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Update: early this evening, per NYT, BP reports it resumed the effort about 3:45 Central. Also, OilDrum now has a plausible explanation of what BP may be doing with each pause/resumption]
The New York Times is reporting that BP suspended its "top kill" efforts late last night (2:30 a.m.) after it became apparent the effort to clog up the blowout preventer (BOP) with a "junk shot" was failing to keep mud from gushing out the BOP and riser pipe. If you can’t keep enough mud in, it can’t work. That’s not good.
From the Times:
BP’s renewed efforts at plugging the flow of oil from its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico stalled again on Friday, as the company suspended pumping operations for the second time in two days, according to a technician involved with the response effort.
In an operation known as a “junk shot,” BP engineers poured pieces of rubber, golf balls and other materials into the crippled blowout preventer, trying to clog the device that sits atop the wellhead. The maneuver was designed to work in conjunction with the continuing “top kill” operation, in which heavy drilling liquids are pumped into the well to counteract the pressure of the gushing oil.
If the efforts succeeded, officials intended to pump cement into the well to seal it. But the company suspended pumping operations at 2:30 a.m. Friday after two junk shot attempts, said the technician, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the efforts. . . .
On ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Friday, Admiral Allen said the top kill effort was continuing, and that BP engineers had been able “to push the hydrocarbons and the oil down with the mud.”
But the technician working on the effort said later Friday that despite the injections at various pressure levels, engineers had been able to keep less than 10 percent of the injection fluids inside the stack of pipes above the well. He said that was barely an improvement on Wednesday’s results when the operation began and was suspended after 11 hours. BP resumed the pumping effort Thursday evening for about 10 more hours.
“I won’t say progress was zero, but I don’t know if we can round up enough mud to make it work,” the technician said. “Everyone is disappointed at this time.”
So, just as we described in this post last evening, they’re losing too much mud being blown out of the BOP and out the riser pipe by the pressure from oil/gas gushing up the well. That means they can’t yet get enough mud down the column to overcome the massive pressure of gas/oil gushing up the well and force that column of fluids back down the well. And the "junk shot" has so far not clogged up the BOP enough to reduce the loss of mud out the BOP top.
Tough problem. What next?
And note that Admiral Allen’s media appearances this morning, which used the standard BP line, "it’s going according to plan" and that they’d stopped the oil gushing out (which may be true only for the moment) once again did not reflect what BP knew. Was he misled? And what did he tell the President during the briefing?
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The folks over at OilDrum assess the result earlier today:
UPDATE 5: 11:09 AM The feed has gone back to the riser, and we are back to the oil and gas flows that we were saw at the beginning. Not quite the same shapes as earlier, so perhaps the block in the BOP was partially effective, but BP have now apparently filled the well twice and failed to get enough weight into the mud to hold the driving pressure from the rock. They could try again with a higher density mud, I am presuming that the second shot had a higher weight than the first, and that while the first left a small pressure imbalance, that the second was closer, but as yet no banana. (Though the Admiral did say that they had stabilized the flow). My presumption is that they will mix up another batch and try again – though whether they will try another junk shot is not clear.
The way in which you try to stop leaks is that you put the big stuff in first. If you can get enough of that to stick, it still leaves large flow channels, and so the second shot uses smaller pieces that fit into the gaps. Then you try smaller shots etc until you get as good a seal as you can. Doing this to plug water flows into tunnels can take several shots to get a total seal, working with sequentially smaller sizes of particles.
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It would seem that is twice in two days that the top officials
have been out there with inaccurate information.
And it always seems the inaccuracies have a one way bias.
There was a commenter over at The Oil Drum making a point that the Top Kill technique has never worked when attempted with a flowing leak, and the mods weren’t saying he was wrong. Just a couple of comments about doom and gloom attitude.
There’s the problem of the muds used having some abrasive properties. Mud being forced out of holes in the BOP is bad news, because the hole will potentially be made larger.
Maybe they’re just taking a smoke break.
The top of the BOP seemed to have multiple openings. Most peculiar. What caused that? The golf balls?
There was some discussion late in the thread at The Oil Drum about the junk shot having blown through the BOP and into the riser pipe before hitting a stop, and that this may have done some more damage to the riser pipe as it is not designed to withstand the pressures involved (the BOP is, but the riser isn’t). The same posts suggested that there were some indications that the riser pipe may have sprung some new leaks as well.
