Another Disgusting Oil Spill!!

mrdc

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I believe the domes will arrive tomorrow. Let's hope that they work in at least significantly slowing down the leaks. I'm going on a cruise in June right after my Hawaii trip. I assume the oil won't have an effect on the trip.
As far as not having fixes on hand, I believe what some have said about the cut off valve is their primary safety valve. I just don't think anyone (oil people) thought anything like this could ever happen. Now they know but at what cost? We won't know that for some time.
 
bionicarm

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Coast Guard says BP PLC has managed to cap one of three leaks at a deepwater oil well, but the work is not expected to reduce the overall flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class David Mosley says the work Tuesday night should reduce the number of leak points that need to be fixed on the ocean floor. BP officials have said that fewer leaks will make it easier to drop a containment box on the breach.
The well has been spewing at least 210,000 gallons per day since an April 20 explosion at a rig 50 miles off Louisiana.
 
bionicarm

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Originally Posted by mrdc
http:///forum/post/3266008
I believe the domes will arrive tomorrow. Let's hope that they work in at least significantly slowing down the leaks. I'm going on a cruise in June right after my Hawaii trip. I assume the oil won't have an effect on the trip.
As far as not having fixes on hand, I believe what some have said about the cut off valve is their primary safety valve. I just don't think anyone (oil people) thought anything like this could ever happen. Now they know but at what cost? We won't know that for some time.
They had a diagram of this dome in the local paper today. It shows how the oil will be pumped up to the tanker, but they had this little 'cloud' coming from the side of the dome, with a figure of 8,500 gallons/day. This is the amount that will still be leaking out from the side of the dome until they can completely cap the well.
 
stdreb27

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Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3266003
Did you see this one where the Phoenix Suns are showing their support for the Arizona Latino community by wearing jersey's at tonight's game that say "Los Suns"?
http://www.woai.com/content/sports/s...t-KD94EiQ.cspx
You know, I have no problem with doing something like that as a marketing ploy. It worked really well with the Texas Rangers having cinco de mayo day, with a bunch of traditionally latin stuff. But the suns are doing it as a political statement. Buncha idiots...
Originally Posted by Speg
http:///forum/post/3266006
This new spill is very close to me. It's going to be nasty for a while for sure.
I'm really really really really shocked that there isn't some sort of law that forces them to have things on hand to patch leaks or fix/suck-up leaks... I can't believe they're making something NOW rather than having it on hand.
They problem is, predicting what is going to break. Stuff that typically happens is say an anchor catching a pipeline and dragging it, or something foreign puncturing it. And those pipelines are made to withstand that and not leaking. They just have to go down there and fix it in a timely manner... I've seen a pipe get drug several hundred yards and have the crap tore out of it, without failure. Most failures are so much murphies law, that they require custom equipment to fix it... If is something that would fail enough to merit a prefabricated item, it wouldn't be installed in the first place.
The oil is basically leaking at a riser (they have typically have neutrally buoyant hanger that they drape the pipe off of with an "s" in it to account for swells ( read they closed that this morning). and where it disconnected from the sunken drilling rig. That has fallen but not all the way to the ground. So they have to have a slit to fit over the pipe. Hence it isn't a complete seal.
 
bionicarm

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3265995
I have no actual idea, I'm just reacting to what I read this morning where the Obama admin was pointing fingers at someone else, again...
Looks like they changed the policy today, requiring the airports and airlines to check the No Fly list every 2 hours for an update, as opposed to every 24 hours, which was the standard before this latest terror plot:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36956410...news-security/
 
zman1

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Originally Posted by Speg
http:///forum/post/3266006
This new spill is very close to me. It's going to be nasty for a while for sure.
I'm really really really really shocked that there isn't some sort of law that forces them to have things on hand to patch leaks or fix/suck-up leaks... I can't believe they're making something NOW rather than having it on hand.
That is pie in the sky thinking. That would require fore thought and planning. Not to mention a negative impact on the bottom-line for shareholders in additional cost. Unless the impact was what we have, too,little, too, late..... Don’t worry, we all will pay for the price of poor business management in $$$$ to the dumbasses at the pump. Perhaps we are the dumbasses.... We are the government, of the people, by the people, businesses are not
 
reefraff

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Will golly gee. It turns out the federal government didn't have the equipment in place needed to impliment their own plan either. Guess it would have been too much of a drag on the bottom line.
The companies have the resources in place to deal with FORSEABLE events. You notice how fast they had those orange booms and dispersant equipment on site. Not to do so would be bad business and hurt the bottom line.
 
stdreb27

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reading news about the oil spill, I'm beginning to think more and more than the media has the conceptual ability of a 3 year old. Seriously. There was a line that said, "It is unclear if the oil had made it to the shore yet." (at island x.) What you can't walk over there and and look with your own 2 eyes. Oil isn't water....
 
bionicarm

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3266475
sweet it is killing manowars...
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor...mason_Island__
Yea. But's it's also killing dolphins, sharks, and pretty much any other fish that swims in that area. It'll be interesting how this all pans out regarding the marine life in the Gulf. Bigger fish will eat smaller fish that have ingested oil, or have the oil on their scales. One of the marine turtle's main diet is jellyfish, so that might start killing them off. Who knows what it'll do to the coral.
I also read that this hugh oil slick may be a determining factor of where hurricanes will form this season. The oil slick is like a hugh blanket over the water, and meteorologists are saying the Gulf waters may not get 'sucked up' into a hurricane to continue feeding it. They're not sure what a hurricane will do when it encounters this stuff (if it's still around come August and September).
 
stdreb27

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Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3266486
Yea. But's it's also killing dolphins, sharks, and pretty much any other fish that swims in that area. It'll be interesting how this all pans out regarding the marine life in the Gulf. Bigger fish will eat smaller fish that have ingested oil, or have the oil on their scales. One of the marine turtle's main diet is jellyfish, so that might start killing them off. Who knows what it'll do to the coral.
I also read that this hugh oil slick may be a determining factor of where hurricanes will form this season. The oil slick is like a hugh blanket over the water, and meteorologists are saying the Gulf waters may not get 'sucked up' into a hurricane to continue feeding it. They're not sure what a hurricane will do when it encounters this stuff (if it's still around come August and September).
Just so you know I was not being serious other than I doubt very many gulf coasters would be horrible upset by a dead manowar (not that they don't beach themselves anyway).
But I didn't know seaturtles primary diet was jellies. Hmm that is an interesting idea. Oil spill dries out hurricane... I wonder what it does do.
 
bionicarm

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3266493
Just so you know I was not being serious other than I doubt very many gulf coasters would be horrible upset by a dead manowar (not that they don't beach themselves anyway).
But I didn't know seaturtles primary diet was jellies. Hmm that is an interesting idea. Oil spill dries out hurricane... I wonder what it does do.
That's what Discovery Channel told me.
 
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