"Why can't they find a way to plug this thing?"

Please note that I did not write this.

It was sent to me in an email...

I just wanted to share this with you.

MY NAME IS NOT DAN




Hello Family, Friends & Associates,

I received the following face book question from a close friend and I thought the rest of you might be interested in my response.
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Original Question: Hi Dan! I'm interested to hear your view on the oil spill...why can't they find a way to plug this thing?
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Answer:

The problem is BP Oil, they have the worst safety and environmental record of any major oil company in the United States. Of the major violations that the EPA has issued in the last 3 years, 97% of them were to BP, An explosion at the BP Texas city facility in 2005 killed 15 people and injured 150 people of which I personally knew two. BP was convicted of felony actions and fined $87 million dollars, Link. They have had several major oil spills on their portion of the Alaskan North Slope drilling operations and have also been convicted of felony criminal violations,Link.

Prior to the blow out, the Federal government was considering blocking BP from all Federal contracts due to their poor safety and environmental record, Link. The negotiations have been placed on hold pending the investigation into what happened on the gulf explosion.

As you are aware, I do remaining life evaluations, safety and performance audits in refineries and have worked for most of the major oil companies (Chevron, Shell, Valero, Hess, Sunoco etc). I have given up trying to work for BP because they never can get the money approved, ie they spend no money on maintenance or safety.

The oil spill in the gulf was caused by two really cheap blowout preventer (BOP) valves. These valves are located on the drill pipe as it exits the ocean floor bed a mile down. The valves are supposed to sense pressure surges in the drill pipe and close off the pipe to prevent the pressure surge from getting to the drilling rig. These valves are supposed to be “fail safe” which means that if the valves loose contact with the surface, they should have closed. In this case both the manual and automatic kill switches did not work and the drill pipe over pressurized, estimated at 1,400 psi, and the explosion resulted.

Now the problem is that we have oil at approximately 1,400 psi coming out of the remnants of the drill pipe at 5,000 barrels/day and it is located a mile down at the bottom of the ocean. At this pressure and depth doing anything is extremely difficult as it is much too deep for human divers. As a result, all work must be done by remote operated robots which severely limit the options. The attempts so far have been unsuccessful and it is anticipated that the current attempt to pump sealing cement into the drill pipe, the top kill option, will also fail. The sealant is not designed to seal a pipe at this pressure. The best hope we have is a relief pipe that is being drilled down to intersect the existing pipe. However, this will probably not be completed until August.

Bottom line, the company with the worst safety / environmental record in the United States got caught AGAIN putting profit before safety or the environment. BP always promises to clean up their act after each incident, however we now see that it is just lips service. BP should pay dearly for their malpractice and I hope they are driven out of business.

I hope this gives you some insight into this terrible incident and if you have any other questions, please let me know.

Dan

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