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Possible New Oil Spill 100 By 10 Miles Reported in Gulf Of Mexico (Update: Spill Photos)
Black Swan Clusterflock +1. As if earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns and war was not enough, the Examiner now discloses that a replay of the BP oil spill could be in the making, sending WTI to the (super)moon, the economy collapsing, and Ben Bernanke starting the printer in advance of QE 666. To wit: "The U.S. Coast Guard is currently investigating reports of a potentially
massive oil sheen about 20 miles away from the site of the Deepwater
Horizon oil rig explosion last April." There are no definitive reports yet, but we should now for sure within hours, if the Keppel FELS built TLP is indeed the culprit: "According to Paul Barnard, operations controller for the USCG in
Louisiana, a helicopter crew has been dispatched to the site of the
Matterhorn SeaStar oil rig, owned by W&T Offshore, Inc." And if preliminary reports are correct, BP will have been the appetizer: "Multiple reports have come in of a sheen nearly 100 miles long and 10 miles wide originating near the site." If confirmed, Obama can kiss tomorrow's Rio golf outing goodbye.
Independent pilots, including John Wathen of the Waterkeeper Alliance, and Bonnie Schumaker with Wings of Care, are currently flying out to investigate the spill. Schumaker reports having seen the sheen on Friday, March 18, and confirms that it is rapidly expanding.
A Louisiana fisherman, who has chosen to remain anonymous at this time, also reports fresh oil coming ashore near South Pass, LA, and that cleanup crews are laying new boom near the beach.
The site of the sheen, near Mississippi Canyon 243, lies 30 miles from the Louisiana coastline. The Matterhorn field, at a depth of 2,789 feet (850 meters) of water, was discovered in 1999, leased and permitted in July 2001, and came into production in November 2003. It is located 30 miles SE of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
According to W&T, the field has produced an average rate of 5,200 barrels of oil per day, and has production capacities of 35,000 barrels of oil per day.
Of course, whether this is due to the Matterhorn SeaStar or a second leak that many predicted last year due to the Deepwater Horizon will also be closely evaluated this time around.
An in depth look at the SeaStar (after the jump):
And the technical specs:
| Field Facts | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mississippi Canyon, Block 243 |
| Water Depth: | 2,820 ft |
| Oil throughput: | 33,000 bpod |
| Gas throughput: | 55 MMcfd |
| Water Injection: | 20,000 bwpd |
| # of production wells: | 5 spare (sub-sea), 7 + 2 spare (surface) |
| Production Risers: | 10 ¾-in, 9 5/8-in, 9 7/8-in |
| Export Risers: | 18-in SCR (oil), 10-in SCR (gas) |
| SeaStar® TLP Specifications | |
| Payload (deck/facilities/risers): | 8,425 tons |
| Tendons: | 6 32-in |
| Main column dimensions: | 584 ft (dia) x 125 ft (ht) |
| Pontoon dimensions: | 179 ft (r) x 42 ft (ht) |
| Draft: | 104 ft |
| Deck Dimensions: | 140 x 140 ft (3 levels) |
| Schedule Milestones | |
| Project Sanction: | September 2001 |
| Platform Installation: | July 2003 |
| First Oil: | November 2003 |
And from GulfOilSpillAction, photos of the latest supposed spill:
Update 2: Dow Jones is on it:
The U.S. Coast Guard said late Saturday that it is investigating reports of a miles-long oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Coast Guard said in a news release that it received a report of a three-mile-long rainbow sheen off the Louisiana coast at around 9:30 a.m. local time on Saturday. Two subsequent sightings were relayed to the Coast Guard, the last of which reported a sheen that extended from about 6 miles south of Grand Isle, La. to 100 miles offshore.Though the Coast Guard was able to confirm that there is a substance on the water's surface, it has not yet been able to determine if it is oil. Petty Officer Casey Ranel said that officers who observed the substance from a helicopter said they saw no sheen associated with it. That flight was diverted from the scene on a separate search and rescue mission, however, and could not continue their investigation, the Coast Guard said in the news release.
