Another oil rig just exploded in the Gulf

[SP33Demon]

Terrorists?

No, just the oil companies blowing up another of their own rigs.

 

[PricklyPete]

What?
Posting on forums is a serious business.

right...so this should be in "highly technical" right.

 

[PricklyPete]

No, just the oil companies blowing up another of their own rigs.

Nah...BP blew it up to take the spot light off them...it's simple.

 

[spidey07]

I thought them having accidents was somewhat common?

 

[feralkid]

I thought them having accidents was somewhat common?

Absolutely.

Two or three blow up every day, I think.

 

[eits]

Terrorists?

yup, they're called oil companies...

 

[SlitheryDee]

That sucks, but I think oil rigs have caught on fire or exploded a few times in recent history. The mishaps just didn't result in major pollution like the BP deal.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Yep, offshore drilling is perfectly safe...:whiste:

 

[FelixDeCat]

Yep, offshore drilling is perfectly safe...:whiste:

You want to know something funny? The rig operaters are suing the government to lift the drilling moratorium despite news like this. Crazy town!

 

[PottedMeat]

Gulf Drilling Industry: Goddammit, now we're fucked.

 

[oddyager]

That sucks, but I think oil rigs have caught on fire or exploded a few times in recent history. The mishaps just didn't result in major pollution like the BP deal.

Yes, they have and most costly ones, in terms of human lives lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knT8AJv3SDg&feature=related

I remember seeing that on the news.

 

[Saint Nick]

You want to know something funny? The rig operaters are suing the government to lift the drilling moratorium despite news like this. Crazy town!

It is probably because all of the workers are shooting up meth and smoking weed while working on the oil rig.

 

[dmcowen674]

Vemilion rig owned by Mariner Energy.

which sold to Apache which picked up BP's rigs.

So yes, it's BP still.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally Posted by RedRooster
Terrorists?

yup, they're called oil companies...

So, should the oil companies be charged with "eco-terrorism?"

 

[PingSpike]

Its sort of funny we drill for oil like its going out of style, despite several environmental and economic catastrophes caused by it, but haven't built a nuclear plant in 30 years when they've never done any damage. (Didn't 3 mile island shut down safely?)

The nuclear industry needs to hire the same lobby group the oil industry has. Actually, they probably just need to find a way to locate the plants out in the ocean because its pretty clear no one really cares if they blow up out there.

 

[spidey07]

Its sort of funny we drill for oil like its going out of style, despite several environmental and economic catastrophes caused by it, but haven't built a nuclear plant in 30 years when they've never done any damage. (Didn't 3 mile island shut down safely?)

The nuclear industry needs to hire the same lobby group the oil industry has. Actually, they probably just need to find a way to locate the plants out in the ocean because its pretty clear no one really cares if they blow up out there.

Environmentalists won't let any nuclear get done. It boggles the mind.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Its sort of funny we drill for oil like its going out of style, despite several environmental and economic catastrophes caused by it, but haven't built a nuclear plant in 30 years when they've never done any damage. (Didn't 3 mile island shut down safely?)

The nuclear industry needs to hire the same lobby group the oil industry has. Actually, they probably just need to find a way to locate the plants out in the ocean because its pretty clear no one really cares if they blow up out there.

While I agree that we should start building nuke plants, the claim that they've never done any damage is absurd. Chernobyl is still a dead zone, even though they still (or still did until recently) operate the other reactors.

It's true that the plants built in america use a different design that don't have the same mode of failure, but there are risks to nuke plants.

 

[Gibson486]

Environmentalists, who are not college educated, won't let any nuclear get done. It boggles the mind.

fixed....

There are many environmental firms out there that would love to recommend it, but the demand is so low because of all the uneducated people.

 

[Patranus]

So a fire on an inactive oil platform now means an oil rig exploded?

Got it.

 

[Thump553]

They're saying that it "wasn't actively producing product", so hopefully no more oil has been spilled.

Deepwater Horizon wasn't producing either and wasn't intended to and we all know how that turned out. Certain rigs drill the holes, other rigs are brought in later to pump out the crude.

 

[Newbian]

So a fire on an inactive oil platform now means an oil rig exploded?

Got it.

They were using the storage to store TNT.

 

[Patranus]

Deepwater Horizon wasn't producing either and wasn't intended to and we all know how that turned out. Certain rigs drill the holes, other rigs are brought in later to pump out the crude.

Its also in 2000 feet of water. Very accessible.

 

[PingSpike]

While I agree that we should start building nuke plants, the claim that they've never done any damage is absurd. Chernobyl is still a dead zone, even though they still (or still did until recently) operate the other reactors.

It's true that the plants built in america use a different design that don't have the same mode of failure, but there are risks to nuke plants.

The Chernobyl plant was a terrible design and still required even more terrible training and administration by those running it to get it to blow up from what I've read...and existed in a very different political climate then are own.

Of course there are risks, but it would seem the 1970s nuclear technology in the US has a much better safety track record than modern era drilling and transport of oil does. Yet we look the other way on the oil thing.

Maybe its because we all drive pick up trucks and you can't run those on nuclear power yet.

 

[Raizinman]

At least this time we know that you don't need to send out boats to clean up the oil or hundreds on the shore. It all just sort of disappears once the leak stops. I'm more curious which movie star is going to be first on the scene to help. I'm betting on either George Clooney or Brad Pitt. LOL

 

[rcpratt]

While I agree that we should start building nuke plants, the claim that they've never done any damage is absurd. Chernobyl is still a dead zone, even though they still (or still did until recently) operate the other reactors.

It's true that the plants built in america use a different design that don't have the same mode of failure, but there are risks to nuke plants.

Chernobyl was an inherently unsafe design (positive void coefficient) that was being operated outside of procedure.

No member of the American (or anywhere besides the USSR, as far as I know) public has ever been killed or harmed by nuclear plant operation. For Three Mile Island, the maximum dose received was 100 mrem. The average dose was 8 mrem...less than a chest x-ray. Background radiation dose is about 350 mrem. For comparison, the NRC's incredibly conservative occupational dose requirements limit employees working with radioactive material to 5000 mrem per year.

Environmental concerns are equally minimum and are regulated incredibly conservatively. Don't even get me started on the two acre area of wetlands that can't use for storage during construction.