Working "Top Kill"
George Ure--http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
One of my friends in the oil industry sent along a drawing he'd gotten from BP which outlined some of the difficulties of the 'top kill' operations now ongoing at the oil spill source off Louisiana. "Think of it as a hugely complicated ballet," he told me.
"Each one of those surface ships - the big ones - lease at $8-10 million a day - and that's before you get the remote submersibles going - some of them are $5,000 an hour - and then you need skilled operators for them. On top of that, there's so much equipment on scene it's almost like and air traffic control problem keeping all the ROV cables from snagging on one another..." my source continued before filling me in on the special oil-based mud used for injecting...
We wish them all the luck in the world, but linguistically the odds are much less than the 40-60% chance local oilmen cite that the undersea voilcano will be stopped any time soon by this 'top kill" effort.
The predictive linguistics carry on this track out 19-months, although we can only hope that lots of that language will relate to references back to current events... 100- miles of coastline now fouled and the number keeps increasing...
Did I mention oil is back over $73 this morning? No doubt part of that on word that the WH is planning to extend the ban on new offshore drilling.
And the blame game is underway with reports of a heated debate on the rig shortly before the explosion...
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Linguini: Now that people are using the term "voilcano" with some regularity, the next linguistic stop seems to be the new word for illnesses induced by the fumes from the mess. Favorite one so far the the combination of spill and illness into "spillness". Something to ponder while hiking north later this year.
source: http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
