5000 barrels a day of oil (210,000 gallons) leak off the coast of Louisiana

[GoatCheese]

BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion

BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion

These SOBs knew in February that the oil well was cracking, but they just went ahead!! ..and started to dump their stocks.

BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bp-aware-of-cracks-in-oil-well-two-months-before-explosion.html
Former BP Chairman and current BP CEO both dumped stocks in weeks before disaster

BP was aware of cracks appearing in the Macondo well as far back as February, right around the time Goldman Sachs and BP Chairman Tony Hayward were busy dumping their stocks in the company on the eve of the explosion that led to the oil spill, according to information uncovered by congressional investigators.
The Mining and Mineral Services agency released documents to Bloomberg indicating that BP “was trying to seal cracks in the well about 40 miles (64 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast,” according to the report.
The fissures, which BP began to attempt to fix on February 13, could have played a role in the disaster, though this is a question still being explored by investigators. Improperly sealed, the cracks cause explosive natural gas to rush up the shaft.
“The company attempted a “cement squeeze,” which involves pumping cement to seal the fissures, according to a well activity report. Over the following week the company made repeated attempts to plug cracks that were draining expensive drilling fluid, known as “mud,” into the surrounding rocks,” states the report.
As we previously highlighted, eyewitness evidence indicates that Deepwater Horizon managers knew that the BP oil rig had major problems before its explosion on April 20. A crew member who rescued burning workers on the rig told Houston attorney Tony Buzbee of a conversation between Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell and someone in Houston. According to the witness, Harrell was screaming, “Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”
The fact that BP managers were aware of problems with the rig and were seemingly unconcerned about fixing them only lends more weight to the already startling indications of some having foreknowledge of the disaster.


As we highlighted last week, on page 37 of British Petroleum’s own investigative report into the oil spill, it is stated that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without BP’s knowledge sometime before the explosion.
Highly suspicious stock and share trades by people connected to BP before the explosion indicate some extent of foreknowledge.
Goldman Sachs dumped 44% of its shares in BP Oil during the first quarter of 2010 – shares that subsequently lost 36 percent of their value, equating to $96 million. The current chairman of Goldman Sachs is Bilderberg luminary Peter Sutherland, who is also the former chairman of British Petroleum.
Furthermore, as reported by the London Telegraph on June 5th, Tony Hayward, the current BP CEO sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the spill.
On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world’s second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil well control company.
Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster.
Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing last month that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Gulf of Mexico rig went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.

Also, watch Alex Jones's presentation on the criminal events that has taken place ..and suggestions for action

Criminal Investigation of BP Staged Oil Spill Vital
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNW0lkjTxAQ


Peace.

 

[NiteTiger]

Who says we need coal or natural gas when we can get electricity straight out of the sky.

Namaste

You do realize that is a picture of Tesla's Electric broadcast antenna, right?

See, Tesla's thing with energy through the ground was to bypass the massively expensive infrastructure needed to bring a wire to every household. In fact, his early work was conducted in Colorado Springs, and it worked.

What's pictured there is a GIANT Tesla Coil, designed to send electricity through the ground. But the power did not come from the air. It was generated by a power plant.

He did also have ideas of transmitting power through the ionosphere, but again, the power didn't come FROM the air. That was just the wires, so to speak. Unfortunately, he was never able to pursue that work to a prototype.

He DID have an idea for a tapping the sun's energy with a giant antenna, but, again, never actually developed a prototype.

But what's pictured there is a giant Tesla coil, for sending electricity without wires through the earth, not capturing it from the air.

 

[Amos Moses]

Obama's thuggery is useless in fighting spill

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
June 20, 2010

Thuggery is unattractive. Ineffective thuggery even more so. Which may be one reason so many Americans have been reacting negatively to the response of Barack Obama and his administration to BP's Gulf oil spill.

Take Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's remark that he would keep his "boot on the neck" of BP, which brings to mind George Orwell's definition of totalitarianism as "a boot stamping on a human face -- forever." Except that Salazar's boot hasn't gotten much in the way of results yet.

