Oil and natural gas drilling in U.S. waters

[nnuut]

FYI-
I got a spyware warning from my anti-virus program on that one.

Caution-

It was a popup program that scans your computer for spyware, you know the deal it says you have problems than wants your to buy the program. Disk cleanup will get rid of the cookies and temp files, sorry about that!! I hate those programs.:suspicious::embarrest:

 

[nnuut]

I had to manually shut down my computer because I couldn't get the pop-up to shut up & let me get out.....

And my pop-up-stopper was in effect, shining its bright orange lights at me..
"do you want.... "

Close Internet Explorer and clean temp files and Cookies. If it won't close hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and open Task Manager go to Programs and close Internet Explorer and clean.

 

[James48843]

Oh Nnuuttt...

better watch those websites!!!

Luckily, I'm clean.

Webroot Anti-virus has been very, very good to me.

 

[nnuut]

Oh Nnuuttt...

better watch those websites!!!

Luckily, I'm clean.

Webroot Anti-virus has been very, very good to me.

My PopUp blocker got it and I didn't notice, when I read your post I went back to the site after turning off my blocker and let it do it's thing. No biggie, Symantec found nothing on my computer. It's the way it is in the Jungle!!

 

[coolhand]

Good web site to check on updates. And it's not infected! :nuts:

http://www.incidentnews.gov/incident/8220

 

[grandma]

Close Internet Explorer and clean temp files and Cookies. If it won't close hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and open Task Manager go to Programs and close Internet Explorer and clean.

The Ctrl-atl-del wouldn't come on At All, so I just shut the thing off.
Then did the cleaning, etc, when came back on.
I've been using Mozilla Firefox for several weeks now; my IE has a problem; I just haven't taken the time to call Dell & get them to work on it. I still have a couple of months before my one year warranty runs out...
I'd like to shuck the whole computer thing - I'm addicted...........

 

[PessOptimist]

Well, Nnuut beat me to it but I still thought you guys would love this. I received it unattributed from a totally unreliable source. Apparently the North Koreans blew up the oil rig. This is a part of what I got which seems to be that same thing Nnuut posted.

To the attack itself, these reports continue, the North Korean "cargo vessel" Dai Hong Dan believed to be staffed by 17th Sniper Corps "suicide" troops left Cuba's Empresa Terminales Mambisas de La Habana (Port of Havana) on April 18th whereupon it "severely deviated" from its intended course for Venezuela's Puerto Cabello bringing it to within 209 kilometers (130 miles) of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform which was located 80 kilometers (50 miles) off the coast of the US State of Louisiana where it launched an SSC Sang-o Class Mini Submarine (Yugo class) estimated to have an operational range of 321 kilometers (200 miles).

Now you guys run with this one, I'm gonna go get a beer and some snacks. Oh, I bet Chavez had a hand in it too.

 

[nnuut]

The Ctrl-atl-del wouldn't come on At All, so I just shut the thing off.
Then did the cleaning, etc, when came back on.
I've been using Mozilla Firefox for several weeks now; my IE has a problem; I just haven't taken the time to call Dell & get them to work on it. I still have a couple of months before my one year warranty runs out...
I'd like to shuck the whole computer thing - I'm addicted...........

Computers are wonderful things, I've been fighting them sense 1983, sometimes I win!!:laugh:

 

[nnuut]

Well, Nnuut beat me to it but I still thought you guys would love this. I received it unattributed from a totally unreliable source. Apparently the North Koreans blew up the oil rig. This is a part of what I got which seems to be that same thing Nnuut posted.



Now you guys run with this one, I'm gonna go get a beer and some snacks. Oh, I bet Chavez had a hand in it too.

That's it PO, it's amazing how this stuff pops up when something happens. There's another that blame it on the Environmental GREENIES, but you never know? When they float that thing and the explosives came from the outside that would make the news.

 

[James48843]

'The following is not public' document states

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(AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard Saturday April 24, 2010, shows oil leaking from the drill pipe of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig after it sank. A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could be on the verge of becoming an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.


A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.

