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Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine
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[quote:SR37 1019703:MV8xMTEzNTg2XzE3OTYzNDE0XzhGODc1NUQ=] Krispy, can you help me with something? Wasn't Indonesia mentioned somewhere upthread? Look at this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer In September 1978, Ocean Minerals Company consortium of Mountain View, California announced that it had leased the Hughes Glomar Explorer and that in November would begin testing a prototype deepsea mining system in the Pacific Ocean. The consortium included subsidiaries of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Royal Dutch Shell, and Boskalis Westminster Group NV of the Netherlands. Another partner, and the prime contractor, was the Lockheed Missile and Space Company. In 1997, the ship was taken to Cascade General for modifications that converted her to a dynamically-positioned deep sea drilling ship, capable of drilling in waters of 7,500 feet (2,300 m) and, with some modification, up to 11,500 feet (3,500 m), which is 2,000 feet (610 m) deeper than any other existing rig. The conversion cost over $180 million and was completed during the first quarter of 1998. The conversion of the vessel in 1997 was the start of a 30-year lease from the U.S. Navy to Global Marine Drilling. Global Marine merged with Santa Fe International Corporation in 2001 to become GlobalSantaFe Corporation, which merged with Transocean Inc. in November 2007 and operates the vessel as the GSF Explorer. The GSF Explorer is currently on hire to a consortium led by Marathon Oil, to drill offshore Indonesia until March 2012.[10] I remembered reading the other week about the conflict of interest between the head of NASA and an algae production company start up that was seeking help from NASA in mass production of algae biofuel and the head of NASA consulted with HIS FORMER EMPLOYER, Marathon Oil before declining the operation because... Marathon Oil is already working on their own algae biofuel production line. God, notice the irony in the name of the company... Omega Project. http://techpulse360.com/2010/06/22/nasa-algae-biofuels-project-engulfed-in-controversy/ Trent’s Omega project is hardly the only promising work being done today with algae. Sapphire Energy, which has taken money from Bill Gates and recently won a $104 million Department of Energy grant, plans to begin construction on a New Mexico demonstration facility this year, growing algae in open ponds, not in enclosed bioreactors. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-nasa-administrator-scandal-20100620,0,4126603.story?page=1 [/quote]
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