The Coast Guard has since launched additional aircraft and boats to the scene from New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., to collect samples of the substance. Ranel said the area where the substance has been reported is about 20 miles west of where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded last April, killing 11 and unleashing the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Ranel said the Coast Guard has not linked the substance to any particular rig or well.
The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which holds oil royalties to pay for spill clean-up costs, has been opened, the Coast Guard said.
h/t @djoalpha11, @BMCapital
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Obama is not going to let nuclear meltdowns, initiation of mid east wars, nor massive oil spills to interrupt his social schedule. He campaigned hard to get it, and damn it, he is going to get what's coming to him. Shizzle, being President is like slavery, or playing in the NFL, (minus the concussions).
Damn, this isn't like being a community organizer at all. They actually expect me to work! Get me otta here.
Where have you been? No they don't.
They expect him to read grade school books about a goat to elementary school children, and play guitar.
Quit pretending the president does anything. He puts his signature on a bill when he's told to and reads speeches written for him. That's their work - to give the perception they do anything.
"That's their work - to give the perception they do anything."
We know that. He's failing to give that perception.
LOL exactly - a week to discuss Japan? Now in Rio, must be rough.
Thanks ZH, another night of sound sleep. :(
LMAO. Take a few qualudes.
"gimme the looodes, man..." ha! still one of my more memorable times...
That's oxymoronic.
shall we say I have a "vague recollection" of the evening....?
Or get a second job as a theater projectionist.
Do they still make qualudes? Try some riterol
ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011
This is the third installment of the Zeitgeist Series. Just released. Absolutely mind-blowing documentary about our present, our future, and what we can do now before it's too late. Highly recommended. Enjoy, learn and spread the word.
You can torrent it freely
http://www.zeitgeistmovingforward.com/
or watch it on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w&feature=player_embedded
technocratic bs
+1859 Concur. Technology will not save us.
LOL it's already too late
Dude, haven't you learned anything. That bullshit is gonna be the most fascistic, controlling self-righteous "save us all" crap to come along. Who exactly is going to apportion the resources? gee, maybe i'll apply for that job...
Every down has an up. So far he's caused Silver and Gold to rise to new highs.
The military industrial complex will see huge gains first thing Monday.
Black Swans are no longer on the endangered species list.
Best of all the democrats will finally get the military draft reinstated, including women.
"Best of all the democrats will finally get the military draft reinstated, including women."
Well, I'd change that to:
"Best of all the RICH will finally get the military draft reinstated, including women."
Oh, and tag on "gays" as well! Unfucking believable that people would actually beg to be sucked into the killing machine! I tell folks that I don't believe that "gays" should be in the military, followed by "nor anyone else."
It's the same with the "bleeding hearts" who help spearhead invasions by supporing various "human rights!" I argue that evolution will take care of the shitty civilizations, just let it work (yeah, everyone sacrifices, give thanks to all that do by allowing the only really positive course of action take place).
Black Swan Clusterflock +1. As if earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns and war was not enough, the Examiner now discloses that a replay of the BP oil spill could be in the making, sending WTI to the (super)moon, the economy collapsing, and Ben Bernanke starting the printer in advance of QE 666.
Tyler, Pure Genius! LOL
I loved "QE 666!" :-)
And so they continue to tumble. One by two by three..... on and on....
Now look at good old Terrence McKenna's Timewave, and then look at the world Right Now and ask yourself if you can connect a dot or three.
Mostly downhill with failed brakes from here folks. Hope you are ready.
I sit here in India, with TV and cricket dazzeled masses who will not know what hits them when it does.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/archetypal-astrology-from-cathartes-aura/
perhaps we have reached the dispersant half-life and this is half the oil, now mine-able, and ready for clean-up. with the right technologies, of course.
those gulf shrimp we love so much are gonna be cheaper than ever!