Or consider Obama's undoubtedly carefully considered statement to Matt Lauer that he was consulting with experts "so I know whose ass to kick." Attacking others is a standard campaign tactic when you're in political trouble, and certainly BP, which appears to have taken unwise shortcuts in the Gulf, is an attractive target.

But you don't always win arguments that way. The Obama White House gleefully took on Dick Cheney on the issue of terrorist interrogations. It turned out that more Americans agreed with Cheney's stand, despite his low poll numbers, than Obama's.

Then there is Obama's decision to impose a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf. This penalizes companies with better safety records than BP's and will result in many advanced drilling rigs being sent to offshore oil fields abroad.

The justification offered was an Interior Department report supposedly "peer reviewed" by "experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering." But it turned out the drafts the experts saw didn't include any recommendation for a moratorium. Eight of the cited experts have said they oppose the moratorium as more economically devastating than the oil spill and "counterproductive" to safety.

This was blatant dishonesty by the administration, on an Orwellian scale. In defense of a policy that has all the earmarks of mindless panic, that penalizes firms and individuals guilty of no wrongdoing and that will worsen rather than improve our energy situation. Ineffective thuggery.

And what about the decision not to waive the Jones Act, which bars foreign-flag vessels from coming to the aid of the Gulf cleanup? The Bush administration promptly waived it after Katrina in 2005. The Obama administration hasn't and claims unconvincingly that, gee, there aren't really any foreign vessels that could help.

The more plausible explanation is that this is a sop to the maritime unions, part of the union movement that gave Obama and other Democrats $400 million in the 2008 campaign cycle. It's the Chicago way: Dance with the girl that brung ya.

Or the decision to deny Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposal to deploy barges to skim oil from the Gulf's surface. Can't do that until we see if they've got enough life preservers and fire equipment. That inspired blogger Rand Simberg to write a blog post he dated June 1, 1940: "The evacuation of British and French troops from the besieged French city of Dunkirk was halted today, over concerns that many of the private vessels that had been deployed for the task were unsafe for troop transport."

Finally, the $20 billion escrow fund that Obama pried out of the BP treasury at the White House when he talked for the first time, 57 days after the rig exploded, with BP Chairman Tony Hayward. It's pleasing to think that those injured by BP will be paid off speedily, but House Republican Joe Barton had a point, though an impolitic one, when he called this a "shakedown."

For there already are laws in place that insure that BP will be held responsible for damages and the company has said it will comply. So what we have is government transferring property from one party, an admittedly unattractive one, to others, not based on pre-existing laws but on decisions by one man, pay czar Kenneth Feinberg.

Feinberg gets good reviews from everyone. But the Constitution does not command "no person . . . shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law except by the decision of a person as wise and capable as Kenneth Feinberg." The Framers stopped at "due process of law."

Obama doesn't. "If he sees any impropriety in politicians ordering executives about, upstaging the courts and threatening confiscation, he has not said so," write the editors of the Economist, who then suggest that markets see Obama as "an American version of Vladimir Putin." Except that Putin is an effective thug.
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All political.....at the expense of our environment and the lives and livelihood of an entire nation.

Amos

 

[j6p]

The BP rig was working in very deep water, and sank after the blowout. Consequently the wellhead now releasing oil is located 5,000 feet down on the seabed. The only apparent solution for BP is to drill supplementary wells down into the main borehole, then pump down sealant until the well is plugged and oil flow stops. Best guesstimate from BP for completion via the relief wells is August. Hope they can make this one work.

 

[Justin_Credible]

The BP rig was working in very deep water, and sank after the blowout. Consequently the wellhead now releasing oil is located 5,000 feet down on the seabed. The only apparent solution for BP is to drill supplementary wells down into the main borehole, then pump down sealant until the well is plugged and oil flow stops. Best guesstimate from BP for completion via the relief wells is August. Hope they can make this one work.

