What to expect from the Gulf Spill

[Cowboy]

Great pics fogtender , thanks for the update . Sure dont look like theres much there if any there

 

[fogtender]

Great pics fogtender , thanks for the update . Sure don't look like theres much there if any there

Well even though the well has been capped a week or so, it still took the oil a month to make landfall. There is still a good amount floating around, but most will never see land either. Much has evaporated in the warm water, burnt at sea, dispersant's (soap) have broken it up and sank, Bacteria eats it in warm waters faster than cold and skimmers have picked up some as well.

The press has painted such a bad picture of the oil here all the tourist have gone elsewhere.

Obama shutting down the drilling has effected us even in Alaska, we were to be working with Shell on the North Slope this summer, instead that drill rig is headed to the South Pacific as well as the Gulf Drilling Rigs have left this area. That is going to be affecting about 30 to 40 thousand people that are going to lose their good paying jobs, and make us send even more money overseas to people that don't like us.

Stupid is as Stupid does....

 

[Cowboy]

Yep , worse thing is even if he ( or they ) changed his mind I doubt any oil rigs would come back for a long time . He stepped in a pile of shit & were all going to have to smell it for a long time I,m afraid .

 

[fogtender]

Yep , worse thing is even if he ( or they ) changed his mind I doubt any oil rigs would come back for a long time . He stepped in a pile of shit & were all going to have to smell it for a long time I,m afraid .

Once they are gone, it will be four to six years before they are free again from new drilling contracts.

Obama has screwed most Americans (again) and it won't be getting prettier. We will keep sending our money for oil to countries that don't like us, and they keep getting richer as we fade....

 

[tommu56]

Here is a link to an article on what engineering and operational screw up's caused the disaster

http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2010/OilBlowouts1008.html

 

[fogtender]

Here is a link to an article on what engineering and operational screw up's caused the disaster

http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2010/OilBlowouts1008.html

Well until they do a bottom kill and plug the well, and can bring the well's blow out preventer up to see why it failed, they won't know for sure why the safety system didn't work as advertized. Which is the main reason the spill happened. The blowout and sinking of the rig is a disaster, but the blowout is what turned it into a major event for the Gulf oil industry...

Had the blow out worked, the fires on the rig would have been put out, but instead the well's oil and gas kept feeding the fires until they sank the rig with the water they put on the fires.

And it went down hill from there.

 

[fogtender]

Well made it back home, since the oil wasn't on the water anymore, they secured the oil skimming operations. The outer barrier islands have oil all over them and they are trying to stop the cleanup there as well.

Obama wants the spill to be history since he made it "His" as does BP. Most of the States in the area want to have tourist come back and BP has bought off most of the Governors with large multi million grants, so they are all saying it is over. With the exception of the Louisiana Gov. who is still at BP's throat and Obama's admin.

They are leaving the oil on the outer beaches, figuring if you can't see it, it isn't there. Having said that, in a few years nature will get rid of it on it's own, but BP should be made to clean them where it is possible.

Anyway, this has been one of the oddest oil spills I have ever worked on. The Exxon Valdez took two days to drain out 11 million or so gallons of crude oil out of the ship. It took a full summer and into the next to do most of the major cleanups.

In comparison, the Gulf spill spewed out oil for three months, they capped the well and then after a few weeks called it good and started to secure the cleanup program with dozens of times the oil released as the Exxon Spill had.

Granted, the water was 80+ degrees and allowed the solvents in the oil to "Cook" off, but the oil that did reach the beach was as much as what the Exxon Valdez had or more.

Politics, don't you just love it....

 

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Politics, don't you just love it....

No, not really.

Thanks for the update though!

 

[Trakternut]

Well, Foggy, you done yourself proud. You opened this thread with a prediction of what would happen to the oil that spilt. You absolutely nailed it.
I think you even prognosticated that a goodly share of it would simply disappear and not even reach shore!

Thanks for leading us through this thing. Ya done good!

 

[fogtender]

Well, Foggy, you done yourself proud. You opened this thread with a prediction of what would happen to the oil that spilt. You absolutely nailed it.
I think you even prognosticated that a goodly share of it would simply disappear and not even reach shore!

Thanks for leading us through this thing. Ya done good!

Well thanks, but it wasn't rocket science, it is just observations of doing the same thing over and over again.

I do get tired of folks running around with both hands in the air sceaming the sky is falling when it is just a small weather front moving in....

The only real issue I see is how they fish there, the water is only a dozen feet or so deep, and they drag for shrimp and Oysters. The tarballs aren't going to be toxic, but they will smear on their gear and the harvest and nobody will want shrimp with "Stuff" smeared on it. But even after a year or two, that won't be an issue either, maybe even sooner.