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OhSoOrdinary

OhSoOrdinary

New York, NY
July 2006

APR 21, 2010 03:22 AM

NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Coast Guard says it is searching for some missing workers after an explosion at an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana's coast.

Coast Guard senior petty officer Mike O'Berry said Tuesday that authorities hope all the workers are aboard life boats in the area.

The explosion was reported around 10 p.m. Tuesday, O'Berry said. There were 126 people aboard the rig, which is 52 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, he said.



LINK

Obviously, this story is breaking and we don't know yet if the crews are ok. But we also don't know if any damage is being done to the Gulf of Mexico. I'm curious to see if more information sends this the way of the mining tragedy (i.e., safety infractions) or if it was just an isolated event.

Mr_Matt_

Mr_Matt_

Pompano Beach, FL
July 2005

APR 21, 2010 04:43 AM

Maybe this will slow the rush to put new rigs off of Florida. Sucks for those workers too.

ftw77

ftw77

Spring, TX
June 2008

APR 21, 2010 09:11 AM

Chances are there will be a safety stand down in the gulf until the cause is brought to light. Then if the cause was a mechanical failure all rigs will need to be inspected berfore operations will commence. Since these rigs are not producing but drilling or completeing non existing wells, production of oil should not be effected and prices SHOULD remain as is. That said i hope that those 11 guys are ok but chances are a fire of that magnitude.....i doubt it.

Ferretbite

Ferretbite

Mexico
September 2006

APR 21, 2010 01:17 PM

I'll ask my girlfriend, she's in the oil business and even though we're in different countries they probably have updates on this sort of thing. I do hope that the crews are ok too.

Mr_Matt_

Mr_Matt_

Pompano Beach, FL
July 2005

APR 21, 2010 03:41 PM

So the rig is still on fire and listing. There are still 11 people missing. And it's leaking oil.

Drill Baby, Drill.

woohoo

Tallboy___66

Tallboy___66

Chicago, IL
December 2009

APR 21, 2010 04:54 PM

Doesn't look good for those workers frown but we could always start using alternative enrgy sources that don't burn or explode.

Just sayin'. wink

ftw77

ftw77

Spring, TX
June 2008

APR 22, 2010 06:55 AM

The executives at transocean are saying that it was a blowout. If that is the cause i have some questions.

1) Why wasnt somebody watching the gas alarms, trip tanks or mud returns for the signs of a blow out

2) Why didnt anybody activate the blowout preventer. (Large piece of equipment that goes on the well head to shut in the well incase of such an incident).

3) What was the cause of ignition beacuse all equipment on the rig must be intrinsically safe.

This was absolutely avoidable if everybody did their job. Yet again BP is proving that they are cursed.

Mr_Matt_

Mr_Matt_

Pompano Beach, FL
July 2005

APR 22, 2010 01:22 PM

No need to worry anymore!

The rig sank.

OhSoOrdinary

OhSoOrdinary

New York, NY
July 2006

APR 22, 2010 04:29 PM

So....

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

is there an oil spill?

IDGAS

IDGAS

Portland, ME
March 2004

APR 22, 2010 07:08 PM

OhSoOrdinary said:
So....

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

is there an oil spill?


Yes.

Efforts to contain the damage from the burning rig became profoundly more complicated when it sank, leaving a one-by-five-mile sheen of what the authorities said was “crude oil mix.”

The authorities also do not know if some 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel aboard the rig were now part of the leak, having possibly been released in a series of explosions that responders observed Thursday morning before the rig sank.

Admiral Landry said the sheen on the surface appeared to be residual oil from the explosion Tuesday night and the raging fire that followed. But, she added, “we don’t know what’s going on below the surface of the water.” Link



OhSoOrdinary

OhSoOrdinary

New York, NY
July 2006

APR 23, 2010 05:12 AM

Fuckin' right! Offshore drilling!

Chrysis

Chrysis

SUICIDEGIRL

Ohio, USA

APR 23, 2010 05:53 AM

On Earth Day. Yeah. Wah-wah. blackeyed

IDGAS

IDGAS

Portland, ME
March 2004

APR 23, 2010 10:51 AM

OhSoOrdinary said: Fuckin' right! Offshore drilling!


Good news it look like the well is NOT leaking!

A Coast Guard official said Friday morning that oil was not spilling from a deep-water well off the coast of Louisiana, apparently easing concerns of a potential environmental disaster days after an explosion on an oil rig left 11 workers missing and a one-by-five-mile sheen of oil on the Gulf of Mexico

“It does not appear that oil is emanating from the hole,” said Katherine McNamara, a fireman with the Coast Guard.

