Exclusive: More On the BP Oil Spill Saga
The below guest article is by Robert "Bob" McDowell. He is a Professional Engineer and Geologist with over 50 years experience in creating drilling prospects, supervising drilling, well completion, production operation, and pipeline design for oil and gas including repair of problem wells. McDowell is a conservative and active in the Oklahoma Republican Assembly. Bob agreed to share the following insights about the Gulf Oil Spill Continuing Saga with our readers.
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By Bob McDowell: In recent weeks a number of questions have come my way from friends and acquaintances wanting to know my professional opinion as an engineer about what the situation is with the BP well situation is in the Gulf. It has been difficult to come up with actual and correct answers because all we have to go on is the video scenes that have been on the TV news shows. As a result, anything said, or in this case written, is nothing more than an estimate (guess) based on those videos, which may or may not be the actual live view of the sea floor well head.
It appears, from those, that when the explosion occurred the riser pipe, going from the well head to the floating rig, fell off the rig and to the bottom thus bending it over and causing the various leaks shown. In answer to a direct question about how to solve the leak problem my solution would be to cut off the riser pipe just above the well head so that it could be entered in a vertical position with new pipe and packer (a tool to seal the new pipe against the inside of the existing casing). At one point it seemed that that was one of the programs under consideration.
All that aside, the administration has made huge publicity hay out of the existing situation. They have blasted BP in the media and made crude and aggressive statements about what they wanted do to the company and its executives. It seems to me that this fits quite well into President Barack Obama's stated goal, in his books, of abolishing private enterprise in the U.S. This situation serves to fit quite well into that program, so much so that one now wonders if a deliberate action on his/their part to cause this should be included in the list of possible causes. The original first thought included Islamofashist terrorist action or 'greeny' sabotage ('greeny' was a term used by the Aussies and New Zealanders in 2001 when it was our good fortune to visit 'down under). To date, not one name of those lost has been released, arousing suspicions.
One may recall that when 'tar balls' began to be found on the beaches around Key West the first claim was that the oil from the well had reached that far. It turned out that a laboratory analysis of them indicated they were a totally different type of oil. Also, news pictures have shown President Obama picking up 'tar balls' from beaches on the Louisiana shore. It must be remembered that the oil from the well is reported to be a very light grade crude, so there would not be tar balls at all in the vicinity from it. Were the beaches 'salted', such as was occasionally done to induce people to invest in gold mine ventures? In short, this whole situation seems to have a distinct odor to it, especially in the way the administration and media are playing it up.
A point in history, when the Department of Energy was formed during the last half of the last century one of the criteria for considering people for employment in the Department was reported to be that no employee could have any experience in or connection with any form of energy, at any level. As a result it follows that none of them, from the Secretary on down, has any concept of what the truth is about which they are speaking. Like the news media, don't believe anything you hear or see unless you already know it to be true or can find the actual facts in the situation from another source. This is a good practice to follow in any matter.
In my own experience there have been a number of incidents in which my knowledge was first hand and the things reported in the media bore no resemblance to the facts, other than that an incident did occur. You might keep that in mind, particularly as election time approaches.
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By Bob McDowell: In recent weeks a number of questions have come my way from friends and acquaintances wanting to know my professional opinion as an engineer about what the situation is with the BP well situation is in the Gulf. It has been difficult to come up with actual and correct answers because all we have to go on is the video scenes that have been on the TV news shows. As a result, anything said, or in this case written, is nothing more than an estimate (guess) based on those videos, which may or may not be the actual live view of the sea floor well head.
It appears, from those, that when the explosion occurred the riser pipe, going from the well head to the floating rig, fell off the rig and to the bottom thus bending it over and causing the various leaks shown. In answer to a direct question about how to solve the leak problem my solution would be to cut off the riser pipe just above the well head so that it could be entered in a vertical position with new pipe and packer (a tool to seal the new pipe against the inside of the existing casing). At one point it seemed that that was one of the programs under consideration.
All that aside, the administration has made huge publicity hay out of the existing situation. They have blasted BP in the media and made crude and aggressive statements about what they wanted do to the company and its executives. It seems to me that this fits quite well into President Barack Obama's stated goal, in his books, of abolishing private enterprise in the U.S. This situation serves to fit quite well into that program, so much so that one now wonders if a deliberate action on his/their part to cause this should be included in the list of possible causes. The original first thought included Islamofashist terrorist action or 'greeny' sabotage ('greeny' was a term used by the Aussies and New Zealanders in 2001 when it was our good fortune to visit 'down under). To date, not one name of those lost has been released, arousing suspicions.
One may recall that when 'tar balls' began to be found on the beaches around Key West the first claim was that the oil from the well had reached that far. It turned out that a laboratory analysis of them indicated they were a totally different type of oil. Also, news pictures have shown President Obama picking up 'tar balls' from beaches on the Louisiana shore. It must be remembered that the oil from the well is reported to be a very light grade crude, so there would not be tar balls at all in the vicinity from it. Were the beaches 'salted', such as was occasionally done to induce people to invest in gold mine ventures? In short, this whole situation seems to have a distinct odor to it, especially in the way the administration and media are playing it up.
A point in history, when the Department of Energy was formed during the last half of the last century one of the criteria for considering people for employment in the Department was reported to be that no employee could have any experience in or connection with any form of energy, at any level. As a result it follows that none of them, from the Secretary on down, has any concept of what the truth is about which they are speaking. Like the news media, don't believe anything you hear or see unless you already know it to be true or can find the actual facts in the situation from another source. This is a good practice to follow in any matter.
In my own experience there have been a number of incidents in which my knowledge was first hand and the things reported in the media bore no resemblance to the facts, other than that an incident did occur. You might keep that in mind, particularly as election time approaches.
Tags: Bob McDowell, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill, Professional Engineer, Geologist, President Obama, Louisiana To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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