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SorellaLaBefana

(234 posts)
33. Brilliant! Adamantine Truth!!
Thu Oct 10, 2024, 07:37 AM
Oct 10

And, lest we forget, there are more immediate costs as well to these wells


...The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was owned by Transocean, on hire to BP, in order to drill the Macondo field, estimated to contain over 50 million barrels of oil, two and a half miles below the seabed. The Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, semi-submersible drilling rig...the water was almost 5,000 feet deep, creating enormous pressures at the well. To prevent the hydrocarbons (i.e., oil and gas) from rising upwards in the well to the surface, a heavy fluid (known as drilling ‘mud’) is injected into the shaft...

...Deepwater Horizon was to drill into the reservoir, then seal the well – known as temporary abandonment – ready for a future production unit to recover the oil. Drilling rigs such as these are mobile, moving around the world for contracts with major oil companies such as BP. A production unit (which may be a floating facility or a semi-permanent unit fixed to the seabed) then connects to the well to recover the hydrocarbons, possibly staying on location for decades. Delays meant that the Deepwater Horizon was overdue to leave the Macondo well by six weeks. The Macondo well had proved to be challenging, earning it the nickname “the well from hell”.

At the time, Transocean was a major offshore drilling rig contractor with over a hundred of these drilling rigs under contract. The fees for such a rig (and the specialist crew) could be up to $1 million per day. This contractual relationship between Transocean and BP was to become a key issue in the legal proceedings that followed the incident...

https://humanfactors101.com/incidents/macondo-deepwater-horizon/

Surprising it is that such disasters are not more common, given the complexity of the needed machines and organization to make them work at all.

Your having found the Machines That Control The Weather might lead to your testifying before Congress. Well, perhaps *not*.

Thank you. A BRILLIANT Post! Here's a Toast
Too right Hekate Oct 9 #1
BINGO! rurallib Oct 9 #2
Ding ding malaise Oct 9 #3
Excellent, Most brilliant!!! Traildogbob Oct 9 #4
War of the Worlds. dchill Oct 9 #5
! berniesandersmittens Oct 9 #6
And these are for some earthquakes: Dave Bowman Oct 9 #7
What a smart connection! Excellent . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 9 #8
Damn! GAJMac Oct 9 #9
Ugly monsters. Walking the earth. Onthefly Oct 9 #10
I SEE what you did there! MyOwnPeace Oct 9 #20
Hey! Wait a minute! paleotn Oct 9 #11
MAGA has proof of the oranges of Milton. Marcuse Oct 9 #16
Bravo. Well done. They sure are well disguised space lasers. LoisB Oct 9 #12
MAGA has proof of Jewish space lasers. Marcuse Oct 9 #15
lol. AllaN01Bear Oct 9 #25
What! No Jewish Space Lasers!? peppertree Oct 9 #13
Send that to Margie Taylor Green if you can stomach the experience n/t Submariner Oct 9 #14
Genius! montanacowboy Oct 9 #17
Acc to MTG, democrats control the weather. keithbvadu2 Oct 9 #18
That looks like Bob Barker. twodogsbarking Oct 9 #21
You are right, lol. Dave Bowman Oct 9 #31
This is parody-Biden seen here sending another hurricane to a red state using his Storm-O-Matic 3000. LetMyPeopleVote Oct 9 #19
Well played sir. Well played. surfered Oct 9 #22
Well Done Nigrum Cattus Oct 9 #23
ding. AllaN01Bear Oct 9 #24
Yep. calimary Oct 9 #26
Oooooh Burn! Leith Oct 9 #27
Yes, indeed wendyb-NC Oct 9 #28
Well-played, Edhopper ! Seinan Sensei Oct 9 #29
Well played my friend Knicks007 Oct 9 #30
It's them damn windmill things, I tells ya! Aussie105 Oct 10 #32
Brilliant! Adamantine Truth!! SorellaLaBefana Oct 10 #33
👇👇👇👁️👁️ Goonch Oct 10 #34
The Black Hole Clouds Passing Oct 10 #35
YOMANKB! /nt dickthegrouch Oct 10 #36
Wingnuts saying humans caused the bad weather RussBLib Oct 10 #37
not wrong Roc2020 Oct 10 #38
... Major Nikon Oct 10 #39
PREACH!! It's undeniable and soon will be a harsh reality to everyone on planet Earth. The_REAL_Ecumenist Oct 10 #40
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