Posted on 08/18/2011 8:53:12 AM PDT by thackney
Oil Ping
You pinged me to the thread I posted?
NO,
I set a bookmark (Ping) so that your article is logged to my Free republic list of commented articles.....for later reference (so one doesn’t lose sight of it)
Try it as I described.
It goes into your ping list even if you leave the To: field blank.
What leaving it blank does not do, is add it to my ping list. I created the thread, I don’t need to be pinged back to it.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see them give those leases to Brazil.
Oil Rising from Macondo Well: BP Hires Fleet of 40 Shrimp Boats to Lay Boom Around Deepwater Horizon Site
Fresh oil is surfacing all over the northern quadrant of the Gulf of Mexico. Reports of slicks that meander for miles and huge expanses of oil sheen that look like phantom islands are becoming common, again. Fresh oil, only slightly weathered, is washing ashore in areas hit hardest by last year’s massive spill, like Breton Island, Ship Island, the Chandeleurs and northern Barataria Bay. BP has reactivated its Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) program to handle cleanup.
That report looks like a lawyer trying to drum up some business.
Other sources report it quite differently.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/08/18/bp-investigates-new-sheen-in-gulf/
Cheri Ben-Iesau, commander of Coast Guard District 8 in New Orleans, said a Coast Guard plane was doing flyovers Thursday afternoon of the Green Canyon site as well as the Macondo well and was awaiting an update.
But she said the agency had so far found no evidence at the Green Canyon site that the sheen was linked to a leaking well head or subsea pipeline, nor that oil was still spilling into the water.
She said the Coast Guard gets roughly 10,000 reports a year of surface sheens in the Gulf, some of which are caused by natural oil seeps on the sea floor. Given the hot weather, the sheens tend to dissipate quickly, she said.
A statement from BP PLC placed the site of the sheen near two abandoned exploration well sites in the Green Canyon Block in the Gulf of Mexico, although its size and exact location wasn’t disclosed.
According to an online map published by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Green Canyon Block — a huge square-shaped area of water south of Louisiana — is south and west of the Mississippi Canyon Block where the Macondo well blew up.
A U.S. government official also said the area around Macondo was clear.
“They are not investing any sheens in the vicinity of the BP well,” Paul Barnard, Operations Controller for the New Orleans sector of the Coast Guard, told the AP on Thursday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/18/national/main20093934.shtml
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