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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (10382)	4/30/2010 11:19:54 AM
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An oil-drilling procedure called cementing is coming under scrutiny as a possible cause of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico that has led to one of the biggest oil spills in U.S. history, drilling experts said Thursday. online.wsj.com April 30 (Bloomberg) -- A 2-foot-long metal clamp that failed to cut a pipe on the ocean floor may have cost 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig their lives and cast a sprawling sheet of crude toward fisheries, wildlife sanctuaries and beaches. bloomberg.com BP Oil Spill Investigation Will Focus On Blowout PreventersApril 29, 2010 - 4:45 pmShare Christopher HelmanBio \| Email Christopher Helman is an Associate Editor at Forbes, based in Houston Figuring out what happened on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to cause the spectacular Gulf of Mexico blowout will be like "recovering the black box from a plane crash," says oil investment banker (and peak oil gadfly) Matt Simmons. Carrying the aerospace analogy, Simmons says the investigation into this disaster will be akin to that following the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger blogs.forbes.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (10382)	5/3/2010 12:15:17 AM
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Thunder Horse to Under-Perform? A comment from the author... what does this oil guy know that you don't? seismobob on April 30, 2010 - 1:30pm Gail iS right I am at work but on my ranch, which I bought because peak oil was coming. I wrote some web pages back in the late 90's and published in a magazine in 2000. Thus I have worried about this since then. I am turning my ranch into a food factory - fish on the lakes a big garden and right now a 60tree fruit orchad-soon to get biggerThese notes are sent from my iPhone