Oil Rig Explosion

#326
#326
droski said:
some reporter then asked him if he knew the drilling practices were too lax (because of the old administration) why did he ok further offshore drilling? he didn't really have a good answer for that.
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You are a better man than I am, I can't stand to watch or listem to him.
 
#327
#327
droski said:
some reporter then asked him if he knew the drilling practices were too lax (because of the old administration) why did he ok further offshore drilling? he didn't really have a good answer for that.
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I can give you one reporter who will no longer be allowed to ask questions.
 
#331
#331
Cut the Obama derangement crap and say whether or not you agree that drilling standards have been too lax.
 
#333
#333
VOLinthaATL said:
The liberal thing to do. If things go wrong, blame someone else.
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You must not listen to the hours of idiotic conservative talk radio each day where all they do is blame any possible human malady on liberals.

Give me a freakin' break.
 
#336
#336
Velo Vol said:
You must not listen to the hours of idiotic conservative talk radio each day where all they do is blame any possible human malady on liberals.

Give me a freakin' break.
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It comes with the territory, libs have the White House and Congress, when things are going terribly wrong like they are now, who else is to blame?
 
#337
#337
Not sure if regulations are too lax. My initial impression is that existing reg.s weren't enforced properly. It's similar to the financial situation. Rather than come up with all sorts of new regulations - just implement the existing ones correctly and we'll probably do fine.

The government loves to make rules - it's weak on implementation. To compensate, it makes new rules...
 
#338
#338
Obama blamed practices of the previous administration for poor regulation, citing a "cozy and sometimes corrupt relationship" between oil companies and regulators.

He said that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar had instituted changes after taking over but that the "culture had not fully changed" within the Minerals Management Service at the time of the spill.

"Absolutely, I take responsibility for that," Obama said.

Obama also said he did not know the circumstances of the resignation of Elizabeth Birnbaum, the MMS chief who quit her job Thursday. Salazar was on Capitol Hill this morning, according to the White House, and the president hadn't had a chance to talk to him yet.

President Obama says administration on top of oil spill effort - latimes.com

he actually said he had no knowledge of her resignation. riiiigggghhttt
 
#340
#340
VolsNSkinsFan said:
Cool video fly by of all the ships used during Top Kill

YouTube - Overflight of top kill operation

if you look in the distance around 1 minute you can see a North Korean sub periscope, lol
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Excellent video. If you noticed.. there is a weird-shaped orange boat in the middle of the fray. That is the boat I'm on. The guy that shot the video (PO Pat Kelly) was onboard with us when we lowered the insertion tube. He's got some pretty good stills of the whole thing on the CG DWH response page. That crazy bastage jumped on a supply boat with no clothes, no toothbrush, no anything except the clothes he was wearing and his camera. I'll give him credit - he's got some balls for doing that...
 
#342
#342
Orangetoes said:
Excellent video. If you noticed.. there is a weird-shaped orange boat in the middle of the fray. That is the boat I'm on. The guy that shot the video (PO Pat Kelly) was onboard with us when we lowered the insertion tube. He's got some pretty good stills of the whole thing on the CG DWH response page. That crazy bastage jumped on a supply boat with no clothes, no toothbrush, no anything except the clothes he was wearing and his camera. I'll give him credit - he's got some balls for doing that...
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keep up the hard work and be safe, looks crowded on both the surface and below

anyway this was just reported by the AP

The Associated Press: APNewsBreak: New, giant sea oil plume seen in Gulf

Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama.

The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science's Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume recorded since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20.

The thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet, and is more than 6 miles wide, said David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school.
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#345
#345
If this is a different event, not related to the current spill then the charges of sabotage would start to sound a little more credible.
 
#347
#347
Problem with Operation Top Kill (excessive mud leakage). BP characterizing it as not serious. I'm not so sure.
 
#348
#348
Velo Vol said:
Problem with Operation Top Kill (excessive mud leakage). BP characterizing it as not serious. I'm not so sure.
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It isn't yet - but it could be. One of the problems here is getting the right mud weight. If it's too light, the pressure from the flow will just blow it right out. If it's too heavy, it could cause the formation to blow out and make things worse. No one really knew the internal pressures until yesterday and they certainly don't know the condition of the formation.

They are still pumping mud and haven't given up. The magic formula will end this thing for good... we just have to hope we get it before the formation is lost. If that happens - it's back to containment until the relief wells are drilled.
 
#350
#350
Exactly when did they stop pumping mud? That point wasn't made clear.

Whatever the case, that LA Times report that this had worked were, uh, premature.
 
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