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I retired before the accident, and have not seen the movie.However, I do know that the situation was made immensely worse by pouring millions of gallons of seawater into the burning structure. This caused it to snap the crude pipeline at a much lower level, making it doubly difficult to shut off the spill since a new cap had to be manufactured.I doubt very much, or rather I would be astonished, if this fact featured strongly in the movie since it would not show the coastguard fire service in a very good light.Were I still employed by BP I would strongly urge the company to ignore any movie made on the subject and refrain from commenting. Rather, let history judge whether the Gulf ecology was as damaged as the media and damage litigants insist.I think BP reacted to the spill itself in the most honourable way, going above and beyond it responsibilities as owner. I am proud to have worked for such a company.

The Three Mile Island accident was a success.  Although the operators did all they could to mess up the situation, all radioactive material was contained and no one was hurt.  Melted fuel made it 7/8th of an inch through the 7 inch reactor vessel which is further contained by a three-foot, steel re-barred containment shield.  Essentially, there was no way that the nuclear material was going to be released into the environment.Chernobyl is another story, however it is also exaggerated.  Due to an inherently unsafe design (never been allowed in the U.S.), disabling safety systems, and the lack of a nuclear engineer on site, employees at Chernobyl reactor 4 made some grievous errors which resulted in a steam explosion within the reactor vessel.  Subsequently a graphite fire threw radioactive material into the atmosphere.  The UN report has found that 55 people died immediately or shortly thereafter (Fire fighters and plant workers) and a possible 4,000 cancers may have occurred.  These cancers are mainly thyroid cancer developed from Iodine-131.  Iodine-131 decayed quickly following the accident (8 days) and when it accumulates in people's thyroid, cancer tends to occur.  It also happens to be one of the most survivable cancers.There have been 11 deaths and 17 injuries so far in the Deep Horizon disaster and the full environmental impact is yet to be seen.

NOOOOOOO. You are talking to a military romance scammer. I received an email from the US Army that directly answers your question that is pasted below please keep reading.I believe you are the victim of a military Romance Scam whereas the person you are talking to is a foreign national posing as an American Soldier claiming to be stationed overseas on a peacekeeping mission. That's the key to the scam they always claim to be on a peacekeeping mission.Part of their scam is saying that they have no access to their money that their mission is highly dangerous.If your boyfriend girlfriend/future husband/wife is asking you to do the following or has exhibited this behavior, it is a most likely a scam:Moves to private messaging site immediately after meeting you on Facebook or SnapChat or Instagram or some dating or social media site. Often times they delete the site you met them on right after they asked you to move to a more private messaging siteProfesses love to you very quickly & seems to quote poems and song lyrics along with using their own sort of broken language, as they profess their love and devotion quickly. They also showed concern for your health and love for your family.Promises marriage as soon as he/she gets to state for leave that they asked you to pay for.They Requests money (wire transfers) and Amazon, iTune ,Verizon, etc gift cards, for medicine, religious practices, and leaves to come home, internet access, complete job assignments, help sick friend, get him out of trouble, or anything that sounds fishy.The military does provide all the soldier needs including food medical Care and transportation for leave. Trust me, I lived it, you are probably being scammed. I am just trying to show you examples that you are most likely being connned.Below is an email response I received after I sent an inquiry to the US government when I discovered I was scammed. I received this wonderful response back with lots of useful links on how to find and report your scammer. And how to learn more about Romance Scams.Right now you can also copy the picture he gave you and do a google image search and you will hopefully see the pictures of the real person he is impersonating. this doesn't always work and take some digging. if you find the real person you can direct message them and alert them that their image is being used for scamming.Good Luck to you and I'm sorry this may be happening to you. please continue reading the government response I received below it's very informative.   You have contacted an email that is monitored by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Unfortunately, this is a common concern. We assure you there is never any reason to send money to anyone claiming to be a Soldier online. If you have only spoken with this person online, it is likely they are not a U.S. Soldier at all. If this is a suspected imposter social media profile, we urge you to report it to that platform as soon as possible. Please continue reading for more resources and answers to other frequently asked questions:  How to report an imposter Facebook profile: Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... < Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... >   Answers to frequently asked questions:  - Soldiers and their loved ones are not charged money so that the Soldier can go on leave.  - Soldiers are not charged money for secure communications or leave.  - Soldiers do not need permission to get married.  - Soldiers emails are in this format: john.doe.mil@mail.mil < Caution-mailto: john.doe.mil@mail.mil > anything ending in .us or .com is not an official email account.  - Soldiers have medical insurance, which pays for their medical costs when treated at civilian health care facilities worldwide – family and friends do not need to pay their medical expenses.  - Military aircraft are not used to transport Privately Owned Vehicles.  - Army financial offices are not used to help Soldiers buy or sell items of any kind.  - Soldiers deployed to Combat Zones do not need to solicit money from the public to feed or house themselves or their troops.  - Deployed Soldiers do not find large unclaimed sums of money and need your help to get that money out of the country.  Anyone who tells you one of the above-listed conditions/circumstances is true is likely posing as a Soldier and trying to steal money from you.  We would urge you to immediately cease all contact with this individual.  For more information on avoiding online scams and to report this crime, please see the following sites and articles:   This article may help clarify some of the tricks social media scammers try to use to take advantage of people: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/>   CID advises vigilance against 'romance scams,' scammers impersonating Soldiers  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 < Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 >   FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx< Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx>   U.S. Army investigators warn public against romance scams: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...>   DOD warns troops, families to be cybercrime smart -Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...< Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...>   Use caution with social networking  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...>    Please see our frequently asked questions section under scams and legal issues. Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ < Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ > or visit Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ < Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ >.  The challenge with most scams is determining if an individual is a legitimate member of the US Army. Based on the Privacy Act of 1974, we cannot provide this information. If concerned about a scam you may contact the Better Business Bureau (if it involves a solicitation for money), or local law enforcement. If you're involved in a Facebook or dating site scam, you are free to contact us direct; (571) 305-4056.   If you have a social security number, you can find information about Soldiers online at Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... < Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... > . While this is a free search, it does not help you locate a retiree, but it can tell you if the Soldier is active duty or not.  If more information is needed such as current duty station or location, you can contact the Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) by phone or mail and they will help you locate individuals on active duty only, not retirees. There is a fee of $3.50 for businesses to use this service. The check or money order must be made out to the U.S. Treasury. It is not refundable. The address is:  Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) 8899 East 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46249-5301 Phone: 1-866-771-6357  In addition, it is not possible to remove social networking site profiles without legitimate proof of identity theft or a scam. If you suspect fraud on this site, take a screenshot of any advances for money or impersonations and report the account on the social networking platform immediately.  Please submit all information you have on this incident to Caution-www.ic3.gov < Caution-http://www.ic3.gov > (FBI website, Internet Criminal Complaint Center), immediately stop contact with the scammer (you are potentially providing them more information which can be used to scam you), and learn how to protect yourself against these scams at Caution-http://www.ftc.gov < Caution-http://www.ftc.gov > (Federal Trade Commission's website)

