• The BP Oil Spill Thread
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[img]http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/19/gulf.oil.spill/t1larg.louisiana.oil.cnn.jpg[/img]I have decided to make a thread on the recent oil spill. We see a lot of news articles on it but I don't believe a thread on the whole incident has been done yet. The intro parts are all from wikipedia. The rest are a collection of CNN articles on the spill. A news timeline, if you will, of the spill. [b]What is Deepwater Horizon?[/b] First, we have to know what the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig was. The Deepwater Horizon Rig was a ultra-deepwater, semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit(MOBU). It was completed in 2001, made by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The unit was owned by Switzerland based Transocean LTD(An offshore drilling contractor that leases their rigs to other companies) and leased to British Petroleum until September in 2013. The rig was meant to drill 5500m deep and then plugged. [b]The Explosion[/b] A fire started in the Oil Rig on April 20, 2010. Reportedly(from a forum) it started at 9:45 pm CST([url]http://gcaptain.com/forum/offshore/4805-deepwater-horizon-transocean-oil-rig-fire.html[/url]). Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, after burning for well over a day. According to The Coast Guard, they got word of the sinking at 10:21 am. BP said that they had no idea why the oil rig blew. According to the workers, a methane bubble went up the drill column, expanded and burst through the seals and barriers before exploding. Haliburton also went to do some work on the oil rig(they finished 20 hours before the explosion), they were supposed to put in some cement on the production casing and then plug it, however Haliburton said they didn't plug it because "operations had not reached a stage where a final plug was needed" Transocean chief executive Steven Newman described the cause: "there was a sudden, catastrophic failure of the cement, the casing or both." According to Transocean executive Adrian Rose, "undoubtedly abnormal pressure" accumulated inside the marine riser and as it came up it "expanded rapidly and ignited". The heavy drilling mud in the pipes initially held down the gas of the leaking well. When managers believed they were almost done with the well, they decided to displace the mud with seawater; the gas was then able to overcome the weight of the fluid column and rose to the top. [b]The Spill[/b] "Up to 336,000 gallons could spill into the Gulf, based on the amount of oil the rig pulled out daily, O'Berry told CNN. And up to 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel could also leak, Coast Guard Petty Officer Ashley Butler said." This was said on CNN on April 22.([url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/22/oil.rig.explosion/index.html?hpt=T1[/url]) The first plans to attempt to control the leak were burns, reported on the 28th. [url]http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/28/weather-delays-coast-guard-plan-to-burn-oil-slick-in-gulf/[/url] We all see how well that worked out of course. By April 29 the oil slick was 120 miles(I'm assuming square miles but that isn't said in the article) and was only a few miles away from the Louisiana coast.([url]http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/29/interactive-oil-slick-just-a-few-miles-from-louisiana-coast/[/url]) Coast Guard estimates 5000(210 000 gallons or "holy fuck a shit ton more than initial estimates") barrels a day flowing from oil leak. [url]http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/29/live-blog-chat-with-us-during-the-show-24/[/url] In others news the Oil Industry and BP in particular are not well liked. [url]http://ricksanchez.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/30/rfk-jr-the-oil-industry-is-a-very-bad-neighbor-in-the-gulf/[/url] [url]http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/30/dear-president-obama-466-“drill-baby…-uh…-not-so-fast-”/[/url] Needless to say, the oil spill is not at all a good situation for local economies. [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/05/01/oil.impact.gulf/?hpt=T2[/url] May 3, BP says they will put a container over the oil spill. It is also estimated at this point that 2.6 million gallons of oil has leaked out, it is the size of Delaware. [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/05/03/oil.spill.desperate.measure/[/url] Apparently BP stopped one of the leaks(the smallest one) on May 5. Finally. [url]http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/05/smallest-leak-on-damaged-oil-well-capped-bp-exec-says/[/url] Meanwhile Micheal Brown accuses Obama of using the oil spill as a way to stop offshore drilling(if there is any good reason to stop, I would say this is it). [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/05/brown.obama.oil.spill/[/url] The Containment Dome failed. So now they are trying to put a "top hat" over it. May 12 [url]http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/12/bp-top-hat-containment-device-reaches-ocean-floor/[/url] Also, junk shot idea first hits CNN(if you don't know, it means they are throwing garbage into the hole and hoping it clogs it). [url]http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/12/speak-up-using-junk-shot-to-clean-up-oil/[/url] BP has finally implemented a method that is actually working. They put a pipe into the leak which is able to suck up at least 3000 barrels of the leaking oil(3/5 of what is coming out daily). May 19 In related news, oil has finally hit Louisiana Wetlands. [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/19/gulf.oil.spill/?hpt=Sbin[/url] Obama is being too hard on BP, says Rand Paul(not Ron Paul, his son, who is pretty much the same level of retarded from what I've seen). May 21 [url]http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/21/paul-says-obama-being-too-tough-on-bp/?fbid=ynFHQTarqSD[/url] May 21, a new method of stopping the leak is announced, they are trying to stuff it with dense liquid that will stop the oil so that we can cement over it. [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/21/gulf.oil.spill/?hpt=Sbin[/url] 4 hours ago. BP is apparently "devastated" by the oil spill. Yea, I'm sure you are BP. You have it so much worse than all those fishermen and people in the gulf who are getting fucked over by the spill. Not to mention the ecosystem that will be damaged for decades to come. [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/23/oil.spill.response/[/url] This is all I got for now. If one of you guys has more news articles for me(particularly any articles on the dispersants used) just send me a PM and I will include it in this timeline list thing(and even credit you!). I hope this isn't breaking any rules, I just wanted to create a more definitive thread for the oil spill since we hear something about it every couple days(news has slowed down a bit lately from what I've seen) but we don't really have a timeline of what has been tried when. Who said what where, and shit. By the way I will also update thread as we get more news, assuming this thread is following the rules and is kept open. definitely not plagiarism from [b]yawnmen[/b], no, not at all, and please do not look at the In the News section for a while.
