'Not for public': the oil spill may be getting much worse

[DoYouEverWonder]

Sorry about that Jeff. No offense intended. If he is offensive, I can assure you I posted this out of ignorance. I just happened across it. No need to tell me why, as I reposted it simply for the playing card illustration it contained (which I found interesting), and unoriginal article's contents -as example that I am not an ostrich, and I freely admit to my ignorance as to the 'who's who' in antagonism and disinfo..

He's basing his claims on GPS data which doesn't work underwater, certainly not at 5000'.

[Jeff]

Sorry about that Jeff. No offense intended.

None taken. His anti-feminist, anti-gay, anti-Jewish Illuminati jambalaya make him unwelcome here on any subject.

[Jeff]

Something unexpected must have happened down there. Didn't see it happen, but the cap on the BOP has been removed this morning. Last night it looked like it was experiencing an ugly and rapid incrustation of frozen methane.

Wow! I just took a look at the ROV feeds and I see that the top cap is gone. Oil is gushing out the cut riser full force. Does anyone know what is going on?

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6645#comment-658030

[Bruce Dazzling]

Judge Martin Feldman's Financial Portfolio, Annotated
There's a conflict of interest in the air.

U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, who overturned the Obama administration's six-month offshore drilling moratorium on deep sea oil drilling yesterday, has investments in several companies related to the oil industry, according to Yahoo! News' John Cook.

Feldman's portfolio includes investments in the following companies:

1. Transocean Ltd. The offshore drilling contractor which owned the Deepwater Horizon rig.

2. Ocean Energy. Provides services and equipment like gas flares and floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) ship maintenance, to the offshore oil and gas industry.

3. Quicksilver Resources. A gas and oil exploration and production company based in Fort Worth, Texas.

4. Halliburton. The world's second largest oilfield services provider, which former Vice President Dick Cheney once ran, provided the failed cement casings on the Deepwater Horizon rig.

5. Pengrowth Energy Trust. An oil and gas drilling company operating in Canada, with the motto "value creation through the drill bit."

6. Atlas Energy Resources. Producer of natural gas with more than 9,000 wells and mineral rights to more than one million acres in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Michigan, and Indiana.

7. Parker Drilling. Provides drilling services to the energy industry and owns 28 onshore rigs in nine countries and 17 offshore rigs, including some in the Gulf of Mexico.
Filed Under: Oil Spill, Surge Desk
Tagged: bp oil spill, conflict of interest, deep sea drilling, gulf oil spill, judge feldman, judge feldman investments, judge feldman stocks, judge martin feldman, martin feldman, moratorium, oil spill

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/23 ... annotated/

[anothershamus]

Raining oil!

If you thought you were safe if you were inland, think again.

[Jeff]

Oil gushing at spill site after vent damaged
Cap removed after robotic sub hits vent; two deaths in response effort

breaking news
NBC News and news services
updated 9:16 a.m. PT, Wed., June 23, 2010

WASHINGTON - Oil was again gushing uncontrollably from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths in the response effort.

BP hoped to reinstall the cap later Wednesday after fixing the vent and checking for safety.

...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37841204/ns ... n_the_gulf

[Nordic]

Raining oil!

If you thought you were safe if you were inland, think again.

I'm not buying that. I've seen that many times, oil on a street. Most likely it's oil that drained out of some leaky old car. People are panicking.

Hurricanes, though, will indeed hurl the oil many miles inland.

[82_28]

Oil gushing at spill site after vent damaged
Cap removed after robotic sub hits vent; two deaths in response effort

breaking news
NBC News and news services
updated 9:16 a.m. PT, Wed., June 23, 2010

WASHINGTON - Oil was again gushing uncontrollably from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths in the response effort.

BP hoped to reinstall the cap later Wednesday after fixing the vent and checking for safety.

...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37841204/ns ... n_the_gulf

From this story, this be buried down in there:

One death was a boat captain who died of a gunshot wound, a Coast Guard spokesman sai.d Further details were not immediately available.

What huh?

[82_28]

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live ... am3&hpt=T2

Looking at that thing, I just can't fathom what can be done at this point. It looks impossible. Humanity's feeble technology against the full force of Mother Earth.

Dunno, if this has been posted upthread yet or not, but I ran across this. Some prophecy from 1903 or something. Haven't had the chance to read it yet though.

http://gustavmeyrinkpetroleumpetroleum.blogspot.com/

[Nordic]

They need to figure out how to burn it as it comes out of the well. Add some oxygen down there, light it up somehow .....

Hm, then again this might just turn the whole gulf into one big boiling stew pot. Never mind ....

I don't think this thing is gonna ever stop until the oil runs out.

Time to get off the toxic teat.

This is like one of those moments in any addicts life where you realize you'd better change your behavior or else you're gonna end up dead.

What are those moments called? I'm still drinking my coffee ....

[beeline]

.

"Moments of clarity" I've had one or two.

[ninakat]

Sorry about that Jeff. No offense intended.

None taken. His anti-feminist, anti-gay, anti-Jewish Illuminati jambalaya make him unwelcome here on any subject.

Nuff said. Thanks Jeff.

[DoYouEverWonder]

Oil gushing at spill site after vent damaged
Cap removed after robotic sub hits vent; two deaths in response effort

breaking news
NBC News and news services
updated 9:16 a.m. PT, Wed., June 23, 2010

WASHINGTON - Oil was again gushing uncontrollably from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths in the response effort.

BP hoped to reinstall the cap later Wednesday after fixing the vent and checking for safety.

...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37841204/ns ... n_the_gulf

Does anyone know how to get screen caps of the live videos? All I get is a black screen.

[ninakat]

This link has all the cameras (I believe) -- individual screen shots, click on any for live video:

http://data.plan9.de/akamai-bp-streams.html

Monkeyfister has more video feed info stickied to the top of his blog, although I like the one above because it doesn't slow down my computer:

http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/

[justdrew]

Oil gushing at spill site after vent damaged
Cap removed after robotic sub hits vent; two deaths in response effort

breaking news
NBC News and news services
updated 9:16 a.m. PT, Wed., June 23, 2010

WASHINGTON - Oil was again gushing uncontrollably from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths in the response effort.

BP hoped to reinstall the cap later Wednesday after fixing the vent and checking for safety.

...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37841204/ns ... n_the_gulf

Does anyone know how to get screen caps of the live videos? All I get is a black screen.

because it's using the video overlay. Play the video streams in VLC and it can capture video or still images

go to the BP page that lists the streams...
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?cat ... Id=7062605

pick one and follow the link, a windows media player embedded player plays the video. right-click in the player and get properties, there you can see the raw stream url, like:
http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/refl ... bkup=45684
http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/refl ... bkup=49182
(check that out now, I wonder what all that white stuff is? it's corexit no doubt)

which you can then paste into VLC's open network stream dialog.