Sloo ie, think Mr. Waterworld is having a wet-dream right about now?
ORI
ORI,
I've been following your posts, so is it Mar 20 or 22?
I have my own theories for a point of no return in terms of UST and the coming defualt in the next 2 qtrs.
22nd IB. And a long fast/slow/fat/slow/dive run downhill thereafter.
This global clusterflock will nto be "recovered" from, regardless of the best laid plans of mice and men. Or was that rats and men?
ORI
Thanks! ORI
interesting times indeed.
ORI,
Spring Equinox, Mar 20 2011, 23:31 UT
But what will the event be??
Obama embraces Islam? EBENS come forward? Gadaffi invades France?
Gold, er God, returns to planet earths' monetary system?
I read on a billboard that May 21st was the date.
so you are from India...
do us a favor, go down to the street and do a good deed or 3 for some of those low caste people who eat, shit, procreate & live their whole lives on your sidewalks
then come back here and tell us all about how fucked up the average American is
And you? Shell out a few more shekels for Tomahawks today?
It's Their system (and I have no concern over whether they find compliance with evolution or not, that's up to them). As a US citizen, however, I can say that the "average American" IS fucked up. This fucked-up-ness is demonstrated via the people's accepted policies, like running around the globe bombing the fuck out of hobgoblins, believing that they are superior.
We are drilling. Love the scrol >numbers.
Irradiated, drugged, vaccinated, RFID chipped, laser targeted, oily, severely shaken black swan.
If true, all I have to say is:
If it flies, it must be groped by a high school drop out TSA inspector before it can take flight. Would the TSA agent who felt up an African-descended (Gotta be politically correct!) swan please raise their hand?
Always in search of some dumb founded answer skippy. Please interject your thoughts? You worthless time stealing plagiarist!
There are not enough blond TV newswomen available to cover all that is happening in the world this month.
I guess the next black swan will be locust in Iowa.
Is Blond hair-die short? Has someone started manipulating the hair-die markets?
Silicon enhanced PropagandaVision!
Get Long Silicon
And we're off to Montana to grow Dental Floss.
You fucking kidding me? Locusts don't even want to have those GM corns there.
BULLSHIT!!!
He's staying as far away from the SHTF as possible.
He is no longer relevent...
never was relevant
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Jeezus, I need to get more monitors. I'm running out of room for all the web feeds going on. This new development just adds to the clutter. I guess I'm going to have to shut down a couple of the Lady Gaga music videos on youtube.
lulz - watch yer blood pressure....
I have not even broken the label yet! Damn I want to taste my Scotch.
SUPERMOON's GRAVITY IS STRONG
Is that why my turds won't flush?
Super Moon-Super Tide...
no, you need a hangar
yep sprung another leak. I just saw it on the news.
Lets get rid of this little mental problem. We know who it is.
Okay, sorry I junked you, Mayan Civilization.
It turned out that your calendar was all good, after all.
Sincerely,
TIS
I have disaster fatigue.
It's getting to be a real drag all right.
I find that Glenlivet takes that fatigue edge right off...give it a try:-)
welcome to the global shock doctrine governance model.
Blanton's also works like a charm
That flock of black swans are now shiting oil? Enough already!
Sabotage bitchez!
Why not? We are at war with the world. How much would it cost Gadaff to have a demo team cruising around the GOM?
