From the perspective of the ground in Southwest Florida
For weeks, the media reports suggest the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Undeniably this is the most serious accident ever, but this is fact and what is grossly exaggerated in the reporting?
On 20 April 2010 at 22:00 local time blew the rig Deepwater Horizon in the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Despite the activation the safety mechanism for shutting off the oil flow at the seabed, about 1,500 m below sea level, have failed the automatic sealing of the well and oil began to withdraw from the blowout preventer. Two metal cutting, the so-called "Blind Shear Rams", were to remove the tube and dry, but this failed and thus flowed estimated daily about 9 million gallons of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. In the 60 days since the disaster, various actions have been launched to address the problem should remedy the situation. From the repair of the blowout over the blocking of the output line, spraying of chemicals to dissolve the oil Bishins to seal the output by an attached cover, thereby collecting the oil.
has nothing to stop the flow of oil to date, but only reduce, can now be about 2.3 million liters collected. Since 02 May it now seeks with two relief holes from the sides to just above the oil reservoir some 6,000 feet below sea level, push forward, and thus divert the oil to 2 new rigs to be able to. These wells are to reach about mid-August its target. Despite all the measures BP could face a daily fine of up to 258 million dollars, if it can be proven that the accident was caused by gross negligence.
20th June: The worst affected areas are currently the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, was washed up on the parts of the free-floating oil and oil clumps on land and beaches. Even a small part of Florida is located in this zone, but only the coast, which is located in the "Panhandle", ie in the northwestern part of Florida. The cities of Pensacola and Panama City are in the catchment area, further east, but so far no oil has been sighted. The chance of reaching the foothills were several hundred miles off Florida's southwest coast low, said the U.S. Coast Guard. Three research vessels and a laboratory aircraft track daily progress of the Things on the west coast of Florida. But not even the worst case is dramatic, said the U.S. Coast Guard. Oil, which would create up to the coast of Southwest Florida was, at that time already weathered that it would probably arrive only in the form of lumps that can be easily intercepted. Ships that take this case seriously, are now available on call. If oil in the zone to 94 miles off the coast, the so-called "trigger zone" to advance, the U.S. Coast Guard would respond immediately. The drift of the oil in the south of the Gulf of Mexico means the occurrence in the so-called Loop Current. This current circulates in the middle water of the Gulf and transported both to the north, and in the south, then continue until it flows beneath the east coast from Key West in Florida.
07th July: The latest computer models and flow calculations, the U.S. Coast Guard and the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmosperic Administration) calculated the chance that oil, in whatever form, could reach the coast of southwest Florida, less than 1%. The calculation is based on the assumption that the withdrawal proceeds further 90 days. The instantaneous removal of the oil spurs to the beaches of St. Petersburg is about 500 kilometers, according to NOAA. Favorable easterly winds also support the fact that the oil is not moved further into the Loop Current. According to the Governor of Florida about 4 million gallons of oil are collected daily and burned, about 110 million liters of oil have been absorbed water, more than 100 planes and 7,000 ships in service or are available on call.
Source: Markus Hartwich, State. Approved Real Estate Agents in Cape Coral
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