Posted on 05/27/2010 5:53:57 AM PDT by dennisw
Edited on 05/27/2010 6:12:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Thanks...didn’t know all that was involved plus 100,000 barrels of mud ready to go on board a ship. There was/is always a risk this top kill would make it worse. I’m sure everyone had their fingers crossed.
Shoot - by the way,
BP was very upfront in their warnings that the tophats, etc, did not have a great chance of working. It isn’t that they couldn’t stand the temperatures, either - but the fact that oil and gas behaves very differently this far under the ocean. They made the attempts anyway though they realized they were likely to fail - in effect doing something that they thought was a waste of money - while they continued working on other avenues more likely to be effective. Note I said WHILE they were working.
As we speak now, in fact, they are also drilling “relief wells” ... not able to be completed for months yet - because that is widely recognized as the most likely procedure to be effective. They are doing that even though it is by far and away the most costly thing to do.
BP was not putting all their eggs in this topkill effort, only giving it a 2/3 chance of working (I thought that optimistic).
I suspect that they have at least a dozen other projects and avenues of attack underway right now. Hopefully a week or so from now all of those can be shut down and phased out and the resource being put into those can be re-allocated.
//All in all, absolutely stunning engineering in record breaking time//
Yes that has to be acknowledged, and at 5,000’ depth with ROV’s. They might as well be doing it on Venus, well maybe thats a stretch but the metaphor works for me.
Who gives a rat’s ass how it makes Obama look? Hopefully the leak is plugged and we can start cleaning this mess up because that is what is good for America and the Gulf Coast. Obama is screwing up on so many levels, but we don’t need to cheer on American misery for political points.
Obama is screwing up on so many levels on his own.
>>Jindal should have taken control and done what was needed for La. Spread hay, sawdust, hell, gone out and stolen some booms and skimmers. The hell with EPA and permits, do what needs to be done and take the consequences later. He has a whole damn navy of privateers that would gladly have volunteered.<<
Aaaaah, the naivete, it stuns.
No, but analysis of drilling mud as it comes out is standard practice. That's how the companies tell they've hit a "pay zone" while drilling. Heck, they can probably tell just by looking at the rate of natural gas bubbles forming as the oil/gas/mud/water stream is pumped out. No gas bubbles=no well flow.
I am glad you appreciated my #155.
That is what I want to say to Dear Leader and all his minions.
I wish they would go out and rebuild their cars and a freezer unit instead of saying to the wind “stop the damn leak”
People have no concept of reality any more, it seems.
Great idea. BP should have live underwater cams around all their wells showing local aquativ life cavorting joyfully. (Some CGI may be required.)
“
O give me a home
fom Biloxi to Nome
Where the mermaids and porpoises play.
Where never is heard
A discouraging word
And the water’s not cloudy all day.
“
I hope they can get permission to drill another well, or six, into that monster reservoir.
Mud is not oil. You’re seeing mud.
Please check HoustonCurmudgeon’s posts on this thread for a great explanation.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37363106/ns/gulf_oil_spill
Another rig workers says BP short cut.
Please ping everyone else, as I am heading out the door.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703709804575201940233616462.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoo_hs
He gave "Big Oil" a chance to solve the problem but their innepness and greed led only to more polluted seas.
If it wasn't for Obama we would still be seeing the death of the oceans of the world. Good job Mr. President, a job well done!!
If you doubt any of the above statements, just wait a few minutes and witness the coming spin by the media and the rewriting of the events of the past month.
Look for a huge bounce in popularity in the poll numbers.
The best (unbiased, very knowledge based) source for info on the Deepwater Rig incident is here: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6505
As planned.
How else would 0bama get the political backing to ban US off shore oil drilling?
[While allowing China, Cuba, Mexico, and ??? to continue to drill on our continental shelf]
In before “why didn’t they try that first?”!
Source: THE OIL DRUM
No. Gas turbines left over from the Rose law firm and Clinton White House shredders.
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