Obama is a joke and does not represent anyone but Wall Street, the bankers and Big Money. So who cares about politicians anyway. They're not the answer. Hell, everyone is so afraid that even a Louisiana fisherman shakes when he/she rings the alarm about an oil spill because the Feds or the CIA might go after him/her. Let's quit this oil and nuclear addiction once and for all. Let's change our energy consuming habits, our wasteful system and change to a cleaner system. Let's be the change we want to see in the world. Isn't it ridiculous that the politicians of the world concentrate on destabilising nations in the Middle East in order to steal their oil and resources, all eyes are now on Libya because they have sweet crude, it's not your regular Saudi or Texas tea, it's sweet crude, ideal to make jet fuel and gasoline. No government at the moment can even decide to help the Japanese in their worst hour. If you cannot sleep now, you certainly won't be able to sleep tomorrow. Cheap energy allowed us to grow to 7 billion, to waste our resources and build mega cities and suburbs which make no sense isolated from food sources. Our food travels more than we do today. Oil is finite and we use it to grow our food in the form of fertilizers, to move our tractors, to package and ship our food. When we're 10 billion and oil gets scarcer, along with food and water... well, by then earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear disasters, oil spills, contaminated lakes and rivers, wars and blood on the streets will be a normal part of life.
THEN HELP OUT,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk
THEN READ ENERGYFROMTHORIUM.COM ITS REAL
Instead of throwing away those little cardboard tubes leftover at the end of toilet paper rolls, I use them as firestarters for my fireplace instead of lighter fluid. So I'm tossing less into the landfill, AND using less chemical.
Yay! I'm doing my part!
Transition ain't possible hoss; no amount of windmills and solar panels can replace nukes and oil (and coal/nat gas). Mass die-off is the only way out.
Germany managed to avoid building more nuclear plants by providing incentives for individual solar panels on houses. The program now produces enough energy that would have been provided by 8 nuclear plants. We could do the same thing here if we could wrestle power away from the dirty energy technologies.
Look at the economy in Germany, too. High labor costs produced the highest export numbers, they have been doing pretty well in this global recession.
And when the wind stops blowing? And what do solar cells collect at night? Dark energy?
Alternative energy is only viable with cheap storage.
And when the rest of the world can no longer afford BMWs?
Didn't Germany dump a lot of its subsidies for solar?
Hate to wipe the optimism off your face, but energy is only part of the equation. We're hitting Peak on a LOT of things.
NOTE: at some point people will have to get out of their BMWs and solar-powered homes and whack an animal or yank up some plants for food, assuming, that is, all that BMW and solar-panel construction hasn't killed off too many life forms...
Peak litigation comes to mind...
I like: Bussard's IEC Fusion Technology (Polywell Fusion) Explained
I live off grid using 6 - 90 watt solar panels w/6 T-150 Trojan batteries for storage.
Panels create 30-35 amps per hr. on average W/sun, and half that when cloudy.
High-use days I use a electric start 3000 watt Honda generator. (Washing machine (clothes)and Hi-output (50 amp/hr.) battery charger.
Clothes dry outside and in.
Heat is by wood and propane.
Refrigerator is propane.(Solar fridge is possible (Sunfrost = $5,000+ Additional solar panels=$2,000)
Still dependant on small amounts of gas for gen-set, and propane.
Water is heated by batch heater(Free sun)or propane. In winter water is heated by wood stove system or propane(2 differant systems).
Small house (1,000 sq. ft.) is wired 12 volt dc and 110 volt ac. LED is used for almost all lighting W/some flourescents. Lite use lighting(under counters,etc.) is powered by re-chargable batteries.
110 volt ac is by a 3,000 watt inverter.
No, I cannot arc-weld all day!
Why does it have to be all or nothing?
I have every ceature comfort any home does.
Yes, their is a level of labor(Lite) to these systems.
Just as you would have to earn $$$ to pay utilities.
Home is in NW Montana.
Fun fact- Until 1956 ALL hot water in Florida was produced by the sun.(batch heaters) Utities went door-to-door offering FREE electric/gas water heaters to the public.And here we are today....................
While I did Pay-forward I enjoy not getting power bills every month.
It is possible.
"Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
Hunter S. Thompson
Here's a possible link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/matterhorn-seastar-oil-spill-2011-3
While that would definitely be correlation (insiders dumping stock 'cuz they know it's on), I dunno if it's reason enough to actually CAUSE said event to happen.
