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Wrong smoking gun (switched BOP): How honest can the BP Macondo blowout investigation be?

Sun Aug 7, 2011 4:40 PM EDT
environment, bp, oil-spill, gulf-of-mexico, macondo, mega-oil-spill
By BK Lim
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  • by BK Lim (first written in July 2010, updated 5 August, revised 10 August 2011)

One of the most important lesson I learned from the BP Macondo blowout disaster was:

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear” ~ Buddha.

In the months following the 20 April 2010 Macondo blowout, when the world in particular the residents of the Gulf was still oblivious to the crimes and frauds committed by BP; when hopes ran high that BP would have the financial resources and the Obama Administration the political will to see to it that “BP would make things right” and the “Gulf returned to its pristine condition before the disaster”, you could shout all the truth you want and it would still fall on deaf ears. In June 2010 my introduction a geoscience seminar paper was as follows:

Prediction is inherent in Geophysics, more so in geohazards geophysics. Without predictions, geohazards surveys are nothing more than hydrographic surveys. Yet geohazards predictions are often treated with disdain if the risk of geohazards is high. Many would prefer the risk of geohazards to be downplayed in order for the project or drilling to proceed smoothly as planned. In the event of an unlikely disaster, the “safe geohazards assessment” is always handy in absolving blame and financial responsibility. It is also easy to blame massive financial losses on geohazards which like all natural disasters are acceptable “force majeure”. The chain of human errors especially the erroneous geohazards prediction and interpretation leading to the disaster is often lost in the chaotic aftermath.

In essence, geohazards surveys serve as insurances against the risk of disaster, without which there can be no financial backing for the project concerned. But like all insurances, the insured needed to get a clean bill of health before being insured and that “health certificate” is the geohazards assessment report. Being commissioned by the insured (the Clients), it is easy to see where business loyalty lies and why the geohazards prediction failure rate is so high.

Sixteen months after the disaster, the truth of the disaster is still covered under layers of mud (deceit) and the 6 billion citizens of this planet are still denied justice. So what is new? For generations, the masses had been lied to and any new disasters (man-made, natural or made-to-happen-on-purpose) will similarly be covered up and twisted to benefit the powers in control. Will this Gulf Oil Spill disaster or the Japan Nuclear fallout disaster be any different from past disasters the world had experienced? Will we ever learn the painful lessons? By the time we smell the COREXIT, it will be already too late. Cover ups will only lead to more disasters in the future. Do we really want more disasters?

 

In the last six months, the oil mafia have tried every tricks in their sleeves to eliminate me from the face of this earth. By GOD's will I am still alive though there has been more than a dozen lives lost as collateral damages. Innocent lives lost or nearly lost through mistaken identity shooting / killing or just plain “in the wrong place at the wrong time”. How many of the dead corpses turning up in Singapore's reservoirs, waterways and other secluded locations were mistaken identity killing and how many were accidental eye witnesses? How do you explain the lack of eye-witnesses to the numerous murders happening in one of the most densely populated island in the world? That would be the topic for the forth coming article.

 

As proof of the gross injustice and the lopsidedness of the investigation into BP's crimes and frauds in this Gulf disaster, see the following video footage of the BOP; the smoking gun of the disaster and tell me there was nothing fishy. Bear in mind even the simple cleaning off the logo job under 5000ft of water could cost as much as USD100,000. But why was there a need to wipe off the logo and label if it was the original BOP stack? If the logo and company label was on a replaceable section of the BOP, could they not wipe them off while it was still on deck at 1/100th of the cost?

 

Sometimes it is the little oversights and overlooked mundane tasks that spoil the whole orchestrated BOP switch operation. There were also the “little” discrepancies here and there that did not quite fit into the symphony of deception.

 

For example, BP reportedly started the top kill on 26 May 2010, more than 1 month after the blowout. Okay, even if BP was given the benefit of doubt in pussyfooting, it still does not explain why there was a “dangling BOP” from 3 to 16 July 2010

when the world was mesmerized with the constantly gushing BOP stack on top of Well A from May till 15 July 2010 when the well was finally capped. BP had maintained that the BOP Stack could not be removed from the gushing well, for fear of escalating the oil spew