Posted on 05/02/2010 7:35:38 AM PDT by epluribus_2
You are right, one of the things I bang my head against a wall about in all this. The SWAT teams being sent to the Gulf aren’t police; "SWAT team" is apparently a term of art used to describe mineral inspectors who are checking blow-out preventers on rigs across the region. (Hot Air is the only source I found who actually researched this and found out the truth.) I don't doubt that the Administration capitalized on the pop culture reference of SWAT to make people think he was sending police, but in reality, it was just some specialized engineers.
I’ve seen that clip. Awesome!
You hit the ball out of the park with that statement.
Oilfield and accident just seem to go together in the same sentence.
There are some of those for sure but not many in my experience. Most, at least the ones who survive in the trade for any length of time, are smart enough to realize that they DO NOT know everything and will listen to those who have - let us say - been around for awhile.
Some of my friends who are roughnecks have a joke that none of them have all their fingers or original teeth.
Listen to the caller to Mark Levin’s show on Friday. He was on the rig and told the story...Hate to bust your bubble, but mother-nature kicked back...not terrorists...
>>A foreign submarine in the Gulf of Mexico is not possible, unless of course we allowed it to be there.<<
Really? How would we know if we weren’t so busy being PC and the Apologist-In-Chief wasn’t so busy bowing towards anybody and everybody?
Nothing against the ASW Navy personnel.
Will this turn into Obama’s excuse to over-regulate and effectively nationalize the oil industry? Don’t let a crisis go to waste, right?
Not much of a joke if you ask. It is pretty much just plain fact!
Are you putting us on?
Steel will burn too if it gets hot enough. That crap about fire wont melt steel is truthers bullspit about 9-11. Take piles of jet fuel, dump it into a tower like the WTC, add oxygen, as the tower would do, acting like a huge chimney, and there is no end to how hot the fire could get. Steel could burn up completely.
This one didn't collapse, it sank. It was essentially a twin hulled boat, held in place by proppellors (thrusters) and a fancy control system.
So the proper question was:
When was the last time an oil platform sank and the blowout protector did not work and remote submermissibles couldn't shut it off either?
Fire melted steel also on 9/11.
North Korean Torpedo fired from mini sub ?
“This one didn’t collapse, it sank.”
Somebody on another thread posted that it sank because of the boats trying to fight the fire dumping to much water into it.
The people that rule know what caused it, and why, but the sheep will never know.
I believe that I know. I don’t believe it was an accident.
But I do know that the media will never report the truth, but, in the unlikely event that the media reported the truth, I would not believe them. They have lied for so long that I no longer believe anything they say. Even if it is true.
Years ago I worked for a company in New Orleans who supplied oil and water separation equipment to rigs and drilling companies. The also provided water clarification systems for drillers and for refineries, power plants, chem companies, etc.
Occasionally we would receive request for proposals from Exxon, the owner of the company, an ex Chevron engineer, would tell us not to waste our time. Over the years he had seen the same RFPs many times. He had responded in the past with many innovative solutions to the same problems. He never received a reply.
He eventually learned that when Exxon had a training class for newly hired engineers, they would assign various projects for the engineers to work on. Sometimes, instead of attempting to solve the problems themselves the engineers would send an RFP to vendors and have the vendors solve the problem for them. They got a good grade but learned very little from the exercise.
Listen to the last part of the Mark Levin show. A caller reportedly was on the rig when it blew and well described some pertinent portions of their operations at the time.
It was a blowout and the explosion a consequence of a previous catastrophic failure elsewhere, perhaps down below or procedurally.
Also, some reference to “SWAT teams” may be in reference to immediate response teams by the oil producers to respond to out of control oil rig explosions, not armed policemen with special weapons and tactics. Not that Homeland Security hasn’t misinterpreted the term and probably sent snipers in so they can “control it all”!
Thank you!
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