Posted on 05/29/2010 10:26:29 PM PDT by Java4Jay
Game over. The New York Times has the smoking gun. BP internal documents show they knew the risk of using thin casing in high pressure, lied to MMS.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
NY Times? 10lb bag of Morton’s required.
I think that in the future, any deep sea drilling should be done when a relief well is ready to go in the case of an accident. At least machinery should be in position to begin immediately. We can’t have more of these disasters. Companies should be ready to tap relief wells in case of a spill within a few days of an accident.
Yeah. Not seeing any smoking guns, just regular back and forth about a very deep operation.
Might as well not drill then because that would likely kill your profits, especially in deep water.
1. This is the NYT covering for their chosen messiah.
2. All progress involves risk. To avoid risk is to avoid progress and the betterment of mankind. Sadly, risk avoidance in the private sector is something the dems, and especially this administration, cannot stand.
Reread the story. It was written to absolve the regulatory folks, imo.
Sadly, risk avoidance in the private sector is something the dems, and especially this administration, cannot stand. [correction: Ed.]
A relief well is a well, so by that logic before drilling a relief well you'd first need to drill a relief well for the relief well, and so on.
Obama’s moratorium on drilling would technically mean no relief well could be drilled.
Good points ... and
#3. Any internal emails with sufficient content of back-and-forth can be selectively presented / edited to make any viewpoint prevalent.
Interesting take.
but it wouldn’t be an open well being pumped. It would be partially completed, and it could be “turned on” in the event the main well was leaking.
it would take a lot, I mean a lot, of drilling to put a major dent in profits for a major oil company. They have a lot of money.
Exactly. Every operation for anything has this.
I see no need to require secondary wells. Had BP and Transocean simply followed procedure and abided by the regulations, this wouldn’t have happened. Why require a secondary well so they can ignore procedures and regs and cause double trouble?
Just follow the rules and regs the first time instead of trying to get around them.
NY Times it is still around i thought the ole grey lady died as it is near or in bankruptcy. Is anything that the Ny Times writes, even capable of wrapping up dead fish in. Lets ask Obozo the Muslim Clown in Washington DC where the other liberal rag the washington Compost is delivered. Any news the is not fit to print is coming from the Times and the Compost. better get your subscription to the Globe, Enquirer and Raeders Digest because the Grey Lady and the Compost are no longer fit to wrap fish in. the dead fish get up and swim out of the paper.
Are you speaking with actual inside knowledge or just making crap up?
Oil prospecting is not ever going to be completely safe and sometimes catastrophic events like this are going to happen. The best course of action is to let the oil company's stock holders and insurance carriers decide what levels of risk are acceptable.
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