Gulf coast oil spill

[Undertoad]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...#ixzz0n6Epi66e

Hmmmm

Oil that seeps naturally from the ocean floor puts 47 million gallons of crude into U.S. waters annually. Thus far, Deepwater Horizon has leaked about three million gallons. That sounds like a lot of oil, and it is. But the Exxon Valdez leaked 11 million gallons into Alaska's Prince William Sound. Even those figures are dwarfed, according to the Economist, by the amount of oil spilled in man-made disasters elsewhere around the world. Saddam Hussein's destruction of Kuwaiti oil facilities during the Gulf War dumped more than 500 million barrels of crude into the Arabian Gulf. The 1979 blowout of Mexico's Ixtoc 1 well resulted in 3.3 million barrels being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico.

[Flickster]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...#ixzz0n6Epi66e

Hmmmm

The 1979 blowout of Mexico's Ixtoc 1 well resulted in 3.3 million barrels being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico.

Something doesn't sound right about that Ixtoc number. That spill ran for 9 months....

[xoxoxoBruce]

OK Flickster, fess up... are you in the oil business?

[Flickster]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

OK Flickster, fess up... are you in the oil business?

Not directly - provide services to engineering firms, some of which do oil & gas related projects

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, you seemed to be up on the subject. Thanks for the information.
BP is responsible, but I think it's Haliburton's fault, from what I've read.

[Flickster]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yeah, you seemed to be up on the subject. Thanks for the information.
BP is responsible, but I think it's Haliburton's fault, from what I've read.

The well completion process, including the cementing, performed in this case by Haliburton, is way beyond my realm of associated knowledge. I too have read that theory, but at this point it's only a theory. Another is that the pressure buildup was not detected, or went unnoticed, by the operator.

My hope is that when this as all said and done, they are able to determine exactly what went wrong and use that information to prevent this from ever happening again.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yeah, you seemed to be up on the subject. Thanks for the information.
BP is responsible, but I think it's Haliburton's fault, from what I've read.

No, no, no.... blame it on Bush.

[tw]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

No, no, no.... blame it on Bush.

So rally up the tea partiers and burn down the country. Extremists will find enemies hiding everywhere.

Clearly it was bin Laden. But since Bush protected bin Laden, we must blame someone else. I hear Nessy left the Loch now that Conservatives were taking over the government. Clearly we should blame it on a foreigner – even if it is not human.