Ms. McNamara said the assessment was made by using a remote-controlled device equipped with a camera and sonar. Officials with the Coast Guard and BP, the company leasing the rig, said they were still trying to determine why oil was not escaping from the well, and whether that remains a possibility. Link




Tallboy___66

Tallboy___66

Chicago, IL
December 2009

APR 24, 2010 08:48 PM

IDGAS said:

OhSoOrdinary said: Fuckin' right! Offshore drilling!


Good news it look like the well is NOT leaking!

A Coast Guard official said Friday morning that oil was not spilling from a deep-water well off the coast of Louisiana, apparently easing concerns of a potential environmental disaster days after an explosion on an oil rig left 11 workers missing and a one-by-five-mile sheen of oil on the Gulf of Mexico

“It does not appear that oil is emanating from the hole,” said Katherine McNamara, a fireman with the Coast Guard.

Ms. McNamara said the assessment was made by using a remote-controlled device equipped with a camera and sonar. Officials with the Coast Guard and BP, the company leasing the rig, said they were still trying to determine why oil was not escaping from the well, and whether that remains a possibility. Link






According to the video on tv this morning you can see the oil separating as a ship went through and estimates put the spill at 100 sq miles.

IDGAS

IDGAS

Portland, ME
March 2004

APR 24, 2010 08:59 PM

We are back to fucked again
Oil Leaking Underwater From Well in Rig Blast

Robotic devices monitoring the deepwater well where a giant oil rig exploded and sank last week have discovered oil leaking from the well, a development that a senior Coast Guard official on Saturday called a “game changer.”

The oil was coming from two places in the riser — the 5,000-foot pipe that connects the well at the ocean floor to the drilling platform on the surface. The rig, the Deepwater Horizon, which sank Thursday 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, detached from the riser.

The riser, following a circuitous route underwater, now extends from the well to 1,500 feet above the seabed and then buckles back down.

On Friday, a remotely operated device began scanning the riser to determine if there were any leaks, said Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, commander of the Coast Guard’s Eighth District. The discovery of the leaks was made Saturday morning.

Roughly 1,000 barrels of oil a day are estimated to be emanating from the riser, officials said. They said that both leaks were on the seabed.


Mr_Matt_

Mr_Matt_

Pompano Beach, FL
July 2005

APR 25, 2010 08:34 AM

IDGAS said:
We are back to fucked again


I can't wait until they put a few off of Ft. Lauderdale and South Beach. They make excellent aids to navigation.

mildots

mildots

USA
September 2007

APR 27, 2010 02:54 PM

Mr_Matt_ said:
IDGAS said:
We are back to fucked again


I can't wait until they put a few off of Ft. Lauderdale and South Beach. They make excellent aids to navigation.




CoyoteMike

CoyoteMike

Iowa City, IA
May 2006

APR 29, 2010 03:05 PM

*uneducated voice*

How's that "drill, baby, drill" workin' out for ya?

Mr_Matt_

Mr_Matt_

Pompano Beach, FL
July 2005

APR 29, 2010 04:06 PM

Can any of our resident conservative voices weigh in on this? I'd like to hear if anything has changed their minds.

Maybe I'll ask the conservative group.

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

APR 29, 2010 05:48 PM

I think most conservatives would protest that this is one single incident. They would be wrong, of course--there's a long history of such incidents; this one is a relatively small disaster in terms of fatalities, but high and rising quickly in terms of damage to the ecosystem. It's already larger than the Exxon-Valdez incident.

Otoki

Otoki

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

APR 29, 2010 06:48 PM

motorfirebox said:
I think most conservatives would protest that this is one single incident. They would be wrong, of course--there's a long history of such incidents; this one is a relatively small disaster in terms of fatalities, but high and rising quickly in terms of damage to the ecosystem. It's already larger than the Exxon-Valdez incident.



To be fair, I think at least one of the conservatives on this site would argue against protecting the ecosystem if it requires limiting a company's earning potential, or that restrictions and regulations on the operation of these rigs cripples the free market's ability to naturally balance the economy or something.

IKCSmiley

ikcsmiley

Asheville, NC
July 2003

APR 29, 2010 07:05 PM

Word is this thing will be bigger than Exxon Valdex (11 mil gallons) - this thing is spilling 200,000 gallons a day

IKCSmiley

ikcsmiley

Asheville, NC
July 2003

APR 29, 2010 07:06 PM

dp

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

APR 29, 2010 09:07 PM

IKCSmiley said:
Word is this thing will be bigger than Exxon Valdex (11 mil gallons) - this thing is spilling 200,000 gallons a day


200k a day? Wow, last I read it was 48k a day. Which is still massive.

DevilsReject

DevilsReject

Cleveland, OH
February 2007

APR 29, 2010 09:39 PM

How close is the slick to the mainland now?

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