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Posted on 6/6/10 at 12:30 pm to tigeryat
Here is the link to the Lafayette newspaper with the news about Stone Oil and the effects on the Lafayette economy.
Daily Advertiser
This moratorium is going to hurt alot of people.
Daily Advertiser
This moratorium is going to hurt alot of people.
Posted on 6/6/10 at 12:34 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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genuineLSUtiger
yeah let me go get my dry ice instead
Posted on 6/6/10 at 12:36 pm to baytiger
It looked like a great idea to me. But what the hell do I know? I'm a damn dentist. This disaster has both fascinated and saddened me to no end.
Posted on 6/6/10 at 12:37 pm to baytiger
I'm ready to focus on something positive. Like LSU baseball!
This oil spill business makes me sick.
This oil spill business makes me sick.
Posted on 6/6/10 at 12:45 pm to tigeryat
Amen, my LSU brother!! 
Posted on 6/6/10 at 1:30 pm to bigwheel
I have seen numbers up to 30,500 factoring all oil and gas e&p, and oil and gas service as well as the domino effect. Mostly in louisiana. Morgan city, Houma, Cameron and Lafayette will get hit hard
Posted on 6/6/10 at 2:06 pm to baytiger
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I'm sure if the investigation concludes faster than that, he'll lift the moratorium early.
You do know this is the federal government you are referring to, right? Faster? Early?
Posted on 6/6/10 at 2:14 pm to El Josey Wales
any time the feds say 6 months, add another 6 months. those rigs will be off the coast of Africa by then and they probably won't come back. plus any of their suggestions and conclusions will probably cause new activity to never take place. bye bye houma and morgan city.
This post was edited on 6/6/10 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 6/6/10 at 2:50 pm to sheek
And much much more!!!
Posted on 6/6/10 at 3:00 pm to SD 71
are you concerned about the fisherman, seafood distributors, etc...who have lost their jobs for potentially many years?
Posted on 6/6/10 at 3:09 pm to Mudminnow
Mud I am. It's a double edge problem bc of the industries it affects. The Feds will lose around 7 billion long term bc of this ie royalties. The numbers came from the advocate and the Houston chronicle
This post was edited on 6/6/10 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 6/6/10 at 3:13 pm to Mudminnow
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are you concerned about the fisherman, seafood distributors, etc...who have lost their jobs for potentially many years?
Mud,
I am by no means an expert on life in the marshes and bayous, but from what I have historically seen, when the shrimping/fishing is slow, people go back to the oilfield for work to feed their families. If the shrimping AND oilfields are shut down, what will they do then? It is a bad situation for sure, but shutting down all deepwater drilling while the clusterfrick that we call a federal goverment investigates, is not a good idea. The moratorium makes a bad situation even worse.
Posted on 6/6/10 at 3:18 pm to Mudminnow
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are you concerned about the fisherman, seafood distributors, etc...who have lost their jobs for potentially many years?
Yes but losing a huge chunk of the offshore industry in Louisiana is much, much worse for everyone.
Posted on 6/6/10 at 3:20 pm to El Josey Wales
What el josey said. Very true. When the oil went bust in the 80's, lots of
oil field workers started shrimping and fishing. When oil came back up they went offshore bc they can make more money in some cases 1800 a week. What obama Is doing will deliver a death blow to the state and I do think the next go around the jobs might not come back for a while and some never. Ask anyone in louisiana what 1986 was like. It was bad and even LSU was at danger bc of the drastic decreases in revenue.
oil field workers started shrimping and fishing. When oil came back up they went offshore bc they can make more money in some cases 1800 a week. What obama Is doing will deliver a death blow to the state and I do think the next go around the jobs might not come back for a while and some never. Ask anyone in louisiana what 1986 was like. It was bad and even LSU was at danger bc of the drastic decreases in revenue.
This post was edited on 6/6/10 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 6/6/10 at 3:27 pm to El Josey Wales
From what I understand the moratorium is only for deepwater wells. The deepwater wells currently in production can stay online.
I understand the job losses but BP is having a helluva time to try and stop this gusher and every single press conference they mention at this depth it makes it extremely difficult.
With 50 deepwater wells in production is this a 1/50 chance or 1/1,000 chance or 1/100,000 chance.
Why wasnt there a plan in place in case of a spill? BP says they can handle a spill 60 times this size yet their effort on cleanup has been more of a dog and pony show than anything.
Why arent people upset with BP for decieving and lying to the american public from day one?
I'm all for working out a compromise like drilling two wells simultaneously in case of a mishap, or an additional acoustic preventer ,etc.... but to simply drill again using BPs careless practices is not good.
I understand the job losses but BP is having a helluva time to try and stop this gusher and every single press conference they mention at this depth it makes it extremely difficult.
With 50 deepwater wells in production is this a 1/50 chance or 1/1,000 chance or 1/100,000 chance.
Why wasnt there a plan in place in case of a spill? BP says they can handle a spill 60 times this size yet their effort on cleanup has been more of a dog and pony show than anything.
Why arent people upset with BP for decieving and lying to the american public from day one?
I'm all for working out a compromise like drilling two wells simultaneously in case of a mishap, or an additional acoustic preventer ,etc.... but to simply drill again using BPs careless practices is not good.
Posted on 6/6/10 at 3:32 pm to Mudminnow
Bp has tough practices on paper, but knowing people that work for them say they don't practice what they preach. Don't punish the entire oil and gas industry for one company's mistakes.
Posted on 6/6/10 at 4:52 pm to Mudminnow
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acoustic preventer
I don't think an acoustic switch on a broken BOP would have prevented the problem. The ROV's couldn't close the BOP manually. The BOP's were either severly damaged when the well blew out or in need of some serious maintenance.
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using BPs careless practices is not good.
No one is suggesting using BP's safety program. It is obviously deficient. But what about Exxon? You can't put the two companies in the same group.
This isn't rocket science guys. BP circulated the drilling mud out of the hole too soon. They knew better. They also knew the well could blowout. They thought they could control the blowout with the BOP's, but they failed.
How can it take six months to figure this out?
This post was edited on 6/6/10 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 6/6/10 at 7:42 pm to tigeryat
30K-35K & by the time it all over real estate will be down by 25%. Motels/hotels will go under as will restaurants, groceries stores, Helicopter companies, etc. All because Zippy doesn't know sit from shinola, and Proud Mary won't speak up 
Posted on 6/6/10 at 7:56 pm to bigwheel
It doesn't take 6 months to make it mandatory to run liners instead of long strings, and perform CBLs immediately after cement sets up.
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