Posted on 05/30/2010 7:58:09 AM PDT by Hojczyk
BP is now saying that its Top Kill approach has failed, and it is moving on to LMRP
(Excerpt) Read more at theoildrum.com ...
Here’s an explanation of LMRP, a gallons per day lost meter and a live stream.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail?entry_id=64659
Does anyone think this is going to hit the west coast of Florida - Tampa Bay area?
Here in MA - they have been saying that it’s possible the oil will loop around and affect the whole east coast. I pray they are wrong.
Girls , turn that nice manifold around and start sucking oil up to a tanker instead of dribblin' mud down to shut off a great flowing well.
It's flowing, flowing enough to glut the refinery supply enough to bring gas under $2.
Oh, wait, who wants that?
Anybody?
A show of hands?
Who wants the oil from our gulf in our tanks this summer?
It’s the same thing they tried a couple of weeks ago.
Same thing.
I’ve heard that one too - some “loop current” that’ll pull the stuff into the gulf stream - just haven’t heard much about the west coast of Florida. Thanks for the comment, rockabyebaby. ( cute screen name - loved that song when I was young - very young)
You can bet on it as ‘they’ want it to. Until the relief well(s) plug the Macondo Gore, there’s gonna be a bunch more crude in the Gulf.
re #5: FOLKS, WE HAVE A WINNER!!
I wholeheartedly agree, and have proposed similar.
Here ya go.....for old times sake!
I don't thing so. This is a direct connection that should eliminate the water mixing with the gas to create plugging hydrates.
Flowing enough to bring the price of gas to under $2?
One well would be enough to do that?
Of course it would, you just keep believing that and repeat it often.
You must be a top notch oilman.
I wondered about that. Is the oil ruined by the seawater, or is there some type of extraction method? (I KNOW it floats - I’m running on 1/2 cup of coffee, so forgive the stupid question please.)
It would only be a 60¢ drop...that well’s putting out an awful lot of oil!
No way to put oil / water / electric heater coils in / on anything down that deep to prevent the hydrates from forming?
Are the other leaks comming from further along this broken pipe, and if not, where are they comming from?
Go find out how much a supertanker holds, then find out how long that one well would take to fill that tanker.
I'll even let you use the high figure of 25,000 barrels /day that has been thrown out.
Let me clue you in on something. Well over 25,000 barrels/day is cut off everyday single day simply to do workover on wells.
That one well wouldn't have any affect on the price of oil much less gas prices.
In fact if this was a production platform instead of an exploratory well it still wouldn't have any real affect on the price of oil or gas.
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