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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Expect pretrol prices to rise soon. The oil rig catastrophe is far far worse than feared. When the rig sank it ripped off the pipes connecting it to the sea bed, which are located 5,000 feet below the surface and we have no technology to go down and fix it. What that means is that there is now a continual hole in the earth's crust all the way down to the oil reservoir that can't be plugged and will spew millions of barrels of oil until it's all out. This is going to get worse and worse and worse. |
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BP reckon 5000 barrels a day being pumped into the gulf of Mexico..they say they'll accept help from anyone and have asked US military and other agencies for help in containing the leak as they may have technologies more superior to those available in private sector.
They hope to start drilling a relief well to ease the pressure, but this could take some time to complete
a real disaster
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By (user no longer on site)
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costs expected to top a billion
crude prices rising....but just now that is more to do with the weakening of the dollar against Euro which makes oil an attractive proposition
latest thinking is that the leak in the gulf of mexico will have a limited impact....but will wait and see
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think its quite shocking that they dont have the technology to fix it
I'm sure that they can if they go to the right people
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the pipes are a mile or so down....and now leaking in three places...nothing in the private sector it seems so they have turned to the military and other state organisations in the hope they have summat |
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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago
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"I think its quite shocking that they dont have the technology to fix it
I'm sure that they can if they go to the right people
the pipes are a mile or so down....and now leaking in three places...nothing in the private sector it seems so they have turned to the military and other state organisations in the hope they have summat"
I am surprised to hear that then
I saw a documentry about oil rigs a while ago and they seemed pretty clued up in all honesty
I hope they fix it soon then |
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By (user no longer on site)
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they're skimming it...using dispersal agents and burning in situ.....just heard on news the military now helping out...and that deep sea robots are working on the pipeline...but they reckon it's gonna take at least a few weeks to sort out |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Expect pretrol prices to rise soon. The oil rig catastrophe is far far worse than feared. When the rig sank it ripped off the pipes connecting it to the sea bed, which are located 5,000 feet below the surface and we have no technology to go down and fix it. What that means is that there is now a continual hole in the earth's crust all the way down to the oil reservoir that can't be plugged and will spew millions of barrels of oil until it's all out. This is going to get worse and worse and worse. "
No technolgy to fix it.Bollocks. So how did they install it in the 1st place. If they can get down there to connect it all together, then they can go back down and repair it. simples. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Expect pretrol prices to rise soon. The oil rig catastrophe is far far worse than feared. When the rig sank it ripped off the pipes connecting it to the sea bed, which are located 5,000 feet below the surface and we have no technology to go down and fix it. What that means is that there is now a continual hole in the earth's crust all the way down to the oil reservoir that can't be plugged and will spew millions of barrels of oil until it's all out. This is going to get worse and worse and worse.
No technolgy to fix it.Bollocks. So how did they install it in the 1st place. If they can get down there to connect it all together, then they can go back down and repair it. simples."
Hey, don't shoot the messenger. This was on the news. The valve connected to the sea floor has some sort of BOP on it (????) which enables the valve to be closed in events like this, but it isn't working or can't be enabled using the remote sub. |
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The Yanks needed the oil price to rise to have a positive impact on their treasury income, OPEC have been attempting to keep the price level for weeks despite intense US pressure.
All of a sudden there is an explosion off the coast of the US and crude prices are expected to rise......  |
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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago
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"The Yanks needed the oil price to rise to have a positive impact on their treasury income, OPEC have been attempting to keep the price level for weeks despite intense US pressure.
All of a sudden there is an explosion off the coast of the US and crude prices are expected to rise...... "
and they say there is no conspiracy in the white house |
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been following this on the news over past little while, with growing alarm
