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2010-07-28 Economy

BP boss Hayward resigns over Gulf oil disaster

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Posted by Fred 2010-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 will cost over 32 billion dollars

BULLSHIT.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-07-28 00:24|| 2010-07-28 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 will cost consumers over 32 billion dollars after causing a record quarterly loss.

NO BULLSHIT.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-28 00:30|| 2010-07-28 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Besoeker, that's why I said bullshit, that's more truthfull, and NOT what it said,
Only way you could reach that high is to pay everybody what they ask and pay no attention to If the Bill is true or wildly ficticious.

Like Say, giving a Taxi driver $500,000 because he lost the paying customers that Might have used his Taxi.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-07-28 11:57|| 2010-07-28 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I have a question/idea:

Why not build a large inversed funnel and anchor it so all the oil from a blown well like this (was) is channeled into the the spigot and then into a pipe for harvesting? Sure there might be a little water at first but wouldn't the pressure from the oil expel the seawater; much like blowing air into a swimming mask?

I guess if there wasn't constant continuous siphoning of the funnel volume there would be overspill...just playing around, better than just letting it all spill out...maybe some splitters for the line so there are multiple receiving options?

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-07-28 12:04|| 2010-07-28 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 - I believe something like you mentioned was indeed tried very early on, but it was clogged by materials which formed a semi-solid under the temperature & pressure conditions at the leak site, stopping the flow out through the 'siphon' and allowing the leak to continue as if the funnel hadn't been there at all.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-28 13:29|| 2010-07-28 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks AH9418, fairly difficult environment indeed. Suppose in a shallow/less pressure environment something like that could work, or is it more to do with oil/ocean/etc chemical properties?

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-07-28 16:55|| 2010-07-28 16:55|| Front Page Top

#7 The first time I went to BOP school was in 1973. But I still remember the instructor telling the class that allowing an oil well to get out of control is like incest. It is something that should never ever be allowed to happen. And it is absolutely unforgivable if it does. The oil companies priorities have always been to control the well in the first place. Not what do if a blowout occurs.
In basic training I was taught that the M-60 machine gun was the last line of defense. And if that fails and the enemy is still coming , its time to fix bayonets, thrust and parry, and what ever else you can come up with.
If the an oil well gets to the point that the BOP's must be relied on to control the well , and the BOP's fail, you are pretty much at the fix bayonets stage. You are already way beyond the manual, because it's not supposed to ever be allowed get that far in the first place.

Posted by junkiron 2010-07-28 18:47|| 2010-07-28 18:47|| Front Page Top

#8 the BOP's fail,

BOP means blow-out preventer, junkiron? It seemed the most likely of the options google presented.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-28 20:52|| 2010-07-28 20:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, there's a little good news in the world: the microbes are on the job:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews_excl/ynews_excl_sc3270

Posted by mom 2010-07-28 22:21|| 2010-07-28 22:21|| Front Page Top

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