Gulf Oil Spill - new record

[CompuTutor]

 There are so many of us,
surely one of us has seen
the name of this BP idiot ?

This has been my quest since
my first post in this thread here.

If I had the money,
I'd drag him by his balls,
straight into a court myself.



Here is more re-iteration,
identical to the 60-Minute
interview of a survivour:


* Rig survivors say a BP and Transocean
   official argued over shortcut on day of blast

* BP official won argument:
   "This is how it's gonna be,"
   he said, according to witnesses

* BP says it won't comment on specifics

* BP routinely cut corners and pushed ahead
   despite safety concerns, workers say

(CNN) -- The morning the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded,
a BP executive and a Transocean official argued
over how to proceed with the drilling,
rig survivors told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview.

The survivors' account paints perhaps the most detailed picture yet
of what happened on the deepwater rig -- and the possible causes
of the April 20 explosion.

The BP official wanted workers to replace heavy mud,
used to keep the well's pressure down,
with lighter seawater to help speed a process
that was costing an estimated $750,000 a day
and was already running five weeks late,
rig survivors told CNN.

BP won the argument, said Doug Brown, the rig's chief mechanic.
"He basically said, 'Well, this is how it's gonna be.' "

"That's what the big argument was about," added Daniel Barron III.

Shortly after the exchange, chief driller Dewey Revette
expressed concern and opposition too, the workers said,
and on the drilling floor, they chatted among themselves.

"I don't ever remember doing this," they said, according to Barron.

"I think that's why Dewey was so reluctant to try to do it,"
Barron said,
"because he didn't feel it was the right way to have things done."



Hasn't anyone reading this anywhere in the world
got the name of this complete fucking slimeball?



OMFG, I got interupted,
so I posted what I had wrote so far.

I am reading the rest now.

Now understand that I see TransOcean
as a contracted physical layer partner:

They seem to have a good safety record,
even though Google has other opinions.

I think several years without downtime
that caused missed owntime due to injury
speaks for itself, and BP's whores overide says all.

11 Fuckin' lives, says it all !    Fuck BP's overide !

That BP asshole KNEW the first two cement seals
were leaking gas badly before this decision,
he knew about the dead batteries,
bad gas cell pressures, and that they had
communication failures on the BOP recently.

Yet still the BP mother-fucker
called for a "Light seal" procedure
(Sea water in place of heavy drillers mud,
don't wait for the first two seals to set!)

I'm sorry for the language, but we are being overidden,
we have 367 tons of neurotxin in the Gulf of Mexico now !

That is the best I can find
through channels that are questionable.

And our president is a horses ass for letting
what is banned around the world from use here !



"The rig survivors also said it was always understood
that you could get fired if you raised safety concerns
that might delay drilling. Some co-workers had
been fired for speaking out, they said."

" 'Safety was "almost used as a crutch by the company,'
Barron said. He said he was once scolded
for standing on a bucket on the rig,
yet the next day, Transocean ordered a crane
to continue operating amid high winds,
against its own policies.
'It's like they used it against us
-- the safety policies --
you know, to their advantage.' "

"At times, the drill got stuck. Many times,
it "kicked," meaning gas was shooting back
through the mud at an alarming rate."

"I've seen a lot of gas coming up from muds on different wells,
and the highest I've ever seen in my 11 years was 1,500 units.
And this well gave us 3,000," Brown said.
"I've never been on a well with that high of gas coming out of the mud.
That was kind of letting me know this well was something to be reckoned with."

Go read the darn thing please,
but definately lokk at my 60-Minute links.

[the_big_m_in_ok]

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=184196

The estimators have increased the minimum amount from 798,000 gals./day to what you see now.  I prefer the estimate:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/12/bp-oil-spill-gulf-mexico

~= 1,600,000 gals./day

UPDATE:
Different site counting barrels:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/01/hurricane.oil.plan/index.html?hpt=T2

Also, the typical baseline per/day estimate was revised to 1,470,000 gals/day for the first site at the top of this post.  I still think the 1,6000,000 gals./day is conservative.
 
--Lee

[luishan]

Check it out. The Truth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQpCOY7VKC8


And How to solve the BP oil spill disaster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xScwaMuBiUo

[MrMag]

Has this video been posted yet? Pretty interesting.

http://www.wimp.com/oilspills/

[WilbyInebriated]

you are all now reaping what you have sown... was your lazy convenience worth it? i guess that remains to be seen...

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solar power and plug-in electric cars are the obvious sustainable way to power individual autos... but nevermind all that, just go along to get along...