Comments for Crude Awakening at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 16 out of 16 comments http://www.theind.com Sat, 25 May 2013 22:52:24 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-9214 case in point - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/us/30gulf.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&src=me the damage is self inflicted. - garret Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:17:58 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-9211 i honestly doubt that any reaction by obama would have received praise from people who have already decided long ago to resist anything he does. BP is ultimately at fault b/c it is their responsibility to be the corporate do-gooders that everyone fantasizes exist in a profit driven model. this simply is not going to happen. higher profits are a direct result of walking the line between productivity and safety. less regulations equal more profit and some rich dude on a yacht isn't going to lose sleep over a dead pelican or dead workers b/c he already made his money pillaging our resources. BP isn't here to "do the right thing"... they're here to MAKE MONEY. free enterprise, remember? it's the call to arms of all the "conservatives" who see no value in protecting the environment until that environment is their own oil-soaked backyard. suddenly there's a consequence and now, like a bunch of children, we stand around pointing at obama like he personally caused the problem. WAKE UP! it's your personal habits, your desire for oil, your insatiable thirst for energy that drives the industry that is the lifeblood and the cancer of acadiana. i think it's called dancing with the devil. - garret Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:00:34 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-9080 We have a problem. It's getting harder to find oil in the gulf. That's not going to get any better. Your jobs are at stake one way or the other. It's just a matter of time. Now you can either sit here and bitch about it, or you can wizen up and find another way to make a living. Use the current situation to your advantage. Instead of trying to convince Obama to lift the moritorium (so you can go back to your doomed career) convince him to give us a bunch of stimulus money to build massive, hurricane proof, wind farms in the gulf. Suddenly you have sustainable industry and energy all in one. Instead of being oil and gas experts, become deep water wind experts. That's not really far fetched is it? It's building stuff, in the water, that can withstand a hurricane. You can do that. Face the facts: If it were easier to get oil out of the gulf, then we wouldn't be to drill at 5k feet underwater. The oil and gas cash cow is empty. It's time to evolve. - Meh. Get you some Stimulus cher. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:23:39 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8824 When you vote for a teleprompted lawyer you get teleprompting writers as leaders with zip- zero common sense and management. experience. We all voted, so we deserve him- learn the lesson! - jules wainrib, retired Project Manager of Nuclear Power Plants Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:30:02 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8822 You voted for a lawyer with no management experience- now you understand all the benefits you will reap from that vote. - jules wainrib, retired Project Manager of Nuclear Power Plants Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:23:01 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8638 It seems the general consensus is to point the finger and place the blame on President Obama, being he is the Commander In Chief of the United States. President Obama, the poor man had never seen an oilrig prior to this BP's BLOWOUT, actually he has yet to actually see an oilrig, other than the televised shots of the Transocean Rig, prior to the rig being made to collapse onto the wellhead, causing a mangled maze of steel on the wellhead. Today veteran BLOWOUT CONTROL SPECIALIST are having trouble understanding why anyone would order the fire extinguished, when allowing the fire to continue burning the wellstream at the surface would have greatly lessened the contamination in the GULF by the hydrocarbons............. Years ago, prior to pipelines extending out to the oil and gas platforms, the wells after completion, were flowed through booms extending over the sides of the jackup rigs, and flowed long enough to clean the well bore and hopefully recover as many barrels of drilling fluids as was used to drill the well........ As the well was flowed to clean the wellbore, the perforations and hopefully recover any lost circulation fluids, the well stream was flowed through separation vessels and the gas was flared into the atmosphere through the booms, the oil/condensate fluid recovered was stored in large tanks and after the well was flowing cleanly, the oil/condensate was pumped through flowlines to the extended burner boom and emitted alongside the gas flare and ignited by the gas and thereby burning the oil/gas with a minimum of pollution, if any pollution at all. The flaring of the gas enhanced the combustion of the hydrocarbons thus throughly burning the hydrocarbons and eliminating the problem of transporting the hydrocarbons to shore,... Now, anyone reading this post should understand that the biggest asinine critical mistake that BP committed after the well blewout, was to extinguish the fire...... So much sealife could have been spared, would that the hydrocarbons been allowed to be incinerate by the fire, the contamination of the gulf could have been contained to the general area of the blowout, and today our Shrimpers would be trawling with their nets for shrimp rather than towing absorbentbooms. The most logical decision any oilman worth his salt could have made, " WAS TO LET THE DAMN OIL BURN ! - EXISTENTIALIST HOMME Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:03:06 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8637 Hey walt, you confuse peter pinhead with who's on fault, first who's president ? who's at fault ? Bush is ............. But, answer this one question....Anyone ? The government is still passing the ball around their investigative panels to determine, how many of the invoices billed to our Government in Iraq, by the Oil Industry Monoply Service Company, " Halliburton were false....... Now halliburton buys BOOTS and COOTS, this will allow Halliburton to write-off a couple Billion Dollars paid to Boots and Coots, for services rendered at the BLOWOUT SITE, this in turn will get the monkey off "their back. Halliburton, THE PREMIER SERVICE OILFIELD COMPANY ( RICH AS LBJ AND MRS LADYCOCKTIEL ) BIllions of dollars invoiced in Vietnam by Halliburton, to our government. LBJ + Boots And Coots = Halliburton, and where there is "SMOKE, You can take this to the bank, "Halliburton will be in the MIX ! No one can say "strange Bedfellows, this is a repeat. Now you may ask What ? If you have to ask what, turn in your Presstag ! - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:26:54 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8632 Thanks, Peter. You are correct. Obama is the president but the lax regulation and oversight by the Bush administration is what led to BP and Haliburton's disregard of safety and the proper operation that caused an accident that killed 11 men and is still polluting our Gulf. As for "mishandling," I'm curious what you want Obama to do? BP was supposed to have the equipment and knowledge to prevent and, if necessary, mitigate an disaster. Why would it be our government's responsibility to solve businesses messes? Remember, government is supposed to "..get out of the way..." of business. It seems you, and others, think that is government is supposed to get out of the way only when it is getting in your way. Then, when you make a mistake, government is supposed to solve the problem. I wish there was more Obama and our government could have done more but I don't know what more the government could have done. No, this mess was caused by poor government oversight, poor BP and Haliburton operation, and a laisse faire attitude by too many. I'm sure you would now support government efforts to insure this doesn't happen again. Of that, I'm glad. - Walt Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:58:11 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8608 written by Walt Come on, Peter, you're going to blame this on Obama? ---------------------------- Obama did not cause the oil mess but he has done a poor job of handling it. Note to Walt, Obama is the President, not Bush. - Peter Principle Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:23:38 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8604 Ms. Turk needs to do better research; the number quoted to more reputable press says the wells put on hold is only 30. In addition, I wish she had asked what the cost in lost wages if another well had blown out - if one is lax, chances are more are lax is following the rules, especially since the MMS was so lax in enforcing regulations. This one blow-out has cost much more than the lost wages of the moratorium - sea industry jobs lost, tourism dollars lost, wetlands lost and these jobs and the wetlands may never recover. Any jobs "lost" by a moratorium will be recovered once the government makes sure the oil industry follows the rules and regulations - both safety and industrial rules. Let's remember that 11 people died because of the oil industries disregard of government regulations. This mess was not caused by the oversight but by government trust of the oil industry. Any jobs lost and the moratorium is a result of the oil industry, not the Obama administration. Put blame where blame belongs. - Quent Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:56:54 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8598 Come on, Peter, you're going to blame this on Obama? I believe it was the lax enforcement of regulations (remember how government should get out of the way and let business do business?) by Bush that contributed to this, not Obama. And what does working to make sure health insurance companies don't drop you because you get sick, tightening tax loopholes that benefit the rich (while this recession has hurt the poor and middle class, the rich have actually improved their financial situation) have to do with oil companies not doing what is right? - Walt Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:52:17 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8588 When one considers that the MMS inspectors had been letting the oil industry conduct the inspections they MMS inspectors were supposed to do, how the oil companies plans to protect the gulf environment included provisions for protecting polar bears and sea lions (I haven't seen many polar bears in the gulf) and that MMS was allowing drilling before permits were issued, it is not too far fetched to think one oil rig disaster may be repeated and that maybe we need to stop for just six months deep water drilling (which only truly effects 30 wells) to make sure permits are issued, drilling plans are proper (to save the Gulf of Mexico polar bears) and oil companies truly operate for the health and welfare of the workers (remember, 11 people died in the well blowout) and the health of welfare of the gulf residents (think of all the people who depend on fishing and tourism who are out of work because of this mess). - Baron Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:53:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8586 Oil spill, Obamacare, postponed tax laws, etc. McCrystal stated what many now know, Obama is a incompetent administrator. A good speaker, a good politician, but otherwise clueless. He is starting to make Carter look good. November can not get here soon enough. - Peter Principle Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:37:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8580 Don Briggs couldn't have said it better himself. - Industry mouthpiece Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:02:59 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8577 "The processes are in place to prevent such tragedies, but BP ignored warnings...." That's the real crime here. They just figured they didn't have to do it that way because they were smarter, or luckier. Never mind that everybody has been doing it right for 50 years now, BP figured they'd just do it some other way. - ragin_cajun Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:29:37 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/6485-crude-awakening#comment-8576 I don't think President Obama cares if a bunch of red state oil field workers are put out of work by his strict ideological and political policy decisions. If we were CA, NY or swing state like FL, you can bet he would not impose a policy to hit hard one of their top industries. - RCajunRunner Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:52:20 +0100