How Many Tankers Does BP Have on Standby to Handle the Oil they are Capturing from the Gusher?

[ShamelessHussy]

How long does it take to fill one up with the amount they are capturing per day?

How much have they captured so far?

Wouldn't that be a reliable way to tell how much their 'fix' is working?

Any media on this?

TIA :toast:

[CountAllVotes]

1. one ship

that is all I've seen. Are there more of these? How many do they have?

Perhaps the whole thing is a POS joke on us. One ship with nothing in it = eye candy for the desperate dare I suggest?

:shrug:

:kick:

[sandnsea]

2. Since they're going to attempt another fix tomorrow

It would appear they know the current fix isn't working adequately. Of course there's that, and the fact that they've said they need to continue looking for a fix.

Why, do you have an invention in your basement that can plug the gusher?

[Bitwit1234]

3. We could stuff the CEO's at BP down a tube and see if that

would plug the hole.

[AndyA]

4. I wouldn't be surprised if the ship were all for PR, and little more.

Perhaps it is capturing a few barrels of crude a day. Who knows for sure, BP has lied before. They cannot be believed.

BP has a horrendous safety record. OSHA levied the largest fine in its history against BP just last October for safety violations at a refinery in Texas that killed 15 and injured over 100.

Keith Olbermann reported on his Friday show that the dispersant BP was using to break up the oil wasn't going to help do anything. In fact, it would make it more difficult to clean up the oil spill. The purpose for spreading this TOXIC dispersant was all for PR. The hope was it would prevent camera crews on the shorelines from being able to photograph the oil slick coming ashore. I guess it hasn't worked so well, but despite the EPA advising BP to stop using that particular dispersant, they're still using it anyway.

Message from BP:

Screw you, EPA.

Fuck you, America. You'll be cleaning this up anyway because corporate America OWNS your government. :puke:

[meow mix]

5. just watching CNN and theres like 20 ships sittin there

all kinds of ships

[louis-t]

6. It would take weeks or months to fill that tanker at the current rate.

They only need one. The tanker holds millions of gallons, at 3,000 per day. Just did the math. If tanker holds 2 million gallons, at 3,000 per day, that's 666 days.

[ShamelessHussy]

7. thanks for the info

:toast:

[louis-t]

10. By the way, Exxon-Valdez had 11 million gallons.

[Winterblues]

11. Your numbers are right but it is barrels not gallons

A normal tanker holds around two million "barrels" of oil and a Super Tanker holds around four million "barrels" They said they were recovering around five thousand barrels a day so it would take well over a year at that rate to fill a normal tanker.

[louis-t]

12. I think they comingle 'barrels/gallons' to keep us

confused. So, the Exxon-Valdez leaked 11 million gallons?

[louis-t]

13. double-post

[SidDithers]

8. They claim they're capturing ~2500 barrels per day...

tanker ships can hold 2 million barrels.

Sid

[laughingliberal]

9. I don't know but the guy in this article thinks they are not comandeering enough due to expense...

:nuke:

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/could-cleanup-fix-for-gulf-oil-spill-lie-in-secret-saudi-disaster/19476863

"Any containment area or barge or tanker can be used for reception, and they certainly have the pumping system on board," Reilly says. "So in terms of using assets like that to pump stuff into tanks, by all means."

Pozzi speculates that the reluctance on the part of those he's contacted comes down to one word: cash. When oil tankers are taken out of service for a special project like this, they stop earning money for their owners.

BP, Pozzi says, should "step up to the plate" and offer to pay anyone willing to lend a tanker whatever they would lose in profits by dispatching one of their ships to the gulf region.

BP on Thursday said the cost of battling the spill has reached nearly $450 million.

Calls to BP and Stanton were not immediately returned. The BP press line voice mail message asks anyone offering "technical solutions" to dial another number to "most efficiently" address the suggestion.

[ShamelessHussy]

14. thanks for the link laughingliberal

sheesh, i can't believe these greedy bastards :argh:

[greencharlie]

15. One year...

at the pathetic rate the straw is siphoning oil... it would take ONE YEAR to fill a tanker.