Posted on 06/07/2010 8:30:27 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Excellent blog with all the feeds:
http://www.alexanderhiggins.com
The carcinogenic dispersant (from NALCO in IL) is disturbing. On the oildrum forum they said it’s worse than plain crude alone. Odd how companies in IL always seem to benefit with this admin.
http://webchat.freenode.net/ (channel: #theoildrum)
BP still seems to doubting how big a problem this leak actually is or the ability to plan ahead. Course we were only told it was leaking 5k barrels a day and they salvaged over 11k yesterday. Wonder what the real number really is.
“BP decided Sunday to keep some of the four vents open on the cap over its leaking well a mile below the surface of the Gulf because it didn’t have enough processing capacity to handle the mix of sea water and oil coming from the gusher, according to a New York Times report.”
So they could capture a higher percentage they just dont have anyway of handling the Oil/Water mixture. Park a supertanker near the leak at 20k/Day if would hold over 2months collection.
My understanding from reading on the oil drum, the cut pipe area. And from watching the ROVs most of the weekend doesn’t appear to be too many leaks below. There is an open question on whether there is a subsurface flow coming through the seabed. Just don’t know for sure due to BP’s disinformation PR campaign (would be much better to be upfront and honest the situation). Big caveat: not engineer or scientist, just relaying what I have read and seen.
Nailed it. BOP was failsafe A, failsafe B is relief well. Which hopefully those are ahead of schedule.
All I know is that the water pressure is high 5,000 ft down and the oil is still roaring out indicating that the well pressure is quite high. It would seem that an area comparison would be a good place to start when determining leakage and relative leakage.
“What I haven’t seen is some explanation for the economic justification of keeping the well producing if BP could seal and abandon it right now. It would seem that this well would need to produce more than any other well in the gulf and the price of oil to skyrocket in order to offset the costs of collecting the oil, processing the oil, containing the still leaking oil, and cleaning up the gulf. Even if you take out the liability for the current damage done, I don’t see BP being able to profit from this venture by salvaging some oil that costs them more than the ongoing costs of this operation. Perhaps, there is some magic reasoning that I’m missing that I don’t understand a greedy oil company working so hard to lose money by spending and risking possibly over a billion $ to make a few million $.”
The talk that BP prefers to produce rather than seal the well is conspiratorial talk without any basis in logic as you indicate. Most of the talk comes from the left but conservatives are piling on somewhat based on BP’s support for green energy and Democrats. Most businesses saw the Democrat rise to power so they know that it is important to pay tribute to deflect the wrath of Democrats.
I do not see how BP can collect 20,000 bpd because the capacity of the container ship is only a little larger than 15,000 bpd. Perhaps someone can provide some insight about the limitations imposed by the capacity of the containment ship.
That would likely appear at the oildrum before too long.
Where are you getting the 15K bpd number? I don’t find it anywhere I’ve looked. My guess is that what is captured will be off loaded to another ship as the Discovery Enterprise as I read it is there for a while.
Discoverer Enterprise:
http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Discoverer-Enterprise-141.html
This from Transocean:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/538223/
The Transocean drillship, Discoverer Enterprise prepared to conduct a recovery operation for BP using the specially-built containment chamber, or “dome” on the sea floor. With the use of the dome and connection system called a riser to flow the leaking oil the crew of the Discoverer Enterprise will have the capacity to recover up to 125,000 barrels of oil.
"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead."...Marx brothers
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Thad Allen’s press conference: BP is obtaining a ship that can hold 20K bd (today or tomorrow)
Eventually they will be obtaining a high capacity ship from the North Sea
Flow count is still ongoing and will partly be based on amount obtained through top cap
Morons......
I guess that is the debatable point. Who is/are the morons... Opinions will differ I’m sure.
Always liked your handle.
But, it might be time to consider "Ernest at the Tarpit".
LOL....I am on the Western Beach...between Long Beach and Newport Beach...
And we have producing wells offshore of Huntington Beach...out to Catalina.
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