BP says it might drill again in spill reservoir

[cynatnite]

NEW ORLEANS – BP PLC said Friday it might someday drill again into the same lucrative undersea pocket of oil that spilled millions of gallons of crude, wrecked livelihoods and fouled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.

"There's lots of oil and gas here," Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said at a news briefing. "We're going to have to think about what to do with that at some point."

The vast oil reservoir beneath the blown well is still believed to hold nearly $4 billion worth of crude. With the company and its partners facing tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, the incentive to exploit the wells and the reservoir could grow.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100806/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill

Might? I'd say it's a certainty.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I'm sure they will, if the moratorium on deep-sea drilling is lifted.

And in fact, they'd still be drilling out there now, if their greed had not overtaken whatever good sense they might once have had.

[BeFree]

2. Sure they will

But the next drill will have the safeguards lacking in the previous drill.

Safeguards that the "LIBERAL" drilling allowances that bushco told BP were ok to ignore. This time a very "CONSERVATIVE" regulation of drilling procedures will be followed. No more of that "LIBERAL" drill, baby, drill attitude, eh?

[gateley]

3. I also think we need a government rep there every step of the way to ensure

they don't decide to oh, use water instead of mud, for example.

[BeFree]

4. Yes

Having someone looking over BP's shoulder the whole way would be the proper role of government.

Totally unlike the "LIBERAL" bushco way of allowing BP to just do as they please.

[spanone]

5. of course they will and they will get all the permits they need from the government

[Trailrider1951]

6. Of course they're going to drill again

They now have two relief wells near the reservoir. If they use one to plug the bottom of the failed original well, do you think that they will just abandon the second one? After they spent all that moulah to drill it? Not only no, but HELL NO! I'll bet 10 bucks and a cheese sandwich that they'll file for a permit to deepen it two minutes after that gusher is plugged with the first relief well.

[Statistical]

9. They won't use relief wells.

They are slant drilled, very close to the damaged & unstable original well, and drilled with smaller bore (diameter).
It would make production costly, difficult, and the well wouldn't last very long (smaller bore = more friction = casing wears out exponentially faster).

No reason.

They will do exactly what Mexico did after Ixtoc I. Move over a couple miles away and drop a new well. Actually they most likely will drop a dozen new wells.

[sabrina 1]

7. Who's going to stop them?

As Robert Gibbs said when asked why the Government didn't just take over the Corporation 'We can't do that, they are a Private Corporation'.

The Corporate Coup appears to be almost complete. They do what they want, no matter how much harm they cause to the American people.

They get fines, as they did after the explosion in Texas five years ago that killed 15 Americans and wounded, some permanently, over 70 more.

The fines are pocket change to them, probably calculated as part of doing business, the dead and injured and destroyed livelihoods merely collateral damage.

To do all this they have to have friends, like Haley Barbour, in government, here in the U.S. and in other countries.

The Minerals Management Agency was in the pockets of the Oil Corps and the Coal Industry, just as Wall St. had the ratings agencies and the Bush admin. had the EPA to cover up the facts about the air at Ground Zero.

Not to mention the number of elected officials. We wondered why the National Guard was working for BP rather than the American people, helping them to keep the press away? Two Republican Governors were in charge of that.

In fact, the whole scenario operated in exactly the same way BP operates in countries like Colombia. They have a sympathetic corrupt government to order the country's law enforcement and military to protect BP.

It's up to the American people whether they want to keep this system in place or not. So far, they show no signs, even on progressive boards, of being willing to take a stand.

They've got everything covered. When a Dem Admin is in power, they can count on half the people defending that admin, and when Repubs are in power, the other half will defend that administration.

If the people ever wake up and join forces, then maybe we could do something. We do have the numbers and the power, but THEY realizing that, have cleverly manipulated the people to work against their own interests.

[Urban Prairie]

8. BP might as well tap into it before those "microbes" eat it all up, huh? n/t

How incredibly (but not unexpectedly) brazen of BP. No doubt they will continue the practice of bribing and corrupting government officials with sex, drugs, gifts, and money to "look the other way" when they want to save a few million or so, by violating safety procedures and environmental regulations as well. Or BP will just go right ahead and violate them anyway, since the penalties are nothing but pocket change compared to their tens of billions in annual profits.

BP obviously does just about whatever it wants, just like most corporate monopolies, they are becoming bolder and bolder each year, often breaking laws and rules right in front of our eyes, knowing that we are nothing but peons that can do little but react in anger and frustration.

[jberryhill]

10. Fool me once, shame on... shame on you.... Fool me twice...

...you fool me can't get fooled again.