put a wedding around it. It'll stop puting out immediately

:lolhit:

Two very costly mistakes here
 

From Rippem's post; BP's engineers disregarded the advice of two of the most experienced oil companies in the business; Halliburton and Schlumberger;


BP also apparently rejected advice of a subcontractor, Halliburton Inc., in preparing for a cementing job to close up the well. BP rejected Halliburton's recommendation to use 21 "centralizers" to make sure the casing ran down the center of the well bore. Instead, BP used six centralizers.

In an e-mail on April 16, a BP official involved in the decision explained: "It will take 10 hours to install them. I do not like this." Later that day, another official recognized the risks of proceeding with insufficient centralizers but commented: "Who cares, it's done, end of story, will probably be fine."

The lawmakers also said BP also decided against a nine- to 12-hour procedure known as a "cement bond log" that would have tested the integrity of the cement. A team from Schlumberger, an oil services firm, was on board the rig, but BP sent the team home on a regularly scheduled helicopter flight the morning of April 20.

Everyone of those greedy S.O.B's need thrown in jail & distribute there fat banks accounts out to all those without jobs now.... Not just BP paying out....

The "Blue Dogs", TransOcean and the President
 

How BlueDog Boys kept Obama's boot off neck of BP's U.S. partner

By William Lowther
Last updated at 8:43 AM on 13th June 2010

The American owners of the drilling rig at the centre of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been involved in nearly three-quarters of all significant safety incidents on rigs in the region since 2008, according to new figures.

Transocean, the world’s largest rig operator, has so far avoided much of the fall-out from the environmental disaster heaped on BP by President Obama and members of Congress following the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

But an analysis of government data reveals it has a highly questionable safety record. Over the past five years, the US government has investigated four fires aboard deep-water rigs – all operated by Transocean. British regulators have also issued a warning over a Transocean rig in the North Sea because of worries over a key safety device, the blowout preventer.

Investigators believe April’s explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig – which caused the death of 11 workers and the growing oil slick in the Gulf – was caused by the failure either of a seal meant to keep oil and gas from escaping from a well or by the blowout preventer, which is designed to close off the well in an emergency.

The company recently relocated its HQ to Switzerland, which has a more favourable tax regime for multi-national companies.

It has so far proved far more adept than BP at handling the intricacies of US politics, and last month hired an influential lobbyist and former politician to represent its interests in Washington.

He is ex-Democratic Congressman Bill Brewster of Oklahoma, who remains a powerful figure in Washington among politicians linked to the oil industry.

He is also a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of conservative Democrat Congressmen from the southern states whose support Mr Obama desperately needs in the face of difficult mid-term elections later this year which could see many of his party’s Congressmen unseated.

Questions are certain to be raised when the oil firms involved with the spill are grilled in Congressional hearings starting this weekend.

Records show Trans*ocean has had trouble in the past with both cement seals and blowout preventers. In 2006, a blowout preventer failed at least in part because of maintenance issues and in 2005 an oil well leaked drilling fluid because of problems with a cement seal.

All executive bonuses at the company were dropped last year after four workers died aboard rigs in separate incidents.

Some industry experts say that Transocean’s reputation slipped after it bought out rival GlobalSantaFe in a £10 billion deal three years ago.

Company rigs were involved in 13 of 39 incidents investigated by the US government’s Minerals Management Service from 2005 to 2007 – 33 per cent of the incidents at a time when it had 30 per cent of the total number of rigs working in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Blue Dogs - so named because it was said they were so loyal to the party they would vote for a blue dog if it were a Democrat

However, since the merger with GlobalSantaFe, Transocean has been involved in 24 of the 33 incidents investigated, 73 per cent of the incidents at a time when it had fewer than 50 per cent of the rigs operating in the Gulf.

It came under the scrutiny of the UK Health and Safety Executive in 2006, which issued it with an improvement notice criticising the testing of a blow-out preventer.

A Transocean official said: ‘Safety is the number one priority at Transocean and there is no scenario or circumstance under which it will be compromised.’

It was also pointed out that Transocean’s 2009 safety record, as measured by injuries per hour worked, was better than the overall industry average.

Transocean hired Mr Brewster to help improve its image with the Democrat-controlled Congress last month.

