Posted on 06/03/2010 10:33:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The well has been capped, more or less. BP engineers Thursday night guided a containment dome onto the hydrocarbon geyser shooting from the Gulf of Mexico oil well -- a desperate and iffy attempt to capture the leaking oil and funnel it to a ship on the surface.
It was not an elegant operation. Furious clouds of oil escaped the "top hat." Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander for the spill, called the development a positive step but said, "It will be sometime before we can confirm that this method will work and to what extent it will mitigate the release of oil into the environment."
It was a day crammed with engineering drama. First, BP used robotic vehicles and a pair of giant shears to cut a damaged pipe a mile below the gulf's surface. The result simplified the whole arrangement at the sea floor: Instead of spewing from multiple leaks in a tangle of bent pipes, the oil and natural gas surged in a single plume from what looked like a deep-sea smokestack.
Then came the dome, lowered by cables, guided by robots, illuminated by lamps in a world without natural light, and carrying with it the hopes of countless engineers and pretty much the entire Gulf Coast.
Nothing has gone according to plan in the subsea environment as, on the surface, the oil has hit more than 100 miles of Louisiana shoreline. After brushing a barrier island in Alabama, it is poised to tar the white sand beaches of the Florida Panhandle. The area of the gulf closed to fishing is now larger than the state of Florida.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
...In other words, “Obama clouds of oil...”
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No!
Not OZer0 fault
OZer0 has never, ever had any employees to manage, not one.
He’s never, ever had to wipe up a spill off his Lemonaid Stand, ‘cause he’s never been qualified to run a lemonaid stand.
He’s a total Zer0, and we and the world are beginning to understand that.
(Now if we could finally get our message to Princess Pelosi, maybe she would understand! - Maybe in November!)
When Bush was President BP got fined for not operating properly in the Gulf but Obama became President and actually gave BP a saftey award.
The oil you see in the water on the ROV cams will look just as bad at 1000 BPD as it does at 5 OR 6 thousand barrels per day. It does not tell you a thing about how much or how little they are pumping.
Yup. Those guys are experts. I am no expert but the BP manager had them take the mud out and just rushed it. Sad.
Thanks. I guess the top had is an 80% fix until they have the relief wells drilled.
Same here. Cooper was speaking with that"Presidential historian" and full time weasel Douglas Brinkley. All BP. Everything is the fault of BP. Obama and the Federal government and Obama ....well....nevermind about him and it....the problem is how BP is handing this. BP is taking ads out explaining the situation. Terrible, terrible. If BP just...if BP did...BP should...BP, BP, BP...
I understand the need to politicize it and that is an American tradition in its own right. I just really wish they could get this well saved. It is one hell of a gusher and is creating quite a mess. I pray for BP to get the resolution soon.
If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land. http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/fire_boom_oil_spill_raines.html
Obama says that he was in charge since day one, so why hasnt Obama done this?
“Do it for the children. And baby seals.”
To hell with the childern and turn the seals into coats and dog food!
Plus, the BP company man got the gov’t watchdog to sign off on it too. What pisses me off is that they kept on going even after more over-pressure problems kept arising. Arrogant bastard(s).
Then he totally misread what he was seeing via the ROV cams and has been doing it for weeks now.
Frankly, none of the media I have watch has been worth a crap. These fools are all reading copy given to them by someone equally if not more ignorant then they are.
Then you add in those ridiculous interviews with the Plaquimines Parish president who had the IQ of a turnip and what else can I say about it.
You would think that with all the oilfield workers they have walking around Grand Isle, that they could find someone, just one person to translate the technical and factual information into something that is understandable for the mass media audience.....but I guess not.
ten minutes!!!! ten? damn, how did you make it passed about the 2 second mark with that rump ranger?....
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Now it's too high again....165/92
Sounds about normal to me.
Thanks for the great link. I’ve been looking for a good multiple feeds link.
LOL!! That is not high tho!.....well, a bit but can you just imagine old Anderson’s BP when his latest butt pirate little boy fails to perform!!!!???
oh you must mean his lesbian cohort on MSNBC, Rachael Maddow.
Did Daddy plug the hole?
Obama WANTS the destruction to be as bad as possible and knows the media will protect his image regardless. Now on with pushing Cap & Trade, while clear evidence of WH bribery of politicians barely receives any mention in the lame stream media. There have been enough felonies in the first year of Obama’s reign to have landed Bush impeached and in jail 1,000 times over, and makes Nixon’s actions seem downright trivial by today’s standards (or LACK of them). Clinton lowered the bar on Presidential standards/expectations and under Obama within a year the bar is laying on the floor if not completely removed.
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