- I see a couple of arms moving but they don’t seem to know what to do???
Posted on 05/28/2010 8:10:12 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
I took a break from work, and watched the live feed for a minute. I either just saw the whole thing entirely blow out, or BP is implementing LMRP or hot tap right now.
Specifically, I saw a HUGE rain of white clumps and particles which are either foam-like objects used in a junk shot or methane hydrates.
Then all of the water within the camera view got very, very dark. When I looked more closely, I could make out the outline of massive jet-black plumes of oil rising from below the camera.
At least as of right now (6:00 pm Pacific Standard Time), if you look at the live video feed below, you can see what I mean.
This is either very, very bad, or BP has abandoned the top kill/junk shots altogether and is in the middle of surgery where it has already cut off sections of the BOP and/or riser, and is trying to cap it off with a sealing grommet.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonsblog.com ...
Glad your retired.We are down the shore and the guys are going fishing at 5PM:)
I’m glad this is from yesterday...
Smoking gun?
We're talking about two different things: BP and the industry.
If BP pulled some crap, of course, it needs to be corrected.
But you were claiming the entire industry needed to be "corrected".
And, so far as I know, the entire industry has a pretty damn good record.
You do know that the Usumacinta disaster was a Pemex operation, don't you?
And did I know exclude Pemex from my statement?
Of course, I did. And I accept your apology...
It would be totally awesome if the U.S. ended up drinking PEMEX's milkshake.
Yes, that's the key. And when you are looking at "volumes" of oil and water vs the "volume" of the Gulf, this is NOTHING. The dispersant is misunderstood in what its use is. Yes it disperses the oil into tiny globules ... in fact, if you can get the mixing right, almost a pure emulsion. People are mistakenly thinking this is the end of the story, that we are trying to "hide" the oil in the water, but it is still there. Not so.
The purpose is to increase the surface area of the oil (tar ball) slick by factors of millions. When you take a sphere (or glob) of oil, about 1 foot long and 1/2 foot in diameter, then emulsify it down to emulsion sized droplets, the overall surface area is increased by a factor of millions. So now you have that much more "surface area" for the bacteria (bugs) to work on. The "bugs" can only get at the surface of the oil ... if you increase the surface by a factor of millions, then that many more "bugs" can work on it. So in this way, you "naturally" get rid of the oil. By the way, this is happening every day in the gulf, as there are natural oil leaks there...and always have been since BEFORE drilling! So the "bugs" are there, and they do their work. The key here is to make the "natural process" work better. The place to add the dispersants is right at the leak area, that would/does give the best mixing. It does "some" good if you spray it on the water, but you need the mixing for emulsification. Hope this helps.
I ain't apologizing for shit, pal. At the link I provided, click on the "rig list" link. You'll find dozens of rig disasters, thereby proving your statement "nothing like this has ever happened before" invalid.
When was the last time, I must ask, that a deepwater well blew out 5,000 ft below sea level and started gushing 75-100,000 bpd into the ocean?
I don't recall one. Do you?
Why is the water super clear just a few feet from the leak? Maybe the oil and mud are far less dense than the water.
Yes. Both things are true. He received $77,051 from employees of the oil giant, and he is the top recipient of individual donations by employees of BP over the past 20 years.
Look at the way Politico wrote that paragraph. It’s all true - you can go to the Open Secrets website and search for Obama and BP donations yourself.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search_donor.php
That money ALL came from individuals who were employed by BP. That is what is meant by “from the oil giant”. NONE of it came from BP or its corporate PAC. NONE of it was bundled.
The implication that Obama was bought off by BP is not supported by the actual facts of donations.
There is no if as to BP pulling some crap.
There have been some near misses by operating on the cheap (Not on this catastrophic of a scale for sure) that I am personally aware of......first hand.
As with every industry and I mean every industry, the oil industry is not as pure as the wind driven snow. BP demonstrated through willful negligence to save a few dollars what can happen. This can not be allowed to happen again or the oil industry will be irreparably damaged. Not good for the country or the oil industry or the people working in the oil industry.
As I said before if some BP "Big Boys" and some government "Big Boys" go to jail, this will not happen again.
A BP company man already plead the fifth amendment. I say give the bastard immunity and force him to testify on what really went on higher up.
The woman who was fired as the head of the government MM agency, give her immunity and force her to testify on why they gave all the wavers for BP's screwed up drilling and completion plans.
Do you have any evidence of that? Has there been any evidence that BP bundled money to Obama? Are there actually the consecutively numbered money orders to Obama, or is that your supposition?
If you have proof, I will bow to it. But it’s not just to imply thatthe American citizens who may have decided, for whatever their crazy reason, to donate to Obama be written off as mere stalking horses for BP.
It’s of crucial importance that we know whether or not Obama was bought off. If there is proof, then the man shoulkd be tried for conspiracy and treason. But so far I am afraid there is no evidence - just implication.
Keep going up in diameter, while continuing to block off or reduce a small portion of the volume of flow at each step, and eventually one can reduce the pressures to much more manageable pressures.
It's called a "christmas tree", (though upside down) and such approach to controlling high pressures at well heads, has long been in existence.
Thanks for the explanation, guys.
MM (in TX)
Just part of the Obaplan to nationalize the oil industry.
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