WARNING WARNING..COLLISION COLLISION!
Posted on 06/23/2010 12:30:26 PM PDT by foolscap
June 23, 2010
Oil from the BP oil spill disaster is spewing again into the Gulf of Mexico at nearly full force after a venting system connected the so-called containment cap over the blown-out wellhead was damaged in an accident with a robot sub, said Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the commander in charge of the government's effort to control the 65-day-old spill.
COO Doug Suttles is dispatched to Florida's Pensacola Beach to oversee cleanup.Separately, Allen said two cleanup workers have died in unrelated accidents in the Gulf, the first deaths reported since 11 people died in when Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned and began the crisis in April.
Allen said the small sub bumped into the venting system connected to the containment cap. That sent gas rising through the plumbing that sends warm water down to the cap to prevent solid crystals -- known as hydrates -- from forming in the cap.
"They are checking the containment cap right now," said Allen at a midday briefing in Washington. "If there are no hydrates in the containment cap, they will attempt to reinstall the containment cap and begin producing later on today. If there are hydrates they will probably have to re-run the pipeline and that'll take a considerable amount longer."
Before the problem with the containment cap, Allen said it had collected about 700,000 gallons of oil in the previous 24 hours. Another 438,000 gallons were burned.
Up to 14 controlled fires are being conducted every day, and they've already burned 125,000 barrels that otherwise would have drifted toward shore. At the site of the accident, two tankers have been collecting oil siphoned up from the containment cap. And huge ocean skimmers, the largest of their kind, have been scooping up 8,000 barrels of oil per day.
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Does anyone know who’s ROV did this? I’ve not seen that ID’d in what stories I’ve read on this so far. Lack of identification in media stories often means “(D)” so might this have been a Coast Guard and thus an Obama bot?
Golf clap for ineptitude.
Oil spill = Barack Obama
the same as:
Iran Hostage Crisis = Jimmy Carter
Your own. Add another gol clap for your ignorance, while you're at it. And a third for your stupid conspiracy theories.
Be gone now, troll.
It’s like 0bots are really infesting the threads these days.
But some of us do have to go back to work.
Well then all is well no doubt ;)
On a more important note, Mac daddy did not go golfing today, that is 2 days in a row.
On a more important note, Mac daddy did not go golfing today, that is 2 days in a row.
Could well be for all we know since the truth has been had to find in this situation
And remember, for all the things wrong with BP and their leaders-and yeah, it is a hell of a long list-they at this point are genuinely invested in getting this job done and protecting the Gulf Coast from oil. Is the Obama administration dead set on making sure any future damage is kept to a minumum ?
Total and complete incompetence on the part of BP. This is what happens when accountants and lawyers run engineering companies instead of engineers. An MBA is not competent to run such a company.
Get a life (from an old gal from the class of '99)
You don't know enough white libtard Democrats then -- I've never seen anything like this...they were looking for a guilt-free ("I'm not a racist!") excuse to vote against Bobo's disadministration this fall and to kick him out in 2012; and every one I've encountered lately right to the last woman has glommed onto this accident as their raison d'être.
Admittedly most of these are PUMA's but they still needed the safe, racially neutral focal point to turn away from Bobo.
You need to put your conspiracy theories aside for a moment and learn the chain of events.
This didn’t start with an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon. This well had many pressure problems as it neared completion. The gas flow came from below the sea bed in a blow out. After the gas cloud came up the riser and nearly engulfed the rig, an explosion was nearly inevitable.
That was someone elses comment, not mine. You are replying to the wrong poster.
You gotta wonder what the robot sub driver uttered when he realized what had just happened—”Oops”, “Uh-oh”, “Oh s**t!”...?
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[tinfoil hat at the ready]
Or given our current government attitude toward oil in the Gulf, perhaps he said,”there! NOW, let’s see that Judge try to stop the moratorium!”
Sadly this is true. We have gone such a long way to disparage the manual arts our educational system and via society in general. No one is smart unless they have a BA, MA or PhD behind their name. Thank God for people who can actually DO things. My roommate has a MBA but could not balance a check book to save her life. It's up to me with the AA in nursing to write the checks
Sorry my friend
I was the one who started to answer up to someone who appeared to want to pick a fight.
Then again, I’ve become more and more conspiratorial thes last few years, and, especially now. Of course, I am just interested in having video proof of what happened with the ROV hitting a cap & causing this most recent occurrence today. That’s all.
But I work and can only drop in & out on FR the last week or so.
So, I should have received your comment, fc. I was just about ready to go at it with someone who appeared to take my comment from an angle I didn’t expect, being the conservative that I am. But, I have a deadline here throughout the evening. Sometimes, FR is a chance to take my mind off the work.
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