Do you think this Gulf of Mexico underwater oil leak was an unfortunate accident, or was this oil rig explosion eco-terrorism by an Earth Liberation Front-type group to derail President Obama’s plans for offshore drilling?
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good question, has yet to be seen. MY questions are..
What will it LOOK like if they choose to burn it (like I’ve heard)?
Is it a GOOD thing..IF they do indeed burn it?
They burned some of it but high winds made it difficult so they stopped.
I don’t think the ELF would create an oil spill to protect the environment. They’ve seen on TV what happened to the wild life in the Exxon Valdez disaster and probably have posters of it over their beds. Now if the oil rig had been blown up before it started pumping oil then I’d say yes it has their modus operandi all over it.
The rig sank in 5,000 ft of water so you got an uncapped well a mile down. Gonna take one smart cookie and tons of cash to stop this disaster.
If this doesn’t kill the offshore drilling I’ll be very much surprised.
Maybe the green light should be given to anyone willing to salvage surface oil. Big bucks to be made!
Another crisis.
You got that right! Obama will squeeze every little bit out of it if he thinks it will keep him in the White House. He cares as much about America & the Environment as the dog pooping on your sidewalk.
My husband brought up a good question. Why isn’t the Obama administration not bad mouthing the company of the oil rig? Because it is not an American company, it’s British Petroleum!
Let’s speculate: I don’t believe Obama’s oil drilling program was an expansion. Now he’ll be first in line to cancel all drilling given this convenient crisis and he gets what he really wants.
BP is British Petroleum…how did I miss that!! I’m sorry, I’ve always disliked the brits.
The explosion could have been anything.
Actually I found myself wondering about the question that Bob presented. BP has a very good track record and is the modern day version of Standard Oil of Indiana.
Oh wait, Exxon was also a Standard Oil sibling!
I wonder what John D. Rockefeller is thinking just now in his grave?
How come neither the feds NOR the envirowackos have clamored for answers to the cause of this accident???
They were all over the Valdez/Exxon/The Captian, like white on rice, when that happened…
More info on this from a file sent to me called Horizon.pdf
“You may have heard the news in the last two days about the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which caught fire, burned for two days, then sank in 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
There are still 11 men missing, and they are not expected to be found.
The rig belongs to Transocean, the world’s biggest offshore drilling contractor. (http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Home-1.html) The rig was originally contracted through the year 2013 to BP and was working on BP’s Macondo exploration well when the fire broke out. The rig costs about $500,000 per day to contract.
The full drilling spread, with helicopters and support vessels and other services, will cost closer to $1,000,000 per day to operate in the course of drilling for oil and gas.
The rig cost about $350,000,000 to build in 2001 and would cost at least double that to replace today.
The rig represents the cutting edge of drilling technology. It is a floating rig, capable of working in up to 10,000 ft water depth.
The rig is not moored; It does not use anchors because it would be too costly and too heavy to suspend this mooring load from the floating structure. Rather, a triply-redundant computer system uses satellite positioning to control powerful thrusters that keep the rig on station within a few feet of its intended location, at all times. This is called Dynamic Positioning.
The rig had apparently just finished cementing steel casing in place at depths exceeding 18,000 ft. The next operation was to suspend the well so that the rig could move to its next drilling location, the idea being that a rig would return to this well later in order to complete the work necessary to bring the well into production.
It is thought that somehow formation fluids – oil /gas – got into the wellbore and were undetected until it was too late to take action. With a floating drilling rig setup, because it moves with the waves, currents, and winds, all of the main pressure control equipment sits on the seabed – the uppermost unmoving point in the well. This pressure control equipment – the Blowout Preventers, or ‘BOP’s” as they’re called, are controlled with redundant systems from the rig.
In the event of a serious emergency, there are multiple Panic Buttons to hit, and even fail-safe Deadman systems that should be automatically engaged when something of this proportion breaks out. None of them were aparently activated, suggesting that the blowout was especially swift to escalate at the surface.
The flames were visible up to about 35 miles away. Not the glow – the flames. They were 200 – 300 ft high.
All of this will be investigated and it will be some months before all of the particulars are known. For now, it is enough to say that this
marvel of modern technology, which had been operating with an excellent safety record, has burned up and sunk taking souls with it.
The well still is apparently flowing oil, which is appearing at the surface as a slick. They have been working with remotely operated
vehicles, or ROV’s which are essentially tethered miniature submarines with manipulator arms and other equipment that can perform work underwater while the operator sits on a vessel. These are what were used to explore the Titanic, among other things.
Every floating rig has one on board and they are in constant use. In this case, they are deploying ROV’s from dedicated service vessels.
They have been trying to close the well in using a specialized port on the BOP’s and a pumping arrangement on their ROV’s. They have been unsuccessful so far.
Specialized pollution control vessels have been scrambled to start working the spill, skimming the oil up.
In the coming weeks they will move in at least one other rig to drill a fresh well that will intersect the blowing one at its pay zone. They will use technology that is capable of drilling from a floating rig, over 3 miles deep to an exact specific point in the earth – with a target radius of just a few feet plus or minus.
Once they intersect their target, a heavy fluid will be pumped that exceeds the formation’s pressure, thus causing the flow to cease and rendering the well safe at last.
It will take at least a couple of months to get this done, bringing all available technology to bear.
It will be an ecological disaster if the well flows all of the while; Optimistically, it could bridge off downhole.
It’s a sad day when something like this happens to any rig, but even more so when it happens to something on the cutting edge of our capabilities.
The photos that follow show the progression of events over the 36 hours from catching fire to sinking.”
Generally speaking, I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. (Occam’s Razor and all that.) HOWEVER, with the slime in the white house at this time I can’t rule out anything.
MY GOD, there is no one at the American helm!! We are charted for disaster.
The thought that this was sabotage crossed my mind, but I then dismissed it, thinking that it would be crazy for someone to do this on purpose.
However, talking about it with my husband, we looked at each other and both came to the same conclusion, “Any means justify the end.”
So maybe not so crazy….after all, here’s a new crisis that hasn’t been beaten to death. Wonder what power will be grabbed for this time?
“At some point, I think you’ve seized enough power.”