WOW... Oil spill pictures.

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A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, along the the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
 
So failing to require something that could have prevented this should not be brought up?
 
Are you trying to say its just as easy to plug a well 5000ft below the ocean as it is to plug a well 400ft below the ground
 
Here's the problem with a simple "LOL SHUT IT DOWN" button:

They didn't (And potentially still don't) know the integrity of the shit down there.

The surrounding seafloor itself might be weak. It could be fractured - that's something that's slowing down the relief wells - they have to check for that shit. Simply turning off their pipes without knowing the extent of the damage could have resulted in just a massive fucking crater where all of it used to be, with oil coming out at a much more rapid place.

The blow out preventer might be fucked. That's the big risk with the top kill - If it isn't strong enough to withstand the pressure, it goes, and again, same problem.

There is MASSIVE pressure there now. Before, the sea floor was enough to hold it. Now it's got holes in it, potentially is fractured, and is just in general nowhere near as much integrity as it did before they started drilling.

Just flipping a switch could have made matters much worse without knowing the details.
 
Hey man we dont want to drill on the soil so lets go 100miles offshore where nothing can reach an oil spill it will be alot safer as its not in our backyard
 
how exactly did this oil spill happen?

and what is BP doing to resolve this problem?

i will never buy air or gas from BP ever again, if i can help it
 
you can't fault/blame BP 100% for this.


Halliburton and Schlumberger (two drilling companies, not production companies, which is what BP is) pay huge bonuses to engineers who finish wells early.

Usually the contracted time left is split up amongst the engineers when they finish early.

It can basically mean that these guys only work 3 times a year because they pull in $100,000+ bonuses.



While BP is taking the blunt of it, it wasn't their men drilling. IT wasn't their engineers doing this work. This was all contracted
 
Check the link I posted at the top of the page. The leaks (there are 2) are both in the riser, a pipe coming up from the well source to the Deepwater Horizon platform. When the platform sank, it bent the riser horribly out of shape, which caused it to tear. There actually was a blowout preventer, but that assembly is below the riser and was taken out of commission when the platform sank.
 
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