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The gross irresponsibility of the 14 year old Taylor Energy crude oil leak

Gladiator said:
Coast Guard contractor says 700 Gallons per day:


"A day after The Washington Post revealed Garcia-Pineda’s analysis, the Coast Guard issued Taylor Energy an ultimatum: hire a company to build a device to contain the oil or face a fine of up to $4,000 per day. When the energy company failed to negotiate a contract, the Coast Guard took over the cleanup effort."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...any-is-trying-stop-it/?utm_term=.7f34343cce08


Couvillion Group – Gulf Coast Marine Contractors


"On Wednesday, during oral arguments for Taylor Energy's case against Couvillion Group, the private contractor hired by the Coast Guard to contain the spill, U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle wanted to know why the company is seeking to block efforts to clean it up. Taylor Energy's attorney said the company believes the plan won't work and could make the problem worse.

"Look, you tried," Lemelle said, according to a report by Channel 4WWL News in New Orleans. "But it's still going on after all this time. Let's get someone else to look at this."

Lemelle asked the Coast Guard's lawyer why the cleanup is taking so long. "This occurred in 2004. How long does it take the government to decide what to do?" The attorney, Erica Zilioni, said new data shows that three leaks are ejecting more oil into the environment than previously thought. Before now, the government had relied almost solely on reports from contractors hired by Taylor Energy to estimate the size of the spill."



The U.S. is making an effort to end the longest oil spill in history. This company is fighting against it in court. - Chicago Tribune




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Different people have different numbers. I believe a paper vs. a contractor that is probably getting paid by volume.

Unbelievable. Only a $4,000 fine per day? That's pennies to the $thousands of what it would take to actually plug such a leak. If the government was serious, the fine would be so much more. Right now, it looks like it's only posturing.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Different people have different numbers. I believe a paper vs. a contractor that is probably getting paid by volume.

Unbelievable. Only a $4,000 fine per day? That's pennies to the $thousands of what it would take to actually plug such a leak. If the government was serious, the fine would be so much more. Right now, it looks like it's only posturing.
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"We sued, we discussed, we pressured and perhaps finally the Gulf has won if this huge leak is stopped," Marylee Orr, executive director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network/Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, one of the groups leading the initial lawsuit against Taylor Energy, told NPR.

According to the court documents, more than 30,000 gallons of oil have been collected since the new collection system was installed.

Estimates of how much oil was leaking have varied widely, from as low as 1 barrel to 100 barrels' worth of oil each day."


Oil Spill Seeping Into Gulf Of Mexico Contained After 14 Years, Coast Guard Says : NPR



Capturing leaking oil does not fix the leaks.


Exon originally drilled the wells in a risky area, the sold the wells to Taylor, when the oil production slowed down. Exon should pay to cap the wells,





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Lord of Planar said:
Different people have different numbers. I believe a paper vs. a contractor that is probably getting paid by volume.

Unbelievable. Only a $4,000 fine per day? That's pennies to the $thousands of what it would take to actually plug such a leak. If the government was serious, the fine would be so much more. Right now, it looks like it's only posturing.
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"WASHINGTON — A new federal study has found that an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that began 14 years ago has been releasing as much as 4,500 gallons a day, not three or four gallons a day as the rig owner has claimed.

The leak, about 12 miles off the Louisiana coast, began in 2004 when a Taylor Energy Company oil platform sank during Hurricane Ivan and a bundle of undersea pipes ruptured. Oil and gas have been seeping from the site ever since.

Taylor Energy, which sold its assets in 2008, is fighting a federal order to stop the leak. The company asserts that the leaking has been slight — between 2.4 and four gallons per day. Oil plumes from the seafloor, Taylor executives have said, are from oil-soaked sediment that has formed around the platform, and any gas rising from the bottom is the natural product of living organisms."


"Using sonar technology and a newly developed method of analyzing oil and gas bubbles rising through the water, scientists determined that the plumes are the result of oil and gas released from multiple wells. They also found that as many as 108 barrels of oil, or just over 4,500 gallons, have spilled into the Gulf each day as a result of the episode. "


New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says - The New York Times


https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/couvillion-gulf-oil-spill-containment/




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