| Author | Message | ||
     Hootowl |
The swat teams were because it was sabotage and they were trying to make sure the other rigs were safe. It'll all come out eventually. | ||
| Cowboy |
Here is a true and SAD report--I just got off the phone with my grand son he is a boat capt. and is working the spill he said it is as orginized as a chinese fire drill, It is just a show for the media, he has encountewrd very little oil on the water. Told me the place is full of mexicans that can not speak any english and just sitting around geting paid the blacks are jelious and the they just argue with each other.(just more of our tax $$$ being pissed a way | ||
| Cowboy |
It seams nothing will get done till the goverment and news media have gotten out of the way | ||
| Skntpig |
Apparently via press release from Charlie Crist FL Governor and David Halstead State Coordinating Officer Weather Summary: · According to the NOAA oil plume model, the oil spill is 50 miles southwest of Pensacola, 105 miles from Port St. Joe, and 280 miles from Clearwater. · No direct oil impacts from any part of the plume are expected across the Florida coastline within at least the next 72 hours. High pressure will remain stationed over the northern-central gulf today as a weak trough of low pressure over the western Atlantic begins to drift west into the Southeastern US. Relatively light southeast to east winds are expected to continue through Monday night before shifting to the northwest on Tuesday and Wednesday while increasing to 10 knots. Calm 1-3 foot seas are expected through next week and weather is expected to remain favorable for deepwater operations through next several days, despite the chance of a few passing afternoon showers across the northern-central gulf from Tuesday through Saturday. Current Situation: · Florida beaches are open. · Unified Command estimates release rate of oil from Deepwater Horizon at 5,000 barrels per day. · This event has been designated a Spill of National Significance. · Unified Command continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and spill response plan following the April 22 sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. · Approximately 22,000 personnel are working the on and offshore response. · Oil-water mix recovered: approximately 10.24 million gallons · Response vessels in use: 1,150 · Dispersant (in gallons): approximately 785,000 deployed / 340,000 available · 17 staging areas are in place to protect sensitive shorelines: o AL – Dauphin Island, Orange Beach, and Theodore o FL – Panama City, Pensacola, Port St. Joe, and Carabelle o LA – Amelia, Cocodrie, Grand Isle, Shell Beach, Slidell, St. Mary and Venice o MS – Biloxi, Pascagoula, and Pass Christian Florida Specific: · Oil Containment Boom (in feet) o 259,950 total deployment in Florida o Florida staging areas: approximately 30,650 staged · In accordance with established plans, protective booming and boom maintenance is being conducted in the coastal areas of Bay, Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton Counties. · 538 BP and contract personnel are working on the effort in Florida. · BP issued a $25 million block grant to Florida; first priority is costs associated with booming. · BP has issued a second $25 million grant to Florida for a national tourism advertising campaign. · 128 of 1,104 contracts have been activated for the Vessels of Opportunity program in Florida. · Representatives from BP and the U.S. Coast Guard are stationed at the State EOC and at staging areas and incident command posts in Florida. · FDEP has issued an Emergency Final Order authorizing suspension of certain parameters, allowing for an efficient and timely response to oil spill related matters. · BP claims in Florida: 2,746 / approximately $1,709,520.44 paid o Wage Loss: 1,418 claims / $689,077.72 o Loss of Income: § Commercial: 235 claims / $137,633.93 § Business Interruption: 126 claims / $47,900 § Shrimper: 84 claims / $210,000 § Fishermen: 287 claims / $281,828.79 § Oyster Harvester: 2 claims / $2,500 § Crabber: 5 claims / $5,000 § Recreational Fishermen: 3 claims / $5,000 § Rental Property: 310 claims / $22,280.00 § Charters: 188 claims / $301,620 § Maintenance Company: 5 claims / $1,680 § Seafood Processor: 6 claims / $5,000 State Actions: · State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is at a Level 2 (Partial) with Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) as the lead agency. · Governor’s Executive Orders 10-99, 10-100, and 10-106 declared a state of emergency for: o Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, and Gulf (10-99) o Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, Citrus, Hernando, Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Sarasota (10-100) o Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach (10-106) · Governor’s Executive Order 10-101 established the Gulf Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force, which will facilitate efforts by Florida businesses and industries to recover from the loss of commerce and revenues due to the oil spill. · Conducting daily conference calls with: county and emergency management partners, the Federal On-Scene Coordinator, and Mobile Unified Command. · A 25-member Forward-State Emergency Response Team (F-SERT) is on-scene at the Unified Command in Mobile. · The State Emergency Response Team is supporting efforts with 4 personnel at Unified Command Sector St. Petersburg and 3 personnel at Unified Command Sector Key West. · ESF 15 – Volunteers and Donation is providing consistent messaging to Florida volunteers, “All oil-contaminated materials will only be handled by trained, paid workers and not by volunteers.” 1,692 volunteers worked 7,709 hours for clean-ups along 135 miles of Florida’s beaches. · The Boom Coordination Cell continues to coordinate additional requests. · An Innovative Technology Cell is assessing alternative clean-up technologies suggested by the public and stakeholders. · ESF 10 –A website to view all of the consolidated State sampling data that is being collected along the Gulf Coastline is at www.nrdata.org. · The Small Business Administration has issued an Economic Injury Disaster Loan Declaration for the State of Florida. Florida Information Lines · ESF 14 – The Florida Oil Spill Information Line (FOSIL) is available from 8am-6pm EDT daily at (888) 337-3569. · Mobile Unified Command has established two public hotline numbers for oil spill investigation and cleanup: o Impacted Wildlife: (866) 557-1401 o Oiled Shoreline: (866) 448-5816 Small Business Administration, Disaster Loan Outreach Centers · Total visits: 183 · Loan Applications Issued: 64 · Loan Applications accepted: 3 · Escambia: Small Business Development Center, 401 E. Chase St, Suite 100 Pensacola, FL 32502 · Santa Rosa: Navarre Beach Chamber, 8543 Navarre Parkway Navarre, FL 32566 · Okaloosa: Community Center Annex, 108 Stahlman Ave. Destin, FL 32541 · Walton: Walton Area Chamber of Commerce, 63 S Centre Trail Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459 · Bay: Panama City Beach Chamber of Commerce, 309 Beckrich Ave. Panama City Beach, FL 32407 · Gulf: Chamber of Commerce, 150 Captain Fred’s Place Port St. Joe, FL 32456 · Franklin: Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce, 122 Commerce St. Apalachicola, FL 32320 · Wakulla: Wakulla Agricultural Center, 84 Cedar Ave. Crawfordville, FL 32327 Local States of Emergency · Bay: Expires on 5/27/10 · Dixie: Expires on 5/27/10 · Escambia: Expired on 5/21/10 · Franklin: Expired on 5/21/10 · Gulf: Expires on 5/24/10 · Okaloosa: Concurrent with Florida’s · Santa Rosa: Expires on 5/28/10 · Sarasota: Expires on 5/25/10 · Wakulla: Expires on 5/24/10 · Walton: Expires on 5/28/10 County EOC Activations · Bay, Level 2 (Partial) · Franklin, Level 2 (Partial) · Okaloosa, Level 2 (Partial) · Santa Rosa, Level 2 (Partial) · Wakulla, Level 2 (Partial) That's about all the info I have... | ||
| Cowboy |
Gentlemen I think I will stop posting on this thread. The latest report is they think a cement job went to hell, If you will check some of my very early post I stated that them. I have tried to state the facts of a blow out and handling of them. Some of the problems and a lot of the miths that has been published a few of the members here seem to under stand, the rest of them dont know squit and are repeating BS from a liberal news media, I now know the truth about most of this thing from 1st kick to oilslick I do not take any side in this other than the truth from front to back I am satified with my self I have no political agenda. just stick to the facts not what John said. | ||
| Sifo |
Cowboy, I would respectfully ask that you keep posting what you know in this thread. This thread has been very helpful to my understanding of the situation, far beyond what can be learned in the media. Your efforts in reporting facts is very appreciated. Thanks! | ||
| Aesquire |
