Oil War I
Turmoil on the Bottom of the Sea




"If this thing is not fixed today, I think the president doesn't have any choice, and he better go in, completely take over," Nelson said on CNN this morning. "Perhaps with the military in charge, not because the military can do this, but the military has the apparatus, the organization by which it can bring together the civilian agencies of government and to get this thing done."
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fl.)


VIDEO: Carville's Oil Outburst...
5 weeks of gushing oil: BP to try 'top kill' plug...
Feds taking over permits for Texas plants [EPA going after refineries]

The second largest oil reservoir in the world
extending from the inlands of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Texas

8,000 bpd to a high of 25,000 bpd lost to keep prices UP
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6493

SLB gets out to the Deepwater Horizon to run the CBL, and they find the well still kicking heavily, which it should not be that late in the operation. SLB orders the “company man” (BP’s man on the scene that runs the operation) to dump kill fluid down the well and shut-in the well. The company man refuses. SLB in the very next sentence asks for a helo to take all SLB personel back to shore. The company man says there are no more helo’s scheduled for the rest of the week (translation: you’re here to do a job, now do it). SLB gets on the horn to shore, calls SLB’s corporate HQ, and gets a helo flown out there at SLB’s expense and takes all SLB personel to shore.