All in all, it doesn’t look good for the Top Kill/Junk Shot solution, and some people there are saying the only real solution that they are inclined to believe will work is the relief well that’s being drilled, although they may be able to slow the gusher with some other techniques like the smaller top hat and the pipe in the pipe options.
I am starting to believe that this on again off again status of stopping the oil reports is deliberate. The state of confusion works in their favor, as there are no real benchmarks, deadlines get passed, and the various trys merge into one info-mush pile that cannot be sorted out. I think if you go out on the street and ask one reasonably informed person if this was capped or not, they could not tell you. This is not to say they are uninterested, but no one can keep track; this BP and the government likes.
On Mr. O’ fabulous and his pony show there, what a sad, sad thing this is. This president has the stench of oil and defeat all over him. Get ready for our new republican overlords in 2010 and 2012, all thanks to Obama/Carter.
Two relief wells are being drilled.
Why can’t they suck up the oil plumes with a straw like device? They certainly have a lot of pipe on hand.
Suttles BP briefing
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream4&hpt=T1
on now
Sounds like it has all been theater to get Obama through two Press sessions, and the public placated a tiny bit until Memorial Day weekend hit. And then?
The solution is incredibly simple.
Drive in a massive screw with very course threads like an auger and then another one on top and keep adding them for several hundred feet. That will plug the hole.
BP needs the 48 hours to get the rest of their holding out of the US before the hammer comes down.
Na. OBAMA will bail them out , just like every other Big Corp. that pays him off. The bigger the disaster the bigger the pay off.
Might be time for the navy to seize operations and drop a warship on top of it.
wouldn’t surprise me, knowing that Transocean plans on giving a billion dollars to their shareholders — and you can just imagine how many shares their biggiewigs hold.
Seven Steps Leading to Containment Failure (Blowout, Pf)
Based on the information available to me thus far, I believe the Deepwater Horizon failure developed due to:
• improper cement design (segmented discontinuous cement sheath)
• flawed Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA / QC) – no cement bond logs, ineffective oversight of operations
• bad decision making – removing the pressure barrier – displacing the drilling mud with sea water 8,000 feet below the drill deck
• loss of situational awareness – early warning signs not properly detected, analyzed or corrected (repeated major gas kicks, lost drilling tools, including evidence of damaged parts of the Blow Out Preventer [BOP] during drilling and/or cementing, lost circulation, changes in mud volume and drill string weight)
• improper operating procedures – premature off-loading of the drilling mud (weight material not available at critical time)
• flawed design and maintenance of the final line of defense – including the shear rams of the Blow Out Preventer (BOP).
• improper well design (configuration of well tubulars)
From the information I have seen and analyzed, the failures by BP PLC and DOI MMS can be characterized as follows:
• drilling and well completion operations did not meet industry standards,
• operations were “Faster” and “Cheaper,” but not “Better” – the operation records clearly show excessive economic and schedule pressures resulting in compromises in the Quality and Reliability of this high-end deepwater oil and gas development system, and thus ignoring the Pfs; and
• the involved parties did not anticipate a blowout and, accordingly, did not develop effective, collaborativeand constructive interactions to ensure that the Cfs needed in case of a blowout would be available.
Three Steps to the Failure to Respond (Containment, Clean-up, Secure, Cf)
My analysis of the facts developed to date show that BP PLC and the DOI MMS did not develop or implement effective measures for:
• well control after loss of containment – blowout
• capturing the loss of control materials (gases, oil, water)
• clean-up of the loss of control materials in the open ocean (booms, skimmers, burning, dispersants)
Because BP PLC and the DOI MMS believed that the potential Cfs were “insignificant,” they were not prepared for the failures associated with the Deepwater Horizon operations, both in prevention and containment. The consequences of these deeply flawed assessments and decisions were catastrophic to life, property, resources, the industry, and the environment. As this incident continues to unfold, it is clear that BP PLC and the DOI MMS had no effective plans, measures or preparations for mitigating the Cfs.
The developing record shows that BP PLC and the DOI MMS had ineffective QA/QC of BP PLC plans, operations and maintenance. Diligent and effective efforts are required to correctly detect, analyze and rectify important flaws during the life-cycle of “cutting edge” systems and operations.
