Thread: If I was CEO of BP. . . .

he is doing so without words.

i've watched a few hours of the questioning. It's a joke. It's obvious he could care less about what america thinks. I think BP is doing everything possible to make things right. Accidents happen

I dont know the details. but wasn't it an American company that was outsourced by BP to prevent these types of incidents?

epic epic failure!

I don't know, this country is so fucking retarded. We need to fire all of our representatives and wipe out all the laws and regulations down to the Constitution and start over.

If I were in charge I would have sent some torpedoes down that tube set to blast at different depths causing it to be plugged up right away....

Originally Posted by maniclion

If I were in charge I would have sent some torpedoes down that tube set to blast at different depths causing it to be plugged up right away....

Y'know, I thought about this as well. Why don't they just set some charges around the perimeter and blast a mountain of sand over the thing? We're good at blowing stuff up, aren't we?

The explosive idea was shot down (no pun intended) but the USG and BP...it was considered too risky b/c it could actually increase the flow instead of collapsing it.

The BP CEO is a prick...I'm glad the board sent him back to the UK and stay on the DL. I don't know if you guys are fully aware of his comments when this thing started, but the guy is a insensitive prick...and some one who knows very little about PR.

Let BP go back to the UK...they'll disappear and eventually go bankrupt if they lose our market. No one consumes as much gasoline as the US...they can't afford to lose us and BP shareholders (virtually half of the UK pensions...no retirement for them if the BP exits the US) will be screwed.

Obama isn't bowing to the environmentalists...its the worst natural disaster on US soil. What do you expect? When failures of this magnitude happen, we cannot have the perspective of "accidents happen"...especially when so many corners were cut. If the potential "accident" has such a large magnitude of impact, then serious caution must exercised...serious caution was clearly not the name of this game

Originally Posted by lnvanry

The explosive idea was shot down (no pun intended) but the USG and BP...it was considered too risky b/c it could actually increase the flow instead of collapsing it.

The BP CEO is a prick...I'm glad the board sent him back to the UK and stay on the DL. I don't know if you guys are fully aware of his comments when this thing started, but the guy is a insensitive prick...and some one who knows very little about PR.

Let BP go back to the UK...they'll disappear and eventually go bankrupt if they lose our market. No one consumes as much gasoline as the US...they can't afford to lose us and BP shareholders (virtually half of the UK pensions...no retirement for them if the BP exits the US) will be screwed.

Obama isn't bowing to the environmentalists...its the worst natural disaster on US soil. What do you expect? When failures of this magnitude happen, we cannot have the perspective of "accidents happen"...especially when so many corners were cut. If the potential "accident" has such a large magnitude of impact, then serious caution must exercised...serious caution was clearly not the name of this game

no matter how many precautions are taken there will always be large scale accidents. More so as technology advances.

Dude, what do you mean this would have been taken care of? No it wouldn't have. Obama nor environmentalist are stopping BP from fixing the leak, time is. The only way this will be fixed is relief wells drilled to take the pressure off so it can be plugged. Environmentalist are the reason shit like this doesn't happen more often. The EPA is the reason our cities aren't polluted like China's cities. Environmental organizations are the reason we have relatively clean places to live, and non toxic food and water. You might want to rethink your opinion there.

The story came out yesterday that one of the well workers pointed out to his supervisor than the blowout preventer was malfunctioning, but operation were never shut down to fix it.

The supervisor shot an email to upper management, and nothing was ever done. Could you fucking imagine what would happen if a coolent regulator at a nuclear power plant was malfunctioning. That reactor unit would have been SHUT THE FUCK OFF!

What is going on down there is a Chernobyl in the ocean.

No accidents of this magnitude don't "just happen". BP should be held accountable. They should pay.


Now, with that being said, I am feel that BP is doing a better job than I expected. The 20 billion dollar claims fund is a nice start. I heard on NPR that the BP board members won't be taking any bonuses or be paid quarterly dividend payments.

That is a good start, and helps to raise my opinion of BP a little. Let's see if they can keep it up.

+1 on that.

Originally Posted by lnvanry

The explosive idea was shot down (no pun intended) but the USG and BP...it was considered too risky b/c it could actually increase the flow instead of collapsing it.

No way.... sending several dozen down into the pipe and they go off in a chain reaction....that would stop it up good.....


How about get a split collar that can cut threads into the pipe, clamp it on the base....get a few tugs up top and some of that battle ship anchor chain.....have them do donuts and spin some threading onto whats left of the pipe.....then put a hydraulic valve cap in open position...screw it on with the tugs again and hydraulically shut the valve....bam done...



