Thumbs Up to the BP Engineers / Workers who are trying to solve this issue!

[KansasVoter]

These men and women are just working stiffs like you and I.

They are working their tails off to solve this issue and they are doing the best they can to stop the oil leak.

Maybe you hate the BP upper management, but the people working on solving this deserve some credit for their efforts.

All of us have worked for companies why make bad decisions, that does not make us bad people.

Lets wish them luck in the talk they will be trying in the next few days!

[FSogol]

1. +1 n/t

[Lint Head]

2. I just hope they are not the same engineers that built the platform.

[KansasVoter]

4. They might be, but did not make the decisions to skimp on shut off valves.

[nosmokes]

8. Yeah, well they didn't say a fucking word about it either. kudos my ass.

If you see something wrong and do nothing how guilty are you? zero in your world. that's a fucked up place.

[KansasVoter]

12. Wow, you were there and heard the discussion????? Fill us in Einstein!

[Phx_Dem]

14. It appears it may have been a Halliburton caused explosion.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572504575214593564769072.html

An oil-drilling procedure called cementing is coming under scrutiny as a possible cause of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico that has led to one of the biggest oil spills in U.S. history, drilling experts said Thursday.

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Regulators have previously identified problems in the cementing process as a leading cause of well blowouts, in which oil and natural gas surge out of a well with explosive force. When cement develops cracks or doesn't set properly, oil and gas can escape, ultimately flowing out of control. The gas is highly combustible and prone to ignite, as it appears to have done aboard the Deepwater Horizon, which was leased by BP PLC, the British oil giant.

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The scrutiny on cementing will focus attention on Halliburton Co., the oilfield-services firm that was handling the cementing process on the rig, which burned and sank last week.

According to Transocean Ltd., the operator of the drilling rig, Halliburton had finished cementing the 18,000-foot well shortly before the explosion.

Halliburton also was the cementer on a well that suffered a big blowout last August in the Timor Sea, off Australia. The rig there caught fire and a well leaked tens of thousands of barrels of oil over 10 weeks before it was shut down. The investigation is continuing; Halliburton declined to comment on it.

Elmer P. Danenberger, who had recently retired as head of regulatory affairs for the U.S. Minerals Management Service, told the Australian commission looking into the blowout that a poor cement job was probably the reason oil and natural gas gushed out of control.

[Raine1967]

3. "I wish this country had fewer lawyers and more engineers."

I REALLY REALLY agree with this statement more than ever before after the past few weeks.

[Cant trust em]

5. I'm really going to try to push my kids towards math and science.

You know, some day when I actually have kids. I'm a liberal arts guy and I know that my degree offers relatively little compared to the needs we have.

[randr]

6. KUDOS--we need to remember hard working Americans died in this catastrophy

Just like the coal miners, these guys are just doing their jobs under immense pressure and without a net I might add.

[airforceone88888888]

7. anyone

anyone that works to pull oil out f the ground is bad imo.

[suzie]

10. So, you're keyboarding this on a computer constructed completely without the use of petroleum

products?

And you've eliminated air travel, bus travel, car travel from your life?

Wow!

[airforceone88888888]

11. given the world i was born in

yes i do great

i have a battery powered car and my parents use solar power when we can tho it was expensive installing it lol

but yes i do everything i can and when i get older i will do even more :)

[Tailormyst]

19. sure ye do sparky.

:eyes:

[Cant trust em]

13. nevermind.

[dionysus]

15. i hope you don't drive, use electricity, or use anything made of plastic.

[jeanpalmer]

9. Hopefully, they will be re-tooled

and turned into solar panel installers.

[Cha]

16. Exactly..I wish them well now..and not

bitterly dwell on what they didn't do before. We need all the help we can get for our Oceans and Shorelines.

[Enrique]

17. maybe they deserve credit

or maybe they're ass kissing company men/women who are covering up who-knows-what for their bosses. We don't really know. At least I don't.

[architect359]

20. maybe they deserve credit

for doing their job and not caring about "ass-kissing". You're right - "We don't really know", do we? At least, I, as well, don't.

[Joe Chi Minh]

18. K&R