NEW VIDEO OF BP OIL LEAK | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 935142 United States 05/13/2010 11:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.youtube.com] Does anyone know what size the pipe is? It's hard to tell and there isn't anything to reference. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 530536 United States 05/13/2010 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First, the "oil" seems to coming out horizontally of a break in a pipe that lies flat along the seabed. It isn't shooting straight up out of a pipe that would be going down into a well. Second, it's really difficult to understand how the water around this pipe could remain so crystal clear when tons and tons of black oil has been spewing out of it for 23 days now. It doesn't make sense to me. I know that oil and gas rise, but it seems like with that quantity coming out some of it would be mixing into the surrounding water. |
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J_Vaz User ID: 968920 United States 05/13/2010 11:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Second, it's really difficult to understand how the water around this pipe could remain so crystal clear when tons and tons of black oil has been spewing out of it for 23 days now. It doesn't make sense to me. I know that oil and gas rise, but it seems like with that quantity coming out some of it would be mixing into the surrounding water. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 530536I said this when the video first came out.. doesn't make any sense. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 935142 United States 05/13/2010 11:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No way that is 13,000 lbs. pressure. THERE IS BS GOING ON. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 923672Someone is probably getting their numbers wrong. It's 2000 PSI at 5000 ft. That flow looks like it would be maybe 10 or 20 PSI above whatever the pressure is down there. I don't know why they don't have a emergency "pipe plugger". In case one of these pipes burst or something, they put it over the pipe, clamp it on, and it cuts the pipe end clean and then hydraulically pushes a cap over the end. Is that really so hard? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 940810 United States 05/14/2010 12:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.npr.org] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 942322The U.S. Coast Guard has estimated that oil was gushing from a broken pipe on the Gulf floor at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day. But sophisticated scientific analysis of seafloor video made available Wednesday by the oil company BP shows that the true figure is closer to 70,000 barrels a day, NPR's Richard Harris reports. That means the oil spilling into the Gulf has already far exceeded the equivalent of the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil. You realize their figures (based on 70,000 per day) mean that 48 barrels of oil are leaking out per minute... Too me it just doesn't seem like it could be that much... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 940810 United States 05/14/2010 12:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Second, it's really difficult to understand how the water around this pipe could remain so crystal clear when tons and tons of black oil has been spewing out of it for 23 days now. It doesn't make sense to me. I know that oil and gas rise, but it seems like with that quantity coming out some of it would be mixing into the surrounding water. Quoting: J_VazI said this when the video first came out.. doesn't make any sense. Salt water is extremely buoyant and makes things float, maybe this is why?? |
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ScaReMoNgeRinG User ID: 955920 United States 05/14/2010 02:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow. That is a huge amount of gas along with the oil. Quoting: ResisterThere is no gas in the earth..... The Refinery will separate these different Carbons so they can be processed into it's respective product. The different Hydrocarbons have different boiling points. The CRUDE OIL is heated and through a process called Fraction Distillation the different carbons separate. With the Gasoline the vapors condensate and are collected. Another technique called Chemical processing is used to convert one carbon into another, such as Gas. The gas is treated to remove impurities and differant Carbons can be mixed to give different Octanes. Other components are mixed with the gas to give it's final product. The fractional distillation process produces about 250 mL of straight gasoline for each liter of crude oil. The amount of gasoline may be doubled by converting higher or lower boiling point fractions into hydrocarbons into the gasoline range. |
seriously User ID: 969242 United Kingdom 05/14/2010 02:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "And nobody really knows where it is, or where it's headed." Seriously? is this for real!?thats extremely dangerous and if it ignites its game over for the US the toxic fire would be so huge that no one could put it out the fumes and smoke would blow across the country poisoning everything animals plants and people. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 970191 United States 05/14/2010 04:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 776788 Excellent pictures. Thank you. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 970228 United States 05/14/2010 05:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think this is a little longer, and no talking head guy, just the pipe spewing oil. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 935142[link to www.youtube.com] Does anyone know what size the pipe is? It's hard to tell and there isn't anything to reference. 21" diameter pipe |
