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US bans offshore drilling as Deepwater Horizon slick hits land

You're article doesn't address my question.

Your article goes on and on about this particular BOP, but I asked something different.

Your question is hypothetical and totally ignores what this article's eye witness says happened.

I know, it's awful when an article goes on and on and on with those pesky "facts" disproving your desired explanation. :roll:

Had everything been working perfectly, there still would have been a fire. This is due to the methane being able to reach the deck before the computer could have detected and reacted to the problem.

WRONG! Had you read the article or listened to the interview you would have learned that a "methane bubble" had nothing to do with the explosion. Nothing.

My presumption that the Deepwater would have burned and sank even if the BOP had performed perfectly was incorrect because I assumed the initial explosion was much greater then it actually was.

What's with "presuming" anything here? Several very good sources have been provided yet, you continue to go off on your own science dream "presuming" that a fictional event happened. Why is it so important to you to ignore facts as they are exposed?

Had everything worked the way it was supposed to and had BP not taken those safety short cuts and had BP not ignored their damage to the BOP... that rig would still be out there pumping out oil.

THAT is the point. :doh

Your intentional refusal to address this is enlightening in itself.
 
Your question is hypothetical and totally ignores what this article's eye witness says happened.

I know, it's awful when an article goes on and on and on with those pesky "facts" disproving your desired explanation. :roll:



WRONG! Had you read the article or listened to the interview you would have learned that a "methane bubble" had nothing to do with the explosion. Nothing.



What's with "presuming" anything here? Several very good sources have been provided yet, you continue to go off on your own science dream "presuming" that a fictional event happened. Why is it so important to you to ignore facts as they are exposed?

Had everything worked the way it was supposed to and had BP not taken those safety short cuts and had BP not ignored their damage to the BOP... that rig would still be out there pumping out oil.

THAT is the point. :doh

Your intentional refusal to address this is enlightening in itself.

Where was anyone on this thread talking about the Deepwater Atlantis? :confused:
 
Where was anyone on this thread talking about the Deepwater Atlantis?

Still trying to distract? :roll:

The Atlantis was in the same interview.

You can't see the relevance?
 
Still trying to distract? :roll:

The Atlantis was in the same interview.

You can't see the relevance?

Neither the report nor the interview answered my question regarding automated shut-off.

I know you want to go on and on about BP fault and so forth, but that's not what I was asking about.
 
After the explosion the BOP should have deployed to prevent the spill, but the BOP couldn't have prevented the methane bubble from traveling up the pipe. Someone would have had to know the methane was there, have their hand on the BOP control and deploy the BOP, closing the pipe at the sea floor before any methane traveled up. Likewise, the various safeties of the machines on deck were not designed to handle that volume or pressure of methane.

If the BOP deployed flawlessly, the rig would have still exploded and sank, only now we wouldn't have a spill.

Personally I think this is the biggest thing though. Why was there not some sort of way to shut this pipe off even if there was some sort of accident above the ground? I am sure the explosion did do some damage, perhaps it was impossible given the circumstances for it to have performed better. I think the anger though is that some information has been found that the BOP may not have been up to spec, or could have been outfitted with additional equipment that could have possibly prevented the spill. No doubt, no one can forsee every accident, but for something as serious as this I think a huge amount of precaution needs to be taken into consideration and whatever can be done by oil companies to prevent oil from spilling given an accident happens should be taken.
 
Personally I think this is the biggest thing though. Why was there not some sort of way to shut this pipe off even if there was some sort of accident above the ground? I am sure the explosion did do some damage, perhaps it was impossible given the circumstances for it to have performed better. I think the anger though is that some information has been found that the BOP may not have been up to spec, or could have been outfitted with additional equipment that could have possibly prevented the spill. No doubt, no one can forsee every accident, but for something as serious as this I think a huge amount of precaution needs to be taken into consideration and whatever can be done by oil companies to prevent oil from spilling given an accident happens should be taken.

If you read the article, or listened to the interview, you will find that the BOP was damaged, in at least two places, and that BP knew it... for weeks prior to the explosion. Those damages caused the BOP to not properly deploy. The fact that BP intentionally chose to not properly test or repair those damaged parts will come back to haunt them in upcoming criminal charges and lawsuits.

Also, had the MMS not been up BP's butt, and enforced the regs properly, this probably would never have happened. They too will "pay the piper" over this disaster.
 
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