They actually had to hit a 9-7/8" inch diameter hole, 3.5 miles down. Much harder than a 30" hole 2.5 miles down.The relief wells were drilled by the regular rig crews on the sister-ship semi-submersible drilling vessels Development Driller II and Development Driller III (DD2 and DD3), which are owned/manned by Transocean and have been leased/operated by BP for many years. Providing further assistance were the Discoverer Enterprise and Q4000 performing oil recovery/flowback/flaring, the Discoverer Inspiration which deployed the capping stack, and many other vessels. It was an enormous effort.Directional drilling to hit fairly small targets (within 10-100 ft) is perfectly routine in today's oil industry. The drilling Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA) in a modern drilling string contains much more than a bit -- it has an entire integrated sensor package and remotely-steerable bit assembly. While drilling, you can tell how deep you are, what your angle from vertical is, and which direction you're going on a compass heading. Angle from vertical is pretty easy to measure, but depth must be corrected for pipe stretch, and compass heading must be corrected for the local warping of the Earth's magnetic field by the rock strata, as well as seasonal changes to the difference between magnetic north and grid north.The directional driller (who works for a company like Schlumberger or Halliburton) sends commands to the motor via pressure pulses in the drilling mud that's constantly being pumped through the drillpipe. Drilling isn't my expertise, but to my understanding the commands are as simple as "build angle from vertical," "drop angle to vertical," "turn to the left," and "turn to the right." Then the bit bends a little bit in the middle, and drills in a particular direction with a predictable radius of curvature. If you know where you are and where you're going, all you have to do is calculate a path between the two and send the commands to the BHA. Here's a promotional video from Halliburton on their version:That'll get you close enough to run short-range precision tools. To fine-tune the approach, BP used a "vector magnetometer" which is a wireline-conveyed surveying tool. It can detect the direction and distance of another well's casing through solid rock, by measuring the way the metal casing affects the emitted magnetic field. Then the final approach angle was tweaked so that the relief well intersected the original well between the final and intermediate casing strings, where the BHA didn't have to drill through steel pipe to kill the well. Source: New Orleans Times-PicayuneMacondo wellbore & casing diagram:Petroleum Truth ReportHere's a good video from BP:Relief well overview and ranging animation with Kent Wells

First, we need to be careful about our estimate of how much oil was spilled. It was an uncontrolled escape of oil and natural gas, so there was no metering. Consistent with industry practices in public relations, BP very early on provided press releases with estimates that were signNowly lower than those later provided by independent experts.There is an advantage for the oil well operators to get that low count out in the media early on. Much later, when the leak stops, many will look back to early reports of the rate of flow and multiply that figure by the duration of the leak. Years later when penalties an royalties for the oil are calculated, those later stories will seem to corroborate the company’s argument in court. Expert testimony appears out of line with what the media repeats, with little memory of the development of the story over time.So, we have to pick a number for the volume, knowing it may not be accurate.I found the volume [math]780,000 m^3[/math].Back in geometry class, one learned that the volume of a sphere is given by the formula, [math]\frac {4}{3}\cdot [/math][math]\pi \cdot r^3[/math]. The [math]r[/math] is the radius of the sphere. Our equality is then[math]780,000 m^3 = [/math][math]\frac {4}{3}\cdot \pi \cdot r^3[/math].Solving for [math]r^3[/math][math]r^3 = \frac {\frac {3}{4}\cdot 780,000 m^3}{\pi} [/math]The cube root is 57 meters.Our sphere would start out at 114 meters in diameter.However, crude oil is a complex mix of many hydrocarbons. In the vacuum of space, a very dark liquid will be quickly heated by the sun to several hundred degrees resulting in the same boiling off of lighter hydrocarbons that is the basis of the refining process.I have not done the calculations, but the gravity of the oil, itself, will not be able to keep the escaping gases as an atmosphere. Every bit that boils away will reduce the total mass. I would expect that over a matter of days or weeks, all that would be left would be a sticky ball of molten tar-like material. If this residue was ten percent of the original volume, the diameter would be about 53 meters.

IMO Whatever BP has been ordered to pay it isn't enough. That they are appealing the settlement, is proof of how much they really care about the damage they have done.

There is no evidence, in the media at least, that the filmmaker got permission to use the BP brandmark (or trademark).There is no legal theory that I am aware of, wherein there is a claim that one must get permission merely to mention a product by its name. The mentioning, however, could be subject to other legal claims, such as a claim that the product was disparaged or a claim that mentioned the product name would confuse the public.