Another big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

74 miles south of Fourchon, Louisiana.

On a positive note, there's a rainbow-colored sheen to the water, and who doesn't love rainbows?

http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/07/gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-well-louisiana/

 

Story says natural gas, not oil. Whatever that means.

 

Natural gas doesn't cause an oil slick. There must be some oil mixed in.

I just hope it's in shallow water, easy to get to and stop, and not a gusher like the BP oil spill.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/09/natural-gas-gulf-louisiana-leak/2504177/

 

You realize that's a 3-year-old file photo of the Deepwater Horizon rig, don't you?

 

So I guess the thread title doesn't remotely resemble the truth.

 

Talos President Timothy S. Duncan said saltwater and small amounts of natural gas and the light oil-and-water mixture called condensate escaped the well. A light sheen is expected to evaporate.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/214908921.html

And a rainbow sheen that's 4 miles wide isn't exactly small.

 

It's also not an oil spill.

 

Why are there so many songs about rainbows? And what's on the other side?...

 

because they're pretty to look at. and there's really nothing on the other side. it's an optical illusion. idiot.

 

I don't know how thick a "sheen" is, but I am betting it's pretty damn small. Let's say, just for the purposes of this discussion, that a "sheen" is the thickness of a piece of 20 lb. paper (0.0038 in.)*. Let's further assume that this sheen is indeed 4 miles long by 3/4 of a mile wide. By my calculations, that's about 198,000 gallons (approximately) of fluid, which sounds like a helluva lot until you consider that an Olympic-size swimming pool holds about 660,000 gallons in it. Relatively speaking we are talking about a tiny amount of fluid.

*I doubt it's even close to being that thick.

 

Thank you, Kermit.