Three words, Royal Dutch Shell.
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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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.
He wanted a lot of damage from this spill. It’s abundantly clear.
Last night, he began his mission to capitalize on it.
And North Sea Oil.
How long will it take them to get here?
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.
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!
From my limited understanding, he would have to suspend the Jones Act and no one has “axed” him to.
Something called the “Jones Act” of 1920!!!
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.
that was indeed the line but we know now that it was nothing more than LIES!
They knew about this the first day this is NOT NEW technology.
Obama dithered, as the Gulf Coast withered.
Labor cost and liabilities, period!!!
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
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.
to little, to late.
Of course they did! What they have done here is nothing short of criminal!
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