Oil spill progression

[catocom]

been watching them start cutting now...
Interesting machine.

I hear they may/are calling in James Cameron that did the Abyss, and other movies.
I made the wheels for the under water tracks that carried the cameras for that movie.

 

[Mirlyn]

A hurricane might not hurt. The more agitated the seawater which gets mixed with oil, the less dense the oil is.

Would that make it a Category 5W20?

 

[catocom]

sounds more like a 90w on the fugi-viscosity scale.
rear-end dopicaine.
Could make for some hazardous driving conditions.

 

[catocom]

man, I swear it appears these guys are just screwing around on purpose.
Any machinist, or (saw-boy) for that matter knows you should have the drop piece
secured in a direction that won't pinch the saw blade when it starts to give.

I mean really. Who's running this show?
There's no good reason for an excused of the blade being pinched here.
Somebody needs firing.

 

[valkyrie]

been watching them start cutting now...
Interesting machine.

I hear they may/are calling in James Cameron that did the Abyss, and other movies.
I made the wheels for the under water tracks that carried the cameras for that movie.

Dude... put a link up. That would be cool to watch.

 

[catocom]

a link to which part?

 

[valkyrie]

a link to which part?

The cutting.

 

[catocom]

Cerise posted this link in the other thread...

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_int...local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html

thread link
http://www.otcentral.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29359

 

[Gonz]

I mean really. Who's running this show?

A robot, at 5200' BELOW sea level.

 

[catocom]

lol
well at least somebody finally made a decent engineering decision, and got the garbage off the riser.

Looks a little rough, but I think it'll be workable now.

atm I'm wondering where that tool is that supposedly had it locked up from
turning the valve off.
If it's down in the riser, it seems they might be able to free it up now.
OTOH I'm not at all familiar with that equipment, just once again asking the angular questions.

 

[catocom]

more cam feeds here...
http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam

 

[catocom]

I don't know what if any changes might have been made, but the guys
running the bots are doing some damn impressive work now.

 

[valkyrie]

more cam feeds here...
http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam

This is the better of the two live video links. Thanks, cat!

Watching the saw right now.

On a side note, I finally saw the BP responsibility commercial.

 

[spike]

 

[catocom]

well the got the cap on it, but I can't see much difference.
I don't know if they are pumping yet or not though.

I think they needed a bigger pickup pipe, but I don't know the logistics of
getting that kind of setup down there.

I guess we'll know by in the morning.

 

[jimpeel]

How about we thrust some perspective into this horrible oil spill "the worst oil spill in U.S. history".

Here is a chart of the oil spills which have occurred since 1991. Only two, the Ixtoc-1 Mexican rig spill which occurred in the (gasp) Gulf of Mexico and the BP Deepwater Horizon, were from rigs. All of the rest were either deliberate releases or from ships. All but one, the Exxon Valdez, have been larger than the current spill.

The average yearly spills from tankers and rigs is 250 million gallons year after year.

 

[spike]

How about we thrust some perspective into this horrible oil spill "the worst oil spill in U.S. history".

Twice as bad as Valdez and still going? Fucking crazy.

Any verification on that yearly global number? I could only find a 1.5 million gallons for US waters.

 

[jimpeel]

http://www.offshore-environment.com/facts.html

 

[jimpeel]

http://oils.gpa.unep.org/facts/oilspills.htm

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Second only to Saddams intentional leaking during the iraqi War I .

1909, Kern County, CA. Peaked at 90-100,000 barrels per day, uncontrolled for 18 months. Approximate total of 9 million barrels / 378 million gallons spilled.
-- Lakeview Number One

100 years later the city's in the area are just fine, life went on. we still pull oil from those fields.