HELP... Gulf oil hemorrhage.

Lizard

Anyone watch 60 Minutes story on this last night?? Lots of info, eye-opening, crazy and awful!

:x :evil:

pickupyourwill

Lizard wrote:

Anyone watch 60 Minutes story on this last night?? Lots of info, eye-opening, crazy and awful!

:x :evil:

didn't watch it. what were some of the things?

Lizard

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978242011


The CBS 60 Minutes oil spill report featured a survivor of the Deep Horizon rig explosion named Mike Williams. Thing after thing went wrong on the Deep Horizon rig explosion. There were procedures for how to proceed when something went wrong, but those procedures were not followed.

This man, Williams, was left by two life boats as well as another inflatable boat. He had only a life jacket at his disposal when he finally decided take the 10 story plunge from the side of the rig as it burned out of control.

Williams described an accident with the blowout preventer that happened just weeks before the disaster. Pieces of the annular ended up coming up on the deck of the rig. BP and Deep Horizon were aware that the BOP as well as the Pod were damaged. However, the entire operation was losing money because they were over schedule.

Also, on the day of accident, there was an argument between the Transocean manager and the BP person on how to finish the well. The BP guy wanted to save time and money, and he won the argument. If it had been done the way Transocean wanted to do it, this accident and the 11 deaths likely never would have happened.

These videos from CBS 60 Minutes oil spill report are amazing. You have to watch them! I have both the first and second video below. They are long, but you need to see these if you haven’t already.......

pickupyourwill

Lizard wrote:

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978242011


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watched the second one so far...wow. some serious, sobering stuff there. I hope nobody else gets killed. I hope all the men in charge handle it smoothly. This country is already hurting so badly right now. All we can do is pray I guess.

chadwick

Lizard wrote:

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978242011


The CBS 60 Minutes oil spill report featured a survivor of the Deep Horizon rig explosion named Mike Williams. Thing after thing went wrong on the Deep Horizon rig explosion. There were procedures for how to proceed when something went wrong, but those procedures were not followed.

This man, Williams, was left by two life boats as well as another inflatable boat. He had only a life jacket at his disposal when he finally decided take the 10 story plunge from the side of the rig as it burned out of control.

Williams described an accident with the blowout preventer that happened just weeks before the disaster. Pieces of the annular ended up coming up on the deck of the rig. BP and Deep Horizon were aware that the BOP as well as the Pod were damaged. However, the entire operation was losing money because they were over schedule.

Also, on the day of accident, there was an argument between the Transocean manager and the BP person on how to finish the well. The BP guy wanted to save time and money, and he won the argument. If it had been done the way Transocean wanted to do it, this accident and the 11 deaths likely never would have happened.

These videos from CBS 60 Minutes oil spill report are amazing. You have to watch them! I have both the first and second video below. They are long, but you need to see these if you haven’t already.......

pretty wild info.
the whole thing makes me sick.
it's a global disaster.
today on the radio i heard some horrible news (from the university of Florida) about the coral reefs.
it's way fucked.

chadwick

we need maps and things,
i'm off to search the internet for them.

post pictures, maps, and the like if you folks happen to find any.

why maps?

i want to know what Mexico has going on.
the Mexican fishermen needs paid.
how far is the oil catastrophe from Mexico?
?(how far and where do the currents travel?) ?
?(intersecting currents)?
I believe every fisherman on earth needs paid.
to much over fishing as it is.
perhaps this will cease fishing for some time.

on a positive note:
maybe aquatic species' numbers could rebound to greatness?

chadwick

Cuba.
BP owes Cuba lots of money.
how far from Cuba is the oil?
if it's near Florida it's working it's way to Cuba.
Bahamas?

holy shit...

BP & all these oil pricks owe a lot of countries/people a lot of money.
plus they have to fix the environment.

get busy assholes...

the wolf

chadwick wrote:

on a positive note:
maybe aquatic species' numbers could rebound to greatness?

we can only hope !!

eyedclaar

Spill Baby Spill

Like a great dark cancer
Poured over ice cream
We watch the sickness
Once again
Descend on our shore
A disease
All too visible in the surf
In the feathers
Flesh and fur of past mistakes
Bound
Like the tide
To invade and retreat
For all eternity
Until there is nothing
To claim as victory
And the oceans
Burn themselves dry

What might they think
One day
Visitors to our endless
Silent desert of sticky
Black sand
Bleached out skulls
And buried promises

Will they feel
For what could have been
Or shake
Their collective mind
In disbelief
At our fossilized
Suicide pact

chadwick

from wikipedia & youtube on oil platform Statfjord.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statfjord_oil_field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEoFWqZYKE

Statfjord is a enormous oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Statoil.

It is a "trans-median" field crossing the Norwegian and UK North Sea Boundary with circa 15% being in the UK Continental Shelf waters. At peak production it produced over 700,000 barrels of oil per day. Oil is loaded offshore and taken direct to refineries; gas is transported via the Statpipe pipeline to mainland Norway.

The Statfjord field has three Condeep concrete production platforms, A, B and C. Each platform is made up of circa 250,000 tonnes of concrete with circa 40,000 tonnes of "top-side" processing and accommodation facilities.

Statfjord holds the record for the highest daily production ever recorded for a European oil field (outside Russia) : 850,204 barrels (crude oil + Natural Gas Liquids) were produced on January 16, 1987. Now it is producing less than 70,000 barrels a day, and no European field exceeds 250,000 barrels a day.

