Posted on 05/02/2010 7:35:38 AM PDT by epluribus_2
If you wanted to punch the U.S. right now, that would have been one effective as H^^^ way to do it, with many bad consequences.
thats right
There was a guy on with I believe it was Mark Levin, he was on the rig. Somebody provided a link last night.
It was just an accident.
That was my thought. One of the devices just happened to be at the shear point when the gas bubble burped. Sometimes $hit just happens.
What gave me the clue was Zero sending Swat Teams to the other rigs. It dont pass the smell test to me.
I once saw a work over rig try to test a squeeze job for over a week without success because the test pressure stipulated by the engineer EXCEEDED THE PRESSURE AT WHICH THE FORMATION FRACTURED!
When I finally got tired of listening to all this on the radio and “suggested” that the well logs be consulted before the next attempt it worked all of a sudden!
Thank you, FRiend. We have enough genuine outrages, assuming your take is correct.
FOX had an environmental scientist on a few minutes ago who actually gave a pretty encouraging asessment of the spill. He said the potential of a great disaster is there but doesn’t think panic is warranted.
A foreign submarine in the Gulf of Mexico is not possible, unless of course we allowed it to be there.
Well we have a Kenyan in the White house
You may want to check your facts before you make such allegations.
Did you see the environmental scientist on FOX a few minutes ago? He gave a pretty encouraging assessment of the damage so far.
He pointed out that the maps we keep seeing of the spill are just models but the reality is that it isn’t a solid mass of oil. He also said that the weather is helping to disperse the oil into the water column where bacteria breaks it down. Most important he said that the potential of catastrophe is there but we haven’t reached that point yet.
Personally I think there’s a great deal of hype coming from both left and right. The left is hyping it as a means of beating up on the oil industry and the right is hyping it as a means of beating up on Obozo.
if you really want to get down to who is responsible— it will be the mud engineer- he decides the weight of the mud that hold down the gas/oil in the zone.. hes the man.. if the impossible were to happen, the BOP’s or rams is suppose to seal the pipe by shearing it and closing it off at the surface..
The title of the thread is hype. Oil rigs do suffer the rare blow-out and then fire. That’s is apparently what happened on this particular rig, a gas blowout, then a massive fire when the escaped gas ignited ... and even static electricity can ignite the gas.
Obviously you didn’t get the memo. Engineers are smart, they know everything. They don’t need to consult anything or anybody.
Back in the early 80’s I think it was a Penzoil rig that sank in the gulf because Exxon engineers new everything.
I was an uneducated dummy so they werent going to listen to me.
We’re Exxon engineers. Our S@@T don’t stink.
As long as you ignore the other 858 fires and explosions, just on Gulf Rigs (killing or injuring over 1,000 people), since 2001. This one was larger, but it happens a lot more often than people realize.
“deploying SWAT teams to all drilling platforms? To conduct “inspections”?!? WTF....”
Ummm, I don’t think you’re talking about the same kind of SWAT teams the government is talking about. My suspicion is that there is a bit of hyperbole on the part of the government. A law enforcement SWAT team does not have the ability to inspect a rig. Frankly, neither does the government as there are precious few bureaucrats with rig experience. What I believe the government is talking about is a group of bureaucrats that have to put in an appearance in the gulf area for a photo op. The political class needs to look like they are doing something useful, instead of getting in the way. The hyperbole comes in with their nomenclature. Given that they are worthless in a situation like this, they have to project an “illusion of authority”. A fast reaction force of DC bureaucrats that an get their picture taken is what is called for, and what better moniker to hang on them than “SWAT Team”. It doesn’t matter that the acronym probably doesn’t even fit. They can figure that out later.
Granted, they are as useless as a real SWAT team would be on the water. It’s just that the government desperate to appear worthwhile in this crisis. It doesn’t have to make sense, but in a crisis Washington seldom does.
See if I’m not correct.
Do a little more research before you get so consternated.
Picky, picky, picky. It would be one Hell of a shot to launch a torpedo from a Cuban port and hit a drill stem one mile under water and a hundred or so miles away.
Are you sure you want to endorse that theory?
And, as an afterthought, it would not be hard to keep submarines out of Cuban ports if that is what we decided to do. In 1961 we had them remove missiles from their island and went head to head with the USSR to do it. It is all a matter of political will and courage on the part of leadership. With today's group the courage is lacking.
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