Hehe... in the strange world of quantum mechanics, you never know.
Nice link. Somebody knew something late day Friday (and might be going to jail.)
As far as the spill, since there's no burning platform, it seems like there's less chance this spill will be of BPiblical proportions.
Holy flock. Let's just hope they don't fire up Haarp and blow up the new madrid FL or some other fault line on this planet.
like in the bahamas?
please don't fuck with the Bahamas. It's my only place of refuge and peace.
Shushh...
Don't go givin' 'em any more bright ideas.
But WTF, FEMA already bought a couple million 3 month shelf life emergency meals for delivery to Missouri.....
Did'nt you mean 3+ Years shelf life?
Shit. That was scheduled for May?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF_aH2BNGj4
Time for a little kid trapped deep in an abandoned well crisis to focus the world's attention with 24-hour news coverage of the heroic uplifting rescue effort.
Or a small newborn kitty up the tree
In the cold rain
Without any striking firefighters to respond
Because their collective barganing rights were abolished
And of the volunteer firefighters, half were called up to fight in Libya
And the other half won't go out to work in the imported cheap foreign non-union manufactured plume of radioactive nucleotides falling out of the sky
Which nobody in authority will admit exists which is why they've all left the fucking country to golf and look for birth certificates in South America and cornered the market on potassium iodine tablets
But there is hope little grass hoppers, for all night there are Jersey Shore reruns
Knukles.....Brilliant. Just brilliant. Couldn't have said it better myself.
But what happened to the kitty? "0_o"
(In volley ball, we call this a "set").
Oh, well he got out of the tree and now is up Shit Creek without a paddle.
knukles rules haha
Charlie Sheen sure got blown off the front page with all this apocolyptic chaos breaking loose all of a sudden. Tough luck Charlie, was a good run while it lasted.
And Charlie had predicted all the shit, too!
His tour's gonna go from joke to prophetic clairvoyance.
Awesome!
Fuckin'-A
Get my next Capital One MasterCard with Charlie's picture on it!
Chuckles,
Charlie had his 15 minutes.
The only way he'd make the news now is if he outdoes Carradine's last act.
I'm off to Vegas to place some wagers...
If anything, this will boost Sheen's staying power.
Oil Sheen, Charlie Sheen. Google doesn't discriminate.
Charlies' rants were welcomed, albeit brief, comic relief from the non-drug induced greed based global monetary/financial/energy apocalypse we all love and cherish but are a little tired of.
Rats! My wife and I were talking disasters this evening, and when she asked me "What's next?" I blathered on and on about Iran and Bahrain...
The ol' coffin we call modern industrial society is getting awfully full of nails. Just when you think some event has sunk the last one, some damn thing comes and hammers in another one!
I'm really starting to wonder if we're not entering the age of the apocalypse... it seems to be going from bad to worst... and I'm starting to think we've ain't seen nothing yet.
apocalypse
if you haven't seen the formation of the beast government in real time
you haven't been paying attention
Did someone summon the gaddamn Kraken?!
Man there is a lot of shit going on in the ocean the last few weeks/months.
The Kraken- an excellent bar to catch a drink down in Cardiff by the Sea, CA.
by Subprime JDon Sat, 03/19/2011 - 15:43
#1076125
Barri will take that call on the green. "HEllo? Yeah. 375,000 gallons of correxit? Sure yeah, do it." beep. FOR 3, WIND FROM THE NORTH, 7KPH...
PA teuy!
does anyone have a good recipe for green thai curry with chicken
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/thai-green-curry-chicken/Detail.aspx
I know, I know...sarcasm. But since I haven't ever made a curry, I had to look it up (this means that I don't know if it is any good).
"(this means that I don't know if it is any good)."
ANY recipe for thai green chicken curry will be good! Yummmmmmmmmm.
+check.
