BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak
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Re: oil leak
Not to make light of this, but I'd love to see BP grow balls and turn this into a pro-"Darwinism" argument.
Hey, flamingos, toughen up or die!
Anyway, yeah, there's now a systemic denial of what the future really holds. What will will follow will be more outrage and then numbness. The fallout will be too big to comprehend without knee jerk, peer-influenced responses.
You will not see a protest sign that states, "Our dependence on cheap oil allowed you fuckers to destroy our coast by accident or negligence."
Not to make light of this, but I'd love to see BP grow balls and turn this into a pro-"Darwinism" argument.
Hey, flamingos, toughen up or die!
Anyway, yeah, there's now a systemic denial of what the future really holds. What will will follow will be more outrage and then numbness. The fallout will be too big to comprehend without knee jerk, peer-influenced responses.
You will not see a protest sign that states, "Our dependence on cheap oil allowed you fuckers to destroy our coast by accident or negligence."
Re: oil leak
Click on the Bill Maher/Philippe Cousteau interview clip. Watch and shake your head in disbelief....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/28/phillipe-cousteau-jr-to-b_n_594308.html
Click on the Bill Maher/Philippe Cousteau interview clip. Watch and shake your head in disbelief....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/28/phillipe-cousteau-jr-to-b_n_594308.html
habo9
Banned
Re: oil leak
which i assure you scraped up and made into stew or stuffed over your fireplace
More , when I drive over them
which i assure you scraped up and made into stew or stuffed over your fireplace
habo9
Banned
Re: oil leak
Nah it was only mice , I now have a collection of furry willy warmers though
Nah it was only mice , I now have a collection of furry willy warmers though
Legzman
what the fuck you lookin at?
Re: oil leak
You can easily see it from space.
http://www.examiner.com/x-5738-Poli...he-progression-of-the-BP-oil-spill-from-space
You can easily see it from space.
http://www.examiner.com/x-5738-Poli...he-progression-of-the-BP-oil-spill-from-space
ROBERT, La. – BP admitted defeat Saturday in its attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak by pumping mud into a busted well, but is readying yet another approach after repeated failures to stop the crude that's fouling marshland and beaches.
BP PLC Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company determined the "top kill" had failed after it spent three days pumping heavy drilling mud into the crippled well 5,000 feet underwater. More than 1.2 million gallons of mud was used, but most of it escaped out of the damaged riser.
In the six weeks since the spill began, the company has failed in each attempt to stop the gusher, as estimates of how much oil is leaking grow more dire. The spill is the worst in U.S. history — exceeding even the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster — and dumping between 18 million and 40 million gallons into the Gulf, according to government estimates.
"This scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven't succeeded so far," Suttles said. "Many of the things we're trying have been done on the surface before, but have never been tried at 5,000 feet."
The company failed in the days after the spill to use robot submarines to close valves on the massive blowout preventer atop the damaged well, then two weeks later ice-like crystals clogged a 100-ton box the company tried placing over the leak. Earlier this week, engineers removed a mile-long siphon tube after it sucked up a disappointing 900,000 gallons of oil from the gusher.
Frustration has grown as drifting oil closes beaches and washes up in sensitive marshland. The damage is underscored by images of pelicans and their eggs coated in oil. Below the surface, oyster beds and shrimp nurseries face certain death.
President Barack Obama visited the coast Friday to see the damage as he tried to emphasize that his administration was in control of the crisis. He told people in Grand Isle, where the beach has been closed by gobs of oil, that they wouldn't be abandoned.
After BP announced the top kill failure, Obama said from Chicago that the continued flow of oil into the Gulf is "as enraging as it is heartbreaking."
Suttles said BP is already preparing for the next attempt to stop the leak that began after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April, killing 11 people.
The company plans to use robot submarines to cut off the damaged riser from which the oil is leaking, and then try to cap it with a containment valve. The effort is expected to take between four and seven days.
"We're confident the job will work but obviously we can't guarantee success," Suttles said of the new plan, declining to handicap the likelihood it will work.
He said that cutting off the damaged riser isn't expected to cause the flow rate of leaking oil to increase significantly.
The permanent solution to the leak, a relief well currently being drilled, won't be ready until August, BP says.
Experts have said that a bend in the damaged riser likely was restricting the flow of oil somewhat, so slicing it off and installing a new containment valve is risky.
"If they can't get that valve on, things will get much worse," said Philip W. Johnson, an engineering professor at the University of Alabama.
Johnson said he thinks BP can succeed with the valve, but added: "It's a scary proposition."
Word that the top-kill had failed hit hard in fishing communities along Louisiana's coast.
