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    Gulf Coast Oil Spill

    Agreed. So as I mentioned earlier, I work at an oil refinery, and its not fun to work for any oil company when things like this are happening, but man I'm glad I don't work at BP. Since the Texas City refinery in explosion in 2005 (i think) they have just been a MESS. I have no idea what is...
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    Gulf Coast Oil Spill

    I can't see the link from work, it violates our security filters, apparently. :-p I'm assuming its from a couple years ago, because I don't know of oil companies that have been making record profits in the past year or two. And look, i COMLETELY agree that that's what oil companies should...
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    Gulf Coast Oil Spill

    Perhaps coming up with a good name for such a plan would be good first step to actually having a coherent and reasonable plan for that scenario. :-p In an ideal world, any time we figure out how to do something new, we should be equally thorough in making sure we can undo that things, or at...
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    Gulf Coast Oil Spill

    I actually also work in petrochem, at a refinery. Which of course means that my understanding of deepwater drilling is........... nonexistent. :-p I'm used to emergency shutdown valves and such on process pipes, and I wouldn't consider those secondary containment. My view of the blowout...
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    Can anyone help me with a diving problem?

    I have nothing to add to this conversation other than to say that I love the phrase "bog standard".
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    What is your biggest Fear in diving?

    I'm the same way. I told her to just expect that any time there's a current, i'll be on the downstream side of it from her... if she's gonna get carried anywhere, i'm going with her. :-p I don't worry about her ascending tho, because she is more coservative and conscientious than i am about...
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    Gulf Coast Oil Spill

    I could be wrong, because I never know how the government is going to define words in any given legislation.... but i believe that what they have been doing for the past month would not fall under containment, it has been recovery. Containment would be keeping the oil from making it into the...
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    Gulf Coast Oil Spill

    I believe they had the new dome hooked up to a pipe through which they would be pumping methanol to prevent the accumulation of hydrates.
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