A sad footnote to Macondo

[Terrel L. Shields]

As I predicted, there appears to be pipe stuffed up in the BOP. There was no way that the BOP could be closed. The Engineer - who has ultimate responsibility for the operation of the well - waited too late to shut the well in. The damage was done minutes before the fluids actually reached the rig.

All the posturing by BP about safety issues on the Transocean is a smoke screen. Most of those issues related to the operation of the platform as a ship...which is what it really is. The drilling derrick and rig is just a small part of the ship. And there are hearings that are focusing on the actions and inactions between shore "handlers" and the on site managers who apparently were unable to go to the bathroom without Houston's [BP Engineering office] permission.

HOUSTON, Aug. 23 -- BP PLC has found three pieces of pipe inside the Macondo well with the largest piece being an estimated 3,000 ft long and hanging suspended from Transocean Ltd.’s failed Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible’s blowout preventer, a federal spill response spokesman said.

National Incident Commander and retired US Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said a second pipe, estimated at 40 ft, is parallel to the longer pipe and a third pipe, estimated at 1 ft, is crosswise within the BOP.

Engineers and scientists are running tests to determine the position of the rams within the BOP and to determine the best way to remove the pipes, Allen told reporters during an Aug. 23 briefing.

In addition, engineers and scientists are reviewing BP’s suggested procedures for removing the capping stack from the Macondo wellhead and for replacing the Deepwater Horizon BOP on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the Gulf of Mexico.

An Apr. 20 blowout of the Macondo well caused an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon, killing 11 people. The semi sank on Apr. 22.

 

[Mike Boyd]

...................wind chimes?...................

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

If anyone read BPs in house report on the disaster, they did the Bart Simpson defense...

Someone else did it.
Nobody saw us do it.
You can't prove we did it.

It was Halliburtons cement, so it must have been them.
It was Transoceans rig, so it must have been them.
It was Cameron's BOP, so it must have been them.

Mistakes were made by them...our engineers were in charge but they didn't do it. And no no, despite the testimony of every other major in the Gulf who said they would NOT run the long string of casing but use a liner instead, well...we are right and our well design was perfect... It was all those other guys.

 

[Tom Woolford]

S**t happens.

 

[EDWARD BERRY]

A Bit Like The Egg Problem.

People Eat An Egg Custard And Get Sick.

Salm. Is Everywhere.

Just Cook Things Well.

76 Years Eating Eggs.

 

[Restrain]

On occasion, everything that can go wrong...does. It came out this week that the Titanic disaster was worsened by the company rep wanting the captain to keep steaming, which hastened the sinking.

We can and do mess things up beyond all reason

 

[Big ole Boy]

Real poison

A Bit Like The Egg Problem.

People Eat An Egg Custard And Get Sick.

Salm. Is Everywhere.

Just Cook Things Well.

76 Years Eating Eggs.

... lets see 1000 cases of salmanila out of 500 million eggs .........

... nobody wants to see people get sick ...... but do the math ....... 1000 cases equals 1000 lawyers ....... equals ........ about 1000% politics ....... people get sick ....... from eggs once in awhile ....... like 1 in 500,000 cases ....... they eat it without cooking it ..... properly ...... ..... I mean ...come on ... the egg comes out of the oraphace of an animal ......... and may sometimes come in contact with other material .......

..... its the oraphace of Washington that is doing the real poisoning ....

.....step in a pile of Washington and see what happens to your soul ....

 

[nauthead]

My sister is headed out tomorrow evening for a two week trip to the site. She works for an environmental engineering firm hired to study the damage. Looking forward to her opinions on the environmental impacts.

 

[Greg Bell]

No oil down here...Just crabs..ouch...

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Just crabs..ouch...

better than bedbugs??

She works for an environmental engineering firm hired to study the damage.

Keep us informed...

1000 cases equals 1000 lawyers

at least someone is working.

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