Exxon, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips are expected to announce Thursday that they will each contribute 25 percent to a $1 billion pool of money to fund a new deepwater spill response strike force, called the Marine Well Containment Company.
The venture would be able to mobilize within 24 hours to capture and contain oil spills in depths of up to 10,000 feet.
BP was not asked to join the venture, but may, along with other companies operating in the Gulf, be able to use the strike force.
“We don’t want to distract them at all,” Rex Tillerson, Exxon’s chief executive of Exxon told the Wall Street Journal.[/QUOTE]
Really no need to incude BP as one of the others will own BP before this is over.
[QUOTE=DogsDogsDogs;40201]“BP was not asked to join the venture, but may, along with other companies operating in the Gulf, be able to use the strike force.”
[B]Please[/B] say that isn’t so! (wouldn’t it have been better to just say nothing?)
I agree with CM1, I want BP gone!![/QUOTE]
Sounds like you aren’t alone. Tillerson was, for him, being hilarious…
(There could be anti-trust considerations if this was to ONLY be an exclusive club of certain majors.)
[QUOTE=tvhawaii;40205]To my simple brain, it only comes down to one thing: Which method has the lowest probablilty of blowing out the well underground?
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Agreed!
So its (1) Do nothing, maybe for a while if hurricane moves through. (2) Open up well and collect, knowing that you have to close up again if hurricane. (3) Bullhead right now. (4) Wait a couple of weeks and if weather OK intersect with relief well. (5) open up well to GOM, which would horrify environmentalists, and lead to further erosion downhole (remember, producer wells are supposed to have tubing in them).
OK, so we don’t like bottling this well up for a moment longer than we have to, and the hurricane season is almost upon us.
My reasoning is that the action of closing in for a week may already be causing a leak, we don’t know and we don’t like living a day longer with that uncertainty. How long are you happy holding the lid on this well of uncertain integrity? Not very long! Bullheading is not great, but how relaxed are you about intersecting and circulating bottom up? This well is quite amenable to bullheading because its high permeability, its cased off to the production zone (OK, bit of a dodgy casing job), and the reservoir pressure is probably depleted so you are lesss likely to burst the casing, and because you are capped off you have lots of time to pump as slowly as you want. You could also just partially bullhead to take the well head pressure down to a really comfortable level.
Its a finely balanced decision. I’m for (1) not waiting and bullhead now or (2) leaved capped and wait for relief well.
Dell, Crash, & NOLA, THANKS for sending me off to sleep with a smile on my face!!
ETA: Well, Transocean not so much. While I guess there is no way around some liability on their part, A. I’m not sure a collective wall-eyes fit would have made a bit of difference in BP’s orders and 2. (oh shoot, I’m gonna have to edit again. I forgot who laid it out so succinctly…) Must sleep Now. Basically, that the “dissenters” were out in the GOM until transport came which would be not necessarily soon.
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[I][B]I have yet to see you write anything that is useful in this thread[/B][/I]. There is plenty of substance to be upset about, and plenty of substance to comment on.[/QUOTE]
an who are you mr day boat pleasure cruise manager?
ow many peoples picked up on usin 400+bbls of incompatible LCM… as a spacer?
"snot’ someone called it…
snot in BOP = potential for big time f… Up
snot in choke line and manifold = big time f… Up
at least 15 bbls bled back via choke or kill line durin neg test = snot in choke line and manifold = big f… Up
Originally Posted by [B]New Orleans Lady[/B] Is this guy Simmons credible? I need some expert opinion :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwX9RXFRJD4
Its shameful that news networks invite non-qualified jerks to stir up nonsense like this. He says it will cost a trillion to clear the massive “deep water oil lake”. He says there’s no casing in the hole at all! He said something like all they’ve capped in the riser. I’m not sure if he’s even sober - the WTF look on the reasonably sane newscasters was priceless. I’m just waiting for David Icke to come on next.
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Its a finely balanced decision. I’m for (1) not waiting and bullhead now or (2) leaved capped and wait for relief well.[/QUOTE]
yer discision is not finely balanced! they are the worst cases.
‘[B]not waiting and bullhead now[/B]’ gives more and more pressure on macondo well.
well may be damaged! but bp don’t say nothin… so well is damaged!
top kill was stopped because bp concerns about excess pressure on rupture disks an well integrity.
now bp pull out magic rabbit from hat an everyone says ooooh, an everythin is ok.
bp looks like all very happy family!
‘[B]leaved capped and wait for relief well[/B]’ if well is unsound… all leaks continue an damage is goin to get bigger!
best option is open well and flow well to ship. everyone see barrels per day of flow! (an bp pay big 5000 dollar fine per barrel)
relief well to kill well. is only way to go.
could you please inform cm1 that he is misleading people on this forum. There are many options on killing this well. Thank you for highlighting these facts.
I hope i never have to work on a rig where incompetents like cm1 have a position of authority.
you are 100% the utter genuine ‘cowboy’ referred to earlier.
Imagine giving someone like yourself a position of leadership.
Shame on you for your remarks and your violent attitude.
[QUOTE=ex-pe-uk;40216] Originally Posted by [B]New Orleans Lady[/B] Is this guy Simmons credible? I need some expert opinion :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwX9RXFRJD4
Its shameful that news networks invite non-qualified jerks to stir up nonsense like this. He says it will cost a trillion to clear the massive “deep water oil lake”. He says there’s no casing in the hole at all! He said something like all they’ve capped in the riser. I’m not sure if he’s even sober - the WTF look on the reasonably sane newscasters was priceless. I’m just waiting for David Icke to come on next.[/QUOTE]
Exxon, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips are expected to announce Thursday that they will each contribute 25 percent to a $1 billion pool of money to fund a new deepwater spill response strike force, called the Marine Well Containment Company.
The venture would be able to mobilize within 24 hours to capture and contain oil spills in depths of up to 10,000 feet.
BP was not asked to join the venture, but may, along with other companies operating in the Gulf, be able to use the strike force.
“We don’t want to distract them at all,” Rex Tillerson, Exxon’s chief executive of Exxon told the Wall Street Journal.[/QUOTE]
Excellent, now a real response is in place in the GOM. I suppose the new MMS is doing its job. Better late than never!
As for the other Operators, I’d imagine they’ve been forced into this position, and don’t forget, they had no preparation for a large scale spill either.
Now they do.
The government has put in place a series of ‘reactions’ to events as opposed to having had response plans in advance of operations.
last week, Kent Wells outlined a plan to have the Helix riser placed over the well…<it can be removed for hurricanes> Ya think they’re going to take the cheapest way out now, that they<bp> have been kicked out the gom fraternity house? < they say revenge is sweet>
[QUOTE=New Orleans Lady;40224]last week, Kent Wells outlined a plan to have the Helix riser placed over the well…<it can be removed for hurricanes> Ya think they’re going to take the cheapest way out now, that they<bp> have been kicked out the gom fraternity house? < they say revenge is sweet>[/QUOTE]
I’m sure bp are ‘miffed’ at be excluded and it being done in such a public way.
However, in other parts of the world the oil companies (or fraternity as you called it) do cooperate and get together and combine their expertise and ‘basic costs and preparations’ to provide for similar eventualities.
The thinking is…‘we all may need this someday, we all have to provide it, hopefully none of us will need to use it… so why don’t we pool our resources and have something that we can all call on should we need it’
Originally Posted by [B]New Orleans Lady[/B] 