Statoil has planned [1] the "late life" of the field. The company expects to ultimately recover 68% of Oil in Place (an exceptionally high figure) but more than 60% have been produced already, leaving modest oil reserves in the order of 300 million barrels, so the focus will now be placed on extracting the associated natural gas that had been reinjected into the field all over its life. As a mainly natural gas producer, Statfjord is scheduled to remain active until 2019.

chadwick

what kind of goofy fucker would build such a thing or work on one?
why wont this thing sink one day?
it will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNvmK9mUjvI

chadwick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcE17ms3jK4

pickupyourwill

*bump*

just keeping my word, chadwick. wish there was more I could do to help.

chadwick

pickupyourwill wrote:

*bump*

just keeping my word, chadwick. wish there was more I could do to help.

i hear ya.
like you, i wish there was something i could do too.

chadwick

kevin costner = awesome.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/ ... 9351.shtml

CBS/AP) If you build it, they will come.

It was true in Kevin Costner's classic film "Field of Dreams" and it may prove true again, as an oil-cleaning device financed by Costner is being considered by energy company BP in its efforts to recover from the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

BP approved a test of the Ocean Therapy machine, a centrifugal processing device that separates oil from water that was developed by a group of scientists funded by the Hollywood star following the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989, reports CBS affiliate WWL-TV in New Orleans.

"The machines are basically sophisticated centrifuge devices that can handle a huge volume of water and separate at unprecedented rates," Ocean Therapy Solutions CEO John Houghtaling told WWL, who added that "Costner has been funding a team of scientists for the last 15 years to develop a technology which could be used for massive oil spills."

Special Section: Disaster in the Gulf
Oil Spill by the Numbers
Gulf Oil Spill Containment Efforts

According to the company, one machine can clean up to 210,000 gallons of water per day, separating the oil and storing it in separate tanks.

Oil has been spewing since the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded off the Louisiana coast April 20, killing 11 workers, and sank two days later.

BP and the Coast Guard have said about 210,000 gallons of oil a day is gushing from the well, but professors who have watched video of the leak say they believe the amount is much higher.

BP has tried several unsuccessful methods to contain the oil, but earlier this week managed to insert a tube into one of the leaks and says it has been sucking about 42,000 gallons a day to the surface.

BP is preparing to shoot a mixture known as drilling mud into the well later this week in a procedure called a "top-kill" that would take several weeks but, if successful, would stop the flow altogether. Two relief wells are also being drilled to pump cement into the well to close it, but that will take months.

Meanwhile, scientists waited anxiously Wednesday to see where the massive oil slick might be heading.

Tar balls that had floated ashore in the Florida Keys were not linked to the spill, the Coast Guard said Wednesday, but that did little to soothe fears a blown-out well gushing a mile underwater could spread damage along the coast from Louisiana to Florida.

U.S. and Cuban officials were also holding talks on how to respond to the spill, a U.S. State Department official said Wednesday, underscoring worries about the oil reaching a strong current that could carry it near the Florida Keys and the pristine white beaches of Cuba's northern coast.

The official was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

pickupyourwill

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chadwick

nice @ down playing the huge cataclysm about to hit florida...

http://apexnewsnetwork.com/21695/2010-g ... irect-hit/

2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill – Florida Keys A Direct Hit? Residents of the Florida Keys are on edge awaiting the first signs of oil reaching their beautiful beaches. The “loop current” is expected to pull the oil down through the Gulf of Mexico and along Florida. The question is, when?

Officials are trying to ease residents concerns pointing out that the loop current is actually carrying the oil to the west, which can delay the arrival of tar and oil along the Florida Keys. The loop current constantly changes due to winds and currents. This makes it very hard to predict when the oil will show up along the shore. Some officials are predicting that the most likely day to see tar balls from the doomed BP rig will be Monday.

Officials from BP and the Coast Guard stand by their original statement that the Florida Keys are not in any danger from the oil spill. “A (oil) sheen over time will break down, will become weathered (and) will evaporate.” said U.S. Coast Guard Key West Sector Captain Pat DeQuattro. “If we’re to be impacted, it will more likely be tar balls.”

Apex News Network will follow to see if the Floriday Keys will be a direct hit by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill or not.

mysticweed

As technology constantly laps itself, we literally, well virtually have the world at our fingertips. And yet, we are on a spiraling sleighride to hell. Evil gangs, evil wars with evil weapons, evil oil, evil governments filled with evil men, churches filled with evil priests, boyscouts with evil pack leaders, and my personal favorite, evil toy companies selling "Pole dancing kits" to children, specifically girl children.

All of the good people with all of their good thoughts cannot curb the environmental disaster visited upon us by these evils. We have to rely on the very evil by which it began to stop it, and all the while, NEVER acknowledging their responsibility.

No, I have no answers. Just these thoughts to give HELP a bump.
Thanks cw
gayle

chadwick

lettinggo wrote:

As technology constantly laps itself, we literally, well virtually have the world at our fingertips. And yet, we are on a spiraling sleighride to hell. Evil gangs, evil wars with evil weapons, evil oil, evil governments filled with evil men, churches filled with evil priests, boyscouts with evil pack leaders, and my personal favorite, evil toy companies selling "Pole dancing kits" to children, specifically girl children.

All of the good people with all of their good thoughts cannot curb the environmental disaster visited upon us by these evils. We have to rely on the very evil by which it began to stop it, and all the while, NEVER acknowledging their responsibility.

No, I have no answers. Just these thoughts to give HELP a bump.
Thanks cw
gayle

you are fantastic.
that is beautiful.
i like what you wrote.

i was just reading some peoples' comments on some news site where you can add comments.
it was amazing reading actually.
people with grave concern.

chadwick

the world needs a revolution.
oh, and by the way...
it's coming.