New Oil Spill

[cubical]

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/possible-new-oil-spill-100-10-miles-reported-gulf-mexico

Many outlets are reporting this. Not a joke.

[tangent4ronpaul]

The Examiner reported this?

:rolleyes:

That's also in deep water. How does a non-working rig make that kind of a boo-boo?

I'll wait for a reliable source, thank you.

-t

[cubical]

You forgot nola.com

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/oil_sheen_in_gulf_of_mexico_un.html


I am just here to spread the rumors and spark panic. We will figure out the details later.

[cubical]

http://www.businessinsider.com/matterhorn-seastar-oil-spill-2011-3


Very interesting move as well. Why such a sell off as oil and drillers rally?

[kah13176]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704021504576211440860187916.html?m od=googlenews_wsj

Wall Street Journal

[Carehn]

after all this talk of melt down, oil spills seem some what on the boring or every day sort of news.

If its not about radiation, war, or tens of thousands of people dieing then i just don't think the world has time for it anymore.

Yep, from now on oil spills are for fat kids.

[tangent4ronpaul]

OK - maybe... wait and see...

[Kludge]

Allegedly just ~20 miles from Deepwater Horizon. Interesting. Don't see any confirmations, so I'm assuming the Coast Guard did indeed find the spill and are investigating the extent of damages given they reported to have started looking for it over 6 hours ago. Of course, it is also night.

[tangent4ronpaul]

after all this talk of melt down, oil spills seem some what on the boring or every day sort of news.

If its not about radiation, war, or tens of thousands of people dieing then i just don't think the world has time for it anymore.

Yep, from now on oil spills are for fat kids.

Yep - you are right... gotta make this more sexy.... hmmmmm.... alien radioactive flesh eating oil from a crashed UFO.... Yeah - I think we got it now....

-t

[Zippyjuan]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704021504576211440860187916.html?m od=googlenews_wsj

Wall Street Journal

So they don't know what they have yet or its source.

[sevin]

I am just here to spread the rumors and spark panic. We will figure out the details later.

I hope you're kidding. It's better to wait until we know for sure. You don't have to be the one who made the first thread.

[sevin]

double post

[Fox McCloud]

It'll be interesting if this is a completely natural oil leak that has nothing to do with any drilling by anthropogenic sources; who will the environmentalists blame then? Climate change?

[Philhelm]

It'll be interesting if this is a completely natural oil leak that has nothing to do with any drilling by anthropogenic sources; who will the environmentalists blame then? Climate change?

I wouldn't be surprised.

[Anti Federalist]

It'll be interesting if this is a completely natural oil leak that has nothing to do with any drilling by anthropogenic sources; who will the environmentalists blame then? Climate change?

Releases of oil from naturally occurring seeps on the sea floor amount to over 43 million gallons each year.

140,000 metric tonnes x 7.33 to convert to barrels = 1,026,200 bbls.

1,026,200 x 42 (gallons per barrel) = 43,100,400


[N]ew technologies, particularly remote sensing techniques, have provided better means of natural seep detection and assessment. Studies in parts of the Gulf of Mexico (MacDonald et al., 1993; MacDonald, 1998; Mitchell et al., 1999), using these new technologies, have resulted in an estimated seepage rate for the entire Gulf of Mexico of 140,000 tonnes per year (range of 80,000 to 200,000 tonnes per year).

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10388&page=70

[YumYum]

Drill baby drill. God gave us that oil to drill it out as fast as possible.

[cubical]

Drill baby drill. God gave us that oil to drill it out as fast as possible.

Yum, do you play on xbox live? I ran into someone who's name was YumYum. Or is that in reference to something common I am unaware of?

[AZKing]

I've been waiting to use this!

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1766/oilspillidea.jpg

[YumYum]

Yum, do you play on xbox live? I ran into someone who's name was YumYum. Or is that in reference to something common I am unaware of?

No. I don't post as YumYum except here and the Daily Paul.

[EndDaFed]

How long until it becomes illegal to photograph oil spills? Place your bets.

[Zippyjuan]

I don't see any updates on the story. Seems at this point to have been nothing.

[ClayTrainor]

I don't see any updates on the story. Seems at this point to have been nothing.

w00t!!!

[Anti Federalist]

I don't see any updates on the story. Seems at this point to have been nothing.

Sheens from rigs and/or naturally occurring seeps are pretty common.

Nobody paid it any mind until DWH.