Offshore Oil Drilling and the Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf

[CS Foltz]

Short answer.............NO! Unless they really get lucky (somehow I don't think so, but what do I know?) it will take additional  drilling to fully cap off the darn thing! Drilling from an angle to hit the existing drilled well is going to take some luck for sure...............anyone think that BP is lucky?

[Lunican]

I just checked the live feed and oil still appears to be gushing out. You have to wait for them to pan out to see it, but it's definitely still going.

BP: "Top Kill" Not Working, Will Try Cap Next
Company Not Sure Whether Risky Remedy Will Work at All; Experts Viewing Video of Massive Leak Say Oil Spewing Out Again.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/29/business/main6530758.shtml

[Lunican]

What a total disaster this is...

BP's Top Kill Effort Fails to Plug Gulf Oil Leak
BP: top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil well with mud; another approach being readied

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10777263

[Timkin]

What a total disaster this is..

  I could not agree more.  This is incredibly frightening to not have any idea of how to stop this.   apparently this cannot be done either, but these giant pockets of oil down in the water... It certainly seems to me that these should be extractable.  But then like most of us , I am certainly no expert.   

  Good lord..  I hope a way is found soon. 

[finehoe]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Plugging-the-Gulf-oil-leak-with-the-works-of-Ayn-Rand/125031037519289

[BridgeTroll]

Your right stjr... drilling for oil and gas will not create jobs... it will barely even produce oil and gas...  Why are we even having this silly discussion?  Jobs?  Profit? Energy industry?  It is all just a shell game to line the pockets of the "ultra-rich" while secretly planning to pollute the air,water, and ground.

Besides... why should the USA go to all the trouble of doing this messy business when we can let poor third world nations do our dirty work for us.

hmm.  Somehow this doesnt seem to have the same sarcastic bite as it did once upon a time.

It sure was clever sounding at the time though.

It IS what will happen tho...  we will still need oil as there is no alternative in the forseeable future.  We will prefer that Nigeria, the gulf states and others to pollute their waters to produce the energy we need.  Interesting that while we blame BP and the other responsible parties for this disaster oil production continues on dozens of similar platforms throughout the gulf and the President has endorsed further drilling in the Gulf. 

keep on pumping baybee!!

[Bostech]

I love how everyone is casual about spill.Its weekend,people are out partyng,barbecue and beer,no time for spills or disasters.
We will get back to spill on Monday.

Saint Obama is back in Chicago playing basketball with his friendies and drinking beer.
Guy acts like oil spill is some annoying event,hey I got better things to do in life then take care of Americans.

Maybe he should send ex-president Bill Clinton to convince oil well to quit spitting oil.
The way government in USA is treating Americans is total joke,they make sure to get reelected and stuff their pockets with money but when they need to do something for people they are partying,playing basketball or golf.

Makes me think they caused this oil spill in first place.

[cayohueso]

I don't know if this has been previously suggested or not on the forum but why can't BP just take Sarah Palin and shove her arse into the hole? There...done.

[Timkin]

Well it would take care of Sarah ,,,,but not necessarily the well leak.  

At this point , I am of the opinion that BP has Z E R O idea on how to actually stop this leak.. If they did , we would be talking about this topic in past tense.

Lets assume for a second that drilling a relief well would help..What if it does not.  What then?

As to the one-tenth of the Country's Seafood....that may be a conservative figure.  If this continues to flow out of control, God only knows how much this will actually affect.  

If this disaster is not reason enough to Stop drilling any further on the Ocean floor, I have no idea what it will take to see , that this is not wise.   My heart truly goes out to the people of this region who have been , and long into the future will be impacted by this disaster ( a mild understandment at this point) .    I was criticized  on another forum for being upset and over-dramatizing about this disaster, when it was only a couple of weeks into it.  Now we are well over a month and it is still out of control.   The disaster speaks for itself.   For most of us alive now, we will be living (or maybe not) with the effects of this for decades and decades to come.   To me , that is no small matter .

[CS Foltz]

Well that is just the corporate mentality stephen...........did you think they would be upfront and honest? Come on dude, you know better than that I know! Bottom line is what rules any corperation plain and simple! Dollars come before anything else including the public! Workers are just cogs in the machinery and you can plug them in and out at anytime with no loss in production or product and this is upper management thinking, you know those in charge of planning and execution and the like!

[Lunican]

Company switches focus from stopping Gulf oil surge to containing it

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37422583/ns/gulf_oil_spill/


I think that one problem with this approach is that hurricane season starts in less than 48 hours. Capturing the oil will be dependent on ships remaining in the area, which may not be possible.

[Timkin]

good point .  However, While there are none on the radar, I think they need to approach this from every possible angle.   BP  clearly cannot solve this by themselves .

[Dog Walker]

Neither the government or the military has the equipment or the expertise to stop this oil well leak.  There is very little the government can do except supervise the efforts of the oil drilling industry which does have the equipment and expertise.

As futile as the efforts have been so far, there is no one out there more qualified to find a way to stop the leak than the people who caused it.

If a surgeon botches and operation in the middle, only that surgeon or another equally qualified can step in and correct the situation.  Nobody from the FDA or the hospital administration could do it.

[Bostech]

Who told you government can not stop oil leak??
Fox news?CNN?MSNBC?

And government can declear national emerency and recruit everyone and anyone to at least keep cleaning oil from surface which is not happening because Obama is busy playing basketball.Create barriers to stop oil from reaching shores is another important method.
Even hire milittary to help with BP create a method to cap that well.

[NotNow]

I am not sure what anyone thinks the military could do in stopping the flow at one mile down.  I have heard proposals of detonating a small nuclear weapon on the bottom, but I didn't take that too seriously, are any of you?  Obama HAS assigned a military Commander, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen.  I would understand a mobilization on shore, and I believe that criticism of the delayed response for allowing sand berms is justified.  But I don't see where any military or government response will help stem the flow at the bottom of the gulf.  I believe that any rash action by the government could be used as an excuse by BP to avoid any further responsibility.  I think that the President's call to suspend drilling for a limited time pending investigation and further study is prudent and the right call for what we know now.  

I am not discounting the damage being done here, and pressure should be applied from the Feds to BP to pay for and place resources where they are needed now.  But I don't see a disastrous response here by Obama. There are a LOT of things that I think the President has screwed the pooch on, but this isn't one of them.

How about this?  I am defending President Obama against StephenDare!...wow!  Bizarro world.