Oil Leaking Underwater From Well in Rig Blast

[Robb]

Source: NYT

NEW ORLEANS — Robotic devices monitoring the deepwater well where a giant oil rig exploded and sank last week have discovered that oil is leaking from the well in two places, a development that a senior Coast Guard official on Saturday called a “game changer.”

The oil is coming from two places in the riser, the 5,000-foot pipe that connects the well at the ocean floor to the drilling platform on the surface. The rig, the Deepwater Horizon, which sank Thursday, detached from the riser. The riser now extends from the well and , follows a circuitous route to 1,500 feet above the seabed and then buckles back down.

On Friday, a remotely operated device began scanning the riser to determine if there were any leaks, said Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, commander of the Coast Guard’s Eighth District. The discovery of the leaks was made Saturday morning.

Roughly 1,000 barrels of oil a day are estimated to be emanating from the riser, officials said. They said that both leaks were on the seabed.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/us/25rig.html

[LiberalLoner]

1. Oh, crap. n/t

[Oregone]

2. We need more offshore drilling to fix this and everyhting else

[Webster Green]

3. Drill baby drill!

This is really fucked up!

Very sad. :banghead:

[hunter]

4. In other words 42 thousand gallons a day...

If I had a day's worth of it in gasoline it'd be like I'd won the lottery or something.

[DCBob]

14. Almost a barrel per minute..

This is very big leak and probably will get worse.

[Swede Atlanta]

5. This is why.........

We have to think very carefully about opening up offshore drilling in new areas. Obama recently stated that modern technology had advanced drilling techniques such that spills were virtually impossible. He lied about this as this accident reveals. Why is he running toward the middle on everything from extraordinary renditions, illegal wiretaps, etc.?

[freedommachine]

10. He is turning out to be not a lot different then what we had.

Liz Fowler helped write the health care bill. She was the VP in charge of policy at Wellpoint. More corporatism as usual. Not looking like as much change as everyone hoped for.

[madokie]

15. Some are simply blind

I put you in that category
have a blessed day

[freedommachine]

17. Corporatism

Corporatism

[junior college]

6. Offshore drilling is so awesome!!!

Next up...Santa Barbara!

[scentopine]

7. and Exxon pays ZERO income taxes to USA

Exxon tries to limit the tax pain with the help of 20 wholly owned subsidiaries domiciled in the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands that (legally) shelter the cash flow from operations in the likes of Angola, Azerbaijan and Abu Dhabi. No wonder that of $15 billion in income taxes last year, Exxon paid none of it to Uncle Sam, and has tens of billions in earnings permanently reinvested overseas.

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/06/exxon-zero-taxes/

And Obama is blessing more off shore drilling. Can't tell a neo-lib from a neo-con any more.

We are losing the battle to stay free and safe in our own country.

[WarhammerTwo]

8. AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Ah-AH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG!

FUCKING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

(deep, calming breaths...)

Sorry. Between this and the Goldman Sachs email revelations, I just had to scream. I'm just so frickin' fed-up. Sorry.

[defendandprotect]

9. After they've spent a week denying this --!!

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. And the media bought it and so did the public

let alone some on DU

[fasttense]

12. I say if we are going to plant leaky exploding oil rigs off our coasts

So we can fulfill Sarah Palin's, turn President Obama's, wet dreams, let's make sure there are some uber wealthy people living nearby to watch.

Let's plant them off Palm and Vero Beaches in Florida; Bridgehampton and Southampton, N.Y., and Carpinteria and Santa Barbara, Calif. That should make their hundreds of millions of dollar homes real pretty.

[DCBob]

13. What a f'king mess...

This will not be easy to cap..

[scentopine]

16. update here

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9FA6CV86