Gulf Coast Oil Spill

[Pinner]

Originally Posted by fotze

that would be insane if it was related to this well.

I don't know much about down hole problems, the only down hole problem I know about is outside watering the flowers. LoL

Hot and dry here

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by fotze

Oilsands were not divested.

I believe these folks work on the NG side of things. Chances are Apache will continue with their project anyhow.

[shermanator]

Apparently the oil rig turned off a fire alarm on the rig in question to ensure workers weren't being woken up at night. One would assume that an oil rig would have a working fire alarm 24/7 but maybe that's just too common sense?

Mr Williams, who is suing the owners of the rig, claims that he raised his concerns about the alarm and other alleged safety failings with his managers.


"The general alarm was inhibited," said Mr Williams, who worked for Transocean, the Geneva-based company that owned the rig. He claimed that the system had been disabled because rig managers "did not want people woken up at 3am with false alarms".

Link:http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Al...600/story.html

[CaramonLS]

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Did anyone see this? Apparently BP likes to fake pictures of a "command centre" displayed on their website.

[worth]

lol, that is a fantastic photoshop job if i've ever seen one. Seriously, just post the image on 4chan and they will put a million different images on the screen. Then you can pick one.

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

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Did anyone see this? Apparently BP likes to fake pictures of a "command centre" displayed on their website.

BP is just so much dumb in one company you can't help but feel baffled by it.

[Azure]

A recent report in the New York Times details a myriad issues that led up to the eventual explosion that started the mess known as the "BP oil spill," but aside from obvious mishandling of warnings and red flags, one particular issue was troubling those working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig long before April 20th. Mike Williams, the rig's chief electronics technician, has come forward with a multitude of icky details surrounding the negligence that was involved in the catastrophe, with the one most germane to our discussion being the following: "For months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what the crew called the Blue Screen of Death." Williams continued, noting that "it would just turn blue," with "no data coming through." Of course, it's not as if BSODs are totally uncommon out in the working world -- Microsoft's Windows powers the vast majority of systems that corporations rely on daily -- but this one rubs just a wee bit differently. Hit the source link for the full spill.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/b...il-rig-months/

lol?

[CaramonLS]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

BP is just so much dumb in one company you can't help but feel baffled by it.

To be quite honest I'm not sure why the media hasn't continued to shred them over this - it is pretty recent, but I don't think it is catching on like it should.

The ethical lapses by this company are astounding. If it was me, I would be completely and utterly ashamed to work for them. I can get mistakes. I can forgive mistakes. But this just goes beyond all reason when you are spreading lies to try to make yourself look better.

[User Name]

Another link on the oceananic warnings that were turned off
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...oil-rig-alarms

[Azure]

At its peak last month, the oil slick was the size of Kansas, but it has been rapidly shrinking, now down to the size of New Hampshire.

Today, ABC News surveyed a marsh area and found none, and even on a flight out to the rig site Sunday with the Coast Guard, there was no oil to be seen.

"That oil is somewhere. It didn't just disappear," said Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.

Salvador Cepriano is one of the men searching for crude. Cepriano, a shrimper, has been laying out boom with his boat, but he's found that there's no oil to catch.

"I think it is underneath the water. It's in between the bottom and the top of the water," Cepriano said.

Even the federal government admits that locating the oil has become a problem.

"It is becoming a very elusive bunch of oil for us to find," said National Incident Cmdr. Thad Allen.

Skimmers Pick Up Less Oil

The numbers don't lie: two weeks ago, skimmers picked up about 25,000 barrels of oily water. Last Thursday, they gathered just 200 barrels.

Still, it doesn't mean that all the oil that gushed for weeks is gone. Thousands of small oil patches remain below the surface, but experts say an astonishing amount has disappeared, reabsorbed into the environment.

"[It's] mother nature doing her job," said Ed Overton, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spil...ry?id=11254252

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Out of sight, out of mind.

92,000,000 gallons didn't get reabsorbed into the enviroment... LoL

[Starfishy]

Originally Posted by fotze

Probably about 5000 wells in alberta have gas flowing outside of the casing. If its not serious it is not necessary to fix for years and years until abandonment.

I hope you mean to say that they have gas flow outside production casing. Wells in alberta with surface casing leaks are a very expensive problem for O&G producers. There are not 5000 wells with surface casing issues in Alberta, if migrant gas outside surface casing was detected like explained in this thread it would need to be rectified with a liner or cement squeeze or something.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Pinner

Out of sight, out of mind.

92,000,000 gallons didn't get reabsorbed into the enviroment... LoL

I would have to agree with you...it doesn't really make sense how nature just "absorbs" all this oil with no signs.

[Frequitude]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

I would have to agree with you...it doesn't really make sense how nature just "absorbs" all this oil with no signs.

The same way oceans absorb garbage.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Frequitude

The same way oceans absorb garbage.

Trinity: You're not allowed to do that, that's littering!

Ricky: I've noticed that if you throw something into a water...body like a lake or an ocean, that it doesn't come back and its gone, somehow it takes it away and filters it through, and it just cleans it up like a garbage compacter. It's not really littering if you ask me.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

I would have to agree with you...it doesn't really make sense how nature just "absorbs" all this oil with no signs.

Well, oil is a naturally occurring substance itself.

Secondly, while the leak might be 92,000,000 gallons, the Gulf of Mexico is 643,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water (quadrillion gallons).

And then there's the Atlantic Ocean.

Cowperson

[worth]

ummm...i'm pretty sure the easiest solution to this is to just melt all the polar ice regions to dilute the oil.

[shermanator]

BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, stepped down today...

BP's chief executive Tony Hayward resigned on Tuesday, claiming to have been "demonised and vilified" over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster that is set to cost the British group $32 billion.

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"Whether it is fair or unfair is not the point. I became the public face and was demonised and vilified. BP cannot move on in the U.S. with me as its leader."

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Battered+chief+speaks+This+very+personally/3328442/story.html

[burn_this_city]

Serves the sniveling Brit right. He had the gall back in May to whine about losing his "life" over the spill when 11 people actually did. He pretty well signed his resignation with that ridiculous gaffe and his inability to explain anything in front of Congress..

[Pinner]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Well, oil is a naturally occurring substance itself.

I understand the oil will biodegrade, but it will take time, it doesn't "disappear" and "reabsorb" overnight like the quote said.

Still, it doesn't mean that all the oil that gushed for weeks is gone. Thousands of small oil patches remain below the surface, but experts say an astonishing amount has disappeared, reabsorbed into the environment.