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re: Six Years Ago Today: Deepwater Horizon Explodes
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:00 am to Boagni Swamp
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:00 am to Boagni Swamp
Frankly the oil spilled is not the environmental disaster some make it out to be. The use of the NalcoChampion Dispersant COREXIT made a serious problem far worse than it needed to be. LINK
The dispersant injected directly into the well flow and sprayed on the oil that made it to the surface caused the oil to coagulate and sink. This created massive sheets and layers of gooey oil under the surface of the water. The coagulated oil was not dense enough to sink to the bottom but also not light enough to rise so it just sat there accumulating. If the oil could have reached the surface and stayed there the sun could have helped break it down and naturally degrade it.
These gooey sheets of oil stayed below the surface and got caught up in currents and spread out across the gulf. Nalco was able to dodge legal ramifications when a Louisiana judge ruled they werent culpable in a summary judgement
LINK
The dispersant injected directly into the well flow and sprayed on the oil that made it to the surface caused the oil to coagulate and sink. This created massive sheets and layers of gooey oil under the surface of the water. The coagulated oil was not dense enough to sink to the bottom but also not light enough to rise so it just sat there accumulating. If the oil could have reached the surface and stayed there the sun could have helped break it down and naturally degrade it.
These gooey sheets of oil stayed below the surface and got caught up in currents and spread out across the gulf. Nalco was able to dodge legal ramifications when a Louisiana judge ruled they werent culpable in a summary judgement
LINK
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Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:15 am to mkibod1
Nutrient recycling is an incredible thing and I'm honestly shocked it hasn't caught on in urban settings
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:17 am to Boagni Swamp
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But like the other commentator, I discounted your point as so much blather because of the obviously ignorant language that you used to describe the event.
Congrats man. You win the OT.
You went on and on with all that pretty language, and still relayed the same point. They messed up. Oil is a necessary evil at this point, but things like this can't happen. Don't have to have a degree in petroleum eng. to figure that one out, bub.
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You demean the industry
Do I? A message board poster demeans an entire industry? Who's over the top now?
BP should be looked down upon for this, FWIW
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:22 am to AU_251
My son is a grad student in the Coastal/Env Engineering Departments. They're doing research funded by BP down in Grand Isle and he said that something like 98% of all oil that went ashore is now gone ... our environment is incredibly resilient.
(Not that I am happy this ever happened of course)
(Not that I am happy this ever happened of course)
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:26 am to tiger91
That IS incredible. Also sounds like what your son is doing is awesome
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:26 am to AU_251
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Congrats man. You win the OT.
Thank you. It's a high honor and privilege, and I hope to uphold well the dignity of the title.
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You went on and on with all that pretty language
Again, thank you.
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Don't have to have a degree in petroleum eng. to figure that one out, bub.
I don't hold that degree. Nonetheless, the difference between you and me is that I know what I am talking about.
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A message board poster demeans an entire industry?
Being a dumbarse demeans everyone. You are the fart in the elevator.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:34 am to Boagni Swamp
Everyone in the world knows a blowout preventer on a well didn't work because they blasted that shite on the media for 87 days. You're as learned as the rest of America. I was just shooting from the hip, not really caring about what wordage I was using. But alas, you did.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:42 am to AU_251
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Everyone in the world knows a blowout preventer on a well didn't work because they blasted that shite on the media for 87 days.
See, that's the point. The media had it wrong. Blaming the BOP is like blaming the air bag after a drunk driver runs a red light on a busy highway. It irritates me that people throw this shite around without having a clue what it means.
You are probably a good guy. You are rightfully concerned about the environment. But you, like a lot of people, know jack shite about drilling wells but act like you do. Therefore I am rightfully irritated with you.
And the point IS important. The failure was human, not mechanical. That matters a lot when you think about safety and how to prevent any industrial disasters.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:48 am to Boagni Swamp
BP was behind schedule and trying make up the time. Plain and simple.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:51 am to Boagni Swamp
What do you mean? Blowout "preventers" don't "prevent" blowouts?
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:55 am to Boagni Swamp
I am not a seafood eater anyway. I have misspoke in my other post. I used to live next door to one of the guys that help invent the blow-out preventers in Morgan City. Not sure how many adjustments have been made for deep water drilling. But I thought about him when this happened.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:58 am to Boagni Swamp
Be pissed all you want, I'm not acting like I know any more than I do, so stop trying to belittle others with your oh so vast knowledge. Maybe you're a good guy? Maybe I am? shite I don't care, I just hate how all these threads turn into petty bullshite
I have said all along it is human error, that's exactly why I have always been pissed at BP, not pissed at the BUSTED PIPE BEEEYOOOWWWWW
I have said all along it is human error, that's exactly why I have always been pissed at BP, not pissed at the BUSTED PIPE BEEEYOOOWWWWW
This post was edited on 4/20/16 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:59 am to AU_251
Still makes me sick
Posted on 4/20/16 at 12:00 pm to BuckeyeFan87
My feelings exactly.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 12:01 pm to roguetiger15
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BP was behind schedule and trying make up the time. Plain and simple
People suck
Posted on 4/20/16 at 12:06 pm to AU_251
AU he really enjoys it. He'll graduate soon and is starting the job seeking process.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 12:37 pm to dukke v
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I have not eaten any kind of seafood since that day. Not even catfish.
Are frog legs seafood?
Why/why not?
Would you eat them if they are?
Posted on 4/20/16 at 12:42 pm to AU_251
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I have always been pissed at BP
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it is human error,
If human error pisses you off this much you must always be pissed.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 12:44 pm to Topwater Trout
When it's on this grand of a scale, yea it irks me a little
Posted on 4/20/16 at 1:11 pm to Federal Tiger
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What do you mean? Blowout "preventers" don't "prevent" blowouts?
It becomes troublesome when the operators ignore all the signs to activate them and instead wait until a big mass of steel that should be below them is instead launched like the space shuttle up inside of them. Unless you've seen a blowout happen first hand it's difficult to comprehend the sheer power that it produces before you even realize what's happening. It's like standing next to a Boeing 777 engine that's spitting out hundreds of feet of 5 1-2 inch steel pipe per second that weighs around 25 lbs per foot.
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