BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Cementing the Well - and Open Thread

The Oil Drum ^ | August 5, 2010 - 10:25am | Heading Out

[Marine_Uncle]

Been off the boards for two days. Looks like they are not going to find any oil. People seemed to keep forgetting that the oil is going to biodegrade regardless of how thick it's column may be or how dispersed in volume conversely. What is still in the gulf will be no more perhaps in less then two or three months.
Meanwhile the GOM sea floor shall continue what it has done for a long time... slowly leak methane and oil.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ugly scorecard ....but looks true.

man I am weary of all this ..tried to focus on today's Oil Drum and couldn't at all.

They seem to have put a lot of cement down the hole.

I have spent a lot of time this week waiting in lines at the DMV...what a crowd.

[justa-hairyape]

Meanwhile the GOM sea floor shall continue what it has done for a long time... slowly leak methane and oil.

The ROV's that are supposed to be monitoring the sea floor basically park on the same exact spot or rise and move a few feet. Some have been in the same spot for a couple of days. If we do see a new oil seep appear, will probably shock the heck out of them. They should be doing systematic grid searches within a mile to 1 1/2 mile radius from the well. They did wide searches a few weeks ago and found some real interesting stuff.

[justa-hairyape]

Lots of cement ? They must be having some interesting leaks down at the wellhead, but are not willing to display them to the public. Oh well. Wonder if those old gas leaks are still occurring ?

[Marine_Uncle]

I too have become a bit weary of the whole thing as probably many. The past few days due to mental and physical tiredness due to hard work shifts just did not have the energy to view anything here or elsewhere for that matter. At least they meet their objective in sealing the well.
But BP gave the Obama administration and goons like Pelosi the perfect opportunity to now further control the oil/gas industry. We can only groan as to where this all will eventually lead from the regulation stand point.