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U.S. reconsiders Dutch offer to supply oil skimmers
Examiner.com ^ | June 12, 12:13 PM | John Ryden

Posted on 06/16/2010 9:31:57 AM PDT by Bigun

The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers. These are large arms that are attached to oil tankers that pump oil and water from the surface of the ocean into the tanker. Water pumped into the tanker will settle to the bottom of the tanker and is then pumped back into the ocean to make room for more oil. Each system will collect 5,000 tons of oil each day.

One ton of oil is about 7.3 barrels. 5,000 tons per day is 36,500 barrels per day. 4 skimmers have a capacity of 146,000 barrels per day. That is much greater than the high end estimate of the leak. The skimmers work best in calm water, which is the usual condition this time of year in the gulf.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dutch; oil; skimmers
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To: Sacajaweau
And can someone tell me why the Dutch have oil skimmers of this size...and we don’t?? I’ve seen our dingys...

Three words, Royal Dutch Shell.

41 posted on 06/16/2010 9:49:36 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Will88

The very optimum time to skim up the escaping surface oil is just when it reaches the surface, before it spreads out over miles and miles.

What a shame. What a lost opportunity. Obama will catch the blame for this, as he should.

Also for not immediately bringing in Dutch engineers to set about retrofitting some of our Military Sealift Command tankers as ocean skimmers. The Gulf shipyards should have been cranking out skimming booms and the other needed parts 24/7 since the word go, on a war-footing basis. Like building Liberty Ships in WW2. Only we don’t need to build the ships, just the booms, while preparing the Military Sealift Command ships.

Those jury-rigged skimmers could be going into service by now, all along the coasts if nothing else. I mean dozens of them.


42 posted on 06/16/2010 9:49:51 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Bigun

He wanted a lot of damage from this spill. It’s abundantly clear.

Last night, he began his mission to capitalize on it.


43 posted on 06/16/2010 9:50:17 AM PDT by ryan71 (Let's Roll!)
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To: GonzoGOP

And North Sea Oil.


44 posted on 06/16/2010 9:50:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bigun

How long will it take them to get here?


45 posted on 06/16/2010 9:50:52 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Bigun

Damn, how many union jobs will be lost cleaning up beaches while these non-union euros suck up oil? Mr Skittles would never do anything to hurt the unions.


46 posted on 06/16/2010 9:51:40 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Will88
Not immediately obtaining the help of the Dutch was one of the dumbest decisions, or non-decisions in recent history. As much oil as has been escaping, pulling as much out of the water as possible (as far from land as possible) always seemed like the best possible strategy until the gusher could be stopped.

That is entirely correct! What this administration has doen here by refusing the Dutch offer when it was first made is absolutely criminal! The Dutch offered 4 of these vessels on day three after the explosion. Even assuming that it would have taken another week for them to arrive there is still no reason on earth for having allowed even one drop of oil to reach shore anywhere in the gulf region!

47 posted on 06/16/2010 9:53:37 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: hennie pennie

From my limited understanding, he would have to suspend the Jones Act and no one has “axed” him to.


48 posted on 06/16/2010 9:53:46 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: hennie pennie; ketelone; Candor7; investigateworld

Something called the “Jones Act” of 1920!!!


49 posted on 06/16/2010 9:54:54 AM PDT by danamco (")
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To: Travis McGee
What a shame. What a lost opportunity. Obama will catch the blame for this, as he should.

As he should, and all his shills in Congress. And apparently, the Saudis also have ships and methods to remove large amounts of oil from the water. If all this is true, this is one of the dumbest and most negligent decisions made by any administration for quite some time.

We should have been asking for all this help within less than one week, as soon the we realized the magnitude of the escaping oil.

50 posted on 06/16/2010 9:56:45 AM PDT by Will88
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To: ryan71
Obama has been doing everything humanly possible from day one.

that was indeed the line but we know now that it was nothing more than LIES!

51 posted on 06/16/2010 9:57:21 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Sacajaweau
Obama has some explaining to do.

He'll simply claim BP wouldn't "let" him call in help.
52 posted on 06/16/2010 9:58:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Bigun

They knew about this the first day this is NOT NEW technology.


53 posted on 06/16/2010 10:03:42 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw
I believe this oil spill will be the death knell for Obama, but also for the Democratic party for years to come.People have long memories, and I think the blundering of this
administration, and the fact, that the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress as well as the Presidency will tar them all with the label of “Tar Babies”
54 posted on 06/16/2010 10:04:22 AM PDT by BooBoo1000 (Obama is like a "Slinky" rather amusing to watch but serves no useful purpose)
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To: Crim
Obama lied...the gulf coast died...

Obama dithered, as the Gulf Coast withered.

55 posted on 06/16/2010 10:04:51 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: hennie pennie; Buckeye McFrog; muawiyah; blam
Why do you think that U.S. not has any significant Merchant Marine fleet flying the Old Glory flag. Why do you think U.S. cruise lines like Carnival are flagging Monrovia, Panama, Bermuda and other "convenient flags"???

Labor cost and liabilities, period!!!

56 posted on 06/16/2010 10:05:39 AM PDT by danamco (")
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To: Bigun; Oceander; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; ...
Its about damned time!

Exactly, Bigun. Hannity reminds his viewers nightly how the Dutch offered to help us w/ the oil spill since Day 3, but the incompetent Obozo administration wasn't interested. Now on Day 58 (or whatever) Obozo wants their help??

Graphics above by Oceander

57 posted on 06/16/2010 10:08:25 AM PDT by nutmeg (You didn't "misspeak", Mr. Blumenthal... you LIED)
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To: Travis McGee; cripplecreek; All
Even Joe Sixpack can understand this one.

Absolutely. It hits home and is absolutely horrifying no matter what a person's politics are.

And I think we're even getting only part of the story about just how bad it is. yesterday I was chatting with a Freeper about some articles on The Oil Drum website--some very knowledgeable people are concerned that the oil won't stop gushing until the well is dry--many millions of liters of oil. And we're now going into hurricane season.

58 posted on 06/16/2010 10:08:45 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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To: nutmeg

to little, to late.


59 posted on 06/16/2010 10:09:26 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: Cheetahcat
They knew about this the first day this is NOT NEW technology.

Of course they did! What they have done here is nothing short of criminal!

60 posted on 06/16/2010 10:10:05 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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