Come on in, the water's fine!
Posted on 06/17/2010 2:37:42 AM PDT by humblegunner
BP began burning crude on a vessel in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, a day after an unplanned fire on a different vessel briefly stalled its collection of oil from a gushing well on the seafloor a mile below.
The new burn system adds capacity in BP's race to contain more of the 35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day escaping the blown-out Macondo well. A drillship, the Discoverer Enterprise, has been collecting about 15,000 barrels per day since early this month.
The drillship only collected about 10,000 barrels on Tuesday, though, because a lightning strike started a small fire onboard and halted collection efforts for about five hours.
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The shortage of pictures is probably due Obama’s moratorium on flyovers of the area, which I assume is to keep control of the information, and tell the public what they want us to know.
The Leftists after all are known control-freaks.
Example of a Schlumberger Evergreen Burner. From theoildrum.com . I would imagine they are gonna be heating up the atmosphere a little with these puppies.
I can easily see the reason for banning commercial flights over the area. It being if there is a crash scene you don’t want to have to try to do rescue/salvage amongst the oil that is there and have a mingling of both rescue and oil containment vessels. JMO.
Yeah. RIIIIIGHT!
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