• Lightning strikes BP's ship, halts clean up for a bit
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[QUOTE]HOUSTON -- A drill ship resumed siphoning off oil gushing from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday after a bolt of lightning struck the vessel and ignited a fire that halted containment efforts, the company said. BP PLC spokesman Bill Salvin told The Associated Press that the drill ship called the Discoverer Enterprise resumed processing oil Tuesday afternoon, about five hours after the fire caused an emergency shutdown. Engineers on the ship have been siphoning about 630,000 gallons of oil a day through a cap on top of the well. He said there was no damage reported to the containment cap, and the Coast Guard approved BP restarting the system. "If we believed it was damaged, we would not have restarted the operation," Salvin said. Salvin was unsure how long the fire lasted but said it was apparently small and confined to the top of the ship's derrick. A crewmember aboard a nearby vessel that specializes in firefighting told the AP that his ship was called in to put out the fire, but by the time they arrived, it was already out. "This is not an uncommon occurrence of this type and in this type of situation," Salvin said, adding that the Discoverer Enterprise has a number of safeguards in place to deal with the possibility of a fire and "they all worked as designed." The fire was another setback for the embattled company in its nearly two-month struggle to stop the spill. It happened as President Barack Obama was in Florida as part of a two-day visit to the stricken Gulf Coast and came a day after the British oil giant announced that it hoped to trap as much as roughly 2.2 million gallons of oil daily by the end of June as it deploys additional containment equipment. Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. Though the latest cap installed the well has been capturing oil, large quantities are still spilling into the sea. BP has been beefing up its containment efforts with the hurricane season in mind, building a sturdier system that can withstand the volatile weather that is so common in the Gulf in the summer months. The Coast Guard has taken BP to task for not having enough redundancies in the system to be able to shift gears in events such as Tuesday's lightning strike. The company said it hopes to soon start a second containment system - a burner on a semi-submersible drilling rig that could incinerate up to 420,000 gallons of oil a day. BP had hoped to start the system as early as Tuesday. The fire occurred in a vent pipe leading from a tank on the Enterprise where processed oil is stored, BP spokesman Robert Wine said. Louisiana has been hit with several storms and lightning strikes in the past day. [/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/15/AR2010061503176.html?hpid=topnews[/url] Fuckin' nature, we're trying to [I]help[/I] you!
What a [I]shocking[/I] development.
this is shocking
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;22674718] Fuckin' nature, we're trying to [I]help[/I] you![/QUOTE] Help? This is the Earths way of helping itself. Kill all life to get rid of humans, then some day make new life.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;22674849]Help? This is the Earths way of helping itself. Kill all life to get rid of humans, then some day make new life.[/QUOTE] No.
[QUOTE=Winslow;22674873]No.[/QUOTE] Death to Humans!!
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;22674876]Death to Humans!![/QUOTE] Ok Bender...
Hot damn is BP one unlucky son of a bitch.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;22674876]Death to Humans!![/QUOTE] You first! :smile:
[quote]The company said it hopes to soon start a second containment system - a burner on a semi-submersible drilling rig that could incinerate up to 420,000 gallons of oil a day. BP had hoped to start the system as early as Tuesday.[/quote] Way to go BP, let's just pollute our already fucked-up atmosphere instead!
Well lightning has just been a jerk lately. First it destroys that giant statue of Jesus, then it kills that girl just a few minutes before her boyfriend was going to propose to her, and now this. I know lightning strikes are common, but there's been a lot of lightning related disaster in the past week.
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[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;22674924]What's with all the lightning strikes lately? [b]WHO THE HELL PISSED OFF GOD!?[/b] :arghfist: :mad:[/QUOTE] I'll tell you who. We did. We are killing this planet.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;22674905]You first! :smile:[/QUOTE] Way ahead of you. :)
[QUOTE=lolnubs;22674948]Way to go BP, let's just pollute our already fucked-up atmosphere instead![/QUOTE] How else do you get rid of thousands of litres of oil? If they burn it people will moan, if they barrel it and sell it (I don't think they can, its probably contaminated) people will moan.
[QUOTE=Jsm;22675502]How else do you get rid of thousands of litres of oil? If they burn it people will moan, if they barrel it and sell it (I don't think they can, its probably contaminated) people will moan.[/QUOTE] Swim to the oil with buckets in hand, of course.
[QUOTE=3picFail;22675164][img_thumb]http://memegenerator.net/Foul-Bachelor-Frog/ImageMacro/1345442/Foul-Bachelor-Frog-God-hates-bp-bad-time-to-punish.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] God is a foul bachelor?
dude,I think its the end of the world, first, the crap-ton of earthquakes, then 3 perfectly healthy people that live near me just died, other accidents are becoming more frequent, and natural disasters like this, and then the oil spill in the first place
And the fact there was just THREE WEIRD LIGHTNING STRIKES IN THE PAST TWO DAYS. (Jesus Statue, Girlfriend proposal, and this.)
it was this guy [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw[/media]
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;22676278]And the fact there was just THREE WEIRD LIGHTNING STRIKES IN THE PAST TWO DAYS. (Jesus Statue, Girlfriend proposal, and this.)[/QUOTE] The lightning striking that girl happened over a week ago, if not more. "Tragedy as woman struck and killed by lightning just minutes before boyfriend due to propose By Paul Thompson Last updated at 7:22 AM on 10th June 2010" Whoever posted was just really late. Besides, lighting does unique things all the time, these just got attention because of other circumstances that got blown out of proportion.
first the girl who was being proposed to by her boyfriend then touchdown Jesus now it knocks out one of BP's ships What the fuck are you doing God/Nature?
No, it was the girl struck by lighting, then the statue, then this.
I'm loving all these lightning stories
Lightning is a cunt.
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;22676232]dude,I think its the end of the world, first, the crap-ton of earthquakes, then 3 perfectly healthy people that live near me just died, other accidents are becoming more frequent, and natural disasters like this, and then the oil spill in the first place[/QUOTE] Natural Disasters? People Dying? Industrial Accidents? Holy shit this stuff never happens! It's the end of the goddamn world people!
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;22676901]Natural Disasters? People Dying? Industrial Accidents? Holy shit this stuff never happens! It's the end of the goddamn world people![/QUOTE] And it's been going on since the dawn of time!
Considering how many things have been struck by lightning recently I'd say Zeus is showing everyone who the real boss is.
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Lightning is such an asshole
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