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Archive for June, 2010

Increase In Leaning BOP By Up To 1.5 Degress Appears To Confirm BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP Is Falling Over (Update 5)

June 28th Bullseye Reading Shows Increase In BOP Lean To Over 4 Degrees Since June 10th Reading Which Showed Lean Of Less Than 3 Degrees

On June 10th the BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP was leaning a little under 3 degrees and a reading today shows reveals that the BOP has increased by up to 1.5 degrees since then. This appears to confirm widespread speculation that the BOP is Falling Over.

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Against Federal Advice Pensacola Beach Opens; Over 400 people sick

Onlookers stare at a huge mass of oil that came ashore on Pensacola Beach on June 23, 2010.

Pensacola Beach, which has been assaulted with heavy oil and tarballs, was re-opened by local officials against the advice of Federal Government. Local residents, trusting the officials who declared the beach safe, are reported to be swimming in an oil sheen with skimmers just feet off the shore.

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NOAA Finds Several Leaks In Cracks On Gulf Seafloor; Leaks Where Also Caused By IXTOC Blowout

Thomas Jefferson 3D Gulf Seafloor Leaks Mapping

During the IXTOC blowout a second underground blowout caused oil to leak from cracks in the seafloor. The leaking BP Gulf Oil Spill well has suffered 6 such blowouts leading to concerns that a series of the leaks on the seafloor found by the Thomas Jefferson have been caused by the BP well or have been made worse by the blowouts.

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BP Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup A PR Stunt That Leaves Layers Of Oil Caked On Gulf Beaches

Layer of oil beaneath beach sand

Former BP Gulf Oil Spill cleanup worker turns whistle blower and reveals that BP cleanup is a fake for cosmetic purposes only. She tells a local CBS news station that layers of oil are being formed underneath the surface of the beach and BP has ordered that workers do not clean it up.

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Corexit and Oil Eating Through Boat Hulls and Kidneys Says G4

BP Gulf Oil and Corexit Eating Through Boat Hulls

G4 reports that the combination of Oil and Corexit from the BP Gulf Oil Spill is eating through the boat hulls of vessel of opportunity ships contracted by BP to clean up the oil spill and rescues animals caught in the oil slick.

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ROFFS Oil Tracking Shows BP Gulf Oil Spill Traveling Up Entire East Coast Of Florida

Roffs BP Gulf Oil Spill Tracking Map For June 22 2010

While NOAA has recently stated it will stop tracking the location of the BP Gulf Oil Spill offshore and the spill has little likelihood of hitting the Florida Keys and South Florida the latest independent tracking of the spill provided by ROFFS shows oil could already be up the entire East Coast Of Florida.

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Drilling Expert Says Leaning Gulf Oil Spill BOP May Fall

Bob Cavnar Drilling Industry Expert

Keith Olbermann brought drilling expert Robert Cavnar on his MSNBC TV show Countdown to comment on the Dougr post on The Oil Drum. Cavnar told Olbermann that he agrees with assessment of blown well casing and says that the BP Gulf Oil Spill Blow Out Prevent May eventually fall over.

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BP Places LMRP Containtment Cap On Back On BOP Leak After Being Knocked Off By ROV

BP Places Containment Cap Back On Leaking Well After Being Knocked Off By Underwater Robot.

After the leaking containment cap was knocked off the oil leak earlier today by a collision with an underwater robot, BP has successfully place the cap back on the leaking oil well.

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Government Explores Plans For Pipeline Among Growing Concerns Relief Wells Will Fail To Stop Leaking Well

 

Among concerns of a leaning pipe, cracks in the seafloor and unknown condition of well casing BP and the Federal Government are exploring plans to install a permanent oil pipeline as a contingency plan in case relief wells fail to stop the leaking oil gusher.

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Confidential BP Document Confirms Open Hole In Well Casing and Shale Collapse

BP Document Reveals Open Hole In Well Casing and Shale Collapse

A confidential BP document that has been released by Rep Markey has received attention from the media because it shows that BP has been lying about internal flow rate estimates that it says could reach up to 100,000 barrels per day in its worst case estimate. The confidential BP document also reveals two other issues that haven't been mentioned by the media. There is an open hole in the well casing and the rock beneath the seafloor has been collapsing.

