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Disaster Inspires Brilliant Answers
Houston Chronicle ^
| Thursday, May 05, 2011
| Tom Fowler
Posted on 05/05/2011 10:23:07 PM PDT by Rabin
From improvements in blowout presenters to improved systems for skimming oil if it does get out of a deep-water well, the offshore industry has spent the past year trying to avoid a repeat of the accident that killed 11 men and triggered the nation's largest offshore oil spill.
(Excerpt) Read more at rigzone.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: macondo; otc
Sad but true it seems, most all, Nuc, PCem, GenInd, long for repeat ass kickings to attend the business of safely getting on. There is a paradigm in play which hasn't even yet filtered thru to management. The pols play it for all it is worth.
Rab.
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:23:12 PM PDT
by
Rabin
To: Rabin
From improvements in blowout presenters...Sounds pornographic to me---ban it.
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posted on
05/05/2011 10:29:11 PM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: Rabin
Nothing at all like the ones for deep sea rigs etc, but I invented a small BOP back in the early 1980s. Click
here
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:04:41 PM PDT
by
Sea Parrot
(Being an autodidact, I happily escaped the bureaucratization of intellect)
To: Rabin
So 2 of 4 can read so far concerning the 'presenters'.
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posted on
05/05/2011 11:09:52 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: Rabin
A very trollish post.
Do you imagine that Petroleum Engineers in America and great companies like Exxon-Mobil, Chevron,... never heard of these issues before?
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posted on
05/06/2011 12:16:31 AM PDT
by
saltus
(God's Will be done)
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