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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo  You can be sure that after this incident, every single ring is working overtime to ensure their safety valves are 100% operational. | And who do you thinks going to enforce that? Why not just pay off a few high players in the Gov....sure be a hell of alot cheaper of fixing/checking/replacing valves on all of their platforms.
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Just reading this article thought I'd post it, Does not sound good I hope he's just being pessimistic...
The original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of it spewing 200,000 [gallons] of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude now?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God "LOL" steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that.
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05-16-2010, 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by impulse777 Just reading this article thought I'd post it, Does not sound good I hope he's just being pessimistic...
The original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of it spewing 200,000 [gallons] of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude now?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God "LOL" steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that. | Only the Nuclear bomb will help..?
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05-16-2010, 02:21 AM
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Originally Posted by impulse777 Just reading this article thought I'd post it, Does not sound good I hope he's just being pessimistic...
longassarticle.txt | Link to article?
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Originally Posted by impulse777 Just reading this article thought I'd post it, Does not sound good I hope he's just being pessimistic...
The original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of it spewing 200,000 [gallons] of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude now?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God "LOL" steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that. | 2012
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05-16-2010, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by impulse777 Just reading this article thought I'd post it, Does not sound good I hope he's just being pessimistic...
The original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of it spewing 200,000 [gallons] of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude now?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God "LOL" steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that. |
dude, i hope you are serious.
and if you are, sounds like we are really really screwed!
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05-16-2010, 08:26 AM
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Good watch:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/05/15/lkl.oil.spill.cnn
(Bonus is you get to see Bill Nye the Science Guy)
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05-16-2010, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by _Hotsauce_ And who do you thinks going to enforce that? Why not just pay off a few high players in the Gov....sure be a hell of alot cheaper of fixing/checking/replacing valves on all of their platforms. | How about the notion that if it ever happens to them, they could go through the financial turmoil that BP is dealing with now.
It's cheap insurance.
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05-16-2010, 08:42 AM
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#61 | | I STILL don't get it
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they should just bomb it so that it can collapse
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05-16-2010, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by noventa they should just bomb it so that it can collapse | Do you even know what's going on?
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05-16-2010, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by impulse777 Just reading this article thought I'd post it, Does not sound good I hope he's just being pessimistic...
The original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of it spewing 200,000 [gallons] of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude now?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God "LOL" steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that. | they never said 5000 gallons a day, they said 5000 barrels a day.
5000 barrels = 155,000 gallons. i think you're confused.
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Originally Posted by impulse777
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
| No, that's incorrect. The rig sank nowhere near the well head. 
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Unit I'm not confused maybe the author of the article is or maybe you are if you missed the first sentence. Quote:
Originally Posted by impulse777 Just reading this article thought I'd post it, Does not sound good I hope he's just being pessimistic | ch28 I can't find the article atm.
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BP admits the oil gusher is bigger than first estimated:
Washington (CNN) -- BP acknowledged Thursday that the gusher of oil pouring from its damaged Gulf of Mexico well is bigger than estimated to date, as new video showed a cloud of crude billowing around its undersea siphon.
Company spokesman Mark Proegler said Thursday that the siphon is now drawing about 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) a day up to a ship on the surface. That's as much as government and company officials had estimated the spill was pouring into the Gulf every day for a month. Proegler declined to estimate how much more oil was escaping.
BP America Chairman Lamar McKay said Wednesday the figure used by the oil spill response team had a degree of uncertainty built into it. But figures by independent researchers have run up to many times higher: Steve Wereley, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, told CNN's "American Morning" that the spill could be as big as 20,000 to 100,000 barrels a day.
And members of Congress released video from the company that showed much more oil pouring out of the damaged well than the siphon was capturing.
"Most of the oil is gushing like mad out there, with just a little bit being siphoned off, which tells you there is a much greater volume than BP said," California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, the chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said Thursday.
And Rep. Ed Markey, who leads a House subcommittee investigating the disaster, told reporters, "I think now we are beginning to understand that we cannot trust BP."
More:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/20/gul...ex.html?hpt=T2
| Well NO FUCKING SHIT. Anyone who believes that BP would be truthful to the public is an idiot.
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Im wondering that despite this mess, why is the price of oil sliding on daily basis? Posted via RS Mobile | |
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Originally Posted by itsallaboutgz Im wondering that despite this mess, why is the price of oil sliding on daily basis? Posted via RS Mobile | cause it's stock piling right now so it goes down. With summer around the corner the price will go up again with more people driving and using more up.
Seeing shit like this in the ocean is beyond sick, what a lot of people don't realize if we destroy the ocean we are dead as well. Earth wouldn't be able to survive with out it and of course neither would we.
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Rush limbaugh (sp?) says the ocean will fix itself and disapate the oil overtime, as oil naturely leaks oil into the ocean
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer Rush limbaugh (sp?) says the ocean will fix itself and disapate the oil overtime, as oil naturely leaks oil into the ocean | OVERTIME is the key word. Where in the ocean does 200k litres a day? what Limbaugh seems to be doing to trying to deflect the serious of the spill.
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer Rush limbaugh (sp?) says the ocean will fix itself and disapate the oil overtime, as oil naturely leaks oil into the ocean | Who is this guy and how is he credible? Posted via RS Mobile | |
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Originally Posted by _Hotsauce_ | Two comments on that video made me laugh. Those fire boats look like the equivalent of pissing on a volcano.
and Oil is natural, part of the earth.
How much harm could it possibly do?
The situation is pretty fucked up. Hopefully they can find a way to plug that leak sooner then later.
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With that much pressure coming out of a hole it'll be pretty hard to close it. They need to redirect those oil somewhere else or it'll soon fill the ocean with oil. Who knows how much is under there. Either that or bomb the hole so that the side collapse in and shuts it.
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