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[QUOTE=some oil info that was]The mission for those involved is extensive. The oil must be capped to keep hundreds of thousands of gallons from continuing to spill in the Gulf. That could take months.
Containing the oil spill and cleaning up the oil washing ashore is a massive effort that is expected to require people working from the delicate marshlands of Louisiana to the white-sand beaches of Florida. That could last months, too.
The rig explosion also has set off a national debate over the future of offshore oil-drilling. That debate has already begun and could last for years to come. It's being argued on Capitol Hill in Washington and in the state capitals throughout the Gulf coastal states.
Below, we have assembled a list of some of the most pressing questions and answers to this unfolding story.
Q: When did the rig explode and when did it sink?
A: The Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded at approximately 10 p.m. on April 20. The rig was located in the Gulf of Mexico, about 45 miles southeast of Venice, La. Of the 126 people on the rig at the time of the explosion, 115 crew members were accounted for. The Coast Guard actively searched for 11 individuals. Search and rescue was suspended at 5 p.m. on April 23. None of the 11 were found.
At approximately 10:20 a.m. April 22 the oil rig sank with about 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel. The rig was found on April 23, sunken and upside down approximately 1,500 feet northwest of the blowout preventer.A: Using satellite images and computer models, oceanographers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict the ruptured well 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf is gushing about 210,000 gallons of oil a day. Some scientists believe the leak is much greater.
Q: Who is working on plans to stop the leak?
A: An international team of scientists, engineers and oil drilling experts from the government, private industry and academia are working round-the-clock at BP offices in Houston to find a solution to the leaking well.
However, BP Group CEO Tony Hayward acknowledged the spill and BP's efforts to resolve it are unprecedented.
"There is an enormous amount of learning going on here because we are doing it for real for the first time," he said.
Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president, compared the efforts to cap the leaking well to "trying to do heart surgery at 5,000 feet."
Q: How is the oil leak being capped?
A: After failing to place a 78-ton, 40-foot-tall steel and concrete coffer dam over the largest leak and into the sea floor, BP announced two new efforts.
The first is called a "top hat" that engineers would try to place over the main leaking pipe. The oil captured inside would then be pumped to a barge.
The strategy is similar to BP's first effort, but the "top hat," four feet in diameter and five feet long, is only the size of a shed.
BP officials said the small size should help avoid the formation of the slush-like hydrates that thwarted the earlier cofferdam effort by clogging its opening and making it too buoyant to form a watertight seal against the sea floor.
To make certain, the "top hat" will be warmed with hot water and injected with methanol, a solvent whose use underwater required EPA approval.
BP engineers plan to follow that effort with a so-called "junk shot," which foresees shooting shredded tires, golf balls and knotted rope into the well at high pressure to clog it and stop the flow. That effort won't be ready for two weeks, however.
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why did u say lol ):
I think everyone has their head in their ass about dealing with the situation
I think that sucks for coasters but it hasn't impacted my daily life at all.
So I'm don't have many opinions on the issue.
I see the short term problems and the slightly longer term problems. But i fail to see how a substance created by nature and eventually absorbed by nature can cause a long term problem. It would just form a new well.
And once it's relieved (because closing doesn't work without that) then can start cleaning up the surface for real.
There clearly are some issues where the oil made it inland though.
there's a couple hurricanes coming...they're so screwed...
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SHIT SHIT SHIT.
[QUOTE=andrewth;22888515]why did u say lol ):[/QUOTE]
How else am i meant to express my humour
With emoots?
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Haven't we already cleared up that the hurricane wouldn't pick up the oil because of its density?
oops, my bad, didnt hear that xD
wouldnt it be strong enough to pick it up? with all that force? and all the small tornadoes within it?
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