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Originally posted by boymonkey74
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has been monitoring the situation and said there was no indication of a risk of significant pollution to the environment.
Like someone said in a past post gas like this escapes the ocean floor all the time.
the goal isn't to just vent pressurized oil and gas up to the surface, but to control its flow. Engineers send down explosives to perforate the production casing at different depths to allow petroleum into the well. This allows the oil and gas to reach the surface under less pressure, and not as a blasting geyser.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by Violater1
Also another thing that many people on here and in the general public don't seem to understand is what a profit margin is, a company may make 10 Billion £/$ in a quarter but what was the turnover to produce that its the same with supermarkets they may make vast profit announcements by they make an avg 4% profit thats not a lot.
According to reports a gas cloud has encircled the Elgin platform and there is a sheen of between two and 23 tonnes of gas condensate, measuring six nautical miles in length.
Originally posted by boymonkey74
reply to post by Rigel Kent
If it was up to me set up loads of cameras and blow it up just to make sure it doesn't reach land.edit on 27-3-2012 by boymonkey74 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
great
don't you just wish you could apologize for the human race's stupidity to the earth someitmes ?
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
great
don't you just wish you could apologize for the human race's stupidity to the earth someitmes ?
erm no, whilst obviously wishing there were no environmental disasters I have no more desire to apologise to the earth ( ) than I do for the earth to apologise for volcanic eruptions, tsunamis etc
Platform staff had struggled for 14 hours to contain the leak before having to evacuate early on Monday, said Hauge citing anonymous sources involved in the incident he said Bellona had spoken to. Staff were trying to close a well when problems arose, a view confirmed by trade union officials and engineers with knowledge of the matter.
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The reservoir lies 6,000 metres, or nearly four miles, beneath the seabed and is a high-pressure, high-temperature reservoir, he said, making shutting off the flow of gas bubbling to the surface harder.
"The pressure in the reservoir is 600-1,100 bar which is higher than at Deepwater Horizon's, which was a little over 800 bar," said Hauge, referring to the BP oil platform from which, two years ago, poured the worst spill in U.S. history.
Originally posted by JonoEnglish
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
great
don't you just wish you could apologize for the human race's stupidity to the earth someitmes ?
erm no, whilst obviously wishing there were no environmental disasters I have no more desire to apologise to the earth ( ) than I do for the earth to apologise for volcanic eruptions, tsunamis etc
I kind of get what high priest meant.
When I see pictures of devastation to wild animals from oil spills and such things, even though I had nothing to do with it, i feel sorry or partially to blame as I am one of the species that's doing such things to them. Our inaction or apathy to it, may have something to do with it. I don't know.
Originally posted by reitze
There's so much carelessness in drilling and oil it makes me wonder if they don't do stuff like this on purpose.
What are they tryin to do? Get the North Pole to melt? Was the GOM leak on purpose?