Mike
I am not at your personal beck and call to answer your questions, especially as you constantly distort what I say for your own ends.
I have said nowhere that containment booms would work in 2-3 foot seas, and in fact you know I have said that they wouldn't. Yet you make flippant comments about me pretending things. Why do you feel that you have to distort what I say? .[/quote]
Rig I do apologize as I do not intend to distort what you say. In fact my statements about the 3-4 ft seas were from you as I dont have first hand knowledge but you said they would not work in those conditions and I know that those are our prevailing conditions.I have never said 2-3 ft seas as that is a very calm day here. I know that you know this as thats where I got the info in the first place. What you ignore or do not acknowledge is that our conditions are usually outside the effective envelop of booms. These questions are in the spirit of debate trying to uncover the truth as we get the mushroom treatment from our government. Cho by the way used the $50 a barrel number and I am sure the number was exaggerated to improve the risk/reward ratio. Yes you can say oh thats only an extra 15 wells. You can justify most any number in that fashion. I am also curious as to why Shell never found these deposits. You have previous said you did not think they would find commercial amounts.
I do recognize your unwillingness to utter anything that could be construed as criticizing govt or oil company practices and it takes away from your believability.
I have no desire to misrepresent what you say and do not think I did. Also you talking about 2-3 foot seas is not not the same as 3-4 ft seas so I am not sure why you chose to do that as a reply to my comments (repeated from you) about 3-4 ft seas.
Lets see we are having production of 50,000 barrels 80,000 daily if you us Cho's $50 a barrel number. You say there is no way we could have a spill of 15,000 barrels a day, not trying to twist your words but it would seem the potential for a series of smaller spills to reach that definitly exists. I will also remind you you said that DWH could never flow the amount it did. It turned out to be one of the biggest ever if I am not correct. Not everything is accurately predictable.