"Everybody's starting to realize this summer's lost. And our whole lifestyle might be lost," said Michael Ballay, the 59-year-old manager of the Cypress Cove Marina in Venice, La., near where oil first made landfall in large quanities almost two weeks ago.
Johnny Nunez, owner of Fishing Magician Charters in Shell Beach, La., said the spill is hurting his business during what's normally the best time of year — and there's no end in sight.
"If fishing's bad for five years, I'll be 60 years old. I'll be done for," he said after watching BP's televised announcement.
BP PLC Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company determined the "top kill" had failed after it spent three days pumping heavy drilling mud into the crippled well 5,000 feet underwater. More than 1.2 million gallons of mud was used, but most of it escaped out of the damaged riser.
In the six weeks since the spill began, the company has failed in each attempt to stop the gusher, as estimates of how much oil is leaking grow more dire. The spill is the worst in U.S. history — exceeding even the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster — and dumping between 18 million and 40 million gallons into the Gulf, according to government estimates.
"This scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven't succeeded so far," Suttles said. "Many of the things we're trying have been done on the surface before, but have never been tried at 5,000 feet."
The company failed in the days after the spill to use robot submarines to close valves on the massive blowout preventer atop the damaged well, then two weeks later ice-like crystals clogged a 100-ton box the company tried placing over the leak. Earlier this week, engineers removed a mile-long siphon tube after it sucked up a disappointing 900,000 gallons of oil from the gusher.
Frustration has grown as drifting oil closes beaches and washes up in sensitive marshland. The damage is underscored by images of pelicans and their eggs coated in oil. Below the surface, oyster beds and shrimp nurseries face certain death.
President Barack Obama visited the coast Friday to see the damage as he tried to emphasize that his administration was in control of the crisis. He told people in Grand Isle, where the beach has been closed by gobs of oil, that they wouldn't be abandoned.
After BP announced the top kill failure, Obama said from Chicago that the continued flow of oil into the Gulf is "as enraging as it is heartbreaking."
Suttles said BP is already preparing for the next attempt to stop the leak that began after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April, killing 11 people.
The company plans to use robot submarines to cut off the damaged riser from which the oil is leaking, and then try to cap it with a containment valve. The effort is expected to take between four and seven days.
"We're confident the job will work but obviously we can't guarantee success," Suttles said of the new plan, declining to handicap the likelihood it will work.
He said that cutting off the damaged riser isn't expected to cause the flow rate of leaking oil to increase significantly.
The permanent solution to the leak, a relief well currently being drilled, won't be ready until August, BP says.
Experts have said that a bend in the damaged riser likely was restricting the flow of oil somewhat, so slicing it off and installing a new containment valve is risky.
"If they can't get that valve on, things will get much worse," said Philip W. Johnson, an engineering professor at the University of Alabama.
Johnson said he thinks BP can succeed with the valve, but added: "It's a scary proposition."
Word that the top-kill had failed hit hard in fishing communities along Louisiana's coast.
"Everybody's starting to realize this summer's lost. And our whole lifestyle might be lost," said Michael Ballay, the 59-year-old manager of the Cypress Cove Marina in Venice, La., near where oil first made landfall in large quanities almost two weeks ago.
Johnny Nunez, owner of Fishing Magician Charters in Shell Beach, La., said the spill is hurting his business during what's normally the best time of year — and there's no end in sight.
"If fishing's bad for five years, I'll be 60 years old. I'll be done for," he said after watching BP's televised announcement.
Supafly
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You know, if the USA would be serious about the War on Terror, there would be Marines commandoes rounding up the BP Management and making them hand over their profits from last year to really do someting on the havoc they created by choosing to ignore info about the shit in the Gulf of Mexicy hitting the fan.
I read BP, made a sheer profit last year of 17.000.000.000 (Billion) Dollars.
I read BP, made a sheer profit last year of 17.000.000.000 (Billion) Dollars.
Re: oil leak
Are we all doomed?
Are we all doomed?
Legzman
what the fuck you lookin at?
sickening. Then they say they "can't" fix the leak. Bullshit. I just wonder how high gas prices are gonna sky rocket by the end of all this shit?
roronoa3000
Banned
Electric cars sound good right about now.
Supafly
Retired Mod
You don't need to take my word about this. Take their own official report on the last years gains and losses:
It is an Adobe Acrobat file.
Annual Report at www.bp.com on year 2009
Check the line "Profit for the year attributable to shareholders... ", in the middle of page two.
And they could not afford some workable tech to prevent or fix situations like the one at hand.
we always knew our dependence upon oil would bite us in the ass just not in such a horrendously spectacular and difficult to fix way, it seems in the future (cuz i know this won't really make us question our dependence upon oil) anyone who drills should be required to have a detailed fix (and money set aside to enact the fix) for every imaginable problem
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