Posted by Mark - IN. on June 20, 2010 at 21:05:26 from (24.15.151.166):
In Reply to: OT- Gulf Oil Spill posted by MN Scott on June 20, 2010 at 12:14:16:
I have to ask something, and maybe I'm stupid, but it sure seems as though there's a lot of oil gushing out under a lot of pressure.
My job takes me in refineries from time to time, and every year I have to recertify for safety, security, and whatever else at these refineries, and since 9-1-1 its gotten real strict, and so be it.
Here's why I ask. Last year while going through the safety portion, they made us watch a safety video of a real platform and fire not so different than this one that happened somewhere in the world. Anyway, the platforms in the video were joined underwater by feeder pipe, that then either sent one pipe inland, or had one pipe for filling tankers, I don't recall. But in the video, evrything that could go wrong did go wrong, and when the one platform blew up and pumps shut down, the pumps from the other platforms bagan pushing their oil onto the burning platform, back feeding it I guess, and believe it or not, that burning platform sank as well taking I don't remember how many guys with it all the way to the bottom.
I swear to God, and may lightning strike me dead if I'm lying, when I saw what happened to this platform from day one until the day that it sank, I thought of that video that I saw a year ago of real live footage, and a question that I have is that if the platforms in last year's video were joined by under water pipe, why couldn't or wouldn't these, or the one causing the problems now? Could it be, and folks know about it but aren't admitting it? Again, maybe I'm stupid, but it sure seems like there's a whole lot of oil coming out under a whole lot of pressure.
And by the way, when they drill these oil wells so far out, we never hear about oil gushers gone awry during the drilling and tapping process.
Someone educate me. Clearly I don't understand the mechanics of oil drilling and the apparent hydraulic pressures created.
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