For an easy TGC -- use a good paste as a base and make sure you have ginger root, onion, garlic, galangal (if you can). Adjust with sliced green chillis to taste.
For a paste, Mae Ploy ain't bad -- and comes in a big tub for about €2-3
Purists won't like that and I sympathise -- but it's easy and painless.
HTH
I hear green chicken is on sale at 70% off in Japan.
it's ALL about balancing the palm sugar, fish sauce & curry paste against each other...if you can't figure that out, you can't make a good Thai curry.
balance is not a western concept. lol. by that did you mean though not to sweet not to fishy not too spicy.
I'm walking to the Store. Grabbing some single malt and a Cigar!
Hurry! Before too long it will be a 40oz. and some Pall Mall's :)
Cigarettes and beer kick ass
Why ya walking? Out of gas in your ghetto hopper?
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop drinking Fukushima milk.
WTF.
What's next, a fucking (more) radioactive (than the norm) oil spill?! Locusts?! What?!
Well, my mother-in-law showed up at my house tonight for an extended stay.
Will exchange for locusts.
LOLLLLLLLL I'm in tears.
Sorry for your mis-fortune. That sucks.
See if you can get some of that medical marijuana for both of you.
Maybe you'll both get so high she'll be picking the lint out of your belly-button for ya.
LOL
I can send my wife over to help.
Please....
HOLY shit!
I appologize GOD. I'm lighting my Earth bourne Cigar. The fruit of your wisdom!
ALL of the seed-bearing plants and herbs, baby.
Single Malt Scotch (Macallan 18) 777. Thanks for hanging in! It means a lot.
Not even jailbait, nice. I personally don't drink anything but a couple Guinness a per year, but I get my dad a similarly-aged bottle of one of the Glens every b-day.
Not in your postion but have been.
All I can say is...
FUCK YA!
Just wait until the Scotch kicks in. Just kidding.
A bit oxymoronic response. I get it though!
A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual procession approaching the nearby cemetery.
A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one.
Behind the second black hearse was a solitary man walking a dog on a leash.
Behind him, a short distance back, were about 200 men walking single file.
The man could'nt stand the curiosity. He respectfully approached the man walking the dog and said, "I am so sorry for your loss, and this may be a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen a funeral like this."
"Whose funeral is it?"
"My wifes."
"What happened to her?"
The man replied, "My dog attacked and killed her."
He inquired further, "But who is in the second hearse?"
The man answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my wife when the dog turned on her."
A poignant and thoughtful moment of silence passed between the two men.
"Can I borrow the dog?"
The man replied, "Get in line."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Crying...
LMAO!
There goes some coffee out the old nostrils...
hahaha
Meteor.
(surprised you missed that.)
Newt Gingrich ?
Screw 2012. 2011 is less than three months old and it already suck.
Oh no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no...... no
Gotta hold in there, my man.
2012 it is.
Have Faith!
Just keeps gettin' better and better!
If by better you mean "going to shit".
yes, that is exactly what he meant
Yeah, this year might really, really suck, but that doesn't mean that next year can't be worse! Good point knukles.
Some interpretations of the beginning point of the Mayan calander time line bring the end in Nov. 2011. :) Cheers!
I was just thinking maybe the Mayan's are right afterall
the moneychangers decided to make the Mayan's right and engineered the global monetary/energy/financial collapse accordingly. It helps keep the 'true believers' on mountain tops waiting/praying for god's return instead of systematically mounting bankster heads on sticks.
Maybe GW and Matt Simmons were right after all...
Yeah, see.
I took a fucking ton of shit agreeing with Simmons and he gets bumped off and was fucking right.
Apocalypse Now!
This has become the Black Swan of the Balck Swan events.
The 15th standard deviation of the 20th standard deviation unit.
This is what really and truly constitutes a Black Swan Tail Event.
Don't need a Burining Bush experience....
We're living it!
Rock on!
Remember.... Nobody gets out of this alive.