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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 07:44 PM
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Craaaaap... ROV Films Oil Leak Coming From Rock Cracks On Seafloor.
In case you haven't seen this yet.

ROV films oil leak coming from rock cracks on seafloor.
From: alexhiggins732 | June 13, 2010 | 83,280 views

Starts off slow - but gets NASTY! ROV films oil leak coming from cracks in a ROCK on the sea floor.

BP denies that oil or gas are leaking from cracks in the sea floor on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Link/Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/alexhiggins732#p/u/3/b2RxIQP0IBU

:argh:
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 07:50 PM
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1. The consensus at the oil drum was that it's a tank from the DH leaking.
That was like a week ago. I haven't been over there lately.

If you look carefully, you can see some sort of flange on the right side of the thing.

It's a tank laying on the bottom.
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 07:57 PM
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2. How Would A Tank, At The Bottom Of The Sea, Spurt Out Oil ???
I mean... anything that's been on the bottom since April 20th should have emptied its contents by now, or at least be a slow, steady, leak.

What ever this is, it looks like it spurts material (oil) by pressure.

How would a tank at the bottom do that?

:shrug:
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 08:05 PM
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4. Fucked if I know.
It does look like a tank or something. Did you see the shape on the right hand side? You can see an edge and some kind of flange or fitting.

There have been other reports of leaks coming through the seabed. I'm not saying it isn't happening.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 08:04 PM
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3. BP broke the earth
She is bleeding badly

Time for the company to send us and Ripley to other worlds to find resources.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 09:21 PM
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5. In a thread today on DU
Someone posted that bp had notified MMS that they had to cement some cracks that developed in the sea floor
about a month before the explosion
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 09:27 PM
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6. If that's true then these people are fucking crazy
Patch the ocean floor????????

What could go wrong?!?
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 10:21 PM
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7. "Hayward sold 33% of his BP shares in March. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html

Is there a chance that Hayward was already aware that the well was in serious trouble before he sold
33% of his BP stock. Also, Goldman-Sachs sold a large number of their BP shares at about the same time. This should be checked out.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 10:26 PM
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8. I read on Du that they have to tell the SEC in advance
that they are planning to sell shares because they are execs, but I do not know how much time is required.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 10:28 PM
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9. Yes, all execs are required to notify the SEC of any stock
sales or purchases of company stock. My point is, he might have known about the well difficulties in advance of the sale and if so, would have been guilty of gross insider trading plus a host of other crimes were this to be the actual case.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 10:32 PM
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10. I am not sure of the time element
Could be 6 months, could be one month
The longer the time element the less likely he sold because of the well.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 10:42 PM
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11. He sold his share 3 weeks before the explosian.
Others also sold stock

Other asset management firms also sold huge blocks of BP stock in the first quarter -- but their sales were a fraction of Goldman's. Wachovia, which is owned by Wells Fargo, sold 2,667,419 shares; UBS, the Swiss bank, sold 2,125,566 shares.

Wachovia and UBS also sold much larger percentages of their BP stock, at 98 percently and 97 percent respectively

http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=9027
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-10 10:50 PM
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12. I googled and found
that the holding period ran from six to 12 months depending on the type
and once you filled a certain form you had 3 months to sell.

It very well might be worth checking out. Good catch
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 09:09 AM
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16. He sold off some of his stock to pay off his house. I'm no fan of Tony Hayward, but
that seems like a legitimate reason to liquidate stock.

Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing an environmental disaster.

Mr Hayward, whose pay package is £4 million a year, then paid off the mortgage on his family’s mansion in Kent, which is estimated to be valued at more than £1.2 million.

There is no suggestion that he acted improperly or had prior knowledge that the company was to face the biggest setback in its history.

...snip...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html
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shireen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 01:24 AM
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13. this is insane
that's all i can think to say ... insane.

:mad:

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Hugabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 01:44 AM
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14. I did not think it would be possible for one company to fuck the planet so badly
Make no mistake, this will get much, MUCH, MUCH worse. Millions upon millions of gallons gushing into the Gulf every day. Won't be long before most of the Gulf is one giant oil pit. The oil will make its way into the Gulf Stream, and disperse its way up the East Coast, then across the Atlantic to Europe.
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Festivito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 09:01 AM
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15. It could be, it could also be the ROV pressing on the floor.
Moving the ROV, dropping its arms, another nearby ROV could all create small plumes of sea-bottom dust.
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