Those booms would have to be really long and I’m surprised they had them. How well can these booms hold the oil?
It is part of the emergency contingency protocals they have. They unfortunately do not hold enough.
Regarding the Gulf Oil Spill, who laid the containment booms? How’d they have all them readily available?
Where is all of this used oil going?
All of this oil they are getting from the oil booms, skimmers, and all the other devices they have down there sucking up this oil, what are they doing with it?
The oil slick which is cleaned up by the oil skimmer equipped ships is recycled and refined and the oil sludged which is cleaned up on land is incinerated at EPA approved hazardous waste treatment plants.
who makes the boom that collects the oil in the gulf?
bp
Why didn’t federal officials follow up on a 1994 Plan (during the Clinton Era) for an oil spill in the gulf?
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/fire_boom_oil_spill_raines.html
Thanks!
Our government seems to ran by lobbyist not we the people.
Why didn’t the state of Louisiana put oil spill booms around the marshes before the oil got there?
Maybe use two rows so the second would catch what the first didn’t? I would not have waited for BP.
First of all, BP was not forthcoming with correct info. They tried to downplay the whole thing.
Second, enough boom was not readily available. Louisiana’s shoreline is extremely irregular, with numerous inlets and bays. Boom had to be brought in from around the globe, and more had to be made.
The booms are not enough to keep the oil away. Wave action forces the oily water over the booms,and a lot of the oil is below the surface, and just passes under the booms.
All the bureaucracy and the withheld information are horrible. This whole mess makes me cry.
I have a boat. How much $ can I make collecting oil off the Gulf of Mexicoil w/ a collecting boom?
Well, it is a good idea, just the wrong collection technique.
What you need to do is buy one of Kevin Costner’s centrifuges (which sucks it all in, separates and reclaims the oil, and spits the water back out).
This way… if you have a boat that has room for one of these centrifuges, and 6 or so barrels of crude (they are 40 gallon barrels by the way, not 55) then, at the current price of crude, you could make yourself about $100 a barrel…
In fact, I am very surprised there aren’t an army of out of work shrimpers doing this already…
Costner’s company sold BP 32 of those machines last week. If I was an out of work fisherman with a good size vessel, I for sure would have bought at least one of Costner’s machines, and I would be out there now sucking that oil up for resale.
The government should of bought a few hundred of those machines (they are about the size of dish washing machines) and offered to boaters willing to go out there and start making some money sucking up that crude.
John
Why is the Obama admin and BP allowing miles of oil containment boom to sit in a warehouse?
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/miles-of-oil-containment-boom-sit-in-warehouse-waiting-for-bp-or-u-s-to-use/?singlepage=true
Obama’s plan B, save the boom for a rainy day. Never know when you might need some to clean up a really bad oil spill.
On an offshore oil rig, is the crane the same as the flare boom?
I’m a little confused as to what the difference is between the crane and the flare boom-____- I’m thinking that the flare boom is what they use to burn off oil I there’s a fire, but is that right? And what does the crane do?
The flare boom is just that, a stationary boom that supports the flare line. It is not a crane, those are completely separate and usually on the side of the platform away from the flare boom. The flare has to be set out from the platform so the radiant heat from the flame doesn’t harm the people on board or the equipment. Yes there is normally a standing pilot and there will be a flame if there is a need to burn off the natural gas during an upset or emergency.