2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill

[TEG]

Fake BP Twitter Account Draws Followers With Oil-Spill Satire

A Twitter user with an account dubbed BPGlobalPR is posting satirical entries about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and already has more than twice as many followers as BP America’s actual account.

A BP spokesman said the company is aware of the BPGlobalPR account. “It’s a shame, but obviously people are entitled to their views,” a BP spokesman said, adding that the company is taking the spill “very seriously.”

 

[TEG]

Its no parody: BP finalist for safest offshore drilling or ‘the joke’s on U.S.’

BP: Oil Spill? What Spill?

 

[edo]

BP's oil spill unleashes an outpouring of angry fan art - io9.com

My favorite image was in the comments.

 

[TEG]

Keep the humor coming... To lighten up the somber facts.

Underwater nightmare: ‘What BP does not want you to see.’
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lBQkNgY3bY[/media]

BP's fake Twitterer offers PR lessons — and fundraising — for the oil disaster

...Don’t dump toxic dispersant into the ocean just so the surface looks better. Collect the oil and get it out of the water!...

Heartrending Photos of Oiled Birds

A bird is mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

In Photos: Haunting images of the gulf oil disaster

An oil-soaked bird struggles against the side of an Iron Horse supply vessel at the site of the spill off Louisiana on May 9. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A brown pelican covered in oil sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico.http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-...licid_ap_org8a4b85c516ae4cf9a4c123e0962930f6# (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

 

[TEG]

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRS-J4BdbU[/MEDIA]

 

[Takumi]

Anyone have any numbers regarding this situation?

I'm looking for:
pressure
temperature
oil pipe width
amount of rock between oil reserve and ocean bed

Just want to know what they have to overcome by the numbers.

 

[TEG]

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGFi-W6IdVs[/MEDIA]

A Volcano of oil erupting

...The pipe is actually 21 inches in diameter; and the high end estimated total leakage is in the range of 3.4 million gallons/day...

...between 20,000 and 50,000 psi behind it, from a reservoir nearly the size of the Gulf, with an estimated trillions of barrels of oil and gas tucked away...

...There is no way to get the size of this in mind. It is just too big to imagine. The slick is now as large as Maryland and growing. It will grow probably for 90 days or more...

...The inside hole of the drill pipe is 18 inches and the outside is 21...

 

[TEG]

http://energycommerce.house.gov/documents/20100527/BP.Presentation.pdf

...Last pressure reading {prior to explosion} 5700 psi...

...well - total depth 18,360'...

Not vouching for accuracy, but:
Deepwater Horizon

...15000 PSI, Cameron BOP stack...

...the methane pressure at sea floor might have been 30-40,000 psi, and it was possible the BOP didn’t have enough oomph to shear the pipe...

...It’s an area of materials engineering where pressures change the basic characteristics of steel, where gases become liquids, where liquids become solids, where you cannot simulate the environment in the lab and get results...

Deepwater Oil Spill

...Currently, the well is emptying at a pressure of 9,000 pounds per square inch (psi). The pressure of the water at 5,000 feet is counteracting that pressure and bringing the flow pressure at the wellhead to 3,500 psi...

Massive amounts of information here:

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

...The rig was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum drill depth of 30,000 feet (9,100 m). Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea and completed in 2001, the rig was owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased to BP until September 2013. At the time of the explosion, the rig was on BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252, referred to as the Macondo Prospect, in the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico, about 41 miles (66 km) off the Louisiana coast. The rig commenced drilling in February 2010 at a water depth of approximately 5,000 feet (1,500 m). The well was planned to be drilled to 18,000 feet (5,500 m)...

 

[TEG]

Cap placed atop Gulf well; oil still spewing

...newly disclosed internal Coast Guard documents from the day after the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig indicated that U.S. officials were warning of a leak of 336,000 gallons per day of crude from the well in the event of a complete blowout. The volume turned out to be much closer to that figure than the 42,000 gallons per day that BP first estimated. Weeks later that was revised to 210,000 gallons. Now, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily...

 

[TEG]

Breaking: BP "Hives Off" American Operations!

...today BP spun off it's American Operations, appointed an American to run it, and handed off responsibility of the Gulf Oil Spill to them!...

 

[ChargeIt!]

...today BP spun off it's American Operations, appointed an American to run it, and handed off responsibility of the Gulf Oil Spill to them!...

"responsibility" ? ... no, "liability" !

 

[edo]

It looks like the oil spill is further east than I've heard anywhere else:

BP oil spill 7 miles west of Tampa!

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Ij6NUydO8[/MEDIA]

 

[TEG]

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puE5aN8T5Cw[/MEDIA]

 

[TEG]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/05/national/main6551421.shtmlOil touches down on Florida beaches

...The Coast Guard says a cap over the Gulf of Mexico oil leak has managed to collect about 252,000 gallons of oil in its first full 24 hours of use...

(Sometimes capture rates are done in "gallons", but leak amounts done in "barrels".)

How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico?

A barrel of crude oil contains roughly 42 gallons.

So, the cap is capturing about 6000 barrels a day...(?)
That was about the estimated flow of the original leak... So are they capturing all of it?
How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico?

In a closed-door briefing for members of Congress, a senior BP executive conceded ... that the ruptured oil well could conceivably spill as much as 60,000 barrels a day of oil, more than 10 times the estimate of the current flow.

So it seems they are capturing somewhere between one tenth and all of the flow depending on which flow values you use.

Leak count ticker

 

[TEG]

Oil Stains Beaches, Tourists as Slick Spreads

...The goal is to gradually raise the amount of the oil being captured... The device's daily capacity is 630,000 gallons, and officials estimate oil is gushing out at a rate of about a half-million to a million gallons a day.

The well has leaked 22 million to 47 million gallons since the crisis began, according to government estimates...

 

[TEG]

Clean the birds, or kill them?

Lee Celano / Reuters
Oil-covered brown pelicans huddle together in a cage at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, La.

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[TEG]

BP plans to replace containment cap next month

...The newer cap will "provide a better, tighter fit" than the current one collecting roughly one-third to three-fourths of the oil gushing daily from the sea floor, company spokesman Robert Wine told The Associated Press...

...The current device is collecting about 466,200 gallons of oil per day...

...the BP spokesman, said the estimate of the proportion of gushing oil being collected is based on the government's contention that the containment cap is collecting 466,200 gallons of oil of the roughly 604,800 to 1,260,000 it believes is coming out daily...

(Even with the cap there is still a LOT of oil leaking there.)

 

[AnOutsider]

It's amazing that this is still going on...

 

[TEG]

I think I would pick a different word than amazing, but OK...

Maybe bewildering? Disconcerting? Upsetting? Flabbergasting? Frightening? Shocking? Disgusting?

 

[Palpatine]

Oil prices are just going to go through the roof with all of the new restrictions on offshore drilling. The Gulf of Mexico is the source of about 25% of the production in the USA. Most of the new wells are in deep water.

So we can expect this to make Peak Oil time frames accelerate.

The gasoline, diesel and jet fuel shortages are going to get scary in the coming years.