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re: Oil Spill and Offshore Fishing (Latest Developments)
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:36 pm to Napoleon
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:36 pm to Napoleon
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With oil heading toward the fragile shoreline, an oil company executive said today it could take 90 days to plug the leaks spewing up to 5,000 barrels of crude a day from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
90 days
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Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:38 pm to eye65
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This, and other radar images that SkyTruth is getting, confirm what we've seen on the NASA/MODIS images so far, and support our conservative calculations showing that in the first week of this spill at least 6 million gallons have entered the Gulf. That's a spill rate of at least 850,000 gallons (20,000 barrels) per day, 20 times larger than the official Goast Guard estimate of 42,000 gallons per day.
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:38 pm to ForeverLSU02
i really wanna just call into work and say look im goin fishing sorry about my shifts
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:39 pm to eye65
yeah I saw that blog a while ago, but it's dated yesterday and I'm not gonna buy anything until the gov't or BP says it.
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:39 pm to Solo
quote:You're just as much at fault as the oil companies. It is us of course, as consumers, who continue to increase the demand for oil
It doesn't matter. The point is that whatever damage occurs to the Louisiana coast as a result of this spill, regardless of which company is "responsible", will not be adequately
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:39 pm to Napoleon
quote:
90 days
Zach some of the OG guys on here have said up to as long as five months.
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:39 pm to blueTunaTiger
I fricked up on what I was saying earlier about the flow. It was meant to be 42,000 gallons of oil and not bbls.
This little incident was Thunderhorse
This little incident was Thunderhorse
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:40 pm to ForeverLSU02
quote:I don't doubt that at all... but you're the one with the apparent inside info, right?
Things are certainly worse than they appear
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:40 pm to baytiger
quote:
baytiger
This post was edited on 4/29/10 at 5:46 pm
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:41 pm to ForeverLSU02
Serious question. Is a rig explosion like this an unforseen event? Nobody ran this scenario beforehand to come up with a game plan?
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:42 pm to TigerFred
Fred, did they ever find out (announce) what the true cause of this was?
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:43 pm to ForeverLSU02
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This post was edited on 4/29/10 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:44 pm to ForeverLSU02
lsusaintsman03@yahoo.com
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:45 pm to Solo
quote:Pretty much
Is a rig explosion like this an unforseen event?
quote:You can't take into account every possible scenario. So many things can go wrong at any given time during all of this. The majority of the time everything goes smoothly, but all it takes is something like this to expose you. But it's impossible to factor in all human error and mother nature
Nobody ran this scenario beforehand to come up with a game plan?
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:45 pm to Solo
quote:
Serious question. Is a rig explosion like this an unforseen event? Nobody ran this scenario beforehand to come up with a game plan?
quote:
The massive gush of oil spilling from the site of the rig that exploded last week exceeds the worst-case scenario predicted by oil giant BP when it filed its exploration plan with the government. The scale of the disaster is also having political repercussions, putting lawmakers who support offshore drilling on the defensive.
Yesterday, the estimated size of the spill quintupled to over 210,000 gallons a day. In BP's exploration plan, which allowed it to avoid filing a more detailed site-specific plan, the company outlined a worst-case scenario of 162,000 gallons a day.
In addition, the federal agency with oversight of offshore drilling, the Interior Department's Minerals and Management Service did not require BP to file a "scenario for potential blowout," referring to the sudden release of oil from a well.
According to the exploration plan obtained by Huffington Post, an MMS official certified that BP "has the capacity to respond, to the maximum extent practicable, to a worst-case discharge, or a substantial threat of such a discharge."
LINK
As some people has been saying, there is plenty of blame to spread around.
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:46 pm to Decatur
quote:Oh yeah, and trust me they are all pointing fingers right now
As some people has been saying, there is plenty of blame to spread around.
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:47 pm to ForeverLSU02
Can you cc me on any updates? You have my email addy from last night.
Posted on 4/29/10 at 5:48 pm to Napoleon
Are the scientst basing that calculation off of the satellite image of the sheen? Correct me if I'm wrong but can't the sheen make it appear that there is actually more fuel/oil in water than there actually is?
Ever pour a cup of diesel or gas in the water. It triples in size almost intantly.
I think that is why there may be some descripancy in the amount that is being spilled.
Ever pour a cup of diesel or gas in the water. It triples in size almost intantly.
I think that is why there may be some descripancy in the amount that is being spilled.
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