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Subject: »Oil catastrophy in Mexican Gulf
Press release from BP:
"Say thank we don't build atomic nuclear heating plants"
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"Say thank we don't build atomic nuclear heating plants"
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Yes, but I'm not joking. I'm an oil engineering student and she's nearly the only oil well teacher in Brazil and probably the best. She works for Petrobras (4th biggest mineral company in the world) and is a consultant for other big oil companies around the world. She's always called for big extraction stuff. What happened wasn't only because of one or two mistakes. It was a chain of mistakes, starting for security. But it's important to say that security would be usless if everything was correctly draw and calculated before. Anyway, she gave her imputs about the extration and said what was exactly going to be wrong. But the "big fish" guys and engineers didn't listen to her. It's an operation with demands lot of money. Changing how it's being organized means lot of money lost. By the way, they lost much more money (plus the ambiental problem) because they didn't want to spend some money preventing.
Just for instance (and for curiosity, if anyone cares), Brazil/Petrobras is nearly the only country which requires 3 stages of security in the oil extracting process. Of course it would be usless if I were here explaining the technical process, but the important thing is that other companies/countries requires only 2 of the stages, and the third one is optative. That could avoid this catastrophy by the way. Of course they would still spend a lot of money, because most of security stuff works like a preventor. They identify what's going wrong and are able to stop, in the same moment, the working of the well. So the extraction would stop, and they would need to make a lot of moves, planning everything, to run the extraction smoothly again. But the catastrophy itself could be avoided.
They were just immature, irresponsible and inconsequent in this case.
Just for instance (and for curiosity, if anyone cares), Brazil/Petrobras is nearly the only country which requires 3 stages of security in the oil extracting process. Of course it would be usless if I were here explaining the technical process, but the important thing is that other companies/countries requires only 2 of the stages, and the third one is optative. That could avoid this catastrophy by the way. Of course they would still spend a lot of money, because most of security stuff works like a preventor. They identify what's going wrong and are able to stop, in the same moment, the working of the well. So the extraction would stop, and they would need to make a lot of moves, planning everything, to run the extraction smoothly again. But the catastrophy itself could be avoided.
They were just immature, irresponsible and inconsequent in this case.
Isn't this as well a warning against drilling too deep for oil?
If I understood it correctly, only a small fraction of the worlds oil comes from these deep water off shore oil rigs, but they give proportionally the most danger to the environment. Is this the point where the risk got too big?
If I understood it correctly, only a small fraction of the worlds oil comes from these deep water off shore oil rigs, but they give proportionally the most danger to the environment. Is this the point where the risk got too big?
Not only this mistake.
There were a considerable amount of hydrate (potentially resource of energy, crystallized natural gas) that are VERY dangerous for oil exctration and can be eventually the cause of blowouts and kicks.
And in this particular case, engineeres completely ignored the posible presence of hydrate, and didn't even make a deep research about it.
There were a considerable amount of hydrate (potentially resource of energy, crystallized natural gas) that are VERY dangerous for oil exctration and can be eventually the cause of blowouts and kicks.
And in this particular case, engineeres completely ignored the posible presence of hydrate, and didn't even make a deep research about it.
