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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 09:11 PM
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BP Files Patent to Produce Oil From Seawater
British petroleum giant BP filed patents late yesterday for its process of creating oil from seawater. CEO Tony Hayward, known for his candor and prescience, stated that they are on track to collect some 25,000 to 50,000 barrels of oil daily from an announced flow of only 5,000 barrels per day at its former oil platform where eleven workers died in the Gulf of Mexico.

Industry analysts now speculate that the so-called oil “spill” has actually been the first full field-test of the new BP process that could revolutionize deep-water drilling. An official at Exxon Mobil, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject and embarrassment that his company had not thought to use this technique for the Exxon Valdez, said admiringly. “Hell, this changes everything. Instead of punching a hole and trying to collect the oil from that reservoir in a long straw, just punch the hole, let the oil flow into the seawater, and bang — you just recovered ten times as much oil.”

A spokesman at the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper noted that this secret test of the new technique could partially explain why BP as well as local and federal officials have limited journalists’ access to the area.

more here: http://thespillsite.com/2010/06/bp-files-patent-to-produce-oil-from-seawater/

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BP can make some money off of this disaster by filing a patent to produce oil from seawater. What next? :mad:

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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 09:12 PM
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1. Is this some kind of a fucking joke???
Stop the planet, I want to get OFF!!!!!
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 09:14 PM
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2. Satire. n/t
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 09:19 PM
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scumbag, mother f***in'lowlife, greedy, sob, anything-for-a-buck dickheads! So maybe now they'll just go around punching holes in all of the wells and letting the oil come up to them?! This is our planet too!
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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 09:20 PM
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4. It was satire. n/t
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