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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Costs have reached $2.65B
NEW ORLEANS – BP says oil from its broken well has stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April.
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Costs have reached $2.65B
Hoping the pressure test is a success. Fingers crossed!
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Costs have reached $2.65B
As Mark Halperin of Time Magazine wrote yesterday "too little too late."
The damage across the sociopoliticoeconomicoenvironmental (not really a word I know) spectrum has already been done.
The damage across the sociopoliticoeconomicoenvironmental (not really a word I know) spectrum has already been done.
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Yeah thats fair enough but at least we are seeing movement in the right direction now.
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This is good news. They're monitoring pressure to see if it will hold. Let's all hope it does. If it doesn't, then they'll still keep oil out of the Gulf by "producing" it to ships topside, but that effort would have to stop in the event of bad weather. If the well can stay shut-in, then it's just a waiting game until the relief wells are completed.
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Re: BREAKING NEWS : GOM Oil Spill - BP Stops Oil Leak
I'm "cautiously" optimistic on this as well - but it's a great start.
Keeping everything crossed that this is the beginning of the end of the geyser.
Keeping everything crossed that this is the beginning of the end of the geyser.
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Well hopefully it holds and a long term solution is being worked on, because from what I've heard this will hold things for the short term and give BP more time to think of a long term solution.
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Good thing he's not running the show, I can just imagine how that would go - "Well, the damage is done, no point in trying to stop it now".Tropics_Dude83 wrote:As Mark Halperin of Time Magazine wrote yesterday "too little too late."
The damage across the sociopoliticoeconomicoenvironmental (not really a word I know) spectrum has already been done.
That's a nice little touch of ironykevin wrote:Mission accomplished!
Yeah, that's pretty much it. This just buys some time until a more permanent solution can be applied. I wouldn't even be surprised if the pressures mean they have to start opening it up again a little bit to make sure it doesn't fail. Apparently if this thing were to fail, it would likely be in a way that would bring us to a whole new level of bad.KWT wrote:Well hopefully it holds and a long term solution is being worked on, because from what I've heard this will hold things for the short term and give BP more time to think of a long term solution.
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Yeah thats gotta be a fear, obviously its like damning, if it breaches the pressure would shot up the oil pretty rapidly back up so we need to hope it holds for long enough.
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KWT wrote:Well hopefully it holds and a long term solution is being worked on, because from what I've heard this will hold things for the short term and give BP more time to think of a long term solution.
There's no thinking. The long-term solution is the relief well. This saves a few weeks of oil pouring into the Gulf, though, if it works.
They'll probably reopen some valves after the 48-hour pressure test and "produce" the oil at the surface. If the well passes the pressure test, though, it means they can safely shut the valves when a hurricane or tropical storm threatens, rather than just leaving the oil to flow into the Gulf.
The danger isn't high pressure, it's actually low pressure. Low pressure will indicate that oil is escaping somewhere underground (possibly to pop up somewhere else). High pressure means the oil is being contained within the well-bore and the reservoir.
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Re: BREAKING NEWS : GOM Oil Spill - BP Stops Oil Leak
Now that we can breathe for a minute with the oil stopped, alternative energy anyone?
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Re: BREAKING NEWS : GOM Oil Spill - BP Stops Oil Leak
Category 5 wrote:Now that we can breathe for a minute with the oil stopped, alternative energy anyone?
If BP were in charge of the hydroelectric plant on the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead would be in Palm Springs by now. It's a nice thought - I'll be happy if this situaton just gets more big corporations to watch their Ps and Qs more carefully.
Thank God the leak is stopped. Now comes the long cleanup.
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gtalum wrote:The danger isn't high pressure, it's actually low pressure. Low pressure will indicate that oil is escaping somewhere underground (possibly to pop up somewhere else). High pressure means the oil is being contained within the well-bore and the reservoir.
Thats very interesting to hear but thinking about it now it makes plenty of sense, obviously if there is high pressure its all being contained but if there is low pressure then the oil is escaping thus allowing the pressure to decrease there.
Ok, think I have it sorted in my heads now thanks!
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Re: BREAKING NEWS : GOM Oil Spill - BP Stops Oil Leak
This is really great news. Now there's a "finite" amount of oil to be cleaned up and not an "infinite" amount. Unfortunately, yes, the damage is done, but we must do the best we can to try and clean up as much as possible and learn from it all.
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