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| Subject: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:02 pm | |
| BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf NEW ORLEANS – A bolt of lightning struck the ship capturing oil from a blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, igniting a fire that halted containment efforts in another setback for the embattled company in its nearly two-month struggle to stop the spill, the company said.
The fire was quickly extinguished and no one was injured. BP said it hopes to resume containing oil from the well sometime Tuesday afternoon.
The fire occurred on the Discoverer Enterprise, where engineers are siphoning about 630,000 gallons of oil a day through a cap on top of the well.
"At the moment, there's no capture, no containment going on, but we'll start up the Enterprise when it's safe to do so," BP spokesman Robert Wine said.
The fire happened as President Barack Obama was in Florida as part of a two-day visit to the stricken Gulf Coast. It also came a day after the British oil giant announced that it hoped to trap as much as roughly 2.2 million gallons of oil daily by the end of June as it deploys additional containment equipment.
BP has been beefing up its containment efforts with the hurricane season in mind, building a sturdier system that can withstand the volatile weather that is so common in the Gulf in the summer months.
The Coast Guard has taken BP to task for not having enough redundancies in the system to be able to shift gears in events such as Tuesday's lightning strike.
Wine said company hopes to soon start a second containment system — a burner on a semi-submersible drilling rig that could incinerate up to 420,000 gallons of oil a day. The company had hoped to start the system as early as Tuesday.
Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. Though the latest cap installed the well has been capturing oil, large quantities are still spilling into the sea.
The company said it would use robotic submarines to survey the entire containment system, including the cap over the well, for possible damage from the fire. The fire occurred in a vent pipe leading from a tank on the Enterprise where processed oil is stored, Wine said.
Louisiana has been hit with several storms and lightning strikes in the past day. | |
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| Subject: Re: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:12 pm | |
| Its G.W. Bush's fault.
Apparently he and Cheney have discovered how to create lightning and hit distant targets with it. | |
| | | KK
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| Subject: Re: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:22 pm | |
| - BMG wrote:
- Its G.W. Bush's fault.
Apparently he and Cheney have discovered how to create lightning and hit distant targets with it. they took out Jesus too, | |
| | | BMG
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| Subject: Re: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:24 pm | |
| - KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- Its G.W. Bush's fault.
Apparently he and Cheney have discovered how to create lightning and hit distant targets with it. they took out Jesus too, Thats right !! The evil bastards. | |
| | | KK
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| Subject: Re: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:26 pm | |
| - BMG wrote:
- KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- Its G.W. Bush's fault.
Apparently he and Cheney have discovered how to create lightning and hit distant targets with it. they took out Jesus too, Thats right !!
The evil bastards. i think it's time for obama to go play in his tall tree house | |
| | | BMG
Location : Dont know......I'm lost Humor : Twisted Number of posts : 2571 pennies : 2320 Rep : 79
| Subject: Re: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:31 pm | |
| - KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- Its G.W. Bush's fault.
Apparently he and Cheney have discovered how to create lightning and hit distant targets with it. they took out Jesus too, Thats right !!
The evil bastards. i think it's time for obama to go play in his tall tree house And hold one of his golf clubs in his hand. | |
| | | KK
Location : New York Super Powers : poastwhore Number of posts : 8316 pennies : 7853 Rep : 354
| Subject: Re: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:35 pm | |
| - BMG wrote:
- KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- Its G.W. Bush's fault.
Apparently he and Cheney have discovered how to create lightning and hit distant targets with it. they took out Jesus too, Thats right !!
The evil bastards. i think it's time for obama to go play in his tall tree house And hold one of his golf clubs in his hand. they might mistake him for tiger woods. better he wraps himself in tin foil | |
| | | BMG
Location : Dont know......I'm lost Humor : Twisted Number of posts : 2571 pennies : 2320 Rep : 79
| Subject: Re: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:51 pm | |
| - KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- KK wrote:
- BMG wrote:
- Its G.W. Bush's fault.
Apparently he and Cheney have discovered how to create lightning and hit distant targets with it. they took out Jesus too, Thats right !!
The evil bastards. i think it's time for obama to go play in his tall tree house And hold one of his golf clubs in his hand. they might mistake him for tiger woods. better he wraps himself in tin foil I figure he wears a tin foil hat when he isnt around cameras anyway. | |
| | | KK
Location : New York Super Powers : poastwhore Number of posts : 8316 pennies : 7853 Rep : 354
| Subject: Re: BP: Ship fire halts oil capture from well in Gulf Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:38 pm | |
| i think the mini afro peels back anf the horns are revealed | |
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