Oil In The Gulf
A blog on the oil slick
5.28.10 - Update
WE NEED YOU!!!
Sun. May 30 - Oil Spill Awareness March
Frank Rendon Park in Daytona 10am-12pm
Location
2705 S. Atlantic Ave., Daytona Beach Shores
(about two miles north of Dunlawton)
5.28.10 - Update
Oil Still Leaking...BP working on Top Kill
Sorry for the lack of updates... this is soooo depressing! Why can't people see the connection... if we kill the fish we will all be dead soon. Anyway, BP is working on the Top Kill as we speak, pumping drilling mud into the well head. If sucessfull this will be followed by cement once the pressure is regulated. BP puts the sucess chances at 60 - 70%. We may know what's up by the end of the weekend.
5.18.10 - Update
Oil Still Leaking, Tar Balls in the Keys, Offshore Drilling in Australia...WTF?!>
The oil leaks on....OVER 30 MILLION GALLONS!!! BP is now catching some of the spillage...key word "some". Under water plumes of hidden oil have been discovered over 10 miles long miles wide and hundreds of feet deep. The slick has now been pulled through an eddy and in to the loop. Reports of tar balls now making land fall in the Florida Keys!!! AND NOW... Australia has approved offshore drilling leases!!! This is sickening... It is hard to report this depressing shit!!! I'll try to keep ya posted!
5.12.10 - Update
Smaller DomeBP now has a new plan.. sorta. BP is going to be deploying a smaller dome about 5 foot tall. The idea is the crystals wont form as and and wont be able to stop the thing up. If not the next plan is to stuff junk down the hole... for real!!! the spill/leak slick is over 500,000 square miles! BP has also released the video below of oil and gas gushing out of the breach
5.9.10 - Update
FAILED!The Containment dome has FAILED! Crystals started forming from gas mixing with oil which has blocked oil flow through the device. Now the unit sits on the ocean floor. In addition oil balls are now washing up on Dolphin island. Read more at here.
5.7.10 - Update
No Drilling in Florida!Two incoming Florida legislators have said there will be no new drilling off our coastlines. Crist has said he will consider an amendment to the state constitution that would prohibit oil drilling off our coastline. Mike Haridopolos and Dean Cannon said a flyover of the Gulf of Mexico spill area persuaded them to take the issue off the table until they can be assured Florida won't face a similar threat.
Check out some assorted pics of the spill at LATimes.com. Worth a look!
5.6.10 - Good News
Closer To Slowing The LeakThe first 100 ton funnel box is ready to be deployed and could help to catch 85 percent of the oil leaking from the biggest leak. This still leaves one leak to be covered and up to three months to fix the leak permanently by drilling a relief well. We are far away from having the gusher stopped... we could be feeling the effects for a life time
Suspension Of Plans For Drilling
Today, 5.6.10 the Interior Department suspended the lease of offshore drilling locations in Virgina. Numerous plans for meetings relating to gas and oil drilling have been canceled (NYTimes.com). Our fingers here are crossed hoping that the drilling moratorium on our beautiful Atlantic coast gets kindly reinstated.
This change of opinion on oil drilling follows Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's change of position on May 2nd regarding offshore drilling on the coastline of Santa Barbara County. Arnold directly cited the disaster of the Deepwater Horizon that began on April 20th 2010 and indicated he did not want any similar disasters in California. (newsrecord.org)
5.5.10 - One of three leaks now stopped
Cofferdams now ready to be deployed. Over 13 million gallons of crude in the gulf! The slick has become close an eddie of the Gulf Loop Current which could send the oil in to the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream could bring the oil through the keys and out in to the Atlantic shown below.
The image below shows the Gulf Loop Current, It's eddys, and The Gulf Stream. Note how closely it hugs South Florida and Miami. If the oil hits this dynamic conveyor system it could spread it all over the West and East coast. I would be devastating to the whole state if the oil hits our white sands.
5.4.10 - Estimates now put this disaster at over a million gallons a day at a minimum!
SkyTruth estimates the current slick size at is 3,260 square miles!
