Oil Spill [Pictures]
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yea, not everything will be covered in oil, we will get our so called fresh seafood from china, and their pristine waters, hehehe.
seriously, that dome aint gonna do jack shit, ithought it would be wider and bigger. this is jsut being done in vain, the only hope is to drill on the side and relieve prssure.
shit is fucked up and the higher ups know it. putting on a show like the nbacares crap.
seriously, that dome aint gonna do jack shit, ithought it would be wider and bigger. this is jsut being done in vain, the only hope is to drill on the side and relieve prssure.
shit is fucked up and the higher ups know it. putting on a show like the nbacares crap.
Golf balls & tires? Really, this is the next plan? Are these people just plain stupid or do they even want to fix the problem?
BP 'may stem oil with golf balls and tyres'
BP officials desperate to stem a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are considering stuffing the well with golf balls and tyres, it was revealed.
BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the so-called "junk shot" of debris was one option after previous attempts to stem the flow failed.
A growing slick from the BP-leased rig is threatening an environmental disaster along US coasts.
Some 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) of oil a day are flowing into the sea.
Mr Suttles said it may be possible to stem the flow by blocking the well's failed blowout preventer.
"We have some pipe work on the blowout preventer, and if we can open certain valves on that we could inject basically just rubber and other type of material into [it] to plug it up, not much different to the way you might plug up a toilet," he said.
Admiral Thad Allen of the US Coast Guard said it could plug the main leak.
"They're going to take a bunch of debris, shredded up tyres, golf balls and things like that, and under very high pressure shoot it into the preventer itself and see if they can clog it up and stop the leak," he told CBS television.
However, experts have warned that any further damage to the blowout preventer - a huge valve system meant to turn the oil off - could see it shooting out at 12 times the current rate.
The Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire and sank following an explosion last month.
The resulting slick has so far thwarted all efforts by BP and US officials to bring it under control.
A 98-tonne concrete-and-steel funnel lowered 5,000ft (1,500m) to the seabed had been BP's best hope to contain the main leak while it tried to stop it altogether by drilling relief wells nearby.
But a build-up of gas hydrates - crystalline water-based solids resembling ice - inside the funnel blocked the exit at the top, and it had to be put aside on Saturday.
Mr Suttles said other options being discussed were to make a smaller containment dome or to tap into the broken riser pipe and take the oil directly to the surface.
Presidential review
The broken pipe is almost a mile (1.6 km) down on the ocean floor with little visibility for engineers using remotely controlled vehicles.
Although the Deepwater Horizon was operated by Transocean, BP is responsible for the clean-up.
BP revealed on Monday that the oil spill had cost the company $350m (£233m) so far.
It did not speculate on the final bill, which many analysts expect to run into tens of billions of dollars.
The slick has so far covered about 2,000 sq miles (5,200 sq km).
US President Barack Obama is due to meet senior officials at the White House on Monday to review BP's efforts.
A sheen from the edge of the slick is surrounding island nature reserves off Louisiana and tar balls have reached as far as the Alabama coast.
The low-lying region contains vital spawning grounds for fish, shrimp and crabs and is an important migratory stop for many species of rare birds.
Louisiana's fishing industry has ground to a halt in certain areas due to health concerns about polluted fish.
Booms and bundles of absorbent material have been laid along shorelines to try to protect them.
Teams are also filling sandbags which the Louisiana National Guard will airlift on Monday to five spots along a threatened stretch of coastline.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8672181.stm
BP 'may stem oil with golf balls and tyres'
BP officials desperate to stem a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are considering stuffing the well with golf balls and tyres, it was revealed.
BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the so-called "junk shot" of debris was one option after previous attempts to stem the flow failed.
A growing slick from the BP-leased rig is threatening an environmental disaster along US coasts.
Some 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) of oil a day are flowing into the sea.
Mr Suttles said it may be possible to stem the flow by blocking the well's failed blowout preventer.
"We have some pipe work on the blowout preventer, and if we can open certain valves on that we could inject basically just rubber and other type of material into [it] to plug it up, not much different to the way you might plug up a toilet," he said.
Admiral Thad Allen of the US Coast Guard said it could plug the main leak.
"They're going to take a bunch of debris, shredded up tyres, golf balls and things like that, and under very high pressure shoot it into the preventer itself and see if they can clog it up and stop the leak," he told CBS television.
However, experts have warned that any further damage to the blowout preventer - a huge valve system meant to turn the oil off - could see it shooting out at 12 times the current rate.
The Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire and sank following an explosion last month.
The resulting slick has so far thwarted all efforts by BP and US officials to bring it under control.
A 98-tonne concrete-and-steel funnel lowered 5,000ft (1,500m) to the seabed had been BP's best hope to contain the main leak while it tried to stop it altogether by drilling relief wells nearby.
But a build-up of gas hydrates - crystalline water-based solids resembling ice - inside the funnel blocked the exit at the top, and it had to be put aside on Saturday.
Mr Suttles said other options being discussed were to make a smaller containment dome or to tap into the broken riser pipe and take the oil directly to the surface.
