40%? What math system are you using? 5% is about right.
We currently use about 18.5~19.0 BPD of oil products.
These days, we get average less than 1.0 BPD of oil and oil products from Nigeria.
RoT, I knew exactly what you were saying. I was telling you that there are people who definitely care about the “flow of oil in the leak” even if it doesn’t matter to you.
Greed must be the primary motivator, because being good neighbors isn’t demonstrated by most oil productions companies. The oil industry around the world has a habit of wastefulness of the resources it is supposed to shepherd. Take a look at what has happened to Nigerian delta - where more than 40% of America’s oil is produced. Networks of rusting pipes and storage tanks, corroding pipelines, semi-derelict pumping stations and old wellheads, as well as tankers and vessels cleaning out tanks- at least 1.5 million tons of oil has been leaked into the delta in the past 50 years. The oil companies don’t care about the leaks - why should they? There’s always more crude, and they don’t live there anyway. They don’t make money from oil that washes up on beaches, but why should they care? They’re making money anyway.
But you can read about this stuff as well as the rest of us can.
The problems in Nigeria are the result of Nigeria’s government. You can’t do a lick of business there without bribing somebody. Of course it would be crazy to expect them to clean up their own country, so we must blame someone else. Someone who isn’t so ethnic, right?
You all will love my guesstimate in post#30
By the way, worst-case: the worst case scenerio here would almost certainly be brought about by what you would like done with this: immediate total welding of some type of cap to stop the flow. That would certainly result in a massive failure of the casing structure, and complete lack of ability to capture the bulk of the release, as is being done now.
40%? What math system are you using? 5% is about right.
We currently use about 18.5~19.0 BPD of oil products.
These days, we get average less than 1.0 BPD of oil and oil products from Nigeria.