I second that. While my info on oil industry stuff is mostly based on Popular Science, plus machining & inspecting gear I wouldn't know how to run, I find the deep water operations very interesting. The pressures and forces at depth are sci-fi issues, another world. The Trieste, a real work of heavy metal art, IMHO, had no manipulator gear in it's original incarnation, and cracked a window cover on it's famous Challenger deep dive. That must have been good for a squirt & a half of adrenalin. Keep up the reporting, please Cowboy. Some of us are more interested in what's really happening than blaming someone. Let's just clear it all up once and for all. It's Rockefeller's fault.  | ||
| Sifo |
If I remember my diving stuff from many years ago every 33 feet of seawater adds an additional atmosphere of pressure. 5000 feet deep would be about 150 atmospheres of pressure or about 2,200 PSI! Space flight is a cake walk compared to working in these conditions. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
The best thing about forums is the people "in the know"/"hands on". Most everything in the "news" is sensationalised....for what ever reason. That suck because so many people fall for it.Keep calling out the BS cowboy and keeps us up on the real deal. Thanks! | ||
| Cowboy |
Damn Sifo you sure bring back old memories.If I remember right in the old days we would have to go on gas from about 250 ft. and deeper. Hell that depth now is just a wading pool I sure am happy I am to old to do that stuff any more.he he | ||
| Aesquire |
Although some here might not believe it..... ( you know who ) I'm no fan of B.P. today. I WAS a bit of a fan some years back, but they had hired me at pretty good pay for teaching in a country that started on the road to nuclear war & world domination 2 weeks before I moved there....so I never did get paid. Let's hope the "top kill" idea of pumping junk into a pipe a mile deep works. (Message edited by aesquire on May 24, 2010) | ||
| Road_thing |
I'm with Cowboy. I'm out... rt | ||
| Aesquire |
I'm sure if I looked hard I could find some guy who thinks oil comes from the depths of satan's realm, and all life will perish unless we convert to solar cars.... Ah! here he is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ | ||
| Reepicheep |
Too bad... Road Thing, Cowboy and Blake were providing badly needed facts I wasn't getting anywhere else.  (Hopefully you will jump on another thread with more good updates if you get 'em) | ||
| Rwven |
Oil Boom Use 101 Beware! Language better suited to ADVRider....  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx8kMXufu3w | ||
| Cowboy |
For those that have seen this I thought You may find this interesting. http://bp. concerts. com/gom/ kentwells update 24052010.htm | ||
| Hex |
Here's the above link: http://tinyurl.com/29bo52j | ||
| Sifo |
No plan to blow it up with a nuke? They're not even trying. | ||
| Xb12xmike |
WOW man... this should be broadcast on FOXnews so the majority of americans know whats really going on and they stop bitching. OH...probably the other networks too I guess if it helps. I hope BP stays in control. They can get it done, just better hope some hurricane don't come alone at the worst possible moment leaving all holes (old/new) wide open and leaking. | ||
| Xb12xmike |
Kill shot is gonna work. | ||
| Sifo |
Does GWB still have the hurricane controller? | ||
| Xb12xmike |
They should put Sarah Palin in charge. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
How long would this thing spew oil if nothing was done to stop it? Months? Years? Decades? | ||
| Cowboy |
All of the above | ||
| Xb12xmike |
Top Kill looks like it's working good. (just said it on FOXNEWS) It's gettin there. | ||
| Hex |
Keep yer fingers crossed. I hope this works. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Cowboy, that's a very helpful link (that Hex helpfully fixed), thanks! Lots of great facts in there... | ||
| Blake |
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/ globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/ bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html That there is drilling mud. Not sure why the LA Times is declaring the leak stopped. Still a long way to go before we can say that. Cowboy, how do they cement without a drill string or functional BOP? Just flood the entire casing with cement? Where do they get so much cement? | ||
| Blake |
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la- na-oil-spill-top-kill-20100528,0,5782115.story | ||
| Reepicheep |
I was about to post that same link with the question along the lines of "that looks like mud still being pumped in, not oil and gas being squirted out". You are a psychic Blake!  I'm praying it holds! |
