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.
[quote]Callaway said that the oil could ruin oyster beds for up to two decades.
Forty percent of the fish harvested in the lower 48 states comes from the Gulf of Mexico.
Vacationers, meanwhile, spend billions of dollars every year in the region. But this week, many Americans canceled plans to travel to the Gulf Coast over the summer.[/quote]
[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.
[quote]Earlier Sunday, BP's managing director defended his company against a perceived lack of credibility, insisting that "nobody is more devastated" by an underwater oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.[/quote]
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.
This is the original thread, lolwutdude stole it. :frown:
actually
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=941005[/url]
[editline]08:28PM[/editline]
that being said, your thread is superior.
Damnit. That sucks.
This thread is much better, lock the other one and move this to GD.
BP didn't even own the rig. I don't see how it's BP's fault.
Maybe if BP had placed the gas down in the earth millions of years ago it would be their fault. They are spending millions of dollars on cleaning this disaster up and all they get is shit.
mine is just as damn good, i hate you all
thats what she said
[QUOTE=Smoot;22131295]BP didn't even own the rig. I don't see how it's BP's fault.
Maybe if BP had placed the gas down in the earth millions of years ago it would be their fault. They are spending millions of dollars on cleaning this disaster up and all they get is shit.[/QUOTE]
BP said it could handle an oil spill 50 times larger than this. [url]http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/19/bp-told-feds-it-could-handle-massive-spills/[/url]
They wouldn't be getting so much flak if they didn't fuck up every containment effort and handled the problem. Also the fact they were using dispersants that were not near as efficient and more toxic(because the company who made them was an affiliate of BP I believe) doesn't help the public opinion of them.
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;22131364]mine is just as damn good, i hate you all[/QUOTE]
then why plagiarize this one?
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;22131364]mine is just as damn good, i hate you all[/QUOTE]
why did u steal my thread asshole btw my name is yawmwen not yawnmen
[QUOTE=yawmwen;22131765]why did u steal my thread asshole btw my name is yawmwen not yawnmen[/QUOTE]
i added u in the credits with sarcasm
and dude, yawnmen sounds cooler than yawwen or whatver
deal /w it
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;22131808]i added u in the credits with sarcasm
and dude, yawnmen sounds cooler than yawwen or whatver
deal /w it[/QUOTE]
I don't need credit because I have my own thread. You just mad that my thread was more informative and wanna steal my thunder.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;22131985]I don't need credit because I have my own thread. You just mad that my thread was more informative and wanna steal my thunder.[/QUOTE]
maybe i do, cause im white lightning
You forgot to mention the toxic dispersant they are using, how the company that makes it has links to every major oil company, and how they've disobeyed the EPAs orders to find a new, better dispersant. See [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/22/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?iref=storysearch[/url]
Also, they refused to allow scientists to get an accurate measurement of the actual flow rate of the spill, while claiming that it was only 1-5,000 barrels a day, when the actual figure may be as much as ten times higher. Can't find source on the second part- they keep updating articles- but there are a ton of articles on just how wrong their flow estimates are.
Sec, I'll find the sources.
[QUOTE=Paradox621;22132576]You forgot to mention the toxic dispersant they are using, how the company that makes it has links to every major oil company, and how they've disobeyed the EPAs orders to find a new, better dispersant.[/QUOTE]
I didn't see any articles on CNN when I searched. If you have any articles I would happily put them up and then credit you, if not I will search myself and do it in a bit.
Well this makes things a bit more clear.
I know they're all trying their hardest, but why do they keep talking about it instead of actually doing something? =/
Good thread, made a lot of what is going more clear to me.
[QUOTE=kman866;22136162]Good thread, made a lot of what is going more clear to me.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, I was a bit confused about the whole fiasco today, since I have seen bits and pieces and different news articles. That's the reason I made the thread. An excuse to research it a bit and figure out what happened when.
--Amateur marine biologist on hand.
I wonder what the slick will do to hurricane season considering the hurricanes use the hot water evaporated from the gulf as a turbo charger. I'm curious if the hurricanes will be able to absorb enough water.
[QUOTE=OvB;22137612]--Amateur marine biologist on hand.
I wonder what the slick will do to hurricane season considering the hurricanes use the hot water evaporated from the gulf as a turbo charger. I'm curious if the hurricanes will be able to absorb enough water.[/QUOTE]
Not as much as before, but they'll take quite a bit of oil in.
From what I understand, it'll lead to globs of oil on everything once the storm makes landfall.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;22137786]Not as much as before, but they'll take quite a bit of oil in.
From what I understand, it'll lead to globs of oil on everything once the storm makes landfall.[/QUOTE]
NOAA was predicting an over active season, too.
[url=http://themoderatevoice.com/73770/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-the-bp-oil-gusher/]The spill is getting worse?[/url]
[QUOTE=Lambeth;22158180][URL="http://themoderatevoice.com/73770/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-the-bp-oil-gusher/"]The spill is getting worse?[/URL][/QUOTE]
Probably. The wellhead could be eroding away.
[editline]12:21AM[/editline]
[release]Oceanographers have predicted that crude oil from the leaking undersea well could be carried as far afield as Florida Keys, Miami and Cuba by strong currents in the gulf.[/release]
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1279710/Experts-predict-Gulf-Mexico-BP-oil-spill-spread-Cuba.html?ito=feeds-newsxml[/url]
Bye-bye Caribbean, once this thing gets into the loop current we might as well kiss the Keys goodbye.
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/us/24moratorium.html[/url]
You have to enforce moratoriums Obama...
I like how BP can just say sorry and get away with it. People have no accountability today.
[QUOTE=Nyaos;22158535]I like how BP can just say sorry and get away with it. People have no accountability today.[/QUOTE]
This isn't Exxon Valdez, BP will be held accountable.
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