GOM Oil Spill - BP Stops Oil Leak

[Dionne]

Admiral Allen is doing for the GOM what General Honore did for NOLA. Gotta love em.

[Stephanie]

Admiral Allen is doing for the GOM what General Honore did for NOLA. Gotta love em.

It was time to kick some butt and take names a few weeks earlier, but better late than never. I'd love to see Admiral Allen have a "chat" with CEO Hayward. No tea & biscuits during that conversation!

[HurricaneBill]

Admiral Allen is doing for the GOM what General Honore did for NOLA. Gotta love em.

It was time to kick some butt and take names a few weeks earlier, but better late than never. I'd love to see Admiral Allen have a "chat" with CEO Hayward. No tea & biscuits during that conversation!

Oh, Howard is going to appear before Congress. They'll probably rip him a new one.

[Sanibel]

The man whose job it was to lower the others to safety could have just jumped but he stayed and saved the others and didn't make it.

[Dionne]

The man whose job it was to lower the others to safety could have just jumped but he stayed and saved the others and didn't make it.

Do you have his name or a link? Men that sacrifice their own lives so that others may live are few and far between.

[Dionne]

The man whose job it was to lower the others to safety could have just jumped but he stayed and saved the others and didn't make it.

Do you have his name or a link? Men that sacrifice their own lives so that others may live are few and far between.

EDIT: His name is Dale Burkeen from Philadelphia, MS. He was 37 and is survived by his wife and 2 children.

[WeatherLovingDoc]

This is seriously interesting reading and comments on Hurricanes and the GOM.

The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - the Hurricane Season - and Open Thread

Posted by Heading Out on June 10, 2010 - 10:00am

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6571#comments_top

Deepwater Oil Spill - the Hurricane Season - and Open Thread 2

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6586#comments_top

Dionne, thank you for your posts.

WLD

[Ivanhater]

Thicker oil going to hit Pensacola beach soon

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/book_shelf/2164_TMF72-2010-06-09-2100.pdf

Some pictures I took on Pensacola beach last weekend.









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[Sanibel]

It's amazing how fresh the Gulf looks while an oil slick looms not far away. Looks just like that down here too.


Now BP is fessin' up to the real flow numbers saying 20,000 to 40,000 barrels. Some are saying 50,000 as a high number.

[coriolis]

Here's a hilarious video about BP spilling coffee in a meeting

http://bigthink.com/ideas/20460

[gtalum]

It's amazing how fresh the Gulf looks while an oil slick looms not far away. Looks just like that down here too.


Now BP is fessin' up to the real flow numbers saying 20,000 to 40,000 barrels. Some are saying 50,000 as a high number.

The consensus over at theoildrum.com seems to be ~30k bpd. It seems feasible because when BP is pulling 15k bpd out of the plume, the plume becomes significantly smaller but still large.

[Aquawind]

Wow.. I am again visualizing 30,000 of those 55 gallon barrels of oil.. that is alot of oil..

[Stephanie]

Here's a hilarious video about BP spilling coffee in a meeting

http://bigthink.com/ideas/20460

That was great! LOL!

[Dionne]

Wow.. I am again visualizing 30,000 of those 55 gallon barrels of oil.. that is alot of oil..

Oil is measured in barrels containing 42 gallons. Not that it matters much at this point.......tens of thousands of barrels every day, now on day 53? Wildlife suffering a miserable death. I wonder what Hayward is having for breakfast?

[Aquawind]

No doubt that has to be a miserable death..

Seems like they are accepting the current status and this is going to continue until August. I hope they serve him some serious greasy tarball eggs..slippery slimy bacon and a cup of thick black crude..Top it off with a match for desert!

[Aquawind]

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CNN) -- BP on Tuesday said it suspended the operation to siphon oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, after a fire aboard a drill ship.

The fire was likely caused by a lightning strike, but there were no injuries, and siphoning was suspended as a precaution, BP said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/15/oil.sp ... tml?hpt=T1

Hmmmm.. That's gotta happen to ships and rigs about a million times over the summer..

[x-y-no]

It's amazing how fresh the Gulf looks while an oil slick looms not far away. Looks just like that down here too.


Now BP is fessin' up to the real flow numbers saying 20,000 to 40,000 barrels. Some are saying 50,000 as a high number.

The consensus over at theoildrum.com seems to be ~30k bpd. It seems feasible because when BP is pulling 15k bpd out of the plume, the plume becomes significantly smaller but still large.

The numbers keep going up and up. Now they're talking about collecting 53,000 bbl/day by the end of the month and 80,000 bbl/day by the end of July. And "there is still the concern that the well could be producing up to 100,000 bd, and so additional capacity is still required."

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6603#more

[somethingfunny]

I have some dumb questions:

Just how large is this oil reservoir that is draining into the Gulf? If the relief wells don't succeed and the entire reservoir ends up in the Gulf, how much oil is that? (estimated)

Is it connected to reservoirs that other rigs are working?

Could the region's geological stability be affected?

[WeatherLovingDoc]

I have some dumb questions:

Just how large is this oil reservoir that is draining into the Gulf? If the relief wells don't succeed and the entire reservoir ends up in the Gulf, how much oil is that? (estimated)

Is it connected to reservoirs that other rigs are working?

Could the region's geological stability be affected?

Certainly attuned questions which we all are asking ourselves, somethingfunny. Just how big is that reservoir is a question of the hour, and I have seen estimates of millions of barrels to higher, but in truth, no one appears to really know. I have not seen reference to other current production rigs to it, suggesting it's so big that it's being drawn from in another area. I have seen a brief,but quickly not expanded on reference, that the sea bed may becoming unstable several miles from the blown out Deepwater Rig (ROV pictures of leakage of something ? gas or other) but this appears speculative. There is one individual, a Mr. Simmons however, who has talked about this for a long while, yet most find it not credible.

Here is a link to Relief Wells, and all you want to know about them from June 14, 2010 on The Oil Drum. As time passes, it seems moods are darkening some on discussion of issues as borne out on this thread, contributed partly I suspect due to the increase in estimates of the amount of oil escaping from the blown out well per day and the frank reality of the situation.

BP's Deepwater Oil Spill: A Statistical Analysis of How Many Relief Wells Are Needed

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6573

For an oil man's personal commentary about sea bed integrity:[-] dougr on June 13, 2010 - 3:17am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Editors' note for first-time visitors: What follows is a comment from a The Oil Drum reader.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593#comment-648967

I listened to the President's speech last night.

My best to you all today,
WLD

[warren_c]

I have some dumb questions:

Just how large is this oil reservoir that is draining into the Gulf? If the relief wells don't succeed and the entire reservoir ends up in the Gulf, how much oil is that? (estimated)

Estimated size of the oil deposit:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/article/1 ... -of-mexico

Estimated barrels in the deep water horizon well formation:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0529/ ... o-the-Gulf