Travel Forum / Travel Types / RV Travel / July 2008

So you are saying that the mean time between spill is about 20 years.
We are
8 years into the 2nd 20 year period, so we have an almost certain
likelilhood
of a massive oil disaster in the Santa Barbara between now and 2020.
Are
you really in favor of risking the entire Pacific Coast region from
Malibu to
Monterrey just for a few gallons of gasoline that we can easily buy on
the
open market from any number of suppliers?

-john-

....undoubtably by the USN.     [:0)

Mabe SF should join the rest of the country and treat the military
more honorably!

Paul

Spills average less than 1 gallon.

Cite please?

Mexico has totally different standards.

That is pure bullshit.  Post any authority for this absurd comment.
Totally untrue.

You are a certified liar.  The Harry Harris of oil.

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$$$$$$$$$%%
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar!

Just in case you wonder what I posted, here is the first part.

 Business Technology; How the Offshore Rigs Rode Out Gulf's Storm

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By THOMAS C. HAYES,
Published: October 21, 1992

It was two days after the most savage hurricane of the century ripped
through the Louisiana gulf waters and Scott Sewell, the chief Federal
regulator of offshore oil production, was touring the region by
helicopter, dreading the worst. He was amazed by what he could not find.

"The massive oil slicks that we didn't want to see weren't there," Mr.
Sewell recalled recently. "There was very little environmental damage
and, frankly, the losses were minimal given the ferocity of the storm."

Twenty years ago, a hurricane with 160-mile-an-hour winds and 71-foot
waves might have turned Louisiana's southern shores into a catastrophe
not only for thousands of birds, fish and other wildlife poisoned by oil
slicks but also for the oil industry, which could have faced a financial
and public-relations disaster like the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in
Alaska. But on Aug. 25, when Hurricane Andrew whipped up the water
surrounding hundreds of offshore rigs, modern drilling-platform
architecture stood up to nature's fury.

Although daily output of as much as 800 million cubic feet of natural
gas and maybe 90,000 barrels of oil remain out of production while
repairs continue on pipelines, older platforms and other storm-damaged
gulf machinery, even some environmentalists are giving the oil industry
credit for being technologically prepared. Little Oil Is Spilled

By the Government's count, 249 of 3,800 offshore platforms in Federal
gulf waters were damaged by Hurricane Andrew, but spilled oil amounted
to less than 500 barrels. Nearly half of that was skimmed up by recovery
crews, and no slicks were found along the shoreline. By contrast, the
Exxon Valdez wreck spilled 250,000 barrels into Prince William Sound,
and the cleanup is still not finished.

A Texaco platform apparently caused the worst environmental damage after
Hurricane Andrew ripped a rig called the Treasure 75 from its moorings.
The wind and waves sent the platform sailing more than four and a half
miles before one of its 30,000-pound anchors tore through a
concrete-sheathed oil pipeline, spilling 300 barrels. The platform then
ran aground in 35 feet of water.

Industry officials and structural engineers say that improvements in
standards and techniques in platform design and construction over the
last 20 years passed an important test by taking blows from Hurricane
Andrew without fouling Louisiana's coastal waters or beaches.

Of course.  The point of the questions was to point out the weakness of the
original post.