Oil spill

RidgeRunner · #1 05-03-2010, 02:14 PM

What a mess. The media in Florida is saying the rig is just off the Florida coast. I guess it is in the most literal sense. So is Africa.
It is the ammunition the anti-drillers have been waiting for. I don't understand. They were drilling with no casing and the well came in on them??? Is that what happenned?
I hope they get it solved soon.

Stinky_Hooker · #2 05-03-2010, 02:41 PM

They are reporting locally they have"slowed it significantly" this morning.

It could impact our way of life for years if its not stopped. Already smelling the funk off of it in south Mobile County.

Going to go eat some seafood tonight..may be the last time for awhile.

willy · #3 05-03-2010, 03:16 PM

What has me really pissed is this, all over Europe, the North Sea and elsewhere the Oil Co's have mandatory systems which shut the well off at the head in case of a rupture, or another disaster.
Not here, at least on the rigs a few years old, they do not have that requirement.
How freakin stupid can we be?
And, how about the two Legger in the Whitehouse, ten days before making any moves to take care of this, they still have not mobilized the EPA emergency research and reaction vessel with all the scientists on it to handle an emergency like this. It is sitting in Florida as we speak monitoring dredge materials. That is from the man who used to manage it from the EPA and when he called the head Czar there to find out why it is still sitting there with no orders he was blown off by her.
We are run by crooks and thieves, who want to promote their agenda and that is it.
Can you imagine what would be done in the lame stream media had Bush been in office.
Those poor people down there, failed again by the government, state, local and federal

randlemanboater · #4 05-03-2010, 04:50 PM

I don't know for sure, but I thought I heard that it had one of those shut off valves, but it got destroyed in the explosion.

RWilson2526 · #5 05-03-2010, 05:25 PM

I cant help remembering back when gas was $4+ and the oil companies were making record profits they kept saying its not just the cost of production but its also exploration.....BP is gonna see just how expensive that exploration can be.

Destroyer · #6 05-03-2010, 06:31 PM

Lets not forget the true cost of that explosion. The 13(?) people that were killed that day.

And this was a state of the art rig.. new with all the most up to date safety gear. It didn't even use anchors.... kept it's position via GPS and thrusters.

I dislike (hate is a good word) our present administration. Yet, I find myself being placed in a very strange spot. I'm being forced to actually defend these dirtbags. Much has and is being made of the fact that nothing was done by our government at the very beginning... Well.. guess what?... It was NOT the governments job to do anything. BP said there was an explosion, that people were killed and that they were in control of the situation. No one knew about the broken well and the leaking oil in the beginning.. FEMA had no reason to do anything. Now they do, so lets see what they do and how they handle the situation.

I just feel so very sorry for the families of the workers that were killed. My prayers go out to them.

willy · #7 05-03-2010, 10:41 PM

The emergency well valves are not located on the rig itself but on the well head.
And the oil company told the EPA at the time of the explosion that there was a very real possibility of well head leakage but would not be able to confirm immediatly due to the depth of the well (5000 ft).
But the Czarina at the EPA was busy with Earth Day and other commitments. The best equiped vessel in the world was never dispatched, which it could have been on scene in 24-48 hours tops, to date it is still sitting at anchor.

THEFERMANATOR · #8 05-03-2010, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Destroyer

I dislike (hate is a good word) our present administration. Yet, I find myself being placed in a very strange spot. I'm being forced to actually defend these dirtbags. Much has and is being made of the fact that nothing was done by our government at the very beginning... Well.. guess what?... It was NOT the governments job to do anything. BP said there was an explosion, that people were killed and that they were in control of the situation. No one knew about the broken well and the leaking oil in the beginning.. FEMA had no reason to do anything. Now they do, so lets see what they do and how they handle the situation.

Actually I was watching the news the other night on HANNITY and there is actually a law that states that it is the federal governments responsibility to come in and contain the oil spill if the oil company has not done so within 48 hours. This administration sat on its hind end for 9 days, yes a full NINE days before it did the first thing to help. It's funny how only FOX news will put this info out there where as the lame stream news networks would rather sit back and go boo hoo about it rather than report the actual facts about it. And I still think something fishy is admidst here with this rig explosion. It just seems to coincedental that roughly a month after BO says we can begin to do oil exploration in the gulf a major rig problem happens. I know I'm a tin foil hat kinda guy, but it just seems to be way to many things surrounding this that don't add up. I do feel for the 11 peopel that were never found, and I know that this is a dangerous profession that isn't perfect. I would just like to hear some actual facts about what happened, and for it to be addressed and stopped before it kills the gulf for years to come.