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]
Reporting from Houma, La. Engineers have succeeded in stopping the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government's top oil spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Did you ever fall for that trap... I was hoping you wouldn’t...
Rapid response: If our military is so good at planning “for every possible contingency”, ‘splain to me why we are still in Afghanistan and Iraq 7 years after determining to take on a bunch of desert dwelling sheepherders living in mud huts? Why didn’t we have armored up HumVees and body armor available for all, and on and on...
[sorry- low hanging fruit]
Gotta get to my lawn before the rain does!
I will address more in this thread later today - right now I have to mow lawn before the rain that is likely to come in here this afternoon hits.
It is quite possible that I have covered a lot of what people have asked about technical things in posts I have written over the last week or so ... take a look if you want more technical justification that this was not done a month ago... Ask more questions of me, or hammer my stupidity, if you like and I’ll do my best to answer later.
FIRST.... one of the ‘live’ webcams I had a link to, was not live. Matter of fact, it looks just like the one you linked me to. The one I saw wasn’t a ‘cropped’ view and had the digital info showing onscreen. That gave the date and time, which proved it was not ‘live’.
Notice the link you provided, the camera view is ‘cropped’ so you can’t see the date and time stamp. The best ROV LIVE CAM I have seen is the one others have already linked.
It is checking the connections on the TOP KILL machinery, but should eventually return to the site of the leak.
NEW ORLEANS – Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama.
The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science’s Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume recorded since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20.
David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school, says the thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet. He says it’s more than 6 miles wide.
Scientists say they are worried the undersea plumes may be from chemical dispersants used to break up the oil a mile under the surface.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_oil_spill_new_plume
Maybe that's because of the temperatures and pressures, and the fact that this 'mud' is not like normal mud?????
one word- politicians
have a great weekend
Not hardly. This is just another verse of the same song called Katrina. What Jindal has not done is just as stupid as what NO mayor and LA governor didn’t do. They knew what was coming and they sat on their rear ends and waited for the feds to do it for them.
Isn’t the head pinger one of the parts on the BOP stack that failed? ;p
If your car had a leak in the gas tank, would you try to find the source of the leak, decide how best to repair it, and whether you might need to go to the autoparts store to get some materials; or would you call and have a CEMENT TRUCK come out and dump a full load of concrete over the top of your car?
Obama is taking full credit.
Knowing you I DO have an answer, but it might get me banned and at my age, if I didn't see you coming you might kick my rear!! ;-)
well, lets see, if my car was leaking gas and destroying sea life in a daily widening plume, threatening potentially thousands of miles of coastline, making clean up workers sick, costing me over a billion in claims and growing, destroying the industry and livelihood of tens of thousands of people... and giving my company a name even more infamous than “Exxon Valdez”......
hmm, decisions, decisions
Bonus points if your answer includes the words “monkey board” or “degasser”!
Thanks. That’s the best explanation I’ve heard yet.
They did. 800 barrels of beer. If this cement plug doesn't work, it may take double that amount, to keep the 'crews' happy. (/s)
Which still tends to make one suspicious that it wasn’t an accident,....
But time will tell.
I've worked on both but at my age I think the monkey boards are a thing of the past! How many of the "drilling experts" here do you think can ID both much less worked on both?
Radar’s still clear.....
Thanks. Sorry about the spelling and grammar.
No doubt they have been doing an incredible job in solving this problem. But apparently it was also BP that caused the problem when they sent one of their managers to overrule on-site drilling experts and order them to replace all the drilling mud counterbalancing the well pressure with seawater. This type of decision making is very reminiscent of the Challenger disaster.
After 11 deaths and untold billions in damage, I'm thinking that manager is probably in hiding right now.
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