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re: Deepwater Horizon left a 1200 square mile "bathtub ring" on the GoM floor
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:38 pm to STEVED00
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:38 pm to STEVED00
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Would you care sharing the amount of oil that has made its way into the GOM over the last million years then?
Made its way into and stayed or just made its way into? If its the former I think we need some more information, like decay rates of oil and the net rate at which it flows out of the gulf into the atlantic (which could be negative). If its the latter, stop being a moron and learn to do math yourself.
This post was edited on 10/31/14 at 12:39 pm
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Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:38 pm to MrLarson
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I really don't like to call people stupid but.
BP Oil Spill = 4.2 million barrels over 1,200 SM's
Natural seepage = 1.2 million barrels over 617,800 SM's
You must work for BP?
natural seepage is per year. Do the math on natural seepage x thousands of years
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:39 pm to Coppertone
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natural seepage is per year. Do the math on natural seepage x thousands of years
So we're good if the next oil rig disaster leaks 1000 X's Deepwater Horizon, right?
Stop being a pedestrian moron and leave the thinking to others.
This post was edited on 10/31/14 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:41 pm to SpidermanTUba
I can do the math. I also understand that oil in the GOM is and has been a natural part of the ecosystem well before man appeared on this earth.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:41 pm to Taxing Authority
quote:Where would they have gotten a crazy notion like that?
I was talking about the breathless media "experts" claiming the well was spilling 50,000 BOPD
LINK
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:41 pm to Coppertone
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Natural seepage = 1.2 million barrels over 617,800 SM's
Natural seepage also has concentrations, BTW. Its not a set rate everywhere. Just trying to aide the very broad accusation of this thread...
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:44 pm to SpidermanTUba
Quick question since you know so much, what has happened to the GOM since the spill? Are the fish populations dwindling? Is the marine life dying off?
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:44 pm to STEVED00
The amount of oil from the spill is only equal to 1,000 years of natural sepage in the same area. All at once. No biggie, right? I am sure those microbes can handle it.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:46 pm to C
Yea, I was just making sure apples were compared to apples.
This issue is a very complex problem that few have a real grasp of...keeping in mind the thousands of variables when comparing things.
This issue is a very complex problem that few have a real grasp of...keeping in mind the thousands of variables when comparing things.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 12:47 pm to Coppertone
So what you are telling us is that BP accomplished in a few weeks what it would take the natural earth 1800 years to do? 
Posted on 10/31/14 at 1:00 pm to SpidermanTUba
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So we're good if the next oil rig disaster leaks 1000 X's Deepwater Horizon, right?
huh? I don't think anyone is saying that. I was curious about the numbers, based on duration. Looks like someone else did the math for us.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 1:09 pm to MrLarson
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So what you are telling us is that BP accomplished in a few weeks what it would take the natural earth 1800 years to do
Just not true. Single seepage formations can produce well over a million gallons annually.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 1:43 pm to mmcgrath
quote:Yeah. What does that have to do with anything? True propaganda propaganda doesn't come from overt sources like PR people or even advertisers. You'd know that if you read the book.
Weren't you they guy who recommended that everyone should read Bernays' book Propaganda in the beginning of this thread?
quote:Ummm, yeah. He quoted multiple primary sources. Of course it's slanted, it's a PR Op-Ed. But that doesn't make BP guilty of anything.
Yet you read that article from the BP exec and found it semi-legit?
If writing a slanted op-Ed piece made one guilty of something, what does it make Paul Krugman?
Posted on 10/31/14 at 1:44 pm to C
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I love the reference to "sweet" crude oil they used as if they were spilling sweat tea into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Wow....
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Posted on 10/31/14 at 1:45 pm to lsu13lsu
quote:no need! It reads just as well they way you interpreted it!
I apologize
My fault. Posted on 10/31/14 at 1:46 pm to SpidermanTUba
quote:Link? Or did you just make that up?
You could dump the entire world's oil supply into a single square mile in the Gulf, certain types of people will still maintain its A-OK!
Posted on 10/31/14 at 1:57 pm to Iosh
quote:Stupid is as stupid does. Nice try at the appeal to authority. But the source doesn't really matter here. It's still a non-sensical claim. You'll only find a handfull of well in the GOM that produced over 20,000BOPD, and that was in a fully a very favorable formation, fully completed, stim'med, and flowed into a dedicated test separator. None of that describes Macondo.
Where would they have gotten a crazy notion like that?
Posted on 10/31/14 at 1:58 pm to Taxing Authority
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And the article is correct about many of he hyperbolic claims. What is BP supposed to do? Just lay back and take it?
I agree that BP deserves their time in court to dispute and fight the fines etc being levied against them.
However in the initial stages BP was very accommodating and compliant but they seem to have dug their heels in and even gone on the offensive after they sold off a tremendous percentage of their physical assets in the US. I'm not a fan of that timing, coincidental or not.
I also hate that I find myself more likely to side with the Tubas of the board on this one. If Decatur emerges to make a rational argument I agree with I might off myself.
This post was edited on 10/31/14 at 2:00 pm
Posted on 10/31/14 at 3:06 pm to AUin02
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I agree that BP deserves their time in court to dispute and fight the fines etc being levied against them.
Wong type of "claims". I edited my OP to make it more clear....
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And the article is correct about many of he hyperbolic claims of catastrophic environmental destruction. What is BP supposed to do? Just lay back and take it?
Posted on 10/31/14 at 3:26 pm to mmcgrath
Your stupidity is mind numbing. Please quit, you dont have a clue what you are talking about.
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