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BP and Government Misleading Public About Safety Of Florida Beaches

American Flag In Oil Spill

Local Florida residents, officials and business demand a town hall meeting to discuss the lack of response by BP and Government officials and to discuss claims that BP and the Government is misleading the public about the safety of Florida Beaches.

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Feds Grow Tired of BP Stalling Flow Rate Measurements And Call In WHOI To Get Accurate Flow Rate Measurements

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Logo

The Federal Government says delays in measurement of the oil flow leaking in the BP Gulf Oil Spill are no longer acceptable and have issued a contract to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute to take independent flow rate measurements in a contract that the Coast Guard says requires an urgent response.

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BP’s Lies About Methane And Oil Plumes Exposed

Deepwater Blowout Oil Plume Simulation

BP continues to lie about the extent of the damage being caused by the oil spill. First they lied about the oil plumes which stopped scientists from monitoring their location and now they are lying about the massive amounts of methane being found in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mainstream Media Confirms BP and Feds Knew About Cracks In Gulf Seafloor Since February

 

The mainstream media is now confirming that BP and the federal government knew about cracks in the rocks of the BP Gulf Oil Spill sea floor since February.

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Sea Life Flocks To Coast To Avoid BP Gulf Oil Spill As Millions of Dead Fish Float Ashore

Millions of dead fish from oil spill in Lousianna - No that's not a road... Its dead fish.

There is a massive migration of sea life to the coastal areas not yet affected by the BP Gulf Oil Spill by aquatic life trying to avoid becoming part of millions of dead animals are being found all along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico

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BP Gulf Oil Spill Is Already In Gulf Stream And May Hit North Carolina Beaches Any Day

Global Map of the Gulf Stream And Ocean Current Flows

Scientists confirmed concentrations of oil in the Gulf Stream back on June 9th and satellite images show oil may have entered the Florida Straight as early as may 23rd. Based on a simulation of the Gulf Stream that means that oil is already off the coast of North Carolina.

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BP Refuses To Allow Scientists To Confirm Origin Of Oil Plume Found In Gulf Stream Off Florida Keys

Thermal Image of Gulf Steam Current and possible path of Oil Spill

Scientists have found a plume of oil of the southern tip of Florida that has already entered the Gulf Stream. BP has refused to allow those scientists to confirm whether or not the origin of the oil concentration is from the BP Gulf Oil Spill.

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Murphy’s Law? Lightning Sets BP Gulf Oil Spill Containment Ship On Fire!

Transocean drillship Discoverer Enterprise delivers 4 Story Gulf oil spill containment dome

Lightning strikes the Transocean Discoverer Enterprise, the ship BP is using to collect oil from the leaking oil well, setting the ship on fire and shutting down oil collection activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Dispersants May Be To Blame For Thousands of Dead Fish In 2 Florida Shore Locations – Taylor County and Panacae

Thousands of dead fish found in Florida

Officials say that thousands of dead fish washing ashore in two locations in Florida are two separate incidents that may be related to low levels of oxygen in the sea. A marine biologists says that he believes the toxic chemical dispersant, COREXIT, that BP is using may be to blame.

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This Is What We Need – A BP Gulf Oil Spill Containment Cap That Doesn’t Allow Oil To Leak.

A Tight Sealing BP Gulf Oil Spill Containment Cap

Engineer Bob Kiel presents a prototype of a containment cap he designed that could be attached to the leaking oil well and capture 100% of the oil leaking from the BOP.

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Two Monster One Ton Tarballs Hit Florida Waters. Will Coast Guard Test If They Where From BP Spill?

One Ton Tarball Found In Florida

BP oil spill clean up ships find two monster one ton tarballs off the coast of Florida yet President Obama declares that Gulf of Mexico seafood is safe to eat and declares the Gulf of Mexico will be left in better shape than it was before the oil spill. Seriously?

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BP Exec Caught Lying? BP Media Blackout Confirmed By WSDU TV.

BP Blocks Media Access

BP Executive Doug Suttles has denied claims that BP is keeping the media from interviewing workers of the Gulf oil spill cleanup. The latest news reports seem to indicate that despite Suttles claims, BP is in fact engaging in a media blackout by threatening to fire oil spill clean up workers and security guards if they speak to the media.

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Oil And Gas Leaks From Cracks In Seabed Confirmed – Videos Show Gulf Oil Spill Leaking From Seafloor

BP Gulf oil spill rock leaking oil

BP continues to deny that oil or gas are leaking from the cracks in the seafloor. You can find videos and photos of the oil and gas leaking from those cracks in the sea floor right here!

