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1 year ago, BP should have had this computer

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:00:53 +0000

As a matter of fact, many years ago, Texas Instruments was proud of the computation power of its portable calculators explaining how easy it was to check whether or not there was a risk of explosion from over-pressure in an oil rig.

TI solution to BP problems

Precisely one year ago, BP should have followed this excellent advice and checked about the status of the Deepwater Horizon platform before it became an oil spill.

Louisiana, bird photos

Yves Roumazeilles — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:01:13 +0000

Normally, like many wildlife photographer, I appreciate watching bird pictures. Normally…

This time, my eye got caught my the images of seabirds caught in crude oil, taken in Louisiana by Charlie Riedel (AP photographer).

Thanks to BP for their excellent mastering of off-shore crude oil production and its consequences.

Source: www.Boston.com

BP attempts

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:09:09 +0000

If you want to have more technical details about the various attempts BP botched while trying to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon rig, here are all the diagrams about:

THE BLOWOUT PREVENTER
CHEMICAL DISPERSANTS
RELIEF WELLS
CONTAINMENT DOME
TUBE
TOP KILL
JUNK SHOT
WELL CAP WITH DOME

Thanks to New York Times.