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Don't forget Dick Cheney was/is also an "oil man" -- and he ran the secret meetings in the White House where it is alleged they made the agreements about the rules.
Thanks Dick!
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06-02-2010, 10:31 PM
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I thought of Bush as being a good president except for the oil connection. Either way, I strongly believe in multiple safeguards when required, and the BP platform did not follow that common sense theology. Now people suffer through idiotic chasing after the dollar.
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06-03-2010, 01:06 AM
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06-03-2010, 07:14 AM
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The 1979 Ixtoc 1 oil blowout was in just 160 feet of water -- and it took 10 months to stop it! The BP Deepwater Horizon is in about 5,000 feet of water -- that is ~ 31X more water pressure... |
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06-03-2010, 07:20 AM
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BP Sought To Ease Canadian Rule For Relief Wells
BP Sought To Ease Canadian Rule For Relief Wells : NPR
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Energy giant BP told Canadian regulators in March that relief wells are an "after-the-fact tactic" in controlling oil well blowouts, less than a month before the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that the company hopes to stop by drilling two relief wells.
A relief well is the oil industry's gold standard for killing a blowout. In the Gulf, BP's drillers are guiding the two wells to intersect the 7-inch well pipe of the uncontrolled well; the pipe could then be plugged with cement.
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But the first rig wasn't able to set its drill bit into the mud until 13 days after the April 20 blowout on the Deepwater Horizon; the second rig, 28 days after the accident. French said it would take an additional 90 to 120 days to reach the damaged well pipe.
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Instead, BP emphasized preventive technology and practices, many of which have now been called into question due to the catastrophe in the Gulf.
Most notably, the company said it has a "rigid policy requirement," calling for two barriers to hold down the surging oil and gas in a well: heavy drilling mud in the pipe and a blowout preventer at the wellhead.
The drilling mud was intentionally removed on the Deepwater Horizon rig before a cement plug was installed. The blowout preventer then failed.
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06-04-2010, 09:00 AM
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I know I won't put any Castrol in my engines anytime soon. |
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06-04-2010, 10:28 AM
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As a Note Castrol has a very large factory about 50 miles from my house, I haven't used their products in >5 years anyways though.
As an additional note, although I have 7 friends out of work now, I am still for the drilling ban. Tough times around here.
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06-05-2010, 05:03 PM
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[Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread
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06-05-2010, 05:05 PM
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Piwoslaw -
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06-07-2010, 06:06 AM
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e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be
What matters is where you're going, not how fast.
"... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell
[Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread
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