How about Bush turn on his Hurricane Katrina machine and direct his vortex over the spill containing it in one spot while tankers suck up the mess.....

How many countries volunteered their services, twelve? Obama said no. This would be a lot less of a problem than if he said yes.

Originally Posted by maniclion

No way.... sending several dozen down into the pipe and they go off in a chain reaction....that would stop it up good.....


How about get a split collar that can cut threads into the pipe, clamp it on the base....get a few tugs up top and some of that battle ship anchor chain.....have them do donuts and spin some threading onto whats left of the pipe.....then put a hydraulic valve cap in open position...screw it on with the tugs again and hydraulically shut the valve....bam done...



How about Bush turn on his Hurricane Katrina machine and direct his vortex over the spill containing it in one spot while tankers suck up the mess.....

You can't send anything down that pipe with the incredible force that is spewing upward...dude, you know about the Katrina machine? I heard they shut that one down

Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan

How many countries volunteered their services, twelve? Obama said no. This would be a lot less of a problem than if he said yes.

Volunteered to do what? Get in the way? There isn't anything that could be done. This has never happened before. Nobody knows what to do, and even BP says doing nothing is better than causing more harm.

Blaming Obama for this is like blaming Bush for Katrina. The people who don't like Obama are going to blame him no matter what.

I'm not really sure turning your back on your largest customer base is good for one's job security.

Seriously, I havent kept up from the beginning, but what have they tried and failed and dismissed as far as stopping this goes?

Right now I see a robot down there doing....something. So what exactly have they tried?

if I was King Kong, I'd take a big shit on BP.

Someone needs to call Sponge Bob Squarepants.

Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan

How many countries volunteered their services, twelve? Obama said no. This would be a lot less of a problem than if he said yes.

they wanted money.

I don't blame him, i dont wanna share this gold mine either.

My Vote: the spill is a good thing for the economy.

Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan

I'd tell America to fuck themselves and take my business and oil back to the UK. It would have been taken care of a long time ago if it weren't for Obama bowing to the enviromentalists and all of our retarded regulations. Even Bobby Jindal wanted to immediately build a seawall to keep the oil off of Louisiana coastline, but was told not to and now that's fucked too.

Id spend half my weekly paycheck on hookers and blow . . just because I can

Originally Posted by AKIRA

Right now I see a robot down there doing....something. So what exactly have they tried?

<ahem> Unless no one knows either...

They should put a thick material balloon on a long pole, then slide it part way down the pipe and inflate the balloon. That'll plug it good.

Whatever happened to lighting the surface oil on fire?

Originally Posted by KelJu

This has never happened before. Nobody knows what to do, and even BP says doing nothing is better than causing more harm.

Ixtoc I oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We didn't learn out lessons from 31 years ago... practically the same thing.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Volunteered to do what? Get in the way? There isn't anything that could be done. This has never happened before. Nobody knows what to do, and even BP says doing nothing is better than causing more harm.

Blaming Obama for this is like blaming Bush for Katrina. The people who don't like Obama are going to blame him no matter what.

Obama doesn't know how to run shit.

We help out every other fucking country that has a problem, and now they actually offer to help and Obama wont' let them. Guess if he lets other countries help he woudln't get to spend all his time bashing BP instead of working on the economy.

Yeah nothing to the well itself other than the releif wells is the best but that shouldn't stop the skimmers from working on the mess that's already here.

You can't tell me more boats with more skimmers woudln't help keep the oil from getting to the shore as easily.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Ixtoc I oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We didn't learn out lessons from 31 years ago... practically the same thing.

When money is concerned the lessons can wait....