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BP Gulf Oil Spill ROV UTM Distance Calculator

BP Gulf Oil Spill ROV UTM Distance Calculator - finally a tool to calculate the distance of ROV's from the Gulf oil spill BOP leak.

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Interview With Fintan Dunne Discussing Sea Floor Leaks, Blown Well Casing, And Possible Need To Use A Nuke To Cap Well

BP Gulf OIl Spill: A Crack In The World

Interview With Fintan Dunne Discussing Sea Floor Leaks, Blown Well Casing, And Possible Need To Use A Nuke To Cap Well .

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BP Investigates Possible Oil And Methane Leak Over 1 Mile From Original Leak

Hole In Rock Near Possible Seafloor Leak Over 1 Mile From BOP

BP ROV investigates possible cloud of oil leaking from seafloor over 1 Mile from original leak. A second video captures a BOP Rov investigating what appears to be coagulated blobs of oil and methane bubbles leaking from the sea bed.

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Confirmed – BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP is Leaning! (Update 3)

Confirmed - BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP is Leaning!

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BP LMRP Cap May Be Damaged After Becoming Dislodged

BP LMRP Cap Rubber seal Broken

The LMRP cap BP is using to siphon oil from the leaking oil well seems to have been dislodged yesterday possibly from an increase of oil or gas pressure coming from the leaking well. To day it appears that the seals on the cap have now been damaged.

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Gulf Oil Spill Sea Floor Collapse and Seabed Leaks May Prevent BP From Capping Well.

BP Gulf oil spill crater

New evidence that the BP Gulf oil spill may be leaking from multiple areas of the seafloor may prevent BP from capping the well with relief wells. Some well respected oil industry experts says BP is wasting time and blowing up the well may be the way to stop the Gulf oil spill.

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WHITE HOUSE DOCUMENT EXPOSES CAUSE OF BP GULF OIL SPILL

WHITE HOUSE DOCUMENT EXPOSES CAUSE OF GULF OIL SPILL. The preliminary findings of the commission ordered by President Obama to investigate the cause of the BP Gulf oil spill has been leaked to the public and apparent shows they knew it was going to blow.

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BP Scrambles For New Plan As BP LMRP Cap Plan Halted After Surpassing 15k BPD MAX Capacity

 

BP Scrambles For New Plan As BP LMRP Cap Plan Halted After Surpassing 15k BPD MAX Capacity

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BP Capturing Over 10000 Barrels Per Day As Oil Leak Remains Unchecked.

BP Capturing Over 8000 BPD Yet Little Decrease

BP is collecting AT LEAST 8,000 barrels of oil per day, possibly over 13,000 barrels per day but there is little visible decrease in the amount of oil leaking from LMRP siphon cap in the Gulf oil spill.

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NASA Warns Earth On Collision Course With Unprecedented Solar Flare Eruption

Solar Flare Heads Toward Earth

NASA scientists are a warning that an unprecedented solar flare is on a collision course with earth and calls for Scientists to organize early warning systems for upcoming solar activity that can wreak havoc on humanity.

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The Amount Of Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit Sprayed By BP Tops 1 Million Gallons

Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit is a Biohazard

The amount of the toxic dispersant Corexit, which is a neurotoxin pesticide, sprayed into the Gulf of Mexico by BP to fight the Gulf oil spill surpasses 1 million gallons

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BP Releases All Gulf Oil Spill ROV Camera Feeds To Public

BP Gulf oil spill multiple feed wall

Finally, the pubic has access to all of the BP Gulf oil spill ROV camera feeds. BP has embedded them all on their web site. I grabbed the urls from the feeds and put them here.

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BP Kills LMRP Plan – Will Try Modified Top Hat To Cap Gulf Oil Spill

CNN explains BP's plan to drop LMRP options and use modified containment dome called a Top Hat

BP officially announced that it will drop attempts to install the LMRP package after the diamond saw failed to make the clean cut needed for the Plan. It will not use the huge shear saw nick named "CRAW" to snip the BOP and then used a modified top hat to attempt to collect the oil leaking from the well.

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BP Gulf oil spill threatens entire eastern North American continent with total destruction

 

Report says BP Gulf oil spill threatens entire eastern North American continent with total destruction.

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