Lonestar_logic
Republic of Texas
- May 13, 2009
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With the risks involved it is criminal to attempt drilling without a responsible back up plan within a reasonable distance to put into effect. This is a clear case of not if but when and where. As important as oil is to our economy and national defense and the results of failing to contain a spill.....and as gung ho as the industry is to drill....who should be required to prepare? This was preventable. How? Not drilling ...ya halfwits. Maybe not with existing safegards ?.....then we should have and now will absolutely have to invent the fool proof system. Maybe retro fit one of those old aircraft carriers..or weld a couple of them together..... Just for emergency ops. Maybe stationed near Key West. Even if it took a week or two to get on site it would be an improvement on three fuckin months.
Couple o carriers should be a big enough platform to cap anything. Even if it cost a billion ...ten billion a year to maintain something ready to go it would be worth the insurance. Christ.... they should be able to haul a big concrete tube out there with sections and sink the thing down a mile or more to contain any spill in any weather... Its just a matter of scale. If its big enough and powerfull enough...nuclear... even a hurricaine could be dealt with.
You really shouldn't comment on something that you know nothing about. Fact is all rigs have fail safe devices such as blowout preventers (BOP), downhole safety valves (DSV) and pressure safty valves (PSV), unfortunately in this case the blowout preventer failed, which could have been due to improper installation.
Another fact is that oil rig blowouts rarely have a major oil release., the last major release was the Sedco 135F in 1979 drilling the IXTOC I well for PEMEX a state-owned Mexican petroleum company. That blowout released over three million barrels.
The last big release was Blake IV and Greenhill Petroleum Corp. Well 250, it was a workover rig that blewout in 1992 in Timbalier Bay, it took 11 days to cap.
There will always be the potential for accidents, and most accidents are cause by human failure not mechanical failure.
OOOPS! I guess we should inform Gunny that its your board now! Go fuck your self cowgirl.
We are just carrying a conversation here sparky. Being almost provably twice as smart as you I'll take my chances catching up to speed on the facts.
I didn't suggest there was nothing available or in place but the bottom line is that whatever was there failed. My suggestion is for an ultimate no fail back up plan. In hindsight it isn't such a dumb idea. How many barrels of spilliage is acceptable? You don't think the difference of 2million gallons then capped vs 100million gallons would be worth having the ultimate back up plan available?
No... that isn't it is it ya little faggot. You just like flapping your gums hard when ta can't find a dick to soften the blows.
Did I mention...Go Fuck Yourself. I'm glad Texas beaches are next... I'm sure your input will be real valuable down there. Fucking dolt!
I've been capping wells for over 25 years, I spent almost two years putting out well fires in Iraq and Kuwait, I believe I am a hell of a lot more knowledgable on this subject than you are. Your suggestion is pure fantasy, there is no device that can be guaranteed to work perfectly everytime, if there was such a device it would already be in use. As for as my input on this matter, when BP calls and ask for advice I will oblige them. Fact is oil rigs are safer than the transport tankers that haul the oil. Most blowouts on rigs don't produce a major release.
With over 800 offshore oil rigs currently in the Gulf having one blowout is not good, but overall the percentages of offshore oil rigs that have major releases are small. Hell even your boy Obama said, "It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally dont cause spills. They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didnt come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore."