Any Petroleum Engineers that are members of DU ?

[UndertheOcean]

I want to hear your opinion about this major event. Please come forward. How hopeless or overblown (oh I wish) is the situation.

[daylan b]

1. Enviro eng, worked in the petro field but primarily emissions based

(the drilling petro guys get laid off far too often for my taste or I would have gone that route)

It's bad. "Dude, they're (every company involved) just plain old fucked" is the general commentary going around the guys I used to work with.

As with everything with a political slant to it, it's neither as bad as some groups make it sound or "no big deal" like the other side of it. IN today's world, if your voice is grounded in science and logic instead of political zealotry you simply aren't heard.

[AnnInLa]

2. Oh, you found an engineer

I was going to laugh at your question, thinking petroleum engineers were probably much too busy to be posting on DU, but you got an engineer, so I laugh at myself.

I live in Louisiana, and all the local blogs, newspapers, talk, etc say that there is no solution....that every state will be affected by the oil spill eventually, in one way or the other....that it will travel up the East Coast, the Miss River.

One old lady in the grocery store told me this is the beginning of the End Times. Oh great....the end of Earth by oil.