Gulf coast oil spill

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Since when does a relief well have to intersect the busted well? What relief wells do is give that oil reservoir someplace else to go than up the busted pipe. Duh, tw. But yeah, it'll take until August to get there.

Petroleum never stays where it was made. You have petroleum source rocks, and you have subsurface geology that traps accumulations of petroleum, anticlines, salt domes, and so on.

[HungLikeJesus]

UG, that's not my understanding of what a relief well does.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's not, the relief well(s) have to intersect the first bore and plug it.

[TheMercenary]

Who spilled the coffee?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0...eature=channel

[busterb]

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6538 I'm sure if some of you are smart enough to search aroung this site, you'll find about relief wells. I'm not

[monster]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Who spilled the coffee?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0...eature=channel

You need to do these things properly -that's tff to be lost in a mysterious link

[classicman]

Blog from the WSJ.

WH Takes Cues from Liberal Think Tank on Spill

If you want to see where President Barack Obama’s response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster is heading, try following the urgings of the Center for American Progress.

The liberal think tank with close White House ties appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president’s in-house advisers. On May 4, for instance, the CAP’s energy and environment expert, Daniel Weiss, called on the president to name an independent commission to look at the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. On May 22, he did just that.

On May 21, CAP president, John Podesta, privately implored White House officials to name someone to be the public point person for the spill response. A week later, the White House announced that Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen would hold daily briefings on the spill, wherever he would be on any given day.

On May 26, Weiss said the White House needed to demand that BP immediately set up an escrow account with billions of dollars from which claims for Gulf state residents would be paid out.

Monday’s headlines proclaimed the president’s latest get-tough stand: BP needs to set up a billion-dollar escrow account.

Link
Delegation, coincidence or ???

[wolf]

I am too lazy to check upstream to see if anyone else has already posted this amusing photograph.

[monster]

it deserves to be posted more than once.

[gvidas]

BP Deepwater Oil Spill - Energy and Commerce Committee's Letter Outlining Risky Practices (The Oil Drum)

Congress wrote a letter to Tony Hayward, outlining its concerns that BP took shortcuts and undertook risky practices, in an attempt to keep costs down. This letter was written in preparation for Tony Hayward's testimony on Thursday of this week. [...]

Dear Mr. Hayward:

We are looking forward to your testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Thursday, June 17, 2010, about the causes of the blowout ofthe Macondo well and the ongoing oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. As you prepare for this testimony, we want to share with you some of the results of the Committee's investigation and advise you of issues you should be prepared to address.

[...]

During your testimony before the Committee, you will be asked about the issues raised in this letter. This will provide you an opportunity to respond to these concerns and clarify the record. We appreciate your willingness to appear and your cooperation in the Committee's investigation.

Sincerely,

Henry A. Waxman
Chairman

Bart Stupak
Chairman
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

The letter itself is, to put it simply, pretty ballin': they're highlighting a selection of technical issues in which BP took extreme shortcuts to hasten and cheapen the drilling of the well, at the cost of safe design and good construction. I've heard Waxman and Stupak are good, but this is pretty great.

[Clodfobble]

More angry picture humor:

[Pete Zicato]

Picture of oil heading in to Orange Beach, AL

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pict...zoomed-picture

[classicman]

BP temporarily stopped collecting oil from its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico after a fire aboard the collecting vessel.

There was no damage as a result of the fire, said Toby Odone, a BP spokesman. Recovery is expected to resume today, he said.

Collection stopped as a safety precaution because of the fire, which was observed at 10:30 a.m. New York time and may have been caused by lightning, London-based BP said today in an e-mailed statement. The company said there were no injuries.

ferfuxache - Apparently nothing can go even remotely right here.

[TheMercenary]

LOL @ Clod.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

And Halliburton was telling BP they were taking too many risks trying to hurry this one -- to save millions. They were already behind time...

Reuters.com