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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30spill.html?hp
seems like we have to wait for the relief well to be dug. it'll be a while from what BP is saying.
It's fucked
Why not take it off the hands of BP as they are incompetent and place it in the hands of a US company ?
That's the bit most people won't understand.
Say Hiliburton - word has it that they are very familiar with this well and what may have gone wrong.
Concrete proof of that. Hope they get it under control or BP might have to change their name and continue doing business...
Only good thing that can come of this would be some real regulation...not holding my breath tho
Hey....the savior has formed a commission. And, after 40 days and 40 nights, he held a tar ball.
You really hate that cat, HAHAHAHAHAH!
It is all Bush's fault. ;)
Seems all the rhetoric about taking over is just that
Only the big oil companies have the tools and engineers to do the job at these depths.
Which means that current technology is not capable enough for drilling at these
depths - the whole deep ocean drilling industry is simply a huge gamble on nothing going wrong.
C'mon fingz, you know the savior could use his laser eyes to cauterize this thing if he wanted to...
Hehe
Could he do that trick involving a quick spin around the planet faster than a beam of light and even a bullet, and reversing time, as then he would be able to stop the blow out by arguing the case for better regulation before it even happened.
Couldn't we take a bunch of politicians and just jam them into the pipe to plug it up? :-? ::)
The well could leak for 9000 days. This may be the end of Gulf Coast fisheries and tourism.
I think Obama should have got on this faster, but even if he did, nothing BP has done has worked, so I don't think it would have mattered. It doesn't seem like there is any way to stop the leak. Which makes me wonder why the FUCK we are drilling so deep we can't fix it, and why we think safety regulations are so unnecessary.
Drill, baby, drill.
How many rigs out there have substandard safety systems?
Will we make the oil companies drill relief wells for these rigs like other countries demand?
Can additional redundant blowout preventers be installed like other countries demand?
I think it's amazing that companies choose to make risky endeavors about as unsafe as they can be to save a few bux and that politicians let 'em do it for a few bux. Amazingly typical, that is.
Because, lord knows we can't regulate. That would be bad for business.
No Binge, I actually respect, like, and wish I was one quarter as intelligent as he is. I also wish I had close to the education he has.
Has nothing to do with me liking or disliking Obama, personally. I just disagree with some of his choices so far.
And from what I understand, the oil industry is big time into safety, concerning it's employees. And, the rigs, supply boats, etc are inspected out the ass. From what I understand, this is about human error, one mans error. An error to ignore faulty equipment after being made aware there was a fault. I don't really blame this on the lack of safety or BP. It was a accident one can only learn from. Maybe a independent safety and operations person or persons should be on all deep water drilling projects. To go after BP criminally would only hurt everyone. Make them take on the cost of clean up and move on.
Hookbender — Jun 01, 2010No Binge, I actually respect, like, and wish I was one quarter as intelligent as he is. I also wish I had close to the education he has.
Has nothing to do with me liking or disliking Obama, personally. I just disagree with some of his choices so far.
And from what I understand, the oil industry is big time into safety, concerning it's employees. And, the rigs, supply boats, etc are inspected out the ass. From what I understand, this is about human error, one mans error. An error to ignore faulty equipment after being made aware there was a fault. I don't really blame this on the lack of safety or BP. It was a accident one can only learn from. Maybe a independent safety and operations person or persons should be on all deep water drilling projects. To go after BP criminally would only hurt everyone. Make them take on the cost of clean up and move on.
If they broke the law and subverted the regulations, they should be made to pay. Criminals are criminals.
From Wikipedia's coverage:
According to a report by 60 Minutes, the blowout preventer was damaged in a previously unreported accident four weeks before the April 20 explosion, and BP overruled the drilling operator on key operations. BP declined to comment on the report. The American Bureau of Shipping last inspected the rig's failed blowout preventer in 2005. Just hours before the explosion, a BP representative overruled Transocean employees and insisted on displacing protective drilling mud with seawater.
whew, good thing james cameron got called in to help fix the oil well. we were lost without him
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/director-james-cameron-called-in-to-stop-oil-spill-20100602-wvt0.html?autostart=1
It is sad that a sorta random rich guy is the only one who wanted to fund going down to the Titanic...took a real interest too, on an R&D level, creating ROV's to go down to great depths...I think he's an asshole but prolly an "expert" as well.
He's got legit experience running remote and manned underwater vehicles. Was I the only one who saw that documentary about him and the Titanic?
He has all the experienced required
to make a movie about it.
Now we'll be seeing it in HD, instead of in the camera phone resolution BP has been providing.
Yes, here... Put these on Hooky... ;)
;D
charger — Jun 02, 2010
If they broke the law and subverted the regulations, they should be made to pay. Criminals are criminals.
From Wikipedia's coverage:
According to a report by 60 Minutes, the blowout preventer was damaged in a previously unreported accident four weeks before the April 20 explosion, and BP overruled the drilling operator on key operations. BP declined to comment on the report. The American Bureau of Shipping last inspected the rig's failed blowout preventer in 2005. Just hours before the explosion, a BP representative overruled Transocean employees and insisted on displacing protective drilling mud with seawater.
Hmm - seems very convenient to go with the politics of 100% blame BP - Transocean was blaming Haliburton a month ago.
A well in US waters under US regulation drilled by two US companies blows out.
And no fault belongs there - BP told us to do it.
Be interesting to see how this criminal investigation progresses.
They can all eattadickup, doubt they will though, fckn nickel n' dimers.
charger — Jun 02, 2010[quote author=Hookbender link=1275181709/0#13 date=1275436143]No Binge, I actually respect, like, and wish I was one quarter as intelligent as he is. I also wish I had close to the education he has.
Has nothing to do with me liking or disliking Obama, personally. I just disagree with some of his choices so far.
And from what I understand, the oil industry is big time into safety, concerning it's employees. And, the rigs, supply boats, etc are inspected out the ass. From what I understand, this is about human error, one mans error. An error to ignore faulty equipment after being made aware there was a fault. I don't really blame this on the lack of safety or BP. It was a accident one can only learn from. Maybe a independent safety and operations person or persons should be on all deep water drilling projects. To go after BP criminally would only hurt everyone. Make them take on the cost of clean up and move on.
If they broke the law and subverted the regulations, they should be made to pay. Criminals are criminals.
From Wikipedia's coverage:
According to a report by 60 Minutes, the blowout preventer was damaged in a previously unreported accident four weeks before the April 20 explosion, and BP overruled the drilling operator on key operations. BP declined to comment on the report. The American Bureau of Shipping last inspected the rig's failed blowout preventer in 2005. Just hours before the explosion, a BP representative overruled Transocean employees and insisted on displacing protective drilling mud with seawater.
Hmmmm, wasn't aware of that. I agree if this is the case.