Report: “Oil Rising Again from Macondo Well

[Serpo]

Report: “Oil Rising Again from Macondo Well” — Crews worked to contain “what was becoming a massive slick at the site of the Macondo wellhead”


August 23rd, 2011 at 07:11 AM
\Oil Rising Again from Macondo Well: BP Hires Fleet of 40 Shrimp Boats to Lay Boom Around Old Deepwater Horizon Site | Stuart H. Smith (http://www.stuarthsmith.com/oil-rising-again-from-macondo-well-bp-hires-fleet-of-40-shrimp-boats-to-lay-boom-around-old-deepwater-horizon-site), August 187, 2011:

Oil from the Macondo Well site is fouling the Gulf anew – and BP is scrambling to contain both the crude and the PR nightmare that waits in the wings. Reliable sources tell us that BP has hired 40 boats from Venice to Grand Isle to lay boom around the Deepwater Horizon site – located just 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. The fleet rushed to the scene late last week and worked through the weekend to contain what was becoming a massive slick at the site of the Macondo wellhead, which was officially “killed” back in September 2010.
The truly frightening part of this development, as reported in a previous post (see below), is the oil may be coming from cracks and fissures in the seafloor caused by the work BP did during its failed attempts to cap the runaway Macondo Well – and that type of leakage can’t be stopped, ever. [...]


http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/report-oil-rising-again-macondo-crews-worked-contain-becoming-massive-slick-site-macondo-wellhead

[Spectrism]

They put a band-aid on a gunshot wound. The wound is festering and oozing foul liquids.

Another good job Obama! You sure kicked BP's ass. Let them poison the Gulf, destroy many lives and walk away without fixing the real problem that will continue to destroy the sea.

Chalk this up to another of Obama's great accomplishments.

[7th trump]

A great big upside down funnel to capture the oil and gas as its released as a posible cheap way of containing oil being released into the gulf on a medium level.

[k-os]

They put a band-aid on a gunshot wound. The wound is festering and oozing foul liquids.

Another good job Obama! You sure kicked BP's ass. Let them poison the Gulf, destroy many lives and walk away without fixing the real problem that will continue to destroy the sea.

Chalk this up to another of Obama's great accomplishments.


He was just hoping the bandaid would hold out until after the election. That's all any politician wants.

[Neuro]

I don't know if this is true, but BP is probably not the most reliable source...


Offshore staff

HOUSTON – BP says that online reports claiming the Macondo well is leaking and the company responded with boats and boom are false.

The well was capped on July 15, 2010, when all oil flow was stopped, and cemented and sealed on Sept. 19, 2010. The well is monitored.

Last week, the US Coast Guard asked operators with assets in the area of Green Canyon block 504 to investigate a sheen that had been sighted. The company says the sheen was not from any BP source.

On Aug. 16, BP reported a produced water sheen in the vicinity of the Thunder Horse platform to the National Response Center. The company says the volume was small, and came from the platform’s produced water processing. Thunder Horse operations were unaffected, and adjustments have been made to the produced water systems.

Neither of the events was near the Macondo well, Mississippi Canyon Block 252. Thunder Horse is about 40 mi (64 km) south of the Macondo well and the Green Canyon block is about 180 mi (290 km) southwest.

08/23/2011


http://www.offshore-mag.com/index/article-display/6368555206/articles/offshore/regional-reports/us-gulf-of-mexico/2011/august/bp-clarifies_reports.html