will_doyle
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Registered: 25th Nov 08
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Not that intersting but quite disturbing
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am4nf
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Registered: 27th Jul 08
Location: South Ayrshire Drives: Corsa Sport
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Aye good one, that works
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
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Worked fine for me
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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It's OK, Kevin Costner is going to sort it all out
http://rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=93663
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N16K
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Registered: 4th Oct 04
Location: Belfast, NI Drives: Corsa D SRi, Tuned Cooper S, B
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great advert for BP!
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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It's dammed impressive, I don't think people appreciate how tricky it must be to control the flow of oil & gas of something that is 1.5 KM below sea level!
The top kill is due for completion tomorrow anyway, and the relief well is already being drilled
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
Location: Essex
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Any idea of the financial cost of the oil lost is so far ?
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John_C
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Registered: 5th Mar 03
Location: South east, Bromley
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about $400 million to BP. Final cost incalculable. Talking about 10 billion maybe.
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
Location: carluke/braidwood--IRNBRULAND
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What a waste indeed.
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Well, the vessel was $365m 10 years ago
Day rate of mid $400k x 35 days
$625m in response fees, 19,000 personnel used so far
Much more to come in compensation
BP have pledged $500m into the post spill research
that's before any of the lost oil is accounted for!
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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quote:
Originally posted by John_C
about $400 million to BP
and the rest!
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nathy_87
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Registered: 14th Aug 08
Location: West Mids. Drives: Škoda Fabia VRS 5J
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So what exactly happend for that to explode like it has?
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K2 GTi
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Registered: 21st Oct 04
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I just seen a shark swim past 
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
Location: Essex
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Wonder how this is going to affect us at the pumps in 3 months time 
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stuartmitchell
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Registered: 24th Apr 04
Location: Kirkliston, Edinburgh
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quote:
Originally posted by N16K
great advert for BP!
Thing is though, this isnt really BP's fault.
The Deepwater Horizon Semi was owned by Transocean, The falied BOP was built by Cameron and purchased for the rig by Transocean.
BP merely own the rights to the block on which they are drilling and the Macondo Reservoir.
Put it this way, if you rented a car from Hertz and a wheel fell off whose to blame?
Apparenty the total cost will exceed 1 billion USD with clean up. Thats not taking into account the law suits that will follow.
I think have BP have done pretty well in the clean up bearing in mind this has never happened at these depths (5000 ft). Top Kill is getting put in place this avo and if that fails they are firing all sorts of shit down the well (combinantion of golf balls and gravel I think).
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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The cost of the lost oil is fuck all compared to how much it's going to cost to clean up 
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Ellis
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Registered: 11th Sep 07
Location: Aberdeenshire
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They need that boy Red Adair, he was good at plugging breached wells/reserviors, he did the Alpha back in '88. Pity he kicked the bucket though...
Edit: actually he was only any use for the fires :doyle:
[Edited on 26-05-2010 by Ellis]
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
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quote:
Originally posted by Ellis
They need that boy Red Adair, he was good at plugging breached wells/reserviors, he did the Alpha back in '88. Pity he kicked the bucket though...
Edit: actually he was only any use for the fires :doyle:
[Edited on 26-05-2010 by Ellis]
Guy who does the training courses at work has worked with him before. He's showed me photos hes taken from massive blow outs in Russia and all over the world, scary!
Apparently the BOP's are only partially closed, and if they were fully open the rate of oil coming out would be alot worse
Now at work, when pressure testing BOP's we also have to record the time taken for the rams to close, this is just since this happening and also at BP's request
[Edited on 26-05-2010 by Mertin]
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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i'm actually amazed at just how much oil is spilling out.
that, 24 hours a day for over a month is just crazy.
puts it into perspective just how much oil there is if that's not even significant.
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Tiesto
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire
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Pumping in the mud now apparently for the top kill.
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
Location: Scotland
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Wonder who got the job for killing the well!
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jamied
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Registered: 27th Oct 03
Location: Marbella,Spain Drives: C63
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looks worse than ever at the mo
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Don't forget that there is gas in there too, at the moment it looks like more gas with a bit of oil in it. Looks worse than it is
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jamied
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Registered: 27th Oct 03
Location: Marbella,Spain Drives: C63
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/05/26/VI2010052603654.html?tid=toast
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stuartmitchell
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Registered: 24th Apr 04
Location: Kirkliston, Edinburgh
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It looks fooking weird now!!
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