BP touts containment efforts; heavy oil reaches Louisiana wetlands

[undeterred]

Source: CNN

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- BP said Wednesday that efforts to contain and clean up oil gushing from a ruptured pipe in the Gulf of Mexico have made a "measurable difference" even as Louisiana's governor announced that thick, heavy oil has begun polluting the state's wetlands and estuaries.

Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production, said at a news conference that the company is "very pleased" with the performance of an insertion tube that was put in place over the weekend to suck crude oil from the well and funnel it to a surface vessel.

The flow rate from the tube has reached 3,000 barrels of crude (126,000 gallons) and 14 million cubic feet of gas a day, Suttles said, adding that crews hope to increase those numbers in coming days.

He said favorable weather conditions have also played a major role in cleanup efforts. About 14,000 barrels of oily water was skimmed Tuesday, and 50 percent of that mixture was oil, he said, adding that crews continue to deploy boom and conduct controlled burns.




Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/05/19/gulf.oil.spill/?hpt=C1

[Angry Dragon]

1. Hey, I am so glad they are "very pleased"

Now you dumb idiot clean up the mess below the surface, clean the water, pay your bills and quit lying to us.

[Botany]

2. Bullshit

"The flow rate from the tube has reached 3,000 barrels of crude (126,000 gallons) and 14 million cubic feet of gas a day ...... "

The flow rate is well over 1 million gallons a day. Experts who studied the video of the broken pipe put the flow @
3.4 million gallons per day.

Fucking BP still lying.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. There really is only one rational reaction to all the BP said, says and will be saying ..about this

BULLSHIT!

[janx]

4. Looking at that photo makes me feel physically ill. n/t

[aquart]

5. Yes. Me, too.

[janx]

7. I have been canoeing in LA wetlands.

The photo just makes me want to puke!

[Downwinder]

6. Live feed of BP oil spill in Gulf will be posted on congressman's website

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/live_feed_of_bp_oil_spill_in_g.html

[liberation]

8. Why is BP still in charge?

This is like having a murderer in charge of the crime scene cleanup.

Since corps are people now, they should be prosecuted as such. But I assume some people are more people than others.