"The following is not public," reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Emergency Response document dated April 28. "Two additional release points were found today in the tangled riser. If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked resulting in a release volume an order of magnitude higher than previously thought."

Asked Friday to comment on the document, NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen said that the additional leaks described were reported to the public late Wednesday night. Regarding the possibility of the spill becoming an order of magnitude larger, Smullen said, "I'm letting the document you have speak for itself."

In scientific circles, an order of magnitude means something is 10 times larger. In this case, an order of magnitude higher would mean the volume of oil coming from the well could be 10 times higher than the 5,000 barrels a day coming out now. That would mean 50,000 barrels a day, or 2.1 million gallons a day. It appears the new leaks mentioned in the Wednesday release are the leaks reported to the public late Wednesday night.

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/deepwater_horizon_secret_memo.html

 

[DAWG51]

Here is a good read on the subject. Pretty crazy down here right now.

http://thehayride.com/2010/05/the-latest-on-the-gulf-oil-spill-via-upstream-online-and-some-troubling-questions/

 

[Buster]

Here is a good read on the subject. Pretty crazy down here right now.

http://thehayride.com/2010/05/the-latest-on-the-gulf-oil-spill-via-upstream-online-and-some-troubling-questions/

Wat up DAWG?...this is a very level headed, sensibly reported, calm, void of crisis mongering report..thank you!!!

UPDATE NO. 14, 5/3/10, 9:40 a.m.: We’re not going to try to make the case at this point that the BP spill isn’t that bad. It’s bad. But the scale of the disaster will only come close to matching the frenzy of the reporting we’re seeing if BP can’t stanch the flow of the oil at the source.
As of right now, the amount of oil spilled from the Macondo well represents less than 15 percent or so of what was spilled when the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound in 1989, and for this spill to represent a disaster on the scale of Valdez would require a free flow of oil from the source for 6-8 weeks or more.

Is that possible? Sure. Anything is possible. All kinds of terrible things could happen as BP attempts to shut down that spill in advance of completing a relief well in 60-90 days, and theoretically all of their actions described in our update last night could come to nothing.
But there are other possibilities. And those possibilities mostly serve to mitigate the amount of oil coming from the source.
BP has lots of assets out on the water engaged in an operation to skim the oil off the water. The effectiveness of a skimming operation depends on the weather – at first, before the high winds and seas kicked in over the weekend in the Gulf, BP had said they’d pulled some 20,000 barrels of an oil-water mix out of the slick in the first week or so. That represented some 20-40 percent of the Macondo spill at the time.
Since then they haven’t been able to make a lot of progress with skimming the oil. But conditions are improving, and when the weather cooperates, skimming can get as much as 60-80 percent of the oil on the slick.
Even assuming conditions don’t cooperate, if skimming operations can get 30 percent of the oil from the Macondo well that’s 30 percent more oil than was recovered in Alaska before the Valdez spill reached shore. Bear in mind that spill came from a supertanker running aground – the oil which came out of the Valdez was on land almost immediately, and the slick from the Valdez was a foot thick as opposed to the thin layer of oil floating on top of the Gulf at present.
In addition to skimming, they’re also spraying chemical dispersant both at the source and on the slick. As yet it’s difficult to say what percentage of the oil will be disposed of from the dispersant, but it’s generally regarded to be highly effective. Dispersant breaks an oil slick (or flow) into smaller droplets which are eaten away by bacteria, further broken apart by wave action or otherwise degraded.
The Valdez spill was ashore before anybody could do anything to disperse the oil. This spill happened 50 miles out and to date the oil still hasn’t come ashore, with the latest estimate saying it will be three more days before it does.
The lack of dramatic on-shore damage led Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Mississippi), who is the Congressman from the Gulf Coast area, to dismiss the spill as a major disaster…

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor of Bay St. Louis said oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico is “naturally breaking up as it’s heading to shore” and that he’s less concerned about it after witnessing it firsthand.
“This isn’t Katrina. It’s not Armageddon,” Taylor said. “A lot of people are scared and I don’t think they should be,”
Taylor, along with Department of Marine Resources Director Bill Walker and U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala., flew at 1,000 feet over the spill today on a Coast Guard twin-engine CASA 144.
He described the spill as a light, rainbow sheen with patches that looked like chocolate milk.
He did not see any traces along the Louisiana shore, near the Chandeleur Islands in Louisiana or the barrier islands in Mississippi, he said.
This was Taylor’s first time to see the spill for himself.


