Source of mysterious Gulf oil spill found

[democracy1st]

Just hours after a new sizable oil slick was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, a Houston-based energy company came forward to claim responsibility for the latest round of crude tainting the area.

Anglo-Suisse Offshore Partners issued a statement last night expressing "surprise" that what it claimed was a minor leak from a well that's been out of use for some time could have produced miles-long slicks that garnered national media attention. The company has been in the process of permanently plugging the well -- located in a shallow area about 30 miles southeast of Grand Isle, La. Anglo-Suisse owned a cluster of five platforms in that area that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

According to the Times-Picayune's David Hammer, Anglo-Suisse has filed three incident reports with the Coast Guard since last Friday. In those documents, Hammer reports, the company explained that as it used a remotely operated submarine to plug the well, some oil had been discharged into the Gulf.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110323/ts_yblog_thelookout/source-of-latest-gulf-oil-spill-determined

[spanone]

1. 'surprise' my ass.

[Tansy_Gold]

2. NO ONE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE IMAGINED!

:puke:

Liars. They're all liars.




TG, TT

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. that people would have hijacked a passenger plane

and crashed it into Gulf Oil Rigs, causing them to leak! If they had given us aisle and seat numbers, perhaps we could have prevented this tragedy.

[Canuckistanian]

3. I thought it was "silt from dredging operations"

Now it's an oil spill again?

[Sal Minella]

7. It's "a minor leak from an old well that's been out of use

for some time" -- so clearly it's not their fault, it's Obama's fault.

[Aerows]

8. Yeah, a shiny, sheen of floating silt...

...that had to be dredged up from the bottom suddenly got light enough to float on top of the water.

LOL.

[glinda]

5. So will they create and replace all the dead sea-life? Yea right.

[Aerows]

6. So it wasn't sludge from the Mississippi River?

Oh, never mind, I didn't believe that BS when I heard it. It's always a "surprise" when they find out who is responsible.

[Motown_Johnny]

9. all the caps on all those capped wells will degrade sooner or later

it is just a matter of time

[Urban Prairie]

10. Bet that they were hoping that the "small" amount of oil leakage that occurred

might be initially thought to be related to last year's BP gusher, and/or that it would quickly dissipate before it could be traced to them. Regardless, what "punishment" will they get besides at most a slap on the wrist and an index finger shake?

Perhaps due to what BP has gotten away with as a result of their "ecotastrophe", any further and smaller well drilling/capping mishaps like this in the GOM, kinda makes me believe that these companies will consider and treat the GOM as a giant oil disposal/dispersal pond, since apparently the feds and especially the RW believe that BPs spilled oil is "all-gone" now...

:grr: :banghead:

[backscatter712]

11. At least this one's allegedly been replugged.

So hopefully the scale of damage will be far smaller with this spill than with the BP Gusher...

[Lucinda]

12. but.... we were already told it was just sludge

:eyes:

[barbtries]

13. can't these bastards be charged

with some kind of crime?! good gawd they were just hoping nobody would notice! this is sick. i've seen almost no coverage of this.

[Melissa G]

14. It's a MIRACLE! 5 gals covers 30 miles of Beach and 100 miles in the ocean!

Our energy problems could be solved with this Math!:sarcasm: