Louisiana and BP: Methane hydrate is acting up

[dedeleco]

Another disaster in China:
Black oil slick covering 100 km2 of sea in Dalian

Two days after blasts damage oil pipelines near Dalian oil terminal, clean-up effort continuous. An oil storage tank with 100,000 m3 is destroyed. Rescue operation struggling to contain pollution as environmental safety remains major challenge ..........

Parts of the city of Dalian were still thick with smog two days after the blast. More than 600 households located four kilometers away were evacuated, although local authorities insisted the smoke was not life threatening.

The cause of the incident is being investigated, and experts are trying to reassure the public that the disaster is far less serious than the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

On BP the information comes out difficult!

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs. ... enDocument

But late on Sunday, the US government released a letter to BP Chief Managing Director Bob Dudley from retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen that referred to an unspecified type of seepage near the mile-deep (1.6 km-deep) well along with "undetermined anomalies at the well head. "

[highfly-addict]

An interesting JPP page: http://www.jp-petit.org/nouv_f/maree_noire_golfe_Mexique/avis_specialiste.htm

[dedeleco]

The pressure continues to rise a little 6800 psi!
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_interne ... ROV_1.html

Subsea operational update:

The well integrity test is ongoing and active monitoring continues.

Currently the well remains shut-in with no oil flowing into the Gulf; any significant change to this operation will be announced via a press release.

Pressure continues to slowly increase and is approximately 6800 psi.

We anticipate the next update will be provided at around 9:30 am CDT on July 20, 2010.

Given that the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico sea often leaks oil according to BP, it is not entirely sure that there is a leak elsewhere on the closed well ???.

[Christophe]

Ah so we ate the 500 bars! Well this is the value I had assumed above!

Well i send my application to these clowns

ps: interesting conversation from JPP

Mdr this passage:

On the offshore platforms, their salaries are multiplied by three and they are only present there half-time. One time on the platform and as much on land. And we don't let the guys do this job for over ten years.

- Why ?

- Because it's the life expectancy of the guys who do this job.

This one on the other hand is less funny:

- I believe that oil tankers, who are also geologists, do not perceive time in the same way as environmentalists. From experience, as in the case of the IXTOC oil spill, the pollution has disappeared in ten years. At the end of thirty years there is no longer any trace of it. They just think that ten years is over quickly. Nature has very important recovery capacities, and that they know it. It is the environmentalists who get excited as soon as there are three oiled pelicans. For a geologist, fifty years is nothing.

[Christophe]

It still smells scorched for BP:

BP to sell petrol stations in Germany

BP is looking to sell its Aral network of service stations in Germany for around two billion euros, reports the German weekly Wirtschaftswoche on Saturday, citing banking sources.
French Total, Russian Rosneft and the European group of Avia service stations are among the possible buyers, adds the business newspaper. Rosneft is also said to be interested in two refineries that BP owns in Germany, he said.
BP, Rosneft and Total made no comments.

Suite and source: http://www.lesechos.fr/info/energie/reu ... 271058.htm

I didn't even know that Aral was BP ...

[Obamot]

With the absolutely crazy idea of ​​having tried to put a cap instead of pumping oil, relatively to good pressure.

We can say that the catastrophe of this platform is not so much the explosion and the flow of oil that had taken place until then. But the remedy - worse than the disease - which consisted in trying to plug the pipe without seeing any certainty that the borehole in the ground, had not been damaged, too, by the explosion.

The remedy was therefore worse than the disease (they could have contented themselves with pumping the well with the new bell ...) because it must probably now be impossible to stop a leak in soil that has become unstable ...

What will plunge this whole region into a gigantic oil dumping ground for centuries. Probably the first of its kind before that of the Niger Strait.

[Christophe]

Looks like this coup BP's attempt would have worked?

The oil tanker claims to have finally plugged the leak in the Gulf of Mexico. But there is still work.

In its fight against the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP won a battle on Wednesday. But not the war. The British tanker, owner of the oil platform which exploded at the end of April, causing the death of 11 people, announced the success of its operation called "static kill". It consisted of injecting drilling mud into the head of the well in order to stop the leak. But this is only a first step towards the final clogging.
"Bottom kill" after "static kill"

This good news should not hide the fact that the amount of work to be accomplished remains enormous. Especially since nothing is definitively acquired. In the days to come, it will be imperative for BP to ensure that the pressure remains stable, that the mud succeeds in repelling the oil. If this is the case, the British group will be able to set about definitively sealing the well with fresh cement.

And even then, BP shouldn't stop there. Under pressure in particular from the Obama administration, the "bottom kill" operation must in turn be launched. The process will consist in commissioning two relief wells, which will in particular make it possible to permanently cement the well from below.

http://www.europe1.fr/Environnement/Mar ... BP-246359/

[Christophe]

"Final" balance sheet of the oil spill about 800 million L of oil in "nature"

What makes an average flow over 100 days of 8 million L per day is a little more than 50 barrels per day on average ... "we" (BP, journalists ...) have screwed our mouths in announcing 000 to 5000 barrels a day but hey we knew that for a while ...

[gegyx]

Bad,

that only makes a height of swimming pool of 80cm, on a square of a km of stop (without fish) ...

[Christophe]

Hey gegyx I didn't know you had a comic license?


Otherwise your estimate is good, but on a height of X mm it is how much polluted area eh?

X = 1 would give 800 km²
X = 10 would give 80 km²