Violation of The Laws of Public Resource Development
From the information I have seen and analyzed to date, I believe BP PLC and the DOI MMS did not:
• properly or effectively assess and manage the Risks (Pfs and Cfs) associated with the development of precious and vital public resources. Pfs and Cfs were not acceptable to the U.S. public and environment. This appears to be a violation of the public trust held by the MMS and the corresponding assurances of the industry
• satisfy the legal Standard of Care (SOC) in design, construction, operation, and maintenance of a unique deepwater drilling and development system (due diligence was not demonstrated)
• meet the requirements of, inter alia, the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)
• act in the best interest of the public, which might be categorized as an issue subject to the “public trust doctrine.”
In summary, this catastrophic failure appears to have resulted from multiple violations of the laws of public resource development, and its proper regulatory oversight.
How Can This Be Prevented?
The likelihood of such failures as the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the subsequent containment and clean-up operations can be reduced to desirable and acceptable levels by developing and implementing a leading, collaborative and diligent Life-Cycle Risk Based Management (LC RBM) government and industrial regime to explore and develop a precious and vital public resource – offshore oil and gas reserves (life-cycle Safety Case regime).
The industrial LC RBM should be based on Pfs and Cfs assessed using qualitative and quantitative methods that develop and maintain Pfs and Cfs that are acceptable to the public, government and comply with the legal SOC, NEPA, OCSLA, and the Public Trust in general. Proactive, Reactive, and Interactive methods must be used to assure development of acceptable and desirable Pfs and Cfs during the life-cycle of the activities. These methods are founded on continuous effective efforts to reduce the likelihoods and severity of malfunctions, and increase the likelihoods of effective detection, analysis and correction of malfunctions.
The OCS Lessees and the DOI MMS should develop and sustain:
• a technically superior, challenging, collaborative, and diligent program of life-cycle QA/QC based on effective and timely detection, analysis and correction of defects and flaws
• High Reliability Organizations that effectively practice High Reliability Management (planning, organizing, leading, controlling) in all segments of the operations. This will require organizational Commitment (to develop acceptable Pfs and Cfs throughout the life-cycle), Capabilities (technical and managerial superiority), Cognizance (awareness of hazards and uncertainties that threaten acceptable Pfs and Cfs through the life-cycle), Culture (balancing production and protection), and Counting (development of acceptable costs, benefits, and profitability)
• programs of international industry – government – academia collaborative Research and Development projects and Public Outreach to help educate the public
• long term collaborations with international regulatory agencies to enable realization of continuous improvements and implementation of best practices in regulations of deepwater oil and gas exploration and production
• effective deepwater oil and gas development Technology Delivery System (TDS) that effectively engages the public interests, the responsibilities of the governments (of, by, and for the people), the technology of industry and commerce and the stewardship of the environment.
These recommendations do not address the hardware, equipment and structural elements associated with ultra deepwater exploration and production developments – the “engineering technical” elements associated with these systems. These recommendations are based upon analyses of the performance of previous systems summarized earlier. The primary challenge that must be addressed as a first priority are the human and organizational aspects. Experience clearly shows that if we are able to develop the “right stuff” – High Reliability Organizations and Management, then systems (comprised of hardware, structures, operating personnel, operating and oversight organizations, procedures, cultures, and interfaces among the foregoing) that have acceptable reliability and quality characteristics will be realized. We must have the right stuff to realize the right things.
Professor Robert Bea, PhD, PE
Deepwater Horizon Study Group
Center for Catastrophic Risk Management
University of California, Berkeley
Can’t look back.
If the pipe is metal, and even better solution.
Lower a huge vice like device, clamp it around the pipe and pinch off the flow. Pressure calculations should be able to come up with a solution to the torque necessary to accomplish the task. Most likely the flow will not be stopped completely but it ought to be slowed down a couple of orders of magnitude.
Flashback to 1979. It’s 31 years later and there appear to be no advancements in technology to stop the geyser.
http://farmwars.info/?p=2986
That’s why I keep yammering that BP assets should immediately be frozen. And I fully expect that to happen, too.
Right after I get my pony.
As long as BP can keep pulling off these insulting low-info pressers BP wins.
And as long as armed Authorities can keep reporters away from damaged coastlines, BP wins.
Without those, their pet pols will vanish and BP corp won’t survive to see 2011.