Presidential review
The broken pipe is almost a mile (1.6 km) down on the ocean floor with little visibility for engineers using remotely controlled vehicles.
Although the Deepwater Horizon was operated by Transocean, BP is responsible for the clean-up.
BP revealed on Monday that the oil spill had cost the company $350m (£233m) so far.
It did not speculate on the final bill, which many analysts expect to run into tens of billions of dollars.
The slick has so far covered about 2,000 sq miles (5,200 sq km).
US President Barack Obama is due to meet senior officials at the White House on Monday to review BP's efforts.
A sheen from the edge of the slick is surrounding island nature reserves off Louisiana and tar balls have reached as far as the Alabama coast.
The low-lying region contains vital spawning grounds for fish, shrimp and crabs and is an important migratory stop for many species of rare birds.
Louisiana's fishing industry has ground to a halt in certain areas due to health concerns about polluted fish.
Booms and bundles of absorbent material have been laid along shorelines to try to protect them.
Teams are also filling sandbags which the Louisiana National Guard will airlift on Monday to five spots along a threatened stretch of coastline.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8672181.stm
see what they need to do is go down to the beach and get themselves some sand
use the sand to plug the leak while 4 rafts each carrying 10 oil rig workers circle the immediate are, these workers should chant the ancient sacred phrase 'OHWATA POOSI EYE AM'
the oil should now stop leaking and the animals will be saved
hope this helps
use the sand to plug the leak while 4 rafts each carrying 10 oil rig workers circle the immediate are, these workers should chant the ancient sacred phrase 'OHWATA POOSI EYE AM'
the oil should now stop leaking and the animals will be saved
hope this helps
So now all the CEO's of the companies that were involved are pointing fingers at each other.
And someone is trying to create another 'dome' over the leak. While this is close to being the biggest oil spill disaster to hit the US.
Please don't rush to clean that shit up and be responsible for your actions, and continue to point the finger at someone else.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? PRIORITIES!! At this moment nobody should give a flying fuck who's fault this is.
Work together and clean that oil up and try to restore what has been damaged.
When all that is finished, then start an investigation in who is to blame.
I've seen them sitting in the news, it looked like they were in kindergarten...
But on my account these 3 ceo's and their staff should be shot out of a canon into a brick wall.
And someone is trying to create another 'dome' over the leak. While this is close to being the biggest oil spill disaster to hit the US.
Please don't rush to clean that shit up and be responsible for your actions, and continue to point the finger at someone else.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? PRIORITIES!! At this moment nobody should give a flying fuck who's fault this is.
Work together and clean that oil up and try to restore what has been damaged.
When all that is finished, then start an investigation in who is to blame.
I've seen them sitting in the news, it looked like they were in kindergarten...
But on my account these 3 ceo's and their staff should be shot out of a canon into a brick wall.
Check this shit out:
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-oil-spill-response-team-standby-us-oil-disaster
Dutch oil spill response team on standby for US oil disaster
Two Dutch companies are on stand-by to help the Americans tackle an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. The two companies use huge booms to sweep and suck the oil from the surface of the sea. The US authorities, however, have difficulties with the method they use.
What do the Dutch have that the Americans don’t when it comes to tackling oil spills at sea? “Skimmers,” answers Wierd Koops, chairman of the Dutch organisation for combating oil spills, Spill Response Group Holland.
The Americans don’t have spill response vessels with skimmers because their environment regulations do not allow it. With the Dutch method seawater is sucked up with the oil by the skimmer. The oil is stored in the tanker and the superfluous water is pumped overboard. But the water does contain some oil residue, and that is too much according to US environment regulations.[media:factfile1]
US regulations contradictory
Wierd Koops thinks the US approach is nonsense, because otherwise you would have to store the surplus seawater in the tanks as well.
“We say no, you have to get as much oil as possible into the storage tanks and as little water as possible. So we pump the water, which contains drops of oil, back overboard.”
US regulations are contradictory, Mr Knoops stresses. Pumping water back into the sea with oil residue is not allowed. But you are allowed to combat the spill with chemicals so that the oil dissolves in the seawater. In both cases, the dissolved oil is naturally broken down quite quickly.
It is possible the Americans will opt for the Dutch method as the damage the oil spill could cause to the mud flats and salt marshes along the coast is much worse, warns Wetland expert Hans Revier.
“You have to make sure you clear up the oil at sea. As soon as the oil reaches the mud flats and salt marshes, it is too late. The only thing you can do then is dig it up. But then the solution is worse than the problem.”
Wadden Sea experiments
Hans Revier, lector in Marine Wetland Studies at the Stenden College in Leeuwarden, recollects experiments in the Dutch Wadden Sea wetlands. When combined oil and gas pipelines were to be laid in the area, experiments to combat potential oil spills were held.
“It turned out that dissolving the oil with chemicals caused more damage than the oil itself. And burning the oil didn’t help either. That leaves just one solution: to allow nature to take its course. It took almost ten years for the oil to break down naturally from the tanker Amoco Cadiz which stranded off the French coast in 1978 and for the environment to recover.”
