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BP spill nears a somber record as Gulf's biggest
Thursday, July 1, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP's massive oil spill will become the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico by Thursday based on the highest of the federal government's estimates, an ominous record that underscores the oil giant's dire need to halt the gusher.
The oil that's spewed for two and a half months from a blown-out well a mile under the sea is expected to surpass the 140 million gallon mark, eclipsing the record-setting Ixtoc I spill off Mexico's coast from 1979 to 1980. Even by the lower end of the government's estimates, at least 71.2 million gallons are in the Gulf.
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CNN Amplifies Clinton's Call: To blow up the well
Should Obama Blow Up The Oil Well?
CRIST ON FMR. PRES. CLINTONS CALL ON CNN: To blow up oil well
Here's my take (for what it is worth) - Blowing up the well will not stop the flow.
World’s largest oil skimmer heads to Gulf spill « Colonel6's Blog
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Taiwanese-flagged former tanker named the “A Whale” is the length of 3 1/2 football fields and stands 10 stories high. It just emerged from an extensive retrofitting to prepare it specifically for the Gulf, where officials hope it will be able to suck up as much as 21 million gallons of oil-fouled water per day.
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World’s largest oil skimmer heads to Gulf spill - BostonHerald.com
Unified Command for the BP Oil Spill | Flow Rate Group Provides Preliminary Best Estimate Of Oil Flowing from BP Oil Well
The Oil Drum | Storm Watch, 28 June 2010 and BP's Deepwater Oil Spill Open Thread
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil spill
"We're going to have to evacuate the gulf states," said Matt Simmons, founder of Simmons and Co., an oil investment firm and, since the April 20 blowout, the unflagging source of end-of-the-world predictions. "Can you imagine evacuating 20 million people? . . . This story is 80 times worse than I thought."
Washington Post
Day 70, NEWS FLASH - The oil is still gushing.
This tracker widget was found on Barack Obama's Oil Spill's Blog
Media Blackout in the Gulf
Sunday, June 27, 2010
“What's happening is there's a complete media blackout,” Fox stated to Veritas host Mel Fabregas, adding that security staff “are arresting people with cameras. ... I was told off-camera that if they're [local workers] caught talking to people, they are going to go to jail."
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Drilling the Gulf Relief Well
Great footage of massive relief well drilling operation. Pray they intersect the well- It won't be easy. Listen to Jeffrey Kofman describe the procedure in the last 30 seconds of the video:
"Now this is nothing less than precision drilling. What they are looking for 18,000 feet down is a hole about nine inches across - the size of a Frisbee. And the reason it is going to take another six or seven weeks to go that last 1,800 feet is that they have to drill 60 feet, pull the drill bit out, put a magnet down attached to a 16,000 foot wire, find the pipe of that broken well, get their bearings, drill ahead 60 feet, pull it out and keep going back and forth. And we have to emphasize that while they have drilled many relief wells before, they have never done it at this depth."Read more...
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