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| Oil Well Blowout In Gulf of Mexico |
| 2010-04-22 |
| Link has current information and good photos. Summary: Deepwater exploration well blew out while cementing production casing across a new discovery. Cause unknown. Caught fire & is burning very hot - roughly 8000 barrels of oil per day will do that. About a dozen men are still missing. Weather is ideal but ... I fear they should have been found by now if they were going to be found. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #3 Bad business. Can't hold out too much hope for this missing. :( Damn dangerous work, between the coal mine explosion and this (sinking on fucking Earth Day) the usual suspects are going to make serious propaganda. Dawg bless the crew and their families. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-04-22 18:47 |
| #2 The rig has now sunk. The well continues to blow thousands of barrels of oil per day into the Gulf - the oil is being allowed to burn on the surface of the ocean to reduce the size of the slick. The subsea BOP and other safety devices have failed to close and seem to be incapable of being closed. BP is pulling two other drilling rigs off of other jobs to try to drill directional 'relief' wells to intersect the blowout well some distance down in the rock, at which point they will pump heavy mud to 'kill' the flow, and the cement to keep it killed. A tricky and not speedy task - think of pushing a 2-3 mile long piece of spaghetti through molasses to hit another piece of spaghetti. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-04-22 15:53 |
| #1 HSE Fail. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-04-22 00:24 |