God dam sons of bitches

[stilltrucking]

Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf

Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.

“There’s a shocking amount of oil in the deep water, relative to what you see in the surface water,” said Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is involved in one of the first scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil in multiple layers, three or four or five layers deep in the water column.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16oil.html?hp

[stilltrucking]

Scientists studying video of the gushing oil well have tentatively calculated that it could be flowing at a rate of 25,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil a day. The latter figure would be 3.4 million gallons a day. But the government, working from satellite images of the ocean surface, has calculated a flow rate of only 5,000 barrels a day.

BP has resisted entreaties from scientists that they be allowed to use sophisticated instruments at the ocean floor that would give a far more accurate picture of how much oil is really gushing from the well.

[Doreen Peri]

scary.... really frightening

[stilltrucking]

Sorry to post such bad news, but sometimes it seems to help to share a sorrow. Thank you.

Meanwhile I read an article that said it is a good time to buy BP stock.

BP facing a wave of pressure, but not from its balance sheet

One analyst report, issued by Citigroup, even declared in its title, "Reaction to the Gulf of Mexico oil leak is a buying opportunity."


Washington Post

[still.trucking]

"Had I a mighty gun

I think I’d shoot the human race" Emily Dickinson

[stilltrucking]

BP CEO Tony Hayward thinks environmental impact will be 'modest'

[stilltrucking]

Last week Rand Paul, the Tea Party darling who is now the Republican nominee for senator from Kentucky, declared that the president’s criticism of BP over the disastrous oil spill in the gulf is “un-American,” that “sometimes accidents happen.”

[stilltrucking]

Rand? I suppose he was named after his father's favorite author.

Interesting fact. The Minerals Management Service is the second biggest source of income for the federal government after the IRS.


Spillcam live feed
"BP's oil spillcam: A horror movie about the gulf that's deeply compelling"
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... "></script>


How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico From the PBS Newshour

<iframe src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/oil-ticker/" height="300" width="310px" marginheight="5" marginwidth="5" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

[stilltrucking]

Panel Suggests Signs of Trouble Before Rig Explosion

In the hours before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded last month in the Gulf of Mexico, there were strong warning signs that something was terribly wrong with the well, according to a Congressional committee that was briefed on the accident by executives from BP.

Among the red flags, the panel said, were several equipment readings suggesting that gas was bubbling into the well, a potential sign of an impending blowout. Investigators also noted “other events in the 24 hours before the explosion that require further inquiry,” including a critical decision to replace heavy mud in the pipe rising from the seabed with seawater, possibly increasing the risk of an explosion.

The memo from the House committee, which is led by Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, also shed more light on a series of important tests conducted that day to determine whether the cement was holding. Two hours before the explosion, an early pressure test was performed incorrectly and produced unacceptable results. The test was repeated and there was an “indicator of a very large abnormality,” BP’s investigator told the committee, adding that workers might have made a “fundamental mistake” in ignoring it. Shortly before 8 p.m., two hours before the explosion, workers were “satisfied” that the test was successful, according to BP’s investigation.

The decision was then made to begin withdrawing the drilling mud, a cocktail of clay, water and minerals used to keep downward pressure on the powerful fountain of oil and gas trying to push its way up out of the tapped reservoir

Philip W. Johnson, an engineering professor at the University of Alabama and a specialist in petroleum engineering, said in an e-mail message that with normal pressure test readings indicating a good seal on the casing and the temporary cement plug, it is not unusual to displace the mud with seawater before the cement job is finished to get a cleaner surface for the cement to adhere to. “But without a good pressure test, it would be reckless to displace,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/us/26rig.html?hp

[hester_prynne]

I am freaking outraged about this.
As if the message couldnt' be clearer!
We need regulations!
De-regulation made the whole free enterprise system unfair and those who have become rich off that are losers in my opinion.
The deluded wizard's curtain has come wide open and only he still cannot see it.
BP = Beyond Pathetic.
The winds of Karma are reving up. Can you feel it?
I can!
H

[stilltrucking]

I feel it too.

BP = big profits 5 billion dollars in the first quater of 2010.

BP May Have Tough Time in Court of Public Opinion
BP holds the record for the largest fine ever levied by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It also holds second place as well. BP holds an all-time record fine from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
http://symonsez.wordpress.com/2010/05/1 ... c-opinion/

[stilltrucking]

Pretty obsessed, my thoughts keep returning to it..

[stilltrucking]

The Ethanol Trap
The oil blowout will mean more subsidies for the corn-fuel industry. That's bad news for consumers.


http://www.slate.com/id/2256461/

Gulf oil spill offers a lesson in capitalism vs. socialism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 04013.html

[jimboloco]

oil's well that ends well
just ask the shrimp
eat me now, baby!

[stilltrucking]

It is a miracle. All that oil, two hundred million gallons of oil. It all just went away. Ok, move on folks. Shows over.

Reporter Prohibited
From Digging For Evidence Of Oil Spill Beneath Sand On Gulf Beach

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/2 ... 33692.html