How is this oil spill not a big deal?

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by azoomm

Again, not BP. They do not do their own drilling. They lease the ships and crew that company has the equipment and procedures.

Yet they miraculously have the equipment to deal with the spill? They're involved, they could've had their own response plan or made sure who ever was operating the rigs had their own.

You work for BP now?

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by azoomm

Again, not BP. They do not do their own drilling. They lease the ships and crew that company has the equipment and procedures.

But, would they not hold ultimate responsibility? Kind of like a captain of a ship is responsible for everything that occurs on it, no matter how big or small.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Sean

That and a car bomb was set off in the middle of Times Square and it's barely making the news. I don't understand what's going on.

Yeah but everyone can tell what Miley f**king Cyrus is wearing today I'll bet.

I don't understand why this whole oil spill business isn't all over the place either.

It's a huge freakin' deal

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

Yet they miraculously have the equipment to deal with the spill? They're involved, they could've had their own response plan or made sure who ever was operating the rigs had their own.

You work for BP now?

My husband used to work for TransOcean. He just got off a Semi that was contracted by BP - and about to be on a Drill Ship contracted by BP. So...

I just hope the safety violation - pencil whipping stops now that something blew up. We'll just say they haven't been taking safety issues seriously in the gulf for a while. I would love to hear the bridge recording from the Horizon... think black box from an airplane - there's one on each ship bridge in the event of a catastrophy.

[EpyonXero]

Originally Posted by azoomm

NO, they know HOW to. It's about getting the equipment there to do it. That will take months [best guess]

Id say that they think they can do it but I wouldnt say they know they can.

The dome/cap idea is something theyve done in the past over smaller oil leaks when they basically put an inverted funnel over the leak, sink it in the mud and punp the oil up a pipe into a ship. The amount of pressure coming out of the well might make it impossible to sink the cap into the sea floor properly. Also, there are three separate leak locations.

The other thing I heard was to put a second cutoff valve clamp below the original one. The original emergency cutoff valve was activated but couldnt completely close the pipe.

One thing Ive learned is that deep sea equipment is very expensive and very rare. A lot of pieces are one-offs and those that arent are modified specifically to fit their applications. There arent a lot of spare lying around.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by azoomm

My husband used to work for TransOcean. He just got off a Semi that was contracted by BP - and about to be on a Drill Ship contracted by BP. So...

I just hope the safety violation - pencil whipping stops now that something blew up. We'll just say they haven't been taking safety issues seriously in the gulf for a while. I would love to hear the bridge recording from the Horizon... think black box from an airplane - there's one on each ship bridge in the event of a catastrophy.

Ok, I could definitely see some kind of employment connection there.

[NONE_too_SOFT]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Yeah but everyone can tell what Miley f**king Cyrus is wearing today I'll bet.

I don't understand why this whole oil spill business isn't all over the place either.

It's a huge freakin' deal

this made me google miley cyrus.

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by NONE_too_SOFT

this made me google miley cyrus.

Bullshit.

You had her bookmarked.

Admit it.

JC

[NONE_too_SOFT]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

bullshit.

You had her bookmarked.

Admit it.

Jc

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[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by MILK

I was in Alaska not terribly long after the spill up there. The locals laughed about it and how the media evidently played it up. They said it wasn't remotely as bad as portrayed.

With them living in the such a great wilderness they probably know that no matter what man does, Mother Nature will prevail. Louisiana has endless amounts of marsh that is an excellent filtration system and probably one of the best in the world. Not saying it is good but I don't believe it is as bad as people think. People will suffer, animals will die, and the area is going to look like shit for a little while. But that volcano in Iceland will do more damage to the enviroment than we could probably dream of doing by letting all the oil in every oil rig go.

I think time is what will fix this.