Drill, baby, drill,,oops!

That makes no difference. Crude oil isn't a homogeneous substance out of the ground anyway, it has sand, mud, water, etc

A variety of settling tanks, centrifuges, and RO membranes can be used to successfully separate the lighter aromatics, heavier compounds, and water.

Due to the much higher naphthalene content of the Gulf crude - a higher molecular weight - that oil will tend to emulsify in seawater much more readily than "regular" crude.

This means the oil will not readily go to the surface and be broken down naturally. There are biological mechanisms that will allow natural biodegradation but this has the side effect of having a very high BOD in sensitive coral areas and areas frequented by marine life

As a result, any water recovered from such a centrifuge or separation operation will have contamination with those high molecular weight substances. Further treatment with RO membranes will be required to make the water "safe"

 

This video is EPIC ! Best use of a meme so far.

 

Only 375 million! AHAHAHAHAHA!!
I think that's an order of magnitude off.

 

Brilliant. Let's hope "Sammy" is avenged. So much mileage out of that end of the Reich clip.

 

NBC Nightly News had some decent coverage on this today, partly from a barge very close to the ships where the rig used to be. See [ame=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/37861145#37861145]NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast- msnbc.com[/ame].

The show the flames from the natural gas and oil that's been burned.

 

Yesterday I was able to watch ROV Enterprise re-seat the cap. I picked up some screen shots but it was absolutely fascinating.

Bob Wilson

 

one bad blow and it will take it all the way to BP's front porch

 

Anybody care to comment on this?

Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Video: Was leak ignored on doomed oil rig?

If this is true, then at the very least having an Acoustic control interface would have made no difference whatsoever. If the hydraulic control pack was indeed leaking, it is scandalous of BP and TransOcean to have ignored it

No matter what the technology, it must be regularly inspected and kept in good repair

 

It's been long enough to get some official preliminary reports out about what happened. It definitely has been long enough for BP to know what happened. And the word is.....(Crickets going chirp,...chirp.) It looks like when 11 of your friends are killed, the pressure to keep quiet is overcome by the need to get the word out so you don't become the next victim.

One of these days, in the far future, it will be figured out that the operational standards and safety requirements cannot be set by the production officials. These must be set and enforced by a truly independent technical standards/safety organization.

 

(joke time) . . . Today, BP installed new equipment to stop the oil spill - what the industry calls, a 'wedding ring'. Immediately, the well stopped putting out.

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Which is why I'm happily single

 

me me me!!

i said back when it first happened, it would be the worst disaster ever
would be the catalyst for a major shift in capital expenditures
and the leak estimate was going to continuously increase


now obama has spoken; what will actually happen remains to be seen. but the first thing we need to do is triple the money for the EV highway project. that would put the fund at a level almost equal to our weekly gas bill

 

Well duh... they said the relief wells (best option and SOP) wouldn't be done till mid August. I am sure everyone was hoping and praying the caps would help but it was just a long shot.

Can't imagine how things are going to look down there after Alex runs its course.

 

Even after the well is capped, there will be plenty of oil sloshing around in the gulf - basically every hurricane that blows through the gulf will continue to stir up oil and spread it over land.