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re: Six Years Ago Today: Deepwater Horizon Explodes
Posted on 4/20/16 at 10:02 am to Boagni Swamp
Posted on 4/20/16 at 10:02 am to Boagni Swamp
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Please stop saying dumbarse things when you know nothing about the events in question.
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At 9:45 P.M. CDT on 20 April 2010, during the final phases of drilling the exploratory well at Macondo, a geyser of seawater erupted from the marine riser onto the rig, shooting 240 ft (73 m) into the air. This was soon followed by the eruption of a slushy combination of drilling mud, methane gas, and water. The gas component of the slushy material quickly transitioned into a fully gaseous state and then ignited into a series of explosions and then a firestorm. An attempt was made to activate the blowout preventer, but it failed.[47] The final defense to prevent an oil spill, a device known as a blind shear ram, was activated but failed to plug the well.[48]
What would you like me to do, type all this? Or i can just say a pipe busts a mile down and everyone knows what i'm talking about? then people like you and this other guy can be petty about semantics without actually stating anything at all
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Posted on 4/20/16 at 10:07 am to AU_251
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What would you like me to do, type all this? Or i can just say a pipe busts a mile down and everyone knows what i'm talking about? then people like you and this other guy can be petty about semantics without actually stating anything at all
Saying "A pipe bursts a mile down" is the equivalent of saying I don't have a clue about what I'm talking about. I took nothing else you said serious after reading that sentence.
This post was edited on 4/20/16 at 10:08 am
Posted on 4/20/16 at 10:07 am to AU_251
I worked as a contractor for the oil spill clean up and basically was the situational awareness to some head ups at BP in the Mobile command center. Each day we had a guy fly from mobile bay to the source and take photos with a GPS camera (fancy technology six years ago) He would come back and I would upload the photos on a GIS map that had a tracker of all the Vessels out there to gameplan for cleanup efforts. Somedays there was so much oil out there that I thought it would never get cleaned up. Two tropical systems came through (deemed as firecanes since the lightning was gonna ignite all the oil and wreak havok) that summer almost back to back and poof no more oil. Maybe it was the despersants doing their job but mother nature took care of this shite. For weeks we would fly and not see a drop of oil out there.
I do not for one second believe it sunk to the bottom.
I do not for one second believe it sunk to the bottom.
This post was edited on 4/20/16 at 10:10 am
Posted on 4/20/16 at 10:39 am to AU_251
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Or i can just say a pipe busts a mile down and everyone knows what i'm talking about? then people like you and this other guy can be petty about semantics without actually stating anything at all
There were several reasons to call you a dumbarse. I just chose the most obvious one. "Water we were born and raised in?" That's a bit over the top.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster stemmed from many failures. A "busted pipe" was not one of them.
Drilling for oil is hard. Some of the smartest people in the world are involved in finding the oil and producing it safely. You demean the industry, which is a helluva an industry, when you make stupid comments such as you did.
There was a plan to contain the oil. There is on every well. There were redundant measures to keep the oil in the ground, and the operations they were involved in were not particularly difficult. A variety of human factors made those plans and those measures moot. (That's my view at least.) That had nothing to do with a "busted pipe."
Your larger point is that because no system is foolproof, and considering Murphy's law, there should have been a better plan to contain oil in the deep water when a well went out of control. That may or may not be true. 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.
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