Oil Gusher
Oil Spill Cap Will Stay In Place When Tropical Storm Bonnie Hits
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010 became the target for Tropical Storm Bonnie as it pulled from the Bahamas Thursday . Storm warnings stopped nearly all oil spill containment and cleanup efforts. BP was waiting for official word from Thad Allen, the federal director of the spill response about whether drill rigs, oil containment ships and support vessels would have to evacuate. A final effort to kill the well can have to wait for better weather. But Allen said the feds are confident that an oil spill containment cap that has stanched the flow from the ruptured well will hold during the storm.
Tropical Storm Bonnie halts oil spill containment work
Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm system could become Tropical Storm Bonnie later Thursday and reach the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday. The Associated Press reports that a relief well to permanently seal the ruptured well was nearly complete before work on it was stopped. Crews had planned to spend Wednesday and Thursday reinforcing with cement the last few feet of the relief well that will be used to pump mud to the gusher and kill it once and for all. If Tropical Storm Bonnie forces work crews to evacuate, it might be two weeks before they can resume the effort to kill the well. BP’s timetable called for finishing the relief well by the end of July and plugging the blown-out well by early August.
Relief well must be complete before static kill attempt
A new technique being discussed to plug the BP oil leak is called a “static kill” in oil industry parlance. A static kill, according to the New York Times, involves pumping drilling mud through the blowout preventer to the well to permanently stanch the flow. A static kill would only start after the final casing was installed within the relief well, to cut back the risk of damage to the relief well if something went wrong. The relief well would be used to confirm the blowout is permanently sealed if the static kill works. If the results from the static kill are ambiguous, though, it would then take at least a number of days, and possibly several weeks, to permanently shut the flow from the bad well by pumping mud down the relief well.
Oil spill cap performance breeds confidence
Despite Tropical Storm Bonnie, the government told BP it could leave the oil spill containment cap attached. Allen told Bloomberg that data from the well gave the response team confidence that leaving the cap in place wouldn’t be an issue. According to BP’s website, steadily increasing pressure readings show that oil and gas is not escaping from other parts of the well. A BP official said each and every additional day the pressure holds gives them more confidence.
Citations
google.com/hostednews/ap/article
nytimes.com
bloomberg.com
What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell About Gulf Oil Gusher
|
|
OIL Well Gusher CENTENNIAL Bradford old 1925 pin $38.00 |
|
|
American Oil Fields Gusher Midway Field Kern County CA $4.25 |
|
|
Sapulpa Oklahoma OK 1920s Oil Well Gusher Coming In Vintage Postcard $9.99 |
|
|
1910 Scientific American May 21 Lakeview CA Oil Gusher $24.00 |
|
|
Fresno, CA Oil Gusher Huge Panoramic Photo 1910 53″x18″ $24.98 |
|
|
Fresno, California Oil Gusher Photo 1910 PF 16″X5″ $8.89 |
|
|
1941 Oil Well Gusher Photo Johnson Suture Corp Chicago Illinois Vintage 1940s Ad $10.99 |
|
|
Rare Colber Oil Gusher Derrick Tower O Gauge Lionel American Flyer Video in Desc $159.99 |
|
|
CALIFORNIA Maricopa Lake View Oil Gusher SPRR postcard Southern Pacific Railroad $24.95 |
|
|
Tom Swift and His Great Oil Gusher 1924 $5.00 |
|
|
The Spindletop Gusher: The Story of the Texas Oil Boom $11.77 |
|
|
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the Bp Oil Gusher by Joel… $15.99 |
|
|
Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945 NEW $33.22 |
|
|
CA LAKEVIEW Oil Gusher, Lake of Oil ’10 /2979 $14.00 |
|
|
Oklahoma Postcard Oil Gusher Well Field View Linen Unused c1940s $4.50 |
|
|
Oklahoma Postcard Oil Gusher Well Field View 1941 Wilson OK Postmark Linen $5.50 |
|
|
Beaumont Texas TX Oil Wells Spindletop Gusher Multiview Postcard $10.50 |
|
|
BAKERSFIELD CA OIL FIELD OIL WELL LAKEVIEW GUSHER 1900s $19.90 |
|
|
Beaumont Texas #2 1907 gusher burning oil derrick cool view postcard $12.99 |
|
|
