Coast Guard: "Unidentified Substance" Leaking from BP's Deepwater Horizon

[Hissyspit]

Source: CBS News

Coast Guard: "Unidentified substance" leaking from BP's Deepwater Horizon
December 18, 2012

An "unidentified substance inconsistent with oil" is emitting from several areas of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig wreckage, but no sources of leaking oil were identified. That's according to the Coast Guard, which oversaw BP's recent week-long mission to inspect the undersea wells and wreckage from the 2010 explosion.

The exact content of the leaking substance and how much is coming out is one mystery. But if it's not oil, then it means the source of recurring oil sheens that have recently been spotted around the Deepwater Horizon site remains unknown.
"No apparent source of the surface sheen has been discovered


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57559903/coast-guard-unidentified-substance-leaking-from-bps-deepwater-horizon

[jody]

1. "Unidentified Substance" is that PC for crude oil now? nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. Article makes it clear its not oil.

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[jody]

6. Understand but I no longer believe much or almost anything of what the media tries to force on me.

[dipsydoodle]

10. In which case

why not assume nothing is leaking.

[jody]

11. No, I was on the Gulf Coast last week and I'm really worried about the long term BP damage.

I live in LA aka Lower Alabama.

[JackRiddler]

36. Inconclusive. Article also makes it clear there is oil...

on the surface, from somewhere. That's why they looked at the drill site in the first place.

[kentauros]

3. Considering that it's "inconsistent with oil",

my educated guess is that it's either drilling "mud" or some kind of sealant that never set up correctly.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Potentially methane hydrates.

Could be a steady flow of some muck, then occasional blurbs of oil, causing intermittent sheens.

[AldoLeopold]

12. Don't methane hydrates sublimate

when the crystalline candy coating falls apart?

[AtheistCrusader]

18. Yep.

That would be inconsistent with oil, I guess.

Be nice if they'd share a video feed again. Just looking at it would give a pretty good idea what the deal is.

[jody]

9. 6. Understand but I no longer believe much or almost anything of what the media tries to force on me

[kentauros]

37. In this instance, it's a direct quote from the US Coast Guard,

"unidentified substance inconsistent with oil", so I'm inclined to believe them

Or, I could ask people I know that work in offshore technology and engineering, see what say.

[Cleita]

4. Oh Merry Xmas. On top of all our grief this season, we have to

look forward to another possible oil spill?

[jody]

15. Cletia, makes one almost want to believe the so called Mayan prophecy of 21 December 2012 is correct

If there is a God then she/he failed when creating humans.

[TheMadMonk]

32. If it is mud or mispoured sealant, could be more fun.

There might be a blowout working its way to the surface.

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. there was MUCH talk after the blowout

when BP was trying to stop the oil pouring out of the pipe on the floor of the Gulg
that there were actually fractures in the floor which were oozing oil.

did not hear muc about it after awhile.
Dunno what it meansbut
I DO know they fucked up the Gulf Coast air, land and water and there is no way to "fix" it while all those wells and abandoned pipes are covering the floor of the Gulf.

[defacto7]

35. That's what I think....

Add a bit of methane seepage gathering beneath the plug.... we have lift off. These wells are way over our technological heads, let alone above our ethical ability to construct and secure.

[glinda]

5. blood

[Cleita]

13. Mother Earth's blood? Could make sense. n/t

[glinda]

23. yup

[underpants]

8. I know what it is or at least a sign of

Time to call in the Japanese Army

[valerief]

14. That would be relief it were him!!!

[Cleita]

17. Send all the NRA members and their arsenals after that.

It will give them something to do. It might solve our problem too.

[jberryhill]

16. Oh, it's probably something wonderful!

Like fish food, or barbecue sauce.

Gee.... I wonder WTF it could be? I hope it's something good!

[Cleita]

19. Have you had your supper yet? eom

[jberryhill]

31. Lousiana fish fry - you don't even need oil or butter

From the gulf to the pan - boom.

[Poll_Blind]

20. I don't buy that it's not oil. SOMETHING'S making that sheen on the surface.

Ain't coming from shrimp rubbing up against each other.

PB

[Cleita]

22. Even if it's the sealant falling apart or the mud, it could be the

oil is underneath trying to push through and leak. I think BP knows this too but don't want to admit it until they have to.

[cliffordu]

21. Can't be oil. They fixed that, right??

Must be weasel piss or some foreign liquid.

Maybe the rendered remains of the brains of BP executives.

Mad clown disease made real.

[Zorra]

24. I'm having one of those "Oh, shit" moments. Maybe

they just hit one of Mother Earth's main arteries, and she's bleeding out.

[Heywood J]

25. Fracking fluid? Lubricants?

Did BP pump anything else down the hole that might be coming back up?

[RKP5637]

26. I know what it is, it's BP's left over BS! n/t

[Turbineguy]

27. There are 6 diesel engines

each with a lube oil capacity listed at 4300 liters.

[kentauros]

38. That's a good possibility.

As I recall from going to Offshore Technology Conferences in the past, anything that has to remain underwater has to be coated in something to withstand the constant attack from the salt water. I still have some Teflon coated bolts from one of them. Those engines were built to work above the water, so those reservoirs have likely corroded by now.

[denverbill]

28. I hope it's either beer or chocolate. God only knows what this unidentified substance could be?

[Fearless]

29. Mmhmm... but all the comercials talk about BP being soooooo good to the Gulf...

[Arctic Dave]

30. If it is leaking from the rig and not the well

it could be hydraulic fluid or diesel.

My guess would be hydraulic fluid.

[htuttle]

33. Black blood of the earth

Jack Burton: That is not water.
Egg Shen: Black blood of the earth.
Jack Burton: Do you mean oil?
Egg Shen: I mean black blood of the earth.

[Odin2005]

39. "Unidentified" my ass!!!