For a while there I was able to follow what was happening, more or less.
Then this morning I got totally disoriented.
First there was this weird chaos at about 8am, with shit flying all over the place. Either something blew out or it was the effects of a junk shot.
But then I heard that they had cut the pumps much earlier than that and were suspending the top kill for whatever reason. So how could it have been a junk shot?
None of that makes any sense to me, or to anyone else so far as I’ve heard yet.
The “official word” on the MSM until quite recently was that is was “going according to plan”.
wtf?
Not exactly what you might call transparancy.
Now I hear they have pulled one of the relief wells out of the game and are working on the BOP on that rig, perhaps to try mounting it onto the blowout?
I have no clue who is in charge of the information stream – if it’s BP and they’re bullshitting the Coast Guard and the administration, that’s bad. If BP is being straight with the government and it them that’s being unforthcoming then that may even be worse.
later today I got a glimpse of that area that seemed to blow, huge blownout crack in whatever that part is. I sure wish BP could spare SOMEONE to let us know what we are looking at on the livefeed.
but one weird note, I found that blog through a comment at the OilDrum, but later I couldn’t find the original comment that linked to it – http://pasaudela.blogspot.com/
not sure what that was about.
oh yeah, and how come CNN has access to all the feeds? why not other outlets — like BP or Deepwater Horizon Response. /end rant
I don’t know how they think they can successfully stop this thing if they (collectively) refuse to put together a serious effort to quantify the rate at which the well is flowing. The responses they have made to date seem to get consistently overwhelmed by the quantities and forces involved.
It’s clear now that this thing is spewing at over 30,000 barrels per day, if that’s the rate of flow that they have been trying to pipe the drilling mud in and the oil keeps winning out. Yet, USGS has a 12,000 to 19,000 estimate out there. It doesn’t appear that the information that they should be able to glean from the failed efforts to stop the flow to date (Top Hat, Top Kill #1, and now Top Kill #2).
Anyone have thoughts about why they would have been trying to introduce the drilling mud through the blowout preventer when they had that riser inserted far down into the pipe. Wouldn’t that have had a better probability of keeping the mud down the hole? I’m sure that there’s a simple answer why that wasn’t/isn’t viable.
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Some amateur guesses:
Probably relatively easy access to inlets on the BOP. Also, I expect they are fearful of damaging the BOP coupling at the bottom.
BTW: I was surprised to learn just how soft the floor of the Gulf is (described as several hundred feet of pudding).
It seems to me th top kill etc is failing because there has been no reduction in pressure and flow rate. The mud just comes back up. They have not been able to achieve equilibrium sufficient to introduce the cement. Their delays are human and understandable. They just hate to admit failure. I say give them a break. Nothing is going to change by putting off accepting the inevitable ……… and what the heck, some do believe in miracles. This would be a good time for one to happen.
They moved the postings round on the OilDrum – Prof Goose credited the link to whoever posted it and put a direct link in his preamble to the next thread.
What I don’t get is what caused the chaos at 8am if the pumps had been cut back 5 or 6 hours earlier, as is now reported.
And wtf is Allen talking about when he said they’ve “stabilized the well”.
I’m no oil guy, I’m a woodworker, but I think I know stable when I see it, and that was nothing like stable this morning. Looked like a hand grenade went off.
This is exactly the kind of thing Obama needs to get on top of, but is this information getting into his bubble?
Beats me.
In case you missed it, in the 60 billion passed today for our oil wars was money for the Gulf. So what happened to the law Obama keeps talking about? The one where he can’t intervene with a private enterprise and the law says BP is responsible for the clean up and the cost.
Ha, He and Congress scammed the American people again.
We’re already paying for the recovery. BP should pay for everything, damnit!
But no money for unemployment bennies.
So, I think it’s safe to say Obama and Congress are going to stick us with the entire recovery and clean up costs. I have no doubt that Obama’s legal team is diligently trying to figure out how to get the American taxpayer to cover all the legal fines coming down the pike for BP.
Scarecrow is upstairs!
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Didja see the Kabuki-theater cheap shot he took, to try to reassure the fisherman and coastal inhabitants down there?:
“The media may get tired of your story, but we won’t.”
I thought: “Gee, here’s Mr. Centrist, desperately chomping on bogus and utterly false PR turds, right in front of our eyes.”