“At the moment, it’s not as bad I thought it would be,” he said.
Taylor said the good news was the spill seemed to be breaking up and very little may actually come ashore here.
“If it gets here, it will be a very light sheen,” Walker said.
Walker said the sheen could collect on beaches and in estuaries, but it will evaporate after a few days to a week.
His advice is to “leave it alone and let nature take it’s course.”

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[nnuut]

Updated May 03, 2010
How the Subsea Oil Recovery System Works

FOXNews.com

In its efforts to minimize the widening oil spill in the , BP will deploy a large structure in the next 6 to 8 days to capture leaking oil. Here's how it works.

BP
The Subsea Oil Recovery System is a large structure that can be placed over the largest leak source in the oil spill created by the explosion of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon Rig.

In its efforts to minimize the widening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP will deploy a large structure in the next 6 to 8 days to capture leaking oil. Here's how it works.
Called the Subsea Oil Recovery System, the 125-ton structure is designed to be placed over the largest source of oil leaking 5,000 feet beneath the Gulf of Mexico. The system collects the leaking oil and pumps it through a and pipe to a tanker at the surface, which stores it and ships the oil to shore.
The structure is a 40-foot tall concrete chimney that conveys leaking oil to a ship on the surface, the Deepwater Enterprise. Once there, oil is separated from water and stored until the ship can return to shore, where it is offloaded and shipped to an on-shore terminal.
The ship is capable of storing 139,000 barrels of oil, processing it at a rate of 15,000 barrels per day. BP hopes it will be able to collect as much as 85 percent of the oil leaking from the sea floor.
Working in conjunction with Wild Well Controls, BP is building the system in Louisiana based on similar designs used during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Containment systems used following the hurricane were in shallow water, however; to deal with the muddy conditions at the bottom of the sea, BP is adding mud flaps to the base of the structure, that should more thoroughly seal off the leak.

Last week officials drastically increased their estimate of the size of the spill, from 1,000 to 5,000 barrels a day. The Department of Homeland Security then declared the spill an incident of "national significance" on Thursday, freeing up resources to tackle the spreading problem.
BP has vowed to pay all necessary clean up costs for the massive oil leak, and the company also plans to drill a relief well near the original source in order to relieve pressure -- something Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called the "ultimate solution" to the . But finalizing that well could take up to three months. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/03/subsea-oil-recovery-spill-bp-gulf-mexico/

 

[DAWG51]

Buster - I worded my post incorrectly - I totally agree with the commentary on the Hayride.com.

Its pretty crazy down here because I live on the Gulfcoast and well...its pretty crazy down here right now! Lets pray that the dome-cap works! Cheers

 

[James48843]

Subsea Oil Recovery System

(let's see, is there another name for that? Something that slips over the top of something to prevent the liquid from flowing outside...)


Nah..... I'll leave it alone....

 

[James48843]

New pictures out of the rig burning. Incredible pics:

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See all 9 pics here:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ga...-of-the-deepwater-horizon.php?img=1&ref=fpblg

 

[Buster]

Buster - I worded my post incorrectly - I totally agree with the commentary on the Hayride.com.

I understood what you meant..My "wat up DAWG" was a greeting..anyway..that's why I thanked you for a very unspun, non emotional, intelligent report in that post...I know it's a freaking mess down there..my heart goes out to everyone affected..Thank you again..I hope more people read it.

 

[burrocrat]

...is there another name for that? Something that slips over the top of something to prevent the liquid from flowing outside

yep, it's called we taxpayers and consumers are bout to get f****d.

oh sure BP will be responsible for their owns sins, just like GM was.

at least there's plenty of Greece and Oil to go round.

just lay back and count the cracks on the ceiling, we'll learn to like it.

 

[XL-entLady]

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[burrocrat]

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