Posted on 04/29/2010 10:03:48 AM PDT by anonsquared
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The report reads, "the incident appears as if it was either the product of gas migration through the cement sheath as it was setting or that the act of displacing the riser to seawater reduced the hydrostatic head enough that it caused the well to start flowing though cement that was not yet hard. With casing in the ground, these two possible explanations seem by far the most likely, although its impossible at this point not to rule out some other cause or contributing factor such as a blowout preventer or a CASING INTEGRITY ISSUE."
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
So ask yourself, who profits?
Islamic Middle Eastern oil states will certainly make a bundle this summer as the price of gas in the U.S. heads back up to the $4 range.
The mean old oil companies that leftist politicians love to decry, whilst simultaneously accepting huge campaign contributions from them, will most certainly profit. This time the MSM and the left will not be able to say it's Bush's fault. In fact, it is amazing that the left wing loonies are strangely quiet about the whole incident because surely if this had happened on President Bush's watch, they'd be saying the whole thing was orchestrated by Bush. So why aren't they ragging on Obama?
Have you ever noticed that there is always a refinery fire or special refinery maintenance right before the summer driving season causing the price of summer gas to go up? Maybe this year they are getting creative.
And isn't it very convenient that as Americans are more than ready to approve off-shore drilling, this incident will have the environmentalists screaming no drilling?
So I ask again, WHO PROFITS?
Never mind, don't look. Since the MSM hasn't even brought up the possibility this was intentional and keeps calling this an accident, it must be an accident, right?
Interesting points.
yah...
Did you by chance see the explosions that breached the levees in New Orleans during hurricane katrina..??
IB4TZ
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Had some of those thoughts myself. Also, recently Obama shocked us by saying something about allowing offshore drilling. I never believed he’d follow through, but one does wonder what excuse he was hoping for in order to backtrack on his comments. Eco-terrorism? I believe that there are those in the green movement who definitely would stoop that low in order to get what they want.
No, but I did notice a HURRICANE that undermined poorly engineered and poorly maintained levees. Zot yourself.
I thought the same thing when Obama talked about allowing off shore drilling - what will be orchestrated so he has an excuse to go back on this promise?
My mom was and is a huge John Wayne fanatic, so growing up I saw every one of his movies. I wish he had made even more movies.
I’ll raise a ditto on that. My wife espoused the idea about a tie to the Amateur-in-Chief approving off-shore drilling and the rig explosion. Now he has a legit excuse to back off.
Obama doesn’t seem to need excuses. Lies roll off his lips as easily as marbles on a slide in a playground. It will be interesting to hear a full report about why this oil rig exploded.
Did you by chance see the explosions that breached the levees in New Orleans during hurricane katrina..??
Yeah, but Bush blew up the levies - I saw it with my own eyes/s
Eco-terrorism? I believe that there are those in the green movement who definitely would stoop that low in order to get what they want.
The we need to have shoot to kill laws. We need to get this wackos off our soil - they are soil’en our soil! Most are godless little slugs in the first place hoping to save the planet by their own works. They are finally going to see warming in hell!
Something tells me that a full and ACCURATE report will never see the light of day.
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Oil Rig Explosion Was Likely a Blowout (casing integrity issue?!?)
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Well duh!??!
I’m suprised one of the “Captain Obvious” photos hasn’t been posted yet.
Sabotage.
Sure and pigs flying can be the next mode of free transport and a bomb is really what caused the volcano in Iceland to erupt and “boobs” are what causes earthquakes (quoting the Iranian mulla last week)... If you have NO CLUE what you’re talking about it’s better to say nothing. Reminds me of my manic depressive mother in law who used to see black helicopters flying overhead...
Let’s see, on a 30’ section of hardened solid steel pipe, let’s put a device on the outside that no one of the drilling floor (poor souls who won’t be returning from the sea) didn’t see anything slightly bulging off a piece of steel down the hole. Oh, by the way, that device would have had to clear that drilling floor, the BPH, been bashed against the rock and then had cement under pressure rush against it without being pulverized? So it must have been inside the pipe where thousands of tons of cement was flushed past it during the cementation? And after all that, some nut job had some method to detonate a device from the surface which is more than a mile the sea floor and several miles beneath the sea bed???
Have you ever met anyone who even work out in the oil patch? Behind folks in the military, police and firefighters, I’ve NEVER met a more patriotic bunch of folk in the world - I know, I’ve met a good portion of them...
Next round of crack is on me...
Not a lot of causal un-noticed terrorists on oil platforms... I think you’ve moved off the edge with this one...
I never used the t word. Out in the real world there are companies that can be hired to do most anything if the price is right. I take it neither of you has ever met a Blackwater employee? Excuse me, a Xe Services employee. They had to change their name for PR reasons.
All I am asking is that IF this was no accident, who was paid and who was paying? It is a legitimate question.
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