This, from the president whose administration has done everything possible to suppress and distort the truth, on behalf of the corporate shits who’ve committed this environmental atrocity.
It was like watching the dirtiest, most degrading porn flick ever made.
“Long John Obama does Gulf Coast sweetie…leaves her whimpering for more.”
Right here: Joan Rivers’ finger-down-throat gag gesture. :o(
What’s going to be interesting when the court cases for this reach SCOTUS, is how Kagan (assuming she’s confirmed…) will vote. I think BP and their wholly-owned subsidiary, the Obama administration, will still have that 5-4 right-wing majority, but won’t it be exhilarating if Kagan, the putative “mystery guest” for the court, joins in and hangs some 6-3 rulings on any green suits to try to hold BP responsible, and with no cap?
Jim White is upstairs!
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Ha, hysterical!
I know what you;’re saying.
There he is, El Deuce’, with his nose in the air, promising there will be justice while three days ago he’s telling them masks? You don’t need no stinking masks. It’s just a sunburn.
And back at the ranch, Congress votes to lift more cash out of out pockets to pay for the damage BP did in the Gulf.
Such empathy, it tugs at ye heart.
You kiddin?
It’s never going to get to SCOTUS.
Those guys are gonna skip town after thiss shit.
We’ll never see them again.
Obama will pay off the BP chosen corporate loving judge to drop all the cases using some twisted bullshit interpretation of territorial jurisdictions, blah, blah, blah.
60,783 square miles, about 25 percent of Gulf waters now dead- off limits to fishing per Coast Guard.
The 40 barrels per minute mud inflow may need to go on for another 2 days – and BP warns they may run out of mud. The 60 barrels per minute mud inflow increase report appears to be in error as BP says they have only run the mud at a maximum 50 on occassion.
The “junk shot,” of rubber shards did not work as the pipe was keeping less than 10 percent of the materials. There have been two pauses in the mudflow – one for the junk shot, and of course back on Wednesday 11 hours into the operation as the Coast Guard reported the mudin flow was not paused.
Late Sunday after Sunday talk and 6 pm news we will be told about the next thing to keep us busy while we wait for the relief well in late August – most likely installing a second blowout preventer atop the original – but a bigger Top Hat containment dome might come first since there is so much time to kill.
Kabuki-theater invented Obama.
Another update: OilDrum now has a plausible explanation for what BP is trying to do with each pause/resumption.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6522#more
Some pretty dynamic images and video of flying debris and apparent rupture/possible explosion around 8am ET were collected here:
http://pasaudela.blogspot.com
Still no explanation of all the frantic mechanical activity/disassembling that took place once the dust had settled from that apparent blast (as shown by CNN’s live cam after the shitstorm, while BP’s cam lay dormant for nearly an hour).
Eli is upstairs!
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I just got a tweet from The Oil Drum that says this:
If you look at the live cam you can see it’s definitely not looking the same. There are crystals flying and it is cloudy from mud which may or may not be from the ROVS.
I don’t know about quoting the Oil Drum for our info. They’re coming down hard on people who express the angry sentiments we’re seeing on here, and they’re also doing a pretty good job of flacking for the:
“let’s all pay attention to what BP’s trying to stuff in the wellhead and forget all the bullshit that they’ve been stuffing in the media.” line of thought.
The technical “solution”, if there is one, is important, but we need to remember that we have a president who is responding to this only in direct proportion to how much political shit is coming down on his head, and a Coast Guard which is basically serving as a trained parrot for BP.
Clem, I think SCOTUS will stick around. :o)
If the anger really starts to jell and grow, they’re the Alpine Redoubt for the corporatists and their surprising new preznint. And I’m still wondering where fraulein Kagan will come down, if she makes it in.
BTW, when I read Eli’s comment, up the way, about the possiblity of Obama “taking advantage of this crisis” to make it’s recurrence impossible,I had one of the better laughs during this month of bullshit, sadness, and misery.
Again, we’ve got “progressive” bloggers shaving points for Obama on this like they were crooked NBA refs. Anyone who talks about what Obama might do or not do in this, without mentioning the responsibility he has for being in office 16 months without toughening up the offshore drilling regulations, or for signing off on NEW drilling a few weeks before Deep Water Horizon blew, makes the cut for one of those refs.
