Posted on 06/08/2010 11:10:02 AM PDT by mojitojoe
Staring day after day at images of oil billowing from an undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico, many Americans are struggling to make sense of the numbers On Monday, BP said a cap was capturing 11,000 barrels of oil a day from the well. The official government estimate of the flow rate is 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day, which means the new device should be capturing the bulk of the oil. But is it? With no consensus among experts on how much oil is pouring from the wellhead, it is difficult — if not impossible — to assess the containment cap’s effectiveness. BP has stopped trying to calculate a flow rate on its own, referring all questions on that subject to the government. The company’s liability will ultimately be determined in part by how many barrels of oil are spilled. The immense undersea gusher of oil and gas, seen on live video feed, looks as big as it did last week, or bigger, before the company sliced through the pipe known as a riser to install its new collection device. At least one expert, Ira Leifer, who is part of a government team charged with estimating the flow rate, is convinced that the operation has made the leak worse, perhaps far worse than the 20 percent increase that government officials warned might occur when the riser was cut. Dr. Leifer said in an interview on Monday that judging from the video, cutting the pipe might have led to a several-fold increase in the flow rate from the well. “The well pipe clearly is fluxing way more than it did before,” said Dr. Leifer, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “By way more, I don’t mean 20 percent, I mean multiple factors.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
In both post 23 and 31 of this thread I stated this fiasco was BP’s fault. Apparently that wasn’t enough.
That’s what BP claims.
BP has lied from DayOne.
Their CEO, Tony, has consistently lied.
BP has not been “transparent” or forthcoming with info and data.
Every day since the spill, Tony and BP have lied.
Tony and BP are LIARS.
Criminals.
Believe them if you want, but this thing is far worse than they say.
Corporate lickspittles like you guys who would hang an individual for crimes, but are willing to give corporations and their lackeys a pass. Liberals will forgive criminal individuals, and conservatives like you will forgive criminal corporations.
Justice for all, baby. Tell it to the Louisianians,and all the other residents of the Gulf Coast.
Believe this is a magic well where physics don't apply if you want.
There’s no oil anywhere in the Gulf.
It’s just a little spill, yea.
Keep shilling for the BP criminal corporation.
I suggesting reality is a better method for solving problems than hysteria and fantasy.
But then I'm an engineer. My job is to solve problems while others criticize from the sidelines.
>>reality is a better method for solving problems
That’s my point.
BP ignored reality and tried to foist a fantasy upon us.
Anyway, apparently stopping the oil hitting the coast was not a priority for BP, Tony(poor scumbag, I feel his pain) or for FedZilla.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.