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I heard Shell, Chevron, and/or Exxon might invest in the wells. But not sure if that is wistful thinking or not.AMERICAN legislators are examining plans to “debar” BP from government contracts and oil exploration deals as punishment for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The proposal comes amid frantic attempts by the Obama administration to quell public anger over the British company’s role in the worst oil spill in the country’s history.
The administration is understood to be weighing the legality of a process called debarment. It would stop BP from being awarded new fuel supply contracts by government clients and ban it from being granted new oil drilling leases.
BP is the biggest provider of oil and gas to the US military, with contracts worth more than $2 billion (£1.4 billion)annually. “The question for the American government is whether they want to break this company. They could do, but at what cost to the economy?” one Washington source said yesterday.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article7144839.ece
and who would fill the gap? Chavez, Saudis, crooked lawyers? hmm.

How messy is natural gas extraction vs oil?
Can you extract natural gas without hitting oil?
Here is a good read on Oil and Natural Gas wells, which goes along with what Rus and I said.
http://www.naturalgas.org/naturalgas/well_completion.asp
Video of the wildlife:
There was a scifi program where they used the word "frack" instead of a similar swear word. In the area I used to live they used that word a lot too. Because if you cared about the land or owned water rights or used land around the area where they were drilling, you were fracked....If you have to pump (fracking) a mixture of water,sand and chemicals or commonly called mud into the well, you have to have a collection pond to collect the the runoff from the drilling.
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Jim..these images of the wildlife and oil soaked marshes is enough to make anyone murderous...I hope BP mans up and does what's right soon, before someone gets physical and starts shooting CEOs and others involved with BP...I know it feels hopeless, I can't begin to imagine how the Gulf people feel...I can't watch the suffering animals..breaks my heart.![]()
"I hope BP mans up and does what's right" ???
What are you expecting them to do?
Here's your hint- those animals are just the few that have been unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And they are perhaps one millionth of the number of animals killed when this is over. Remember- they are keeping cameras away from a lot of the areas, and there will be oil fouling things FOR YEARS ahead out of this one.
Read and remember the Brown Pelican, which was just taken off the endangered species list last year. It was down to a few breeding pairs in 1970 after the California spill. It has grown back to several thousand birds- but most of them in the marshes along the Gulf Coast. Many have already been found dead. I think this is going to threatened their very survival again.
Bad, bad news.
BP can't do a thing about it.
The oil is there. No flotilla in the world is going to be able to coral that oil. It's going to go where it wants. And, if they are lucky, they'll be able to pick up perhaps 10% of it over the next decade or two.
The rest will just sit- and wait to decay. Wait for mother earth to scrub it clean. But that is going to take some time. Exxon Valdez (1989) was one fifth the size this one is going to become, and they are still finding Exxon Valdez oil pockets today.