I listen to talk radio sometimes when on the road. I head this professional whatever title he had saying that this was the only solution and that if it would not be done by August, then it won't be done by August. What he was saying in essence that everything they were trying to do was a waste of time. More of a PR thing to show people they were trying, but in the end even BP knew that it would not be fixed until August.

 

[j6p]

Yep. Plugging a blowout on the ocean floor, 5000 feet down, is a first. My opinion is that the lateral wells will plug the flow in time, but August does seem a bit premature when you think of it.

 

[Maria_Vanessa]

This is oil spill season! First BP, then Chevron, now this.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3rApbRJVOM1EhUZ0i98fdlxzHHgD9GFSD600

Environmentalists say Red Sea oil spill continuing

By REEM ABDELLATIF (AP) – 7 hours ago

CAIRO — Environmental activists said Monday that an oil spill off the coast of Egypt's Red Sea is continuing even after the government said it had been contained, leaving turtles and sea birds covered in oil.

Government spokesman Magdy Rady told the state news agency Monday that the spill, which began last week, was "limited" and has now largely been contained. It was one of the first government acknowledgments that the spill was even taking place.

An environmental group based in the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada told the Associated Press that the government was trying to cover up the extent of the damage and the leak had restarted.

"Just today I received news that the oil had started leaking again this afternoon after it had stopped Thursday," said Ahmed el-Droubi, a biologist with the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association.

Founded by divers in 1992, HEPCA has been sounding the alarm about the spill, which it says has damaged environmentally sensitive areas.

"The northern islands protected area is very heavily impacted," said el-Droubi. "This area is very important because it is the last pristine spot, there is a lot of sea life there that will be harmed ... there are dead birds and dead sea turtles scattered across the island covered in oil."

Oil company officials in the port city of Suez said the spill was caused by a leak from an offshore oil platform in Jebel al-Zayt north of Hurghada and has polluted about 100 miles (160 kilometers) of coastline including tourist beach resorts. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Hurghada is one of Egypt's top tourist destinations and was once major diving site with extensive coral reefs, though over the past decades extensive development has caused some deterioration.

The government kept quiet about the leak for days. The silence could be a sign of concern that it might scare away tourists — a vital source of income for Egypt.

Mahmoud Ismail, the head of the environmental crisis department, said the impact on most of the beaches has been minimal and the clean up would be done in a few days, though he admitted the situation was worse on the islands.

"The hardest work will be cleaning up the coral and Tawila Island, the beaches will be cleaned up in a few days," he said, adding that he had few complaints from local hotels. Associated Press Writer Salah Nasrawi contributed to this report.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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[Snypette]

100,000 barrels a day.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

There's a big blowout of the north western coast of Australia too. They're wishing they'd had as good a response as the one in the Gulf. Sounds like the cleanup isn't going so well there either.

 

[Justin_Credible]

There's a big blowout of the north western coast of Australia too. They're wishing they'd had as good a response as the one in the Gulf. Sounds like the cleanup isn't going so well there either.

hhmmm, what the hell is going on? makes me wonder conspiracy theories.

 

[White-rhino]

2000 oil skimmers in the United States. When asked why they aren't being used - dipshit in cheif says "because they might be needed elsewhere".

Florida senator: Obama told me we can’t deploy oil skimmers because they might be needed elsewhere

I guess thats what happens when you hire a 75 IQ community organizer for a mans job.

 

[MarquisBlack]

hhmmm, what the hell is going on? makes me wonder conspiracy theories.

Yea I feel you on that. This is fuckin' crazy.

I said it once before in this thread-

Environmental Terrorism.

 

[hoosierdaddy]

The mainstream media, academia, and the left in totality would be calling for not only the impeachment of GW Bush, but there would be calls for execution following the impeachment proceedings, if he only showed half of the incompetence that Obama has shown.

As it is, there are still a small minority of folks who actually think Obama is doing a good job and is leading us like we need to be led. In fact, these folks are still blaming Bush for what is happening today....I saw it last night in some pundit exchanges on TV.
The narrative and the talking points have not changed much within the administration, and in the circles of the lefts overzealous cheerleaders. However, things are coming to light that show Obama for the true boob that he is. First and foremost are the lies he has been, and is, telling.

