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Post by pavel on May 13, 2016 4:56:06 GMT -6
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement confirms it responded to an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. The BSEE reported it was a two-mile by 13-mile sheen approximately 97 miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The U.S. Coast Guard estimates about 88,200 gallons of oil leaked. The total subsea release from the four wells is estimated to be 2,100 barrels of oil, according to the BSEE. Shell Offshore Inc. reported that a helicopter saw the sheen in the area of its Glider Field, a group of four subsea wells located in Green Canyon Block 248. The production from these four wells flows through a subsea manifold to Shell's Brutus platform located in 2,900 feet of water. Read more: www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/federal_officials_coast_guard.html |
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Post by nobody on May 13, 2016 10:11:46 GMT -6
What's a little more? Been years since I walked on Texas beaches. My sandals were coated with tar, and that was 30 years ago.
We don't know, don't have any way of knowing, if and how much capped-off wells are leaking. It is believed -- accepted -- that the capping was badly done and that they might leak at any time. minimal standards, no inspections, no follow-up required. The same is said of capped-off wellheads off the coast of California.
Not that oil leaking into the Gulf is all from spills or leaky caps. It is also a natural process, and there are several places where petroleum is known to seep, just as there are above ground petroleum seeps.
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Post by Logan on May 13, 2016 12:14:12 GMT -6
What's a little more? Been years since I walked on Texas beaches. My sandals were coated with tar, and that was 30 years ago. We don't know, don't have any way of knowing, if and how much capped-off wells are leaking. It is believed -- accepted -- that the capping was badly done and that they might leak at any time. minimal standards, no inspections, no follow-up required. The same is said of capped-off wellheads off the coast of California. Not that oil leaking into the Gulf is all from spills or leaky caps. It is also a natural process, and there are several places where petroleum is known to seep, just as there are above ground petroleum seeps. Thanks for the reminder as to why I don't eat any seafood from the Gulf of Mexico. I never developed an affinity to most seafood and I can count on one hand the times that I've eaten seafood and enjoyed it. All of the cooks that prepared the meal had culinary training. |
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Post by nobody on May 15, 2016 0:37:49 GMT -6
Actually I'd been craving a return trip to Galveston for some years tar and all, and an over-nighter on Matagorda I., but it didn't happen. As for the tar on beaches, it's a shame it isn't commercially viable to pick it up and use it for something. Pick up little pieces and stuff it into the cracks in the driveway, or cram in the planks of the boat instead of oakum.
What you wrote reminds me of that TV ad by K.D. Lang where she says of beef that if you saw how they got it [the slaughterhouse], you'd lose your lunch. Observant Jews keep away from non-fish sea food since it is deemed unclean.
Wonder in this connection how the diving is in the Gulf. There is supposed to be a nice patch of coral a ways off shore where dive boats from Galveston head to. Is the coral still healthy?
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