Vintage Lot 3 ADM Solid Brass Belt Buckles Spindletop Oil Well Rig Lucas Gusher $19.99 |
|
|
Old Union Oil Gusher Maricopa CA. Postcard $9.95 |
|
|
Oklahoma Crude Brass Belt Buckle Oil Well Derrick Gusher Field $9.99 |
|
|
1936 Oil Gusher Oklahoma City Oklahoma Postcard OK $0.99 |
|
|
F3884 TX, Odessa Oil Gusher Postcard $7.99 |
|
|
OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA OIL FIELD LARGE OIL WELL GUSHER VINTAGE POSTCARD GAS WELL $9.99 |
|
|
OIL GUSHER OKLAHOMA CITY OKLA POSTCARD $6.99 |
|
|
Lot of 5 c.1920s Original Real Photos OIL WELLS, DRILLING, GUSHER; KANSAS, OKLA $9.99 |
|
|
MARICOPA California ~ 1900′s LAKE VIEW GUSHER ~ OIL WELL ~ 48000 Bbls per day $25.00 |
|
|
TEXAS – ODESSA – OIL GUSHER – DERRICK – CABIN – C- 1940-50 $4.00 |
|
|
A Hole at the Bottom the Sea Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher-Joel Achenbach $31.67 |
|
|
OK-TULSA-OIL GUSHER-MAILED 1945-EARLY-T56959 $4.00 |
|
|
1947 MEAD PAPERS OIL WELL GUSHER PRINT AD $9.99 |
|
|
ROBINSON ILLINOIS OIL WELL GUSHER GUSHING WELLS FIELD ANTIQUE VINTAGE POSTCARD $16.99 |
|
|
OIL GUSHER, OKLAHOMA POSTCARD ON LINEN $5.95 |
|
|
Colber Oil Gusher Derrick Tower O Gauge American Flyer #773 NO RESERVE- RARE $49.99 |
|
|
BUSN2A-00192 Photo Mugs Early oil well gushing in Pennsylvania 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration…. |
|
|
The Music of Raymond Scott / Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights $7.07 Prewar gems from a long-neglected master. Scott’s career as composer, bandleader, and electronic-music pioneer is just beginning to be rediscovered. Here he mixes swing jazz with classical forms, exotica (long before there even was such a thing), and his own hyperactive melodies to create a timeless sound. Many of the bouncy tunes are recognizable from their constant use in cartoon soundtracks ove… |
|
|
Microphone Music $22.85 … |
|
|
GudCraft 1-1/2-Inch Manual Hand Pump $27.00 Best value hand pump for water, diesel, antifreeze and slurry transfers, out-of-order sump pumps, abrasive and filtration pumping, drum transfer, groundwater removal, drain dewatering and cleaning, spill cleanup and grease and oil collection. Inlet Spout (in.): 1 1/2, Max. Suction Lift (ft.): 13 1/2, Water Flow: 1320 GPH… |
|
|
60 Minutes – The Blowout (May 16, 2010) $17.95 Airdate: 5/16/2010 One of the last people to escape the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig explosion tells Scott Pelley that the job had been plagued with problems — a series of serious mishaps that led to the massive explosion. Eleven crew members died in the inferno, and the gusher it unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew crude oil. Scott Pelley investigates.This product is manufac… |
|
|
Wildcat (1942) $7.99 … |
|
|
Insane Clown Posse – Oil Gusher T-Shirt The seven joker’s cards appear in a toxic plume of gas on the front of this black, 100% cotton t-shirt from the Insane Clown Posse, with a matching Psychopathic Records logo printed on the back. A killer tee from the Dark Carnival’s toxic underbelly!… |
|
|
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence $4.87 Everybody is talking about “energy independence.” But is it really achievable? Is it actually even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously researched book, Robert Bryce exposes the false promises behind the rhetoric while blasting nearly everybody— Republicans, Democrats, environmentalists, and war-mongering neoconservatives—for misleading voters about our energy needs. Gusher of … |
|
|
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher $0.01 It was a technological crisis in an alien realm: a blown-out oil well in mile-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. For the engineers who had to kill the well, this was like Apollo 13, a crisis no one saw coming, and one of untold danger and challenge. A suspense story, a mystery, a technological thriller: This is Joel Achenbachâs groundbreaking account of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and what … |
|
|
Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 $14.49 How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian navy, and three East Texas drillers join forces with other equally colorful characters to drill on Spindletop Hill? The answers are all here–the challenge and frustration of the search, the excitement of the discovery, the euphoric chaos of the boom, and the genesis of the giant co… |