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DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 6:13 pm
by Æron
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Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 7:14 pm
by Bocaj Claw
Aeron, you clearly haven't heard that off-shore drilling is completely safe and there hasn't ever been a major leak ever.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 7:57 pm
by nickspoon
The oily water picture is very cool. Shame about the spill though!

BP tried and failed to put a funnel cap on it, now I believe they are trying a different sort of cap. Failing that they want to bore diagonally into the well and pump in concrete to seal it. Really, things like this should never happen.

In other news, the Russians used nukes.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 11:08 pm
by Maggot Brain
Well, golly gee. Thanks off shore drilling! Thanks British Petrol! Thanks Bush admin policies which made it easier and less safe to drill off of our shore! And of course thanks Obama for continuing to push the "need" for domestic offshore drilling!

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:41 am
by Bocaj Claw
There is a minuscule good side to this. The BP leak is souring public opinion of off-shore drilling in Florida, where it was somewhat of an issue. Not really worth the environmental disaster to go "I told you so" though.

The sun is above the ground, the oil is below. So let's dig.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:12 am
by Arloest
Hey guys.

Guys.

I was almost a petroleum geologist. Alllmmoosst.

I would have gotten $85,000 a year to START with these guys.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:48 am
by Tom_Radigan
If you think that this is going to mean the end of offshore drilling, guess again. Chernobyl didn't mean the end of nuclear power generation either.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 3:40 am
by Arloest
Oh this definitely won't end off-shore drilling. There might be a bit more reluctance in promoting it, however.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 5:48 pm
by Muninn
Hey guys.

Guys.

I was almost a petroleum geologist. Alllmmoosst.

I would have gotten $85,000 a year to START with these guys.
Did you find your heart was not "black" enough?

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:56 pm
by Muninn
Aeron, you clearly haven't heard that off-shore drilling is completely safe and there hasn't ever been a major leak ever.
At least nothing resembling something like this.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:19 pm
by Bocaj Claw
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Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:51 pm
by likeafox
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Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 11:47 am
by nickspoon
A couple of the commenters there raised an interesting point (amongst the usual sea of garbage), which is that in Canada one is mandated by law, when drilling, to drill a relief well at the same time as the primary well. Thus, if a spill happens, the pressure can be reduced almost immediately and capping measures can be put in place.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 12:30 pm
by Tom_Radigan
A couple of the commenters there raised an interesting point (amongst the usual sea of garbage), which is that in Canada one is mandated by law, when drilling, to drill a relief well at the same time as the primary well. Thus, if a spill happens, the pressure can be reduced almost immediately and capping measures can be put in place.
Assuming the relief well would work as theorized.

Re: DRILL babby, DRILL!

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 1:52 pm
by nickspoon
Assuming the relief well would work as theorized.
That is the assumption, yes. It is at least a tested solution, and I would rather require relief wells than risk the consequences of not having one if a disaster like this occurs.