[QUOTE=company man 1;36425] The article refered to said there were 39 blowouts inthe GOM since 2007. Can the author of said article back that up with places & times?[/QUOTE]
Hey CM1, obviously not the poster but. . . . Yep, definitely a reporter. As I said a month ago, after this incident I now am absolutely sure that I cannot trust 99% of what the media says. They skim the data, misinterpret it, then grab only the small bits that support what they want you to believe and present it as verified fact. I think what the author was referring to was the quote below (which is from a blog post so assign credibility at your own risk), but they could not even figure out how to accurately cut & paste the quote to reflect the actual numbers, or maybe they just figured it wouldn’t alarm near as many people if they found out that out the number of blowouts quoted spanned 2,500 wells over a 14 yr period instead of just in the last 3 yrs. However, I do have to admit even though the numbers work out to 98.44% against a blowout, I would rather shoot for 100% against than have to sweat the 1.56% chance of riding the freight train.
“Between 1992 and 2006, almost 2,500 deepwater wells were drilled — more than three times as many as in the previous 20-year period. There were 39 blowouts during that period — 38 of them in the Gulf of Mexico — recorded in MMS accident investigation reports”. http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100524/investigator-warned-mms-2009-about-deepwater-gas-blowouts-gulf-mexico