Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico May Be 5 Times Initial Estimate

another eco system down the hatch from man and his greasy oil patch

Anyone who was paying attention knew this was coming. The question was when.

The nasty news is that B.P. left the blow-out valve off the well. Another really cheap company. Acquisition price $500,000 and the salt marshes. Bankruptcy.

More area to drill. what a mess. big jump in gas.

They know the delivery pressure of the well figure that the pipe broke at the first exposed joint. it would be a clean break so the full diameter of the pipe less losses in the string and back pressure of the delivery depth. not a hard problem. ignorance is easy to fake.

The new, far larger estimate of the leakage rate, he said, was within a range of estimates given the inexact science of determining the rate of a leak so far below the ocean’s surface. Bull.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/28/us/20100428-spill-map.html?ref=us

The Oil Spill: Wildlife at Risk

The oil spill from a deepwater well is threatening various birds and marine mammals along the Louisiana coast.

Out of sight must not be out of mind.