New Exxon Blog: Don't Worry About Safety At The Other 14,000 Deepwater Oil Wells

Mother Jones:

Breaking news: You need not worry about the safety of offshore oil drilling. How do I know this? Well, let's just say a hat tip is in order for Exxon's new blog, Perspectives, which launched today with a post about the Deepwater Horizon disaster. "This devastating chain of events is far from the industry norm," proclaims Exxon blogger Ken Cohen, who's also the oil giant's vice president of public and government affairs. "We all need to understand what occurred on this occasion that did not occur on the 14,000 other deepwater wells that have been successfully drilled around the world."

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Comments

[Littlewords]

12:02 AM on 06/16/2010

Look, we're big oil, trust us we'd never lie to you.

[hobo62]

07:30 PM on 06/15/2010

Don't worry. BS.

[GUSTOV]

06:35 PM on 06/15/2010

ya don't worry

be happy

[Lloyd Cata]

05:27 PM on 06/15/2010

Exxon:
Couldn't happen to us....but if it did we wouldn't know what to do either.

BP:
This is not the way we do business. Accidents happen.

Exxon:
All our paperwork is in order with MMS.

BP:
All our paperwork is in order with MMS.

MMS:
Yes, sir, there does appear to be a large amount of plaigerism in all the companies paperwork. After all, everyone seems to want to protect those 'walruses' in the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama:
Stop, please stop! Your making my head hurt. I just want someone to tell me how to stop the damn leak(I used to say "plug the damn hole", but now we know that's impossible).

[jasongrundy]

04:24 PM on 06/15/2010

...and I beat everyone one of these wells have a leak...probably not as large as Horizon, but a little oil here a little oil there...can be a big problem.

[GarryDenke]

03:59 PM on 06/15/2010

T-Rex, ExxonMobil, Ken Cohen,

M-I Swaco mud engineers discussed this in April, and May. Papa Bear said, the more they circulated, the worse the mud got. The defoamers ("pills") had quit working. What they are hiding is that fact. M-I Swaco engineers (Papa Bear, et al) and BP engineers (Exxon link, et al) wanted to chuck the mud, days before the blowout. When mud goes bad, restoring the five (5) colloid forces, regardless of circulation time, bottoms-up or not, is impossible. Bad mud just gets worse, and once bad, gas permeates through it like water. That's why they reduced the circulating time. That's what they are hiding. And that's why gas raced up the annulus to the pack-off.

They did test the mud. And the mud was bad. They did try to fix it. But they could not. That's why nobody discusses the mud, its measurements not released. Amazing, a whole boat (Damon B. Bankston) full of mud samples from the Macondo well, and no measurements other than weight and viscosity published. Why is that T-Rex, ExxonMobil? Are there no engineers in the US qualified to analyze the evidence? So in short, the "well design", the "centralizers", the "bond log", the "lockdown sleeve", the "blowout preventer", etc, none of them caused Macondo's blowout. Solely, it was the bad mud. Macondo's frothy gas-cut mud settles every lawsuit.

ExxonMobil, Perspectives.

[BLACKCAT66]

02:44 PM on 06/15/2010

Gulp! theres 14,000 OTHER deep water wells...really? Why in the world would we worry?

[GUSTOV]

06:36 PM on 06/15/2010

cau7se this one is going to empty the whole oil supply

[KarateKid]

12:24 PM on 06/15/2010

Yeah, sure. I'll make note of that.

[booker52]

12:17 PM on 06/15/2010

Do they drill relief wells???

[getsit]

12:12 PM on 06/15/2010

uh-huh!

Now that I know the number I'm worried even more. Many of the wells are with countries that have higher safety regulations and make sure they are followed by the oil industry.

We Americans are lucky. The corporations have bought our government,lock, stock, and barrel, and are running the show. These corporations 'assure" us that they can be trusted to regulate themselves. We regularly have proof of that with oil and other chemical spills, food poisonings, defective products, mechanical failures killing people and so on.

We Americans never learn. We still vote people like the Bush devils into office along with crazy people into our Congress.

[FoonTheElder]

12:12 PM on 06/15/2010

"And you can believe me, because I never lie and I'm always right. So wake up! And take a look at your only logical choice. Me. George Tirebiter."

"Paid for by the Tirebiter For Political Solutions Committee, Sector R."

-The Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers-1970

[Aikaterina]

12:06 PM on 06/15/2010

BP told regulators, advertised to the public, and fabricated rosy predictions they had fail-safe means (technology, equipment, etc.) to prevent any leaks-spills, and/or could competently handle any that might occur. Unfortunately, BP's site managers chose to ignore warnings of potential problems: broken seals-washers on blow out preventor, increasing build-up of gas pressure, not waiting to inspect Halliburton's cement work (or allowing it to completely dry), ignoring rig engineers' warnings of imminent danger. These were high-risk man-made decisions to save time and costs, that resulted in deaths and devastation for millions of residents in the Gulf states.

We've endured far too many oil spills, and environmental disasters in our country to simply rely upon and trust the industry to tell us the truth about potential hazards. The industry's technology and equipment have improved in so far as being able to drill in deep water, but obviously has been proven ineffective to deal with the consequences of leaks or spills.

"Just trust us" is what we've been told for quite some time, then when disasters occur, we suffer the consequences (lost lives, homes, livelihoods, health or life-savings), while the culprits whose decisions created the devastation elude accountability, forcing us (the victims) to pay for the bail-outs and clean-up.

It took Exxon over 20 years to pay a fraction (actual costs) to the victims of the Valdez spill in Prince William Sound.

[OleProfessor]

12:06 PM on 06/15/2010

We need to Nationalize all Major Energy, to become a modern nation..!

[hischagal]

12:00 PM on 06/15/2010

I guess that means we have to worry!

[Freesia2]

11:39 AM on 06/15/2010

Well coming from Exxon - I feel so much better. They are of course unbiased and work only for the good of humanity. I think of them as the Mom and Pop of oil. You know "Real".

14,000 deepwater wells? Well....that's about 14,000 deep water wells too many. Because otherwise I think it's only a matter of time til they have to start writing songs that go "By the sea by the sea by the beautiful sea, you and me you and me oh how oily we'll be". Men will write poetry about her eyes being as black as the ocean. People won't fill their tanks at a BP station - they'll just drive into the surf and fill 'er up.

Enough already. I don't want to hear it. And I do not especially want to hear it from Exxon.