[net-gold] ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION : WATER POLLUTION : OIL SPILLS : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM: Federal Regulators Haven't Kept Up with Oil Drilling Expansion
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- Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 01:05:33 -0400 (EDT)
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ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION :
WATER POLLUTION :
OIL SPILLS :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM:
Federal Regulators Haven't Kept Up with Oil Drilling Expansion
Federal Regulators Haven't Kept Up with Oil Drilling Expansion
By Jim Tankersley
Tribune Washington Bureau, and Julie Cart
Los Angeles Times
May 8, 2010 | 6:15 p.m.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/science/
la-na-oil-spill-risk-20100508,0,4512830.story>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/2ewq6vy>
When the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and oil started gushing into the
Gulf of Mexico, neither the oil companies nor their watchdogs in the
Interior Department were ready.
While oil and gas companies have pushed the frontiers of offshore drilling
into deeper, more dangerous waters over the last decade, their government
watchdogs stayed behind in the shallows, clinging to long-standing
practices and failing to plan for new hazards, according to scores of
federal documents and interviews with government officials and outside
auditors.
So when the Deepwater Horizon barge, leased by BP, exploded April 20 and
5,000 barrels of oil started flowing daily into the Gulf of Mexico,
neither the oil companies nor their regulators in the Interior Department
were ready.
There was no written protocol, no history of drills to simulate a disaster
anywhere close to this size. Interior analysts had calculated that the
chances of any spill exceeding 1,000 barrels were 3% to 5%. There are no
records to suggest anyone had seriously considered the possibility of such
a nightmare coming true.
Computer analyses projected only a 7% chance that in a month's time a
spill in the area where the BP leak began could drift into the marshes and
bayous of St. Bernard Parish, La. Oil from the spill began washing up in
the parish Thursday, 16 days after fires erupted on the Deepwater Horizon
and sent it to the bottom of the gulf, leaving 11 workers missing and
presumed dead.
As a result, officials found themselves inventing untested plans as the BP
spill worsened. Company officials are putting their hopes on a temporary
fix, a concrete-and-steel containment box that was lowered over the main
leak Friday. The box is designed to funnel the oil flow via pipes into a
ship. But it ran afoul that same night when it became clogged with gas and
water crystals that look like slush.
It could take days to remedy that problem and officials can't guarantee
success. And even then, it won't permanently stop the flow of oil from
BP's well head. Plan B, drilling a relief well, could take three months.
The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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