CAPT. HOOP
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Even while the fire is burning they have a robot trying to cap off the well head. Although oil is burning most of the problem is from the natural gas coming up. Once the well is capped they should be able to control the situation and salvage the rig. Looks like it will stay up at this time.
Fishing is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
CNN is reporting the rig has just sunk and still no word on the missing workers. Intital estimates of crude releases are about 8000 barels per day ongoing.
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"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory" - Edward Deming
"Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach" - Greta Thunberg January 2020
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safety factor is always at the top of the list. They have a good record.
I'm not sure about that hoop. So far, the hydrocarbon energy infrasturcture is looking pretty bad in 2010.
Feb - 5 dead in Middletown CT LNG explosion. April - 29 dead in West Virginia coal mine explosion. April - 11 dead in Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion.
Edited by swwind (04/27/1005:24 PM)
""Happy Talk" . . . . . Because it has worked so well thus far"
"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory" - Edward Deming
"Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach" - Greta Thunberg January 2020
"I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted" - Elmore Leonard.
Team Man Made Climate Change is Real.
"Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them" - Pope Francis September 2015
#1204822 - 04/23/1001:02 AM
Re: Oil rig explosion
[Re: swwind]
CAPT. HOOP
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Registered: 11/02/02
Posts: 7540
Loc: Empire / Venice, La
All the info I have gotten has gone south. The confusion has been unbelievable. The crude slick was 1 mile by 5 miles this afternoon. The seas are starting to build and the weekend will be hell out there. If I was booked I would be canceling for sure 21 mph winds late this afternoon with gusts to 25.
I will try to keep you posted on the effects of this disaster. It looks like the 11 missing may have not made it off the rig. There is a massive push to contain the oil wit 500,000 feet of booms within the next 12 hours and 500,000 feet already there. I think 3 skimmer ships and several storage barges on the way or already there.
What happens to our fishing remains to be seen. This happened 40 miles out to the south east so we have the east or south all the way to the west to run. A lot depends on mother nature. I hope the fishing is not hurt too bad by this.
Fishing is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
""Happy Talk" . . . . . Because it has worked so well thus far"
"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory" - Edward Deming
"Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach" - Greta Thunberg January 2020
"I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted" - Elmore Leonard.
Team Man Made Climate Change is Real.
"Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them" - Pope Francis September 2015
HOUSTON, April 27 (UPI) -- The oil spill from last week's oil rig explosion near Louisiana is smaller than a huge 1979 spill near Mexico, but potentially more devastating, experts said.
The oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon's well explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico April 20 is worse than the 1979 Ixtoc 1 leak, if for no other reason than that 11 oil worker's lives were lost, the Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday.
The Deepwater Horizon oil slick currently is approximately 80 miles long and 48 miles wide, the newspaper said.
The Ixtoc well poured about 140 million gallons of oil into the Gulf for 295 days before it was capped. The current spill is an estimated 42,000 gallons per day. It would take nine years for the Deepwater Horizon spill to match the 1979 spill, the Chronicle reported.
The April 20 oil spill is closer to the U.S. Gulf coast shores, and there is concern that it could damage the coastline more than did the 1979 spill, scientists said.
But marine biologists say the clean-up system is better now than it was more than 30 years ago.
"We're better prepared now. If they're able to clean it up out there in the open water, that's the best thing they can do," said Wes Tunnell, a marine biologist with the Corpus Christi Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico studies.
I'm not fat, I'm fluffy!
Judge Smails:
"Its easy to grin, when your ship comes in, and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worth while is the man that can smile with his shorts too tight in the seat."
I understand some controled burn off is going to be attempted today.
Ironically - The DOI approved Cape Wind today.
Edited by swwind (04/28/1006:03 PM)
""Happy Talk" . . . . . Because it has worked so well thus far"
"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory" - Edward Deming
"Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach" - Greta Thunberg January 2020
"I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted" - Elmore Leonard.
Team Man Made Climate Change is Real.
"Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them" - Pope Francis September 2015
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