Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak
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ConcordCowboy;3383203 said:Well pretty soon Exxon will no longer have the biggest **** up when it comes to oil spills.
Congratulations BP.
Look at the list, they didnt, by mistake, you could make that claim. On purpose, Iraq has it.
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Feeling the political winds shifting more to the "no drill" way of thinking,if I'm a major oil company not named BP, I'm doing everything I can to help BP straighten this mess out. I wonder if any of them have offered assistance or resources to BP. It's in their best interest to do so.......Quickly!!
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Jon88;3383923 said:
Are you a major oil company?
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The Gulf of Mexico has the world's best track record over the last 20 years as far as preventing oil spills go.
Here's some blind trivia that's not meant to belittle this disaster: By the way, the California sea floor has nearly as much in natural oil leaks than this every year. Of course it is dispused throughout a maybe 40 thousand square miles at a slow rate, so the effect is not devastating.
Here's some blind trivia that's not meant to belittle this disaster: By the way, the California sea floor has nearly as much in natural oil leaks than this every year. Of course it is dispused throughout a maybe 40 thousand square miles at a slow rate, so the effect is not devastating.
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It just keeps getting worse.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/deepwater_horizon_secret_memo.html
Apparently, if the wellhead breaks it could leak up to 30,000 (maybe more) barrels a day. ****.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/deepwater_horizon_secret_memo.html
Apparently, if the wellhead breaks it could leak up to 30,000 (maybe more) barrels a day. ****.
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theogt;3385001 said:
Check your sources on that. If they didn't operate it, why would their executives be asking publicly for any help that anyone wants to offer?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion
EDIT: Technically it's only under contract to BP.
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theogt;3385001 said:
Most oil companies do not own their rigs infact almost all the rigs you see are owned by companies like, Trans ocean, brown root etc etc.
This includes your BP, Exxon, Chevron and then your little guys what they do is lease the rigs from these companies and usually staff them with a few of there guys then with a lot of contractors a lot of times from the company that they got the rig from or sometimes out right just pay them to manage the rig for them. BP and Trans Ocean have been partners for a long time so yes it was a BP rig in a way.
Then on top of that it may be a BP rig cam mean several different things they could hold the rights to the area being drilled and the primary operator but they may have other oil companies with a % of investments in the rigs and get a cut of the profit for putting up x amount of dollars on initial drilling to get X % of the profits of the top.
In fact one oil company I worked with extended all our lease for so many years and we did not have plans to use them but their was a shortage of rigs so the company was approached by other oil companies saying hey let us use your rig with no other investment and we will give x% profit off the top. Yea talk about some leverage and so easy money for them.
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Yes, these deepwater rigs are leased out to the owners of the oil being extracted. They're typically operated by the owner of the deepwater rig -- in this case Transocean.SaltwaterServr;3385011 said:
Jon88 can boycott Transocean, but unless he was planning to pay the $400,000+ dayrate for an oil rig anytime soon, it likely won't affect the company.
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The way I understand it (and I may be wrong), it was the first responders who caused the problem. They poured tons of water on the fire at the oil rig. The fire was burning off the oil; it was not spilling into the Gulf. But the tons of water poured onto the rig caused it to topple, thus breaking the pipe. Big mistake.
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LOL!
My family has been in the oil business for over 4 decades and the ignorance of some of the people on this forum is astounding.
You people REALLY think that the oil company wanted this to happen?
And the fools that think that NOT drilling for oil is a better option are out of their minds. Until there is an affordable alternative that doesn't require us to go on bended knee to some Mideastern country we need to step up the drilling.
Any time something like this happens it's always blame the oil company. Do you even have any clue how much oil is drilled and pumped on a daily basis without this happening?
It's the oil companies that get the product out of the ground so you can drive to work instead of saddling up old Lightning and riding her into town.
My family has been in the oil business for over 4 decades and the ignorance of some of the people on this forum is astounding.
You people REALLY think that the oil company wanted this to happen?
And the fools that think that NOT drilling for oil is a better option are out of their minds. Until there is an affordable alternative that doesn't require us to go on bended knee to some Mideastern country we need to step up the drilling.
Any time something like this happens it's always blame the oil company. Do you even have any clue how much oil is drilled and pumped on a daily basis without this happening?
It's the oil companies that get the product out of the ground so you can drive to work instead of saddling up old Lightning and riding her into town.
