the next spill

[theHypocrite]

Here's what BP has in store for the Arctic: First, the company will drill two miles beneath its tiny island, which it has christened "Liberty."

Then, in an ingenious twist, it will drill sideways for another six to eight miles, until it reaches an offshore reservoir estimated to hold 105 million barrels of oil. This would be the longest "extended reach" well ever attempted, and the effort has required BP to push drilling technology beyond its proven limits.

As the most powerful "land-based" oil rig ever built, Liberty requires special pipe to withstand the 105,000 foot-pounds of torque — the equivalent of 50 Mack truck engines — needed to turn the drill.

"This is about as sexy as it gets," a top BP official boasted to reporters in 2008. BP, a repeat felon subject to record fines for its willful safety violations, calls the project "one of its biggest challenges to date" — an engineering task made even more dangerous by plans to operate year-round in what the company itself admits is "some of the harshest weather on Earth."

BP's Next Disaster | Rolling Stone Politics

[wintersprings]

sound Ok to me

whats the beef?

[Gilligan (Premo)]

Sounds like a great plan to me. It's based on terra firma. Can't be as risky as the new offshore deep-water fields that Norway is opening up farther north (farther north than their current fields..beyond the Arctic Circle, in fact) in the North Sea. Now THAT is some inhospitable geography....

[Tilted (Premo)]

I was asked to pass along this message:

If you people will stop driving cars to work and for pleasure, consuming goods that must be delivered to market, and heating the places you live and work, then we'll stop trying to get you the oil so you can keep doing so. Deal?

Sincerely,
Big Oil


P.S. If your complaints regard where we get the oil from, rather than merely that we get it (for you) at all, then you just tell us where the #### you'd prefer us to get it from and we'll do our best to oblige.