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Rejecting help from these companies seems pretty fucking stupid to me. Or it could be pure arrogance as well off course.
_________
Few disasters caused by oil platforms
The leak in the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico could cause the worst ever oil pollution in the history of the United States. Until now oil platforms have seldom caused major environmental disasters. The biggest environmental disaster caused by an oil platform before now was in March 2001 when the P-36 belonging to Brazil's oil company Petrobras leaked. The oil slick measured 400 square kilometres. By comparison: the Deepwater Horizon spill already covers an area of almost 10,000 square kilometres.
Worst oil disaster until now in US
the US tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989, which ran aground in William Sound off Alaska.
In 1978 360 kilometres of the coast of Brittany was polluted with oil from the Liberian tanker Amoco Cadiz, which broke in two.
In 1999 Erika, a tanker registered in Malta, ran into rocks off Brittany and polluted 200 kilometres of the French coastline.
In 1992the Spanish Galician coast was polluted after the Greek tanker Aegean Sea broke in two and exploded.
Piper Alpha
The worst ever oil platform disaster was the explosion on the North sea platform Piper Alpha in July 1988, almost 200 kilometres north of Aberdeen in Scotland. 167 people were killed and the damage amounted to almost a billion euros. 62 workers survived, many of them by diving into the sea.
In the 1980s in particular, many oil platforms capsized across the world as the result of hurricanes, with hundreds of people losing their lives.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-oil-spill-response-team-standby-us-oil-disaster
Dutch oil spill response team on standby for US oil disaster
Two Dutch companies are on stand-by to help the Americans tackle an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. The two companies use huge booms to sweep and suck the oil from the surface of the sea. The US authorities, however, have difficulties with the method they use.
What do the Dutch have that the Americans don’t when it comes to tackling oil spills at sea? “Skimmers,” answers Wierd Koops, chairman of the Dutch organisation for combating oil spills, Spill Response Group Holland.
The Americans don’t have spill response vessels with skimmers because their environment regulations do not allow it. With the Dutch method seawater is sucked up with the oil by the skimmer. The oil is stored in the tanker and the superfluous water is pumped overboard. But the water does contain some oil residue, and that is too much according to US environment regulations.[media:factfile1]
US regulations contradictory
Wierd Koops thinks the US approach is nonsense, because otherwise you would have to store the surplus seawater in the tanks as well.
“We say no, you have to get as much oil as possible into the storage tanks and as little water as possible. So we pump the water, which contains drops of oil, back overboard.”
US regulations are contradictory, Mr Knoops stresses. Pumping water back into the sea with oil residue is not allowed. But you are allowed to combat the spill with chemicals so that the oil dissolves in the seawater. In both cases, the dissolved oil is naturally broken down quite quickly.
It is possible the Americans will opt for the Dutch method as the damage the oil spill could cause to the mud flats and salt marshes along the coast is much worse, warns Wetland expert Hans Revier.
“You have to make sure you clear up the oil at sea. As soon as the oil reaches the mud flats and salt marshes, it is too late. The only thing you can do then is dig it up. But then the solution is worse than the problem.”
Wadden Sea experiments
Hans Revier, lector in Marine Wetland Studies at the Stenden College in Leeuwarden, recollects experiments in the Dutch Wadden Sea wetlands. When combined oil and gas pipelines were to be laid in the area, experiments to combat potential oil spills were held.
“It turned out that dissolving the oil with chemicals caused more damage than the oil itself. And burning the oil didn’t help either. That leaves just one solution: to allow nature to take its course. It took almost ten years for the oil to break down naturally from the tanker Amoco Cadiz which stranded off the French coast in 1978 and for the environment to recover.”
________
Rejecting help from these companies seems pretty fucking stupid to me. Or it could be pure arrogance as well off course.
_________
Few disasters caused by oil platforms
The leak in the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico could cause the worst ever oil pollution in the history of the United States. Until now oil platforms have seldom caused major environmental disasters. The biggest environmental disaster caused by an oil platform before now was in March 2001 when the P-36 belonging to Brazil's oil company Petrobras leaked. The oil slick measured 400 square kilometres. By comparison: the Deepwater Horizon spill already covers an area of almost 10,000 square kilometres.
Worst oil disaster until now in US
the US tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989, which ran aground in William Sound off Alaska.
In 1978 360 kilometres of the coast of Brittany was polluted with oil from the Liberian tanker Amoco Cadiz, which broke in two.
In 1999 Erika, a tanker registered in Malta, ran into rocks off Brittany and polluted 200 kilometres of the French coastline.
In 1992the Spanish Galician coast was polluted after the Greek tanker Aegean Sea broke in two and exploded.
Piper Alpha
The worst ever oil platform disaster was the explosion on the North sea platform Piper Alpha in July 1988, almost 200 kilometres north of Aberdeen in Scotland. 167 people were killed and the damage amounted to almost a billion euros. 62 workers survived, many of them by diving into the sea.
In the 1980s in particular, many oil platforms capsized across the world as the result of hurricanes, with hundreds of people losing their lives.
