Urgent – Radioactive Oil From BP Blowout!

[hillbilly123069]

From our elected Doombringers,
http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/06/urgent-radioactive-oil-from-bp-blowout/

While you're reading,
Homeland Stupidity to take control of spill response website
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9GODKHG2.htm

[Bruno]

That theory should be easy enough to detect by testing the oil and tar balls, shouldn't it?

[hillbilly123069]

All 1 needs is a gieger counter.

[XNavyNuke]

Oil reserves that do not produce large amounts of methane also lack uranium and thorium. The presence of methane is proportional to the presence of uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements.

Flag on the field. :D

All petroleum has the potential of containing detectable levels of U and Th along with their decay product daughters. These tend to become concentrated during the petroleum extraction and processing sequence. Indeed, the waste from this is routinely disposed of in uncontrolled landfills rather than a radioactive waste facility even though if it came from a nuke plant with the same levels it would have to go to the proper facility. The material is classified as TENORM and gets a papal dispensation from the EPA.

PubMed: Radiological hazards of TENORM in the wasted petroleum pipes. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19782444)

So, you can use this to pile on BP even more or you can shrug is off as another attempt at fear mongering. When people are fearful enough, you can pretty much get them to go along with anything. :eek:

XNN

[Anti Federalist]

Flag on the field. :D

All petroleum has the potential of containing detectable levels of U and Th along with their decay product daughters. These tend to become concentrated during the petroleum extraction and processing sequence. Indeed, the waste from this is routinely disposed of in uncontrolled landfills rather than a radioactive waste facility even though if it came from a nuke plant with the same levels it would have to go to the proper facility. The material is classified as TENORM and gets a papal dispensation from the EPA.

PubMed: Radiological hazards of TENORM in the wasted petroleum pipes. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19782444)

So, you can use this to pile on BP even more or you can shrug is off as another attempt at fear mongering. When people are fearful enough, you can pretty much get them to go along with anything. :eek:

XNN

I was going to post something very similar but XNN beat me to it.

He's right.

From the article:


Keep in mind the reserve Deepwater was drilling happens to be the deepest offshore reserve to date.

Not true.

Just last year, the same rig, working for the same company, drilled the Tiber prospect, which was almost twice as deep.

I was there.


The Tiber Oil Field is a deepwater offshore oil field located in the Keathley Canyon block 102 of the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico. The deepwater field (defined as water depth 1,300 to 5,000 feet (400 to 1,500 m),[3]) was discovered in September 2009 and it is operated by BP. Described as a "giant" find, it is estimated to contain 4 to 6 billion barrels (640×10^6 to 950×10^6 m3) of oil in place.[4][5] Although BP states it is too early to be sure of the size – a "huge" field is usually considered to contain 250 million barrels (40×10^6 m3).[4] It required the drilling of a 10,685 m (35,056 ft) deep well under 1,260 m (4,130 ft) of water, making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled at the time of discovery.[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber_Oil_Field

[specsaregood]

Not true.
Just last year, the same rig, working for the same company, drilled the Tiber prospect, which was almost twice as deep.
I was there.


They don't even bother fact checking do they. The media just straight makes sh*t up nowadays.

[Old Ducker]

I have a technical question. When you have a floating oil rig, how does a vertical pipe compensate for the inevitable changes in elevation of the platform due to wave action? Are there slip joints or is there a catenary-like slack in the pipe and if its the latter, wouldnt metal fatigue eventually lead to pipe failure?