New Oil Leaking from Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well - BP Hires Fleet of 40 Shrimp Boats to Lay Boom

Thursday, 18 August 2011
New Oil Leaking from Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well
BP Hires Fleet of 40 Shrimp Boats to Lay Boom Around Deepwater Horizon Site.


Macondo Well site
No, this isn’t a post from last year. Oil from the Macondo Well site is fouling the Gulf anew – and BP is scrambling to contain both the crude and the PR nightmare that waits in the wings. Reliable sources tell us that BP has hired 40 boats from Venice to Grand Isle to lay boom around the Deepwater Horizon site – located just 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. The fleet rushed to the scene late last week and worked through the weekend to contain what was becoming a massive slick at the site of the Macondo wellhead, which was officially “killed” back in September 2010.
The truly frightening part of this development, as reported in a previous post (see below), is the oil may be coming from cracks and fissures in the seafloor caused by the work BP did during its failed attempts to cap the runaway Macondo Well – and that type of leakage can’t be stopped, ever.
Catch up on how this could possibly be happening – again – by reading or re-reading my July 25 post below. Stay tuned as we will be all over this story as it continues to develop.

Is BP’s Macondo Well Site Still Leaking? Fresh Oil on the Gulf Raises Concerns and Haunting Memories
Fresh oil is surfacing all over the northern quadrant of the Gulf of Mexico. Reports of slicks that meander for miles and huge expanses of oil sheen that look like phantom islands are becoming common, again. Fresh oil, only slightly weathered, is washing ashore in areas hit hardest by last year’s massive spill, like Breton Island, Ship Island, the Chandeleurs and northern Barataria Bay.


BP has reactivated its Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) program to handle cleanup. It’s a sickeningly familiar scene that has fishermen, researchers and public officials searching for answers, as haunting memories of last year’s calamity come roaring back.
The fifty-thousand-dollar question, of course, is where is all the new oil coming from?
One theory: The Macondo Well site, located just 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, is still leaking untold amounts of oil into the Gulf. Some argue that the casing on the capped well itself is leaking. Others believe oil is seeping through cracks and fissures in the seafloor caused by months of high-impact work on the site, including a range of recovery activities (some disclosed, some not) as well as the abortive “top kill” effort.

Read More At Source Here:
http://www.stuarthsmith.com/oil-rising-from-macondo-well-bp-hires-fleet-of-40-shrimp-boats-to-lay-boom-around-deepwater-horizon-site

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That's just fucking great. Pun intended.

I'm thinking the ad money from the industry as a whole is buying the silence.

I notice that they come up whenever gas prices change and it is reported by the news. It is costs about 1 million in SE Michigan for one week of ads. I was thinking about trying to document it. I noticed the opposite with GM and Chrysler. It would be an interesting study.

I'm betting it does.

and thanks so much

This was posted on DU on 08/18, but that died as will this.

I wish all of them ill will. k&r

*raises hand*

no oil leaking from the Macondo well site. I repeat, there is no oil leaking from the Macondo well site.

Next BP will claim they have to relieve the underground pressure by draining the oil from the reservoir. This will call for immediate drilling and pumping of oil, which will all be sold by BP on the world market.