In 1994, Mr Brewster – a major figure in the fight against gun control – formed a caucus of politicians from oil-producing states called the Congressional Oil and Gas Forum and served as its first chairman.

He was also a founding member of the Blue Dogs, so named because it was said they were so loyal to the party they would vote for a blue dog if it were a Democrat.

Last night it emerged that when BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanverg meets Mr Obama this week he will effectively hand control of its dividend policy to the President.

Mr Obama fears BP cannot pay its shareholders and meet the costs of the clean-up at the same time.


Gulf of Mexico holds enough water to fill one billion Olympic swimming pools. The oil spilled by BP would fill just two and a half of them

When BP chief executive Tony Hayward claimed the volume of the oil leak was ‘tiny’ compared to the size of the ocean, he faced immediate criticism.

Mr Hayward said: ‘The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.’

His comments appeared dismissive in their tone, but it seems they are correct in purely mathematical terms.

Leaking oil and gas from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: There are almost 1.4 million gallons of oil being spewed from the seabed into the Gulf basin each day

Scientists last week revised their estimate of the number of barrels of oil leaking from the seabed each day from 20,000 to 40,000. A standard barrel of crude oil contains 35 gallons.

Based on that measurement, there are almost 1.4 million gallons of oil being spewed from the seabed into the Gulf basin each day.

This is the equivalent of around two-and-a-half Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of oil (a pool can hold approximately 550,000 gallons of water).

By comparison, the Gulf of Mexico, the ninth largest body of water in the world, contains some 535 thousand billion gallons of water – equal to one billion Olympic pools.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...#ixzz0qzkWG49c

For two months BP has been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico at what we now find out is a rate of 60k barrels day and our President will finally meet with the company responsible for this disaster, today?

Sadly, this is what happens when you have an administration packed with professional politicians instead of real world business leaders. Instead of concentrating on solutions to the problem at hand and solving it, they concentrate on politics and removing blame from themselves. You don't have to like BP or oil people in general but if you want to solve the problem you don't wait two months before you meet with a company pumping 60K barrels of oil into the Gulf. It's just sickening. Sickening that BP has been lieing all along and sickening that this president left BP alone in charge because he didn't have the business experience to know that he needed to deal with BP and the best oil people in the industry directly, everyday of this crisis.

Any leader worth his salt would have tapped the best oil minds in the busniess, set up a war room in the white house packed with them and met with them "and BP" EVERY FREAKING DAY, and only after getting their input allowed BP to proceed with their quick and cheap solutions to stopping the leak. BP's top kill procedure likely made the problem worse and runied the casing and any hope that the relief wells will even work, and cutting that pipe likely tripled the output rate of oil into the gulf. Instead of rolling up his sleeves and meeting with oil people daily to solve the problem he gets all his info from his energy czar professor and his first response in the crisis was to send his attorney general to the gulf to look for criminal acts.

The man is a politician - not a leader and the Gulf is worse for it. Two months into this he doesn't have near enough manpower or equipment in place to deal with this disaster and he's finally going to meet with BP. There are thousands of oil skimmers in the USA. 21 foreign governments have offered use of their oil skimmers. This administration has refused all offers and we currently have a whopping 32 oil skimmers in the GULF of Mexico working this massive problem. This administrations respose to this is so Katrina-like. We are in big trouble.

Its business professionals and their decisions that got us into this mess in the first place.

It was a reckless oil company that got us into this, which is exactly why you need to meet with them face to face and compare their ideas to others in the business who do not operate in a reckless manner - then decide what to do. Instead of just letting BP have their way.

Nice catch pharase though.

Well then, who do you propose solves the problem? If not Politicians or business professionals, which encompass oil companies, who is left to solve the problem? No bash, just curious.

Sam

Enough BS, how are we gong to stop the leak. Why cant they cut the pipe off not shear it and deform the pipe. Cut it like you would cut any tubing and press fit a tapered cylinder in the pipe and cork it. I know it sound simple but why not. This blunder is an example of exactly the problem we have allowed our elected officials to create. We are literaly handicapped in making any quality decisions and implimenting them because of the mass of governmental agencies afraid to make a decision and over step their bounds, sickening. The states are also handcuffed by the Feds because of these redundant agencies. If I was in charge from day one every slinger and oil boom would have been on its way to the site period and BP would pick up the tab. Nobody is going to protect you like you.