When the oil company operates a platform, it must have a fail-safe or contingency in case of an accident.
The explosion occurred and the fail-safe did not work.
There was minimal contingency (gov. inspectors must have liked their ‘presents’) and fail-safe was not properly implemented (discharged batteries discovered on the blowout preventer – and oh well, we’ll continue though it would fail daily inspection). I also wonder if the casing of the pipe was driven far enough into the ground to allow a good and secure seal between the pipe wall and rock strata that the pipe has been driven into.
There have been many attempts at plugging the gusher and none have worked. It’s been more than one month.
I disagree. There has been pseudo attempts and plenty of finger-pointing, spin and understating the amount of oil flowing out of the damaged pipe. The only things they have tried so far is to try to get the blowout preventer to trigger and to use some sort of siphon to pick up oil out of the pipe. Its like the amateur team was in charge. The pressure on those pipes can be in the 2000 to 5000 psi range. Putting what could amount to a ‘soda straw’ in the pipe will not accomplish anything at these pressures.
Now they are concerned that the oil is eroding the pipe. To do that, the flow rate would have to be considerably higher then 5000 barrels per day. So what is the truth BP??
Oil spill in the gulf?? Meh….. Bunch of librul whiners
BTW, as most people on the board should know.. I am no ‘liberal’. So lets keep the ‘liberal’/’conservative’ out of it.
