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To: Road Walker who wrote (21446)6/23/2010 6:46:57 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86356
 
No, the plan is for our middle class wealth to be transferred to Brazil. Our oil and gas jobs will go there and our money to buy their oil after they build up their offshore oil industry and we destroy ours.



To: Road Walker who wrote (21446)6/24/2010 4:27:11 PM
From: Eric  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86356
 
Gulf Methane Levels 1 Million Times Above Normal Are Depleting Oxygen And Creating Marine Dead Zones

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To: Road Walker who wrote (21446)6/25/2010 9:51:16 AM
From: Eric1 Recommendation  Respond to of 86356
 
A interesting story from The Oil Drum this morning.

Eric

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Crude Confessions: Massive Saudi Oil Spill in 1993?
Posted by JoulesBurn on June 25, 2010 - 10:25am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: aramco, oil spill, saudi arabia, supertanker [list all tags]

A mishap during the loading of an oil tanker off Saudi Arabia in 1993 initiated a cascading disaster, resulting in what was the largest offshore oil spill ever, but the oil was mostly recovered by deploying supertankers to vacuum up the spill. This is the story told by a former Saudi Aramco engineer in concert with his efforts to convince BP and the U.S. Coast Guard to consider this approach for cleaning up the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.....

The story continues here:

theoildrum.com