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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:33 PM Oct 2012

BP: SEALED OCEAN WELL ISN'T SOURCE OF GULF SHEEN

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A sheen on the Gulf of Mexico likely came from oil seeping out of a piece of discarded equipment that failed to contain BP PLC's massive 2010 oil spill, the company and the Coast Guard said Thursday.

A statement from BP said a three-day inspection confirmed that its Macondo well, which blew out and led to the nation's worst offshore oil spill, isn't leaking. A relief well that intercepted the blown-out well and sealed it isn't leaking, either, BP said.

The company said the survey determined oil probably leaked from an 86-ton steel container the company lowered over a leaking drill pipe in efforts to funnel oil to the surface. The container was one of several methods BP used in its months-long effort to contain its blown-out well.

A sheen appeared in September on the Gulf and was linked by laboratory tests to the Macondo well.

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BP: SEALED OCEAN WELL ISN'T SOURCE OF GULF SHEEN (Original Post) xchrom Oct 2012 OP

And we should believe this............why? CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2012 #1

BP's commercial made on the gulf coast showing many many asjr Oct 2012 #2

BP says new oil slick comes from abandoned equipment Judi Lynn Oct 2012 #3

CaliforniaPeggy

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1. And we should believe this............why?

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:35 PM

Oct 2012

I don't believe them for a minute.

We need a third party to get down there and really check it out. Then I might believe them.

asjr

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2. BP's commercial made on the gulf coast showing many many

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:51 PM

Oct 2012

happy people eating enough gulf shrimp to clog up their colons and inviting others down there to join in is ridiculous.

Judi Lynn

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3. BP says new oil slick comes from abandoned equipment

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Fri Oct 19, 2012, 01:00 AM

Oct 2012

BP says new oil slick comes from abandoned equipment
Xinhua, October 19, 2012

British oil giant BP said Thursday that a sheen recently spotted near the site of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill appears to be leaking from a piece of discarded equipment, and not from the blown-out Macondo well or the relief well that eventually sealed it. The equipment, an 86-ton steel container called a cofferdam, was used in the early stages of the response to trap oil and methane hydrates from a leaking drill pipe in an attempt to funnel it to the surface, according to the news website NOLA.com.

BP, which announced the findings in a statement Thursday, spent three days this week using a remotely-controlled underwater vehicle to inspect the Gulf bottom and the wellhead area at the site, including the drilling riser that had connected the rig to the sea floor, according to the report.

The inspection showed "small, intermittent drops of oil" leaking from an opening at the top and the side of the cofferdam. Samples of the droplets were collected to be analyzed as a potential match with the sheen.

The U.S. Coast Guard also said on Thursday that footage from an undersea camera confirms that the oil slick newly discovered in the Gulf of Mexico came from the cofferdam instead of the Macondo itself.

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