BP Oil Spill Updates

What we learn is how tough it is to deal with frontier challenges because there are so many variables we do not anticipate.

An excellent point!

It is easy for 'armchair quarterbacks' to say what should have been foreseen and prepared for, but much more difficult to look at a cloudy crystal ball and foresee the future.

I have spent many years attempting to anticipate and prepare for 'everything that could go wrong'. Somehow, the unexpected still manages to sneak in on me sometimes.

I continue to be impressed by the response from BP. How much more could they have done, if not distracted by endless BS from Congressional inquiries, federal law suits, etc.? These are premature and nothing more than grandstanding at this point, IMO.

It is the political animal's specialty, to seize moments like this to stay in the news. They do not make a viable contribution, instead, as you point out are a distraction or to put it another way, as worthless a tits on a bull moose. All the verbal diarrhea by those who are clueless is appalling. Even news article do their best to sensationalize or put a biased spin on things, not to mention try and write about things they do not understand. This has been a very interesting event for me for many reasons unrelated to the technical challenges involved. It's taught me always take news with a grain of salt, totally ignore politics (that I already did), and choose what you read for the most reliable reporting.

The whole crap about suing BP is another issue with me. Instead of litigation, simply enable them to do the clean up,let them do what they can to assist in ecologic recover (though this is an area were we know far too little, we need only look at Cudzoo or the practice of cutting up starfish). We need positive action, not diatribes.

jf1acai wrote:

I've been extremely busy but someone at the SportsBook told me that BP says they are containing 1000 barrels of oil a day from the ruptured well head. Considering that I estimate that 20,000 barrels are spilling out of there, thats only 10% of the sweet crude being recaptured.

I'm sure glad you don't teach math!

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Funny JF1. 1000 barrels would be 5% VL, werent you the one complaining there arent any quality posters on here! LOL

Doc, I agree about the law suits. It is the same story as the EPA over the years, lots of money to lawyers on both sides and much less to just "clean up the darn mess" .

Per BP :

On June 5, a total of 10,500 barrels of oil was collected and 22 million standard cubic feet of natural gas was flared.

Rockdoc wrote: Even news article do their best to sensationalize or put a biased spin on things, not to mention try and write about things they do not understand.

Even the news, huh? Say it isn't so!

you just waking up now?

Per BP :

On June 6, a total of 11,100 barrels of oil was collected and 22 million cubic feet of natural gas was flared.

Per BP :

On June 7th, approximately 14,800 barrels of oil were collected and 30.6 million cubic feet of natural gas flared.

• Total oil collected in the last four days is approximately 42,500 barrels.

• Operations during this period were stable.

I wonder what the current percentage collected is? Maybe VL will come back and calculate it for us!

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