Iam4Iam User ID: 970304 United States 05/14/2010 07:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Greetings, Quoting: JimmyK 397865Are there not still three leaks? If the calculations are based on the video, as stated in the article, would not the 10x figure be conservative? Regards JimmyK There was 3 leaks, they capped one, that leaves the big one which is blowing it's ass off, then there the smaller one further away from the bop....that is flowing steady as well, but BP & GOV do not want us to view that one yet, as if this bigger one is slowed down or controlled, it is obvious that the smaller will become more heavier in it's flow! The main leak seems to be flowing from about a 2ft gash in the riser? Quote From BP Site: Oil and gas stream from the riser of the Deepwater Horizon well - 11 May 2010 This video, taken May 11, 2010, is from the larger of two existing leaks on the riser. This leak is located approximately 460 feet from the top of the blowout preventer and rests on the sea floor at a depth of about 5,000 feet. Official site video [link to bp.concerts.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 970382 Brazil 05/14/2010 09:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In April i was thinking that this is a big tragedy. Now, i think that is unbelievable. 1 part of oil, destroy 1000 parts of water. The dispersants chemistry destroy lot more. The Gulf will be another "death sea". Much more than "sad". In Brasil we do the same shit with Petrobras. More than USA. Very stupid. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 526387 United States 05/14/2010 09:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lmao! Awesome vid. Same vid as before but with drill baby drill chants! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 789642And guess what!? We still goin to drill baby drill! Hahahah! Fuck the Gulf drill more oil bitches! You people make me sick with that stuff.. this RIG had nothing to do with this country drilling for oil, it belonged to some other country. And drill baby drill should be 0bama's chant only for some other countryS right before this happened 0bama gave Brazil 400 million dollars to start drilling out in the gulf, his friend george sorrows opened a new oil drilling company down there.. Thank you for stating the truth! This is awful - BUT - ALL of us are culpable because we - ALL NATIONS - depend on oil - or use oil in some form. If it wasn't in the gulf, it would've eventually been in some other place. World leaders are totally corrupt. It's always about their own profit. Truly sad for those of us who indeed care about our planet. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 789642 United States 05/14/2010 10:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Drill Baby Drill" hahaha cute. Its the same video with a voiceover. Quoting: J_VazObama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement By Tom Eley 6 May 2010 [b]Last year the Obama administration granted oil giant BP a special exemption from a legal requirement that it produce a detailed environmental impact study on the possible effects of its Deepwater Horizon drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico, an article Wednesday in the Washington Post reveals. Federal documents show that the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) gave BP a "categorical exclusion" on April 6, 2009 to commence drilling with Deepwater Horizon even though it had not produced the impact study required by a law known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The report would have included probable ecological consequences in the event of a spill. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 938245 United States 05/14/2010 10:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Drill Baby Drill" hahaha cute. Its the same video with a voiceover. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 789642Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement By Tom Eley 6 May 2010 [b]Last year the Obama administration granted oil giant BP a special exemption from a legal requirement that it produce a detailed environmental impact study on the possible effects of its Deepwater Horizon drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico, an article Wednesday in the Washington Post reveals. Federal documents show that the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) gave BP a "categorical exclusion" on April 6, 2009 to commence drilling with Deepwater Horizon even though it had not produced the impact study required by a law known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The report would have included probable ecological consequences in the event of a spill. Ken Salazar is being sued by the Center of Biological Diversity for this very reason. I hope the case goes all the way to the Supreme Court. That would stop any admin, R and D alike, from not following the laws as well as hopefully strengthen them. For those that are serious about the environmental damage to our oceans, and, the harm to "humans" via community harm, I hope you support this case. So, yes, I am shilling for the Center of Biological Diversity. But is it shilling if one states their intent and cause right up front? Humm |