreckage and 3000 meters of drilling pipe. Divers were eventually able to reach and activate the BOP, but the pressure of the oil and gas caused the valves to begin rupturing. The BOP was reopened to prevent destroying it. Two relief wells were drilled to relieve pressure from the well to allow response personnel to cap it. Norwegian experts were contracted to bring in skimming equipment and containment booms, and to begin cleanup of the spilled oil.

The IXTOC I well continued to spill oil at a rate of 10,000 - 30,000 barrels per day until it was finally capped on March 23, 1980.

USE Keywords: Corexit 9527, skimmer, manual removal, volunteers, blowout, fire, evaporation, blowout preventer, relief well, submersible..