The Oil Gusher in The Gulf

[conehead433]

BP utterly failed to handle this situation correctly. Their obvious only concern initially was to be able to capture the flowing oil to be able to sell it. When those efforts failed they sat on their hands while oil continued to gush into the Gulf. Now 36 days into this disaster they are finally trying to stop the flow, which is what they should have done immediately after this happened. They could then drill a secondary well to capture the oil.
Additionally our own government should have called for the immediate capping of the well and did nothing. At least Canada requires that a primary and secondary well are drilled to actually allow oil drilling.
Our dependence on oil will continue to cost us both in environmental damage, and in money flowing to countries that support terrorists, It's time to move on. No new drilling in US waters. Hold the companies with spills accountable with no dollar limitations.

 

[Darwin333]

BP utterly failed to handle this situation correctly. Their obvious only concern initially was to be able to capture the flowing oil to be able to sell it. When those efforts failed they sat on their hands while oil continued to gush into the Gulf. Now 36 days into this disaster they are finally trying to stop the flow, which is what they should have done immediately after this happened. They could then drill a secondary well to capture the oil.
Additionally our own government should have called for the immediate capping of the well and did nothing. At least Canada requires that a primary and secondary well are drilled to actually allow oil drilling.
Our dependence on oil will continue to cost us both in environmental damage, and in money flowing to countries that support terrorists, It's time to move on. No new drilling in US waters. Hold the companies with spills accountable with no dollar limitations.

So exactly where do you want us to get our petrochemicals from? Ooooh, maybe you have a new technology that will replace all of that nasty stuff we use in our everyday life? Maybe you have a real working perpetual motion device as well? PM me the details and I will make you a billionaire.

 

[Mark R]

BP utterly failed to handle this situation correctly. Their obvious only concern initially was to be able to capture the flowing oil to be able to sell it. When those efforts failed they sat on their hands while oil continued to gush into the Gulf. Now 36 days into this disaster they are finally trying to stop the flow, which is what they should have done immediately after this happened. They could then drill a secondary well to capture the oil.
Additionally our own government should have called for the immediate capping of the well and did nothing. At least Canada requires that a primary and secondary well are drilled to actually allow oil drilling.
Our dependence on oil will continue to cost us both in environmental damage, and in money flowing to countries that support terrorists, It's time to move on. No new drilling in US waters. Hold the companies with spills accountable with no dollar limitations.

LOL.

BP aren't interested in selling the oil from the well - the well was dead from the moment it blew. There's no way in hell anyone could save that well.

Why was BP trying to collect the oil? Because it's a heck of a lot easier to clean up toxic oil, if it's coming up a collection pipe into a tanker, than it it's spread over 100s of miles of beach. It probably costs $100-150 to scoop up each barrel of contaminated oil if it's coming up a straw into a tanker. Once it's on the beach, the cost can easily be $40k per barrel.

Canada most certainly does not require secondary wells to be drilled. However, it does require that facilities are available to drill them, if required. The fact that BP managed to break ground with its secondary well within 2 weeks, indicates that the facilities most certainly were to available.

 

[conehead433]

LOL.

BP aren't interested in selling the oil from the well - the well was dead from the moment it blew. There's no way in hell anyone could save that well.

Why was BP trying to collect the oil? Because it's a heck of a lot easier to clean up toxic oil, if it's coming up a collection pipe into a tanker, than it it's spread over 100s of miles of beach. It probably costs $100-150 to scoop up each barrel of contaminated oil if it's coming up a straw into a tanker. Once it's on the beach, the cost can easily be $40k per barrel.

Canada most certainly does not require secondary wells to be drilled. However, it does require that facilities are available to drill them, if required. The fact that BP managed to break ground with its secondary well within 2 weeks, indicates that the facilities most certainly were to available.

Well aren't you the genius. If they were only interested in stopping the oil flow then why try to collect it? They could have attempted to stop the flow immediately.

 

[charrison]

Well aren't you the genius. If they were only interested in stopping the oil flow then why try to collect it? They could have attempted to stop the flow immediately.

They have been trying to stop it.

 

[Pulsar]

Well aren't you the genius. If they were only interested in stopping the oil flow then why try to collect it? They could have attempted to stop the flow immediately.

I'm really trying to tell if you're joking or not, because I find it hard to believe that anyone could be as dense as you are acting.

They've been TRYING to stop it. Do you think they built that giant cap for fun? Brought in ROV's to try the emergency shutoff valving? Now they're trying cement and mud to simply plug the thing.

So you think that somehow they're only interested in grabbing this oil to sell it? Are you a conspiracy theorist too?

Do you even begin to comprehend the PRESSURE we're talking about at that depth?