Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible

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I saw something online that said Shell and BP get the environment and humanitarian awards when it comes to oil companies. I mean, I'm not ignorant. I know they didn't do it on PURPOSE, but I feel like they could have put more effort into fixing their rigs. Obviously something was wrong with it. Obviously they didn't have a good enough plan to stop the leak and to clean the oil.
 
If the barrier island get washed away, there is nothing out to help stop/slow down the storm surge which in turn makes the flooding ten times worse all along the LA coast.

I live off of Vermilion Bay. Any hurricane in the near future will most likely put my house under water because of the preventive measure they are taking to stop the oil slick from coming in. They are basically flooding the bay from the feed rivers north of it raising the water level and in turn pushing water out of the bay and towards the gulf. They are hoping the constant flow of water will act like a wall for the slick, but now the water level is ridiculously high.
 
Well at least you are slightly understanding. I can see the news not portraying everything going on because the average american probably can't picture/understand the technical side of things.

I have seen on plenty of instances when things are technically difficult to understand or explain, it won't get air time. It gets frustrating though as most people can't grasp whats going on and makes some terribly stupid assumptions as how to fix it and to stop immediately. More specifically the person who wants us to stop yet continues to by ALL products that oil generates. Just does not make any sense.

Believe me, every portion of the industry feels the changes and it is something that arms us to continue doing a better job. I am in Subsea field development as well as a few other OT'ers. Some others are in drilling, the geology side, the production side. I tend to be more vocal on it but I am one of the newer guys in the field compared to others.

I am sure over time, I won't say anything anymore, just like everyone else.
 
Of course cleaning oil soaked wetlands isn't easy. That's why you should shave your cooter and not use silicone based lubes.
 
What a stupid argument. That's like saying that if you're an American you can't criticize America. Or if you have a Ford you can't be upset with them for something they do. Stop feeling bad for yourself and your scumbag companies.
 
He's right though. In the grand scheme of things, the only people that really care about this are a very small percentage of the population of the earth.

The majority couldn't give a rat's ass and would much rather just find out which celeb is cheating on his wife now.
 
God, when I read that... I just shook my head. Much like our trash dump procedure. I hope more progress with a pipe-in-pipe procedure can be done but we really need to cut that riser pipe and get to the well head. Have not kept up with everything this weekend since I have been busy with my ACL replacement.



Agreed. I am sure working with BP after this is going to be a joy.
 
You are not getting what I am trying to say. The pressure kick all the way down to the platform collapsing..... these are things we plan for and do TONS of modeling, so we know how to optimize the situation and make sure we have the most efficient plan to stop the issue. The problem is, when we model, it is all based off of ASSUMPTIONS. EVERYTHING is assumptions. When the real deal happens, specifically since something of this size has NEVER happened, it is hard to execute it perfectly and get good results. This is basically a first of it's kind.

Shell and BP are VERY good companies when it comes to safety and not polluting. I am sure things were dated on the rig but everything as far as we know to the collapse was still in working order. One thing failed, which caused another failure, which caused ANOTHER failure. The problem was that the size of the disaster almost seemed out of the engineering range given the size of the blowout.

It happens. It is an accident and now we can only improve our techniques to make it all better.

End of story.
 
I didn't read whole thread, but what do you think should happen? Should they just fix the broken pipe and continue working?
 
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