As someone posted on an earlier thread:
IF this were still George Bush in office, there would be froth coming out of progressive mouths, and we’d be right. That some of us are still pimping the “it’s bush’s fault!” meme, is nothing short of shameful.
I don’t believe the mud ever went down. It blew straight out the riser pipe at the kink.
Yes, the well must stop flowing with zero leaks before cementing has a chance to work.
BP has been lying since April 20th and anything they say should be disregarded unless independently verified.
The interesting question is whether Obama is inside this scam and helping orchestrate it, or outside, naive, and looking in.
I think he’s in on it.
And there is the old bottom line, of BP’s lying early and often, to try to low-ball the living shit out of the catastrophe, with the Obama administration toting the hod for THAT “junk shot”, and otherwise acting as if they were spectators at a professional wrestling show, clapping and smiling, while chairs flew and Shakespearean theater was enacted.
My questions remains the same: I am suspicious of every word that comes out of ObamaPec’s mouth. Why shouldn’t we be? How will we know if the gusher is stopped, partially stopped, or not stopped at all? Is there enough oil on the surface (not counting the giant plumes, which simply don’t exist, if you’re British Petroleum or Barack Obama…) to make it difficult to know the answer to those questions?
Clearly, BP and Obama have a vested interest in ANY optimistic report about their success in putting a cork in this disastrous event. Will they lie some more, if only to gain a little time in which to hope that people’s outrage will…disperse into sub-surface plumes, with the passage of time?
That’s a good question, isn’t it…(said one woodworker to another.)
learned a bit more about those gigantic plumes lurking under the surface and outa sight last night while watching the News Hour…..they had a scientist on from a university in souterhn florida explaining….he said they are not big black gunky plumes but rather astonishingly vast areas of high concentrations of hydrocarbons…not visible to the naked eye….hypothesis 2 is that they are from the dispersant/oil cocktail
speaking of gigantic plumes of gunk, just watched some live(?) video feed of the gusher and it looks darker than ever….does anyone know if they are still hosing the sea with that corexit stuff?
Guess I need to clarify.
BP will skip town, though I’d appreciate it if SCOTUS tagged along.
That’s what I was saying, and saying badly I guess.
You can bet your ass he’s in on it.
When his press secretary Herr Gibbs pulls the press in a back room last week, and secretly tells them to stop asking questions about BP, I’d say that we’re wading in shit.
They’ll give billions to their shareholders, then file for Bankruptcy for their U.S. Operations.
Just spoke with my sister in Louisiana. She works for an oil company, that is affected by the moratorium.
She said someone she works with flew by helicopter from Louisiana to the site of the leak, and for 50 miles she could see oil slicked water, and then the oil plumes.
My sister also told me that BP has been the Business Media Darling (per Jim Cramer), and that they have drilled the most number of deep water oil wells. Why? Because every time BP drills a new well, they issue a press release and the BP stock goes up! Yep., it’s all about drilling wells to issue press releases! I imagine that’s why they were in such a hurry to finish the job on the rig, and why they had a large number of executives there!
So this latest bit of P.R., and employing the Coast Guard to run interference, is nothing for the media pros at B.P.!
Professor Bea:
See my response to Elliott above.
There may be reasons related to BP’s stock price for the failures you cite. It’s not just the economy of maximizing oil production, and cutting the expense of environmental and safety precautions. And it’s probably not hard to show a spike in BP stock prices for each well “successfully” drilled and then announced.
I believe you have it exactly right.
Bankruptcy in the US, billions for shareholders, and skip across the pond.
If Transocean quikly unloaded 1 billion to their shareholders and nobody did a thing to hold it up considering 11 people were murdered, I’m guessing BP will be free to pull off the same thing.
We’ll get stuck with the tab, if we survive.
But gee whiz, there is some good news!
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bp-to-pay-69200-safety-fine-for-us-refinery-2010-05-29
That’s right. The Washington State Labor Department fined BP $69,200 for 13 serious safety violations at their Cherry Point Plant!
I guess the U.S. Government is too busy to inspect BP’s plants, and BP gets off with this slap on the wrist from the State!
Oh well, better than nothin’.
I want to remind everyone that we must never forget that eleven people were incinerated and their bodies will never be found because they turned into smoke and disappeared forever.
God did not terminate their lives. Human greed, selfishness, and gross negligence did.
No doubt, it will be coming out of our hides one way or another.