Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill why you have contingency plans...... What went wrong at oil rig? A lot, probers find - Yahoo! News
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill "Like the Minerals Management Service, the U.S. Coast Guard inspects vessels, including drilling rigs, checking the non-drilling related systems on board. It's control over Deepwater Horizon was somewhat limited because it flew the flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and foreign flag states have some monitoring using a non-governmental group of inspectors called a "classification society." Gifford said the Deepwater Horizon used the Marshall Islands' flag ... so it could comply with that country's standards, and not the U.S. regulations." Kenner hearing: Coast Guard inspections differ for 'foreign flag' vessels | NOLA.com
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill looks like some of the original predictions of we were gonna find errors and problems attributable to both the govt and to the oil industry are coming true. i dont think its gonna be solely either "big bad oil" or "big bad govt". i think both are gonna be awfully embarrassed when everything comes out.
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill if this doesnt make you sick, nothing will..... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYFYVNvgg-A[/media] it is the bigger of the two "leaks".
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Well I guess if there is a bright side to this, BP definitely found oil. Here is an article detailing some of the multiple problems that lead to this catastrophe: Plattsburgh Press-Republican -AP News
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill "The failed blowout preventer on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had a hydraulic leak and a dead battery in one of its control pods, and testing in the hours before an April 20 explosion revealed that pressure in the well was dangerously out of whack, a House committee investigating the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico said Wednesday." Deepwater Horizon glitches before explosion in Gulf of Mexico get House panel's attention | NOLA.com
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Wow....just ....WOW Seven hours of data missing from Deepwater Horizon operations just prior to explosion | NOLA.com Any of you computer people out there think a high school kid could design a system to capture the data? Any of you computer people think a high school kid would have more respect for the importance of this data especially from a $500,000/day project?