Notable offshore well blowouts

Data from industry information.[1][21]
Year Rig Name Rig Owner Type Damage / details
1955 S-44 Chevron Sub Recessed pontoons Blowout and fire. Returned to service.
1959 C. T. Thornton Reading & Bates Jackup Blowout and fire damage.
1964 C. P. Baker Reading & Bates Drill barge Blowout in Gulf of Mexico, vessel capsized, 22 killed.
1965 Trion Royal Dutch Shell Jackup Destroyed by blowout.
1965 Paguro SNAM Jackup Destroyed by blowout and fire.
1968 Little Bob Coral Jackup Blowout and fire, killed 7.
1969 Wodeco III Floor drilling Drilling barge Blowout
1969 Sedco 135G Sedco Inc Semi-submersible Blowout damage
1969 Rimrick Tidelands ODECO Submersible Blowout in Gulf of Mexico
1970 Stormdrill III Storm Drilling Jackup Blowout and fire damage.
1970 Discoverer III Offshore Co. Drillship Blowout (S. China Seas)
1970 Discoverer II Offshore Co. Drillship Blowout (Malaysia)[citation needed]
1971 Big John Atwood Oceanics Drill barge Blowout and fire.
1971 Unknown Floor Drilling Drill barge Blowout and fire off Peru, 7 killed.
1972 J. Storm II Marine Drilling Co. Jackup Blowout in Gulf of Mexico
1972 M. G. Hulme Reading & Bates Jackup Blowout and capsize in Java Sea.
1972 Rig 20 Transworld Drilling Jackup Blowout in Gulf of Martaban.
1973 Mariner I Sante Fe Drilling Semi-sub Blowout off Trinidad, 3 killed.
1974 Meteorite Offshore Co. Jackup Blowout of Nigeria[citation needed]
1975 Topper III Zapata Offshore Jackup Blowout and sinking.[citation needed]
1975 Mariner II Sante Fe Drilling Semi-submersible Lost BOP during blowout.
1975 J. Storm II Marine Drilling Co. Jackup Blowout in Gulf of Mexico.[citation needed]
1976 Petrobras III Petrobras Jackup No info.
1976 W. D. Kent Reading & Bates Jackup Damage while drlling relief well.[citation needed]
1977 Maersk Explorer Maersk Drilling Jackup Blowout and fire in North Sea[citation needed]
1977 Ekofisk Bravo Phillips Petroleum Platform Blowout during well workover.[22]
1978 Scan Bay Scan Drilling Jackup Blowout and fire in the Persion Gulf.
1979 Salenergy II Salen Offshore Jackup Blowout in Gulf of Mexico
1979 Sedco 135F Sedco Drilling Semi-submersible Blowout and fire in Bay of Campeche Ixtoc I well.[22]
1980 Sedco 135G Sedco Drilling Semi-submersible Blowout and fire of Nigeria.
1980 Discoverer 534 Offshore Co. Drillship Gas escape caught fire.[citation needed]
1980 Ron Tappmeyer Reading & Bates Jackup Blowout in Persian Gulf, 5 killed.[citation needed]
1980 Nanhai II Peoples Republic of China Jackup Blowout of Hainan Island.[citation needed]
1980 Maersk Endurer Maersk Drilling Jackup Blowout in Red Sea, 2 killed.[citation needed]
1980 Ocean King ODECO Jackup Blowout and fire in Gulf of Mexico, 5 killed.[citation needed]
1980 Marlin 14 Marlin Drilling Jackup Blowout in Gulf of Mexico[citation needed]
1981 Penrod 50 Penrod Drilling Submersible Blowout and fire in Gulf of Mexico.[citation needed]
1985 West Vanguard Smedvig Semi-submersible Shallow gas blowout and fire in Norwegian sea, 1 fatality.
1981 Petromar V Petromar Drillship Gas blowout and capsize in S. China seas.[citation needed]
1988 Ocean Odyssey Diamond Offshore Drilling Semi-submersible Gas blowout at BOP and fire in the UK North Sea, 1 killed.
1989 Al Baz Sante Fe Jackup Shallow gas blowout and fire in Nigeria, 5 killed.[23]
2001 Ensco 51 Ensco Jackup Gas blowout and fire, Gulf of Mexico, no casualties[24]
2004 Adriatic IV Global Sante Fe Jackup Blowout and fire at Temsah platform, Mediterranean Sea[25]
2007 Usumacinta PEMEX Jackup Storm force rig to move, causing well blowout on Kab 101 platform, 22 killed.[26]
2010 Deepwater Horizon Transocean Semi-submersible Blowout and fire on the rig, subsea well blowout, killed 11 in explosion.

What happened to those oil eating microbes? Didn't they use those on the Exxon spill?

Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan

Whatever happened to lighting the surface oil on fire?

Best Bevis and Butthead voice

Fire fire fire

Fire's gooood

Sorry thought a little comic releif may be good.

And look at the numbers who died in the newest ones 22 and 11, last time that many died was 1964? You'd think at some point people would figure it out....

You know why so many died in those last two, because they are rushing to tap into the sources because we pigs can't get enough of our oil fix....

I wonder if the number of deaths ties into the fact these rigs are soooo much larger now with so many more people on them.

Still even one death is to many.