Okiedope
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Some questions?
Why is it the only video that is being showed on the news is the ONE shot of the pipe leaking?? They have video of everything right now. How come they don't show us the entire BOP stack and riser. Why, why, why are the lying to us? What do they not want you to know. Fuck these politicians and their corporate cronies.
White House Covers Up Menacing Oil "Blob"
I encourage you to read the whole article.
spasticgramps, read the artilce. seems very fishy. as for drilling to 35k feet on a whim... there is no way dude. these drillships are million dollar a day operations. no way a company, no matter how stupid, is going to fork out the $ for this unless it has been well planned and aproved by the proper authorities. you can't just get away with going this far outside the parameters of your drilling program, its not something you can cover up -- you are required to do surveys after reaching your total depth. if they did this then they surely knew they would get caught.
as for the comment that bp, transocean, haliburton, cameron, my dog all drilled to this depth is very misleading. bp is responible for the drilling program and implementation. transocean supplies the rig & keeps it running as well as providing a crew to run it. haliburton provides cementing. cameron provides bop equipment. ultimately, bp has all the liability. they made the call to use knowingly faulty equipment -- effectively playing russian roulette.
the blowout almost certainly had nothing to do with the depth they drilled to anyway. kicks, or gas influxes, aren't all that uncommon depending on where you work. the rig should have functional equipment to deal with it. the cement job is not the issue-- it shouldn't matter. the fact is that BP was taking shortcuts and now everyone pays the price.
as for why they aren't showing the riser... i'm not sure there is that much riser pipe left man. what we are seeing might be all that is left. i don't know this for a fact tho. honestly, all of the shit bp is doing right now is probably more for apearances than anything else. there will only be permanent solution when they finish the relief well(s).