Rated informative. This kind of thing makes the tree hugger inside me cry.
It looks like a sewage leak
BP isn't responsible, by the way. Look at Transocean, who failed to replace the faulty equipment BP told them about.
Looks like chocolate syrup...Mmmm
Nuke that shit.
Aw man, the gulf has a lot of really fucking cool species living there.
[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;22057058]Looks like chocolate syrup...Mmmm[/QUOTE] you don't say? [img]http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/05/19/c1main.bottle.oil.cnn.jpg[/img] it only took one scoop btw.
Detonate low yield nuclear device near ocean floor. Collapse drilling tunnel. Go home.
Oil is brown.
Atleast it isnt on the East Coast.
[QUOTE=Hunterbrute;22057200]Atleast it isnt on the East Coast.[/QUOTE] Posted this in a new thread earlier, [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10127904.stm[/url] Flordia is gonna get hit because oil wasn't controlled enough to the point it reached a major current that's going to travel to the East coast.
Amateur Marine Biologist/Oceanographer reporting in. Here to tell you that using Nukes is a bad idea.
[QUOTE=OvB;22057277]Amateur Marine Biologist/Oceanographer reporting in.[/QUOTE] as a BP representative, who the fuck are you we don't need you get the hell out we'll solve this, you'll see.
[QUOTE=OvB;22057277]Amateur Marine Biologist/Oceanographer reporting in. Here to tell you that using Nukes is a bad idea.[/QUOTE] HAH. Nukes cured my cancer.
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;22057244]Posted this in a new thread earlier, [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10127904.stm[/URL] Flordia is gonna get hit because oil wasn't controlled enough to the point it reached a major current that's going to travel to the East coast.[/QUOTE] That current has been known to relocate sinking ships hundreds of miles away from the actual location of the sinking. It also extends way out into the Atlantic. Don't be surprised when you got oil gunk on eastern beaches.
[QUOTE=OvB;22057307]That current has been known to relocate sinking ships hundreds of miles away from the actual location of the sinking. It also extends way out into the Atlantic. Don't be surprised when you got oil gunk on eastern beaches.[/QUOTE] we need to junkshot this current, the trash will stop the force of the currents.
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;22057323]we need to junkshot this current, the trash will stop the force of the currents.[/QUOTE] Lets dump all our landfills into it that will no doubt work. [editline]12:12AM[/editline] And the contents of Yucca Mountain.
[QUOTE=OvB;22057333]Lets dump all our landfills into it that will no doubt work.[/QUOTE] it's flawless logic, im glad the congress trusts BP
Great, and now oil tankers are at an extremely high shipment rate at Vancouver which would destroy our entire ecosystem should something go wrong. [url]http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/05/07/bc-vancouver-tankers-oil-spill.html[/url]
I'm just hoping that some good will come out of this. Like people realizing that oil is fucking shit and approve of nuclear power, hydrogen/electric cars, etc.
[QUOTE=StupidUsername67;22057492]I'm just hoping that some good will come out of this. Like people realizing that oil is fucking shit and approve of nuclear power, hydrogen/electric cars, etc.[/QUOTE] Yes because rendering every automobile on the road useless is a good idea :downs:
[QUOTE=Daolpu;22057098]Detonate low yield nuclear device near ocean floor. Collapse drilling tunnel. Go home.[/QUOTE] you know it doesn't have to be a nuke to be a big explosion right
[QUOTE=StupidUsername67;22057492]I'm just hoping that some good will come out of this. Like people realizing that oil is fucking shit and approve of nuclear power, hydrogen/electric cars, etc.[/QUOTE] As much as I agree that Nuclear power is the shit, we'll still need oil for plastics, and other things. So drilling is here to stay until we can find alternatives to those everyday things.
As I said in another thread, I can smell oil outside. I live in New Orleans. It's gotten better since last week, but you can still smell it. Also, I have to say I chuckled at the jokes in the OP.
[QUOTE=bobste;22057603]you know it doesn't have to be a nuke to be a big explosion right[/QUOTE] Exactly. Look at this map. This is a map of the some 3000 plus oil rigs in the Gulf. This map does not show the hundreds of thousands of pipelines and pumping stations that cover the floor underneath all that. Detonating a nuclear bomb under here would potentially rupture even more rigs, causing a bigger spill, and radiation poisoning of our Shrimp and Fishing grounds. [IMG]http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/259/oilrig.jpg[/IMG] Putting a 2000 pound bomb deep into each wellhead and detonating them would be a lot better, and would actually work.
[QUOTE=StupidUsername67;22057492]I'm just hoping that some good will come out of this. Like people realizing that oil is fucking shit and approve of nuclear power, hydrogen/electric cars, etc.[/QUOTE] I want cars with cold fusion reactors in them NOW
[QUOTE=Captain Lawlrus;22057524]Yes because rendering every automobile on the road useless is a good idea :downs:[/QUOTE] Stop trying to be a smartass.
This will ruin the whole ocean for hundreds of years, its so sad.
Louisiana gets fucked. Again.
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