BP attempting to shift blame: "it was not our accident"

[I am me, I am free]

We can see where this is headed.

CG Commander: could go to 100,000 BARRELS/day discharge

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1270917/BP-vows-clean-Gulf-Mexico-oil-slick-3-months-cap-leak.html

[MAGNES]

Imagine how much oil has to be down there for a gusher.

Estimates vary wildly, 1000, 5000 barrels a day,
a solution is only months to years away.

Imagine the pressure down there of the ocean
pushing down and still it is a high pressure hose.

China and Russia are in Cuba right now for oil.

The whole planet has oil, it is just a matter
of how deep you go, economics, etc .

Man were those dinosaurs horny.

The ocean is going to die.

[ximmy]

"The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame"

[cigarlover]

They should be moving a 40 ton cap into place by weeks end. The cap will go over the well and then the oil pumped to a ship on the surface. Never been tried in water this deep so it will be a first if it works.

[I am me, I am free]

They should be moving a 40 ton cap into place by weeks end. The cap will go over the well and then the oil pumped to a ship on the surface. Never been tried in water this deep so it will be a first if it works.


Whether it works or not, they have to put on the appearance of doing something.

First order of bidness for BP: cover our ass, first and foremost, above all else

[oldmansmith]

"The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame"


I got another Tolkien:

"Perilous to us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess."

[Spectrism]

There are many scary things about this.

1) It is accessible remotely only. More than a mile under the ocean, even submariner robots must be carefully constructed to survive there. The pressure of the sea depth is probably in the range of 2,000+ psi.

2) The pressure of such an oil gusher is enormous. The oil may be superheated and bursting at the well head with pressures in excess of 20,000 psi. At least this seems to be a dafe range for the Blow Out Preventer BOP- and it failed.

3) There is a length of crumpeled riser pipe with a few leaking holes and its main that is leaning over. To cap the leak with the heavy tomb (drain line) they plan on lowering, they will either drop it on the end or cur the riser and drop it on the well head. Either way, the pressure of the gusher could scour out the underway and even the casement of concrete is at risk.

4) If the thing runs away, the earth will leak this oil like a giant dianosaur with an arterial bleeder.

5) The use of chemical diffusers- to keep the oil from floating- is creating an ocean of oil under the surface with less visability to how bad things are. What toxins are in the chemicals? How smart is it to blend the oil with the water?

There are so many unknowns to this, that we are sure to be skrewed into pine boxes without knowing we are already dead.

[oldmansmith]

[quote=ximmy ]
"The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame"


I got another Tolkien:

"Perilous to us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves posess."