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Head scratcher article
Posted on 5/20/10 at 10:25 am
Posted on 5/20/10 at 10:25 am
So which way is it?
Tube capturing 210,000 gallons of Gulf oil a day
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COVINGTON, La. -- BP says a mile-long tube it inserted into a leak on the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is capturing 210,000 gallons of oil a day, but some is still escaping. The company has long estimated that 210,000 gallons is the total amount that's leaking, but BP spokesman Mark Proegler said Thursday the tube is not sucking up all the oil. He would not estimate how much is not being captured.
Tube capturing 210,000 gallons of Gulf oil a day
This post was edited on 5/20/10 at 10:28 am
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Posted on 5/20/10 at 10:33 am to Oyster
Probably the reporter screwed up. 210,000 gal = 5,000bbl. Not coincidnetally that's Bp's estimated flow rate. The highest I've see Bp say they were recovering from other sources was 2,000 bopd.
Edit: The Bp spox could have screwedd up, too...
Edit: The Bp spox could have screwedd up, too...
This post was edited on 5/20/10 at 10:34 am
Posted on 5/20/10 at 10:35 am to Taxing Authority
Macondo 5/19
According to this they are recovering 3,000 BOPD and 14 MMCFGD through the riser insert tube.
According to this they are recovering 3,000 BOPD and 14 MMCFGD through the riser insert tube.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 12:10 pm to Taxing Authority
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Probably the reporter screwed up. 210,000 gal = 5,000bbl. Not coincidnetally that's Bp's estimated flow rate. The highest I've see Bp say they were recovering from other sources was 2,000 bopd. Edit: The Bp spox could have screwedd up, too.
Keeping up with this incident, you realize what a poor job the media does with facts.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 1:26 pm to Taxing Authority
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Probably the reporter screwed up. 210,000 gal = 5,000bbl. Not coincidnetally that's Bp's estimated flow rate
Nope. BP screwed up.
BP admits leak is bigger than 210000 a day
Posted on 5/20/10 at 1:43 pm to Alatgr
holy shite... 3.9 million from Purdue prof.. Hope he's way off base
Posted on 5/20/10 at 1:48 pm to mmill32
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holy shite... 3.9 million from Purdue prof.. Hope he's way off base
and thats his conservative estimate. He is the foremost authority in the world using this technique thus he was brought in by congress.
BP is already siphoning 5K barrels a day, yet it still looks like a geiser on the video
Posted on 5/20/10 at 1:53 pm to Mudminnow
mud, relative to the bathymetry, where was this well located? shelf or slope area?
Posted on 5/20/10 at 2:42 pm to mmill32
Nothing to see hear, just listen to those posters who work for the oil companies tell you all you need to know. It's the media screwing up. A company on the hook for untold millions in damage would never screw up, much less underestimate the scale of their mess.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 2:53 pm to ComicTiger
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Upton Sinclair.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 3:01 pm to ComicTiger
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A company on the hook for untold millions in damage would never screw up, much less underestimate the scale of their mess.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 3:03 pm to WNCTiger
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quote:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Upton Sinclair.
thus we have the spectacle of the two tests showing likelihood of a leak, and yet, they went ahead...
Posted on 5/20/10 at 3:06 pm to ComicTiger
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the media screwing up
i would say the media is lazy and is not researching things much more deeper than writing down 1 or 2 sentences that come out of press releases, press conferences, etc.
this shite is complicated and trying to simplify it totally changes the message that needs to be conveyed, plus paints an inadvertantly inaccurate picture of the issue.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 3:22 pm to oilfieldtiger
Yes, it's all the media, BP hasn't once been slow, incorrect or outright deceitful in disseminating information about what's going on and their assessment.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 3:31 pm to ComicTiger
How dare anyone ever question BP. They have nothing to gain or lose regarding this oil spill.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 3:47 pm to Mudminnow
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How dare anyone ever question BP. They have nothing to gain or lose regarding this oil spill.
i'm not trying to whitewash BP or anyone involved in this. all i'm saying is that there have been blatant errors reported from the very beginning of this -- showing the horizon as a moored vessel, what is a BOP, how it works, how reliable is it, what is required, etc.
i'm not advocating any kind of deceitfulness, i'm just asking that they make the extra effort to get the story 100% right -- not stuff that you're dependent on BP to get, but stuff that's out there in the public domain.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 3:55 pm to Mudminnow
quote:They really don't. They are going to get the maximum statutory fines. That's a given. They've committed to paying all cleanup costs. So, the rate at which it's coming out of the pipe, really is irrelevant. They aren't paying by-the-gallon.
How dare anyone ever question BP. They have nothing to gain or lose regarding this oil spill.
Posted on 5/20/10 at 4:02 pm to Taxing Authority
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So, the rate at which it's coming out of the pipe, really is irrelevant. They aren't paying by-the-gallon.
WTF?
So the total amount of oil eventually spilled won't affect their cleanup costs?
Posted on 5/20/10 at 4:33 pm to wilceaux
quote:Of course their cost rise with quantity. But they aren't paying $X per barrel for cleanup. IOW claiming a lower rate will not reduce their cleanup cost or lower their fines. They are going to pay the same even if they claimed it was 5bopd.
So the total amount of oil eventually spilled won't affect their cleanup costs?
Posted on 5/20/10 at 5:00 pm to Taxing Authority
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