Posted on 05/26/2010 1:49:19 PM PDT by Positive
I have been monitoring the live feed of the "Top Kill" apparatus from BP.com and after about three hours there is a definite change of events down there.
For the first couple of hours we could see several views of a very complex device rocking around in clear water.
Now there is gushing of what I presume is the "mud" plumeing.
We may get some incite as to progress soon.
“We are now reading about shortcuts to save money,”
You hit the nail on the head. They had two choices;
1) Try to save a few bucks.
2) Reliable safeguards.
They chose to try to save some money and said the hell with safeguards.
BLINDERS REMOVAL AVAILABLE ON AISLE #2.
DEVELPOPED by Exxon and now manufactured by Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, IL. Their stock took a sharp jump, up more than 18% the day after it was announced that their product is the one being used in the Gulf.
Nalco was founded as National Aluminate Corporation in 1928 through a merger of Chicago Chemical Company and Aluminate Sales Corporation, two Chicago-based companies selling sodium aluminate to treat water. Chicago Chemical Company sold mainly to municipalities and industrial plants for boiler feedwater treatment. Aluminate Sales Corporation sold to the railroads to condition water used in steam locomotives
2003
USFilter and Ondeo Nalco enter into a strategic partnership providing equipment, chemicals and service to industrial customers.
The Blackstone Group, Apollo Management L. P. and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners buy Ondeo Nalco.
Nalco Company, a recognized symbol of strength around the world, unveils new logo.
2004
Nalco returns to trading on the New York Stock Exchange under its old NLC ticker symbol following an Initial Public Offering on November 11, 2004.
Nalco’s global sales exceed $3 billion for the first time in company history
2007
Nalco purchases majority share of Mobotec and enters air pollution control market as Nalco Mobotec.
2008
J. Erik Fyrwald named Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Nalco’s global sales exceed $4 billion for the first time in company history
http://www.nalco.com/aboutnalco/history.htm
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1298341/000119312510057163/ddef14a.htm#toc53475_6
Where is your outrage the gummit forced these producers out to mile deep water where the highest risk is. When you cant drill in easy areas like land you have to go where the oil is. This was caused 100% by the environazis.
How courageous to bash the oil companies. So few people villainize them. You really need a statue built to you.
Pray for America
Jindal is an idiot. It’s his state, he had a right to protect it but he was afraid. Now LA is screwed and MS, AL and FL hopefully will ignore the DC nuts and go it alone.
Thanks - we’ll see what holds...
I am not in that 51% and your post was excellent.
I agree and I don’t know what stopped him.
Was he afraid of being jailed. I say bring it on!
Can you imagine how LIVID folks would be if their governor was jailed for taking charge and protecting their state?
Was he afraid of not being re-elected?
If that was the case, well there goes his character.
I’d rather lose re-election knowing I made some hard decisions and protected my state.
Hey, Churchill wasn’t re-elected either.
I’m sorry, but until I see images of NOTHING coming out of the BOP and pipe, I remain unconvinced (but hopeful and prayerful)
Reading you post I instinctively knew you had to be from the NE quadrant of this country. How about we turn the spigot off and let you freeze during those beautiful Maine winters. Also let you do a little walking instead of jumping in your car to go do whatever.
You are intellectually lazy to not to educate yourself about the oil industry and business in general. People like you deserve to freeze and walk! Disgusting display of ignorance to say the least!
yup
I'd guess they'd rather have capped it somehow and still been able to make money off the oil siphoned off than take a total loss on the whole project.
I'm really not happy with the dispersants being used. Better that they let it float to the top and skim it off somehow, than to have it mix in with the sea water. Just look what your dishwater does when you add Dawn to water and wash a greasy frying pan.
The BBC has been reporting since about 10:30 that the US Coast Guard Commander is “optimistic that the leak has been stopped” - strange phrasing.
I agree about the dispersements. Now the crap fills the whole water column and is going under the booms in rivers of oil under the surface and washing up on shore. BP was positioning themselves to be the ‘crony capitalists’ of Obama’s leftwing machine before this happened. They had been very busy lobbying for Cap N Trade...so they are not to be trusted anymore than Obama imho.
Obama wants to be the one to announce it so they sent out a leak that it might not be working this morning to delay the news until Obama can get in front of a camera. It’s as simple as that.
So why didn’t Obama stop it?
Did I forget to mention the Deep Ocean Giant Sandworms?
Yeah, but the summer mosquito problem is solved.
And yet there are those who will claim that because they see ‘mud’ coming out of the break in the riser pipe, that BP is lying.
The mud will continue to poor out until they inject the cement. That hasn’t even started yet. Then, and only then, will ALL OUTFLOW of any material stop, and the well be considered ‘sealed’.
IMHO, it will be found (though not widely publicized) that BP took the shortcuts not to save money, but because they were being pressured to get UNHOOKED and let the OIL PRODUCER (can anyone name the company?) take over and start PRODUCTION. The responsible agencies in the government, at OBAMA's direction, allowed certain 'waivers' and less 'plugs' (one instead of three), to help 'facilitate' getting the well going, so it could be used by this administration to prove they 'solved' something.
The head of the agency responsible for allowing these 'waivers' just (resigned/was fired).
What does that tell you?
That is drilling mud on the feed, not oil.
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