Gulf Oil Rig Disaster

[Jack Houpe]

Andy, I believe the majority of Americans will agree with you. We are witnessing a great turning point in our country, what this man has done will saluter his own party in the up coming elections. Sorry of the thread but my 2 cents.

 

[Kirby Schrader]

The oil rig involved was built by an American company.
The oil rig was staffed and operated by an American company.

Charile,

Agreed except on the above two pieces...
The rig was built in South Korea by Hyundai.
Transocean used to be American, but it is based in Switzerland and registered in the Caymans.

I know... I'm being a pain here.
:happy:

I wasn't aware of that list of crap BO has bestowed on the Brits. Sigh...
(By the way, my wife is British)

Later,
Kirby

 

[domtoni]

Just saw thge last 10 minutes of Tony Hayward on Andrew Marr's AM show on BBC.

Summary:
- BP has a strong balance sheet with little debt and good assets
- BP will stand by all its stake holders even after the media is gone
- since 2005, BP has upped the levels of security and has hired many engineers
- deep water drilling has been going on for 20 years
- the probability of this happening is 1 in 100,000 to 1,000,000
- 7 levels of redundancy were breached
- as we all know, the BOP didn't work (and he gave no causes for it)
- scientists from Houston Tx, BP and the industry in general are working on finding a technical solution for this
- the industry is working together as a team (me paraphrasing)
- no real comment on the US government taking over the US arm of BP (sounds like a company too big to fail)

Catch this article from the Guardian from 2006:
BP exec attacks management style | Business | guardian.co.uk

+1 Andy - BHO is living up to what I speculated on after his election !!! Nothing, blaming and insulting.

 

[Ian Anderson]

I saw that interview too

Very impressive talker

Says people with claims are havign their calls answered within 9 seconds
Claim form completed and handed in to cheque in hand 48 hours (USA government suggested 45 days)

Yes a lot of people will have lost jobs etc but BP certainly seems to be doing right for the affested people

Ian

 

[Garry]

I read a great article by the former president of Shell Oil today. This disaster is a real rarity and there will be new research on preventing these issues in this type of deep water drilling. He also said that there have been 35,000 wells drilled in the ocean for the last 20 years with no bad results except the Mexico well in 1989 (140,000,000 Barrels) of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. Thats barrels folks. The Mexico spill lasted 9 months.
He also stated that some of the problems forcing deep water drilling has been complaints about being able see the rigs in shallower ocean depths from shore. No one wants to be able to see the rigs, but they want the oil. The wind energy guys are facing the same problems with no one wanting to see the towers from shore. We as a human population can't have it both ways all the time.
That being said, BP and Trans-Ocean will have a lot of discussions about who made what decisions and when so that this will not happen again. Their insurers and stockholders will demand it.
Garry

 

[Randy V]

Here's the best link I have seen so far for the live feeds from the disaster site..

BP Live Feeds

 

[Neal]

Good link Randy. Hard to believe it's been going for almost 8 weeks. I see a Fisker Karma in the future!

 

[domtoni]

Here the MSNBC interview with Heifmeister of Shell.

msnbc.com Video Player

 

[Al Wohlstrom]

Here the MSNBC interview with Heifmeister of Shell.

msnbc.com Video Player

I thought what he said about vacuuming off the surface was a pretty obvious answer, if I had thought of it also. I don't understand why they aren't doing just that! I'd be some pissed if I were a pelican.

 

[domtoni]

If I were a Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi or Texas voter, so would I !!

 

[Mark Worthington]

I thought what he said about vacuuming off the surface was a pretty obvious answer, if I had thought of it also. I don't understand why they aren't doing just that!

It's a matter of scale. Air/oil/water separators exist in many sizes but to scale it up to work at the size of the current GoM oil slick is no small feat.

 

[domtoni]

Am I surprised that BP and the Government didn't respond?

Talking Points: 6/7 - Video - FoxNews.com

 

[domtoni]

From the BBC website:

BBC News - Oil spill: Barack Obama criticises BP boss Tony Hayward

How about the President's comments.

 

[Keith]

Very very helpful... :blank:

From PC to BC in one easy move.

What a guy....

 

[domtoni]

Listen to Jacque Costeau's comments in this video:

Talking Points: 6/7 - Video - FoxNews.com

 

[Keith]

Sorry Dom, link is OK but vid not loading.

 

[domtoni]

Keith, it loaded for me. At first a Dish Network commercial aired, but here is the link again:

Searching for the Silver Lining - Video - FoxNews.com

 

[Keith]

Tried it with different browsers, Firewall on, Firewall off..

still blank video... :huh:

Never mind...

 

[domtoni]

Keith, Can't help you here. Work with a Mac and have no problems.

 

[Al Wohlstrom]

I find it strange that BO hasn't spoken directly with Tony Hayward at all! No hi, how are you, go screw yourself, nothing! You would think that they would talk all through this crisis.