One of those lies is that he didn't tell Senator Kyl (R-AZ) that he couldn't secure the borders because the Republicans would not have incentive to pass his "comprehensive immigration reform" (read: amnesty for criminals [read: potential Obama voters]) if he were to actually secure the border.
Now, if the guy will not act on our borders because he wants a political result, what do you think he is doing with the gulf oil spill? The worse the thing gets, the more he can demonize the oil industry and push for his energy cap and taxation scheme. It is obvious that he is placing that issue along with the gulf spill, as a whole third of his address to the nation, that was supposed to be about the gulf spill, was about the cap and tax bill.

The Obama administration never lets a crisis go to waste, and they have said so themselves. When will folks realize that these socialist liberals are out to help themselves and their agendas, and could give a shit about you and me? In fact, they give less than a damn about anything except for advancing their socialist ideology in an attempt to change the US to a socialist state.

But then...they have a vast following of people who think the oil companies should be shut down today. They feel that we should simply divest ourselves of all things petroleum, and the problems will all be solved. What a lame bunch of stupid people these are. Completely out of touch with reality, and no actual sense of how things really are.
A band of hypocrites with number three hat sizes.

It is imperative that the majority of the nation sees this misguided way of thinking as the problem, which is most certainly at the root of most of our problems today.
It is this less than clear way of thinking that placed a guy with no executive experience at all, and no real leadership abilities proven, into the highest office in our land and made such a no-credential ideologue the leader of the free world. And they did it on his word of "hope and change", which he never really described. Of course the over zealous left understood it just fine...and all they needed to know that a black man (and what a bonus to find a clean cut, well spoken black guy!) was going to lead them away from GW Bush and towards Nirvana.

How can all this happen like this? Simple....a large majority of our population are basically stupid. Sad, but true. Our nation has been dumbed down by the media as well as academia. Well, actually it is more the parents of all these idiots that is to blame, as they are the root of this ignorance en masse. See, their parents too were dumb fucks.
The MSM and academia merely reinforce the ignorance and stupidity, and these stupid people let them raise their kids for them.
They passed these child raising skills on to their children, who went on to be Obama supporters.

It all boils down to this...we are dealing with a big barrel full of dumb.

 

[THC123]

When will folks realize that these socialist liberals are out to help themselves and their agendas, and could give a shit about you and me? In fact, they give less than a damn about anything except for advancing their socialist ideology in an attempt to change the US to a socialist state.

But when will folks realize that there are no politicians that give a shit about you and me

 

[JacuzziSplot]

But when will folks realize that there are no politicians that give a shit about you and me

Good luck finding and honest politician without a corporate agenda.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

The mainstream media, academia, and the left in totality would be calling for not only the impeachment of GW Bush, but there would be calls for execution following the impeachment proceedings,

Nah, I remember "truthers" and wondering whether they were partisan. You're just a winger, lumping the opposition as a whole.

if he only showed half of the incompetence that Obama has shown.

I'll observe the numbers for the next few decades and remember broad brush strokes like the comment above.

As it is, there are still a small minority of folks who actually think Obama is doing a good job and is leading us like we need to be led.

But a winger doesn't give these folks a break either.

In fact, these folks are still blaming Bush for what is happening today....I saw it last night in some pundit exchanges on TV.

Yeah, I saw a real good article with CBO projected surpluses from 2001 to 2008, about 5 trillion total. Then the sister article compared the Obama deficit, showing 75% ATTRIBUTED TO UNFUNDED BUSH AGENDAS.

Even Glen Beck won't be able to revisionist-away W's fiscal irresponsibility. This will always be a tough pill for you to swallow and I suggest you don't go there.

The narrative and the talking points have not changed much within the administration, and in the circles of the lefts overzealous cheerleaders.

However, things are coming to light that show Obama for the true boob that he is. First and foremost are the lies he has been, and is, telling.

One of those lies is that he didn't tell Senator Kyl (R-AZ) that he couldn't secure the borders because the Republicans would not have incentive to pass his "comprehensive immigration reform" (read: amnesty for criminals [read: potential Obama voters]) if he were to actually secure the border.

[read: FoX NeWs opinion... er, lie].

Now, if the guy will not act on our borders because he wants a political result, what do you think he is doing with the gulf oil spill?

Lol, you're the one (early on) blaming O for ignoring W's drilling guidelines. I've got a tip for ya, there weren't any W guidelines other than "just let the industry handle everything and MMS will go along."

The worse the thing gets, the more he can demonize the oil industry and push for his energy cap and taxation scheme. It is obvious that he is placing that issue along with the gulf spill, as a whole third of his address to the nation, that was supposed to be about the gulf spill, was about the cap and tax bill.

You're getting off track a little yourself, boy.

The Obama administration never lets a crisis go to waste, and they have said so themselves. When will folks realize that these socialist liberals are out to help themselves and their agendas, and could give a shit about you and me? In fact, they give less than a damn about anything except for advancing their socialist ideology in an attempt to change the US to a socialist state.

Yep, just like W took on expensive entitlements in election years, all politics, something you got the first GW thread closed over. You got tired of debating (arguing) and demanded everything was politics. Get over it until the next election.

But then...they have a vast following of people who think the oil companies should be shut down today. They feel that we should simply divest ourselves of all things petroleum, and the problems will all be solved.

That's a lie, pushed to the farthest extreme, a waste of time and air. Polls have shown as many as 83% think "BP brokie, BP fixie."

What a lame bunch of stupid people these are. Completely out of touch with reality, and no actual sense of how things really are.
A band of hypocrites with number three hat sizes.

A straw man to hate when you no likey your president.

It is imperative that the majority of the nation sees this misguided way of thinking as the problem, which is most certainly at the root of most of our problems today.

You'll never see what the majority of the nation sees because you're on the fringe.

It is this less than clear way of thinking that placed a guy with no executive experience at all, and no real leadership abilities proven, into the highest office in our land and made such a no-credential ideologue the leader of the free world. And they did it on his word of "hope and change", which he never really described. Of course the over zealous left understood it just fine...and all they needed to know that a black man (and what a bonus to find a clean cut, well spoken black guy!) was going to lead them away from GW Bush and towards Nirvana.

How can all this happen like this? Simple....a large majority of our population are basically stupid. Sad, but true. Our nation has been dumbed down by the media as well as academia. Well, actually it is more the parents of all these idiots that is to blame, as they are the root of this ignorance en masse. See, their parents too were dumb fucks.
The MSM and academia merely reinforce the ignorance and stupidity, and these stupid people let them raise their kids for them.
They passed these child raising skills on to their children, who went on to be Obama supporters.

It all boils down to this...we are dealing with a big barrel full of dumb.

Get off the political crap, you wing-nut.

 

[White-rhino]

NEW ORLEANS — Out-of-work Gulf Coast shrimper Todd Pellegal spent his first $2,500 check from BP quickly, paying off bills and buying groceries for his family. He never even considered putting some of it away for taxes. Now he's among the people up and down the Gulf Coast reeling from the oil spill disaster who are surprised — and frustrated — to find out the Internal Revenue Service may take a chunk of the payments BP PLC is providing to help them stay afloat.
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Duh. How else is the gubment gonna pay Peggy Joe's gas and mogage in Floda? She hepped heelm! So you gotta hep her. Utopia.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

That's the way disaster relief has always worked, W-r. These folks would have been taxed on their income, their taxed on their relief. Sad commentary, W-r.

 

[hoosierdaddy]

lol...I see Disco is still having trouble putting more than a couple of sentences together at one time. The voices must provide random lil soundbites and it manages to type a couple of them before they fade.

Get off the political crap, you wing-nut.

It is your messiah that is politicizing the issue.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

It is your messiah that is politicizing the issue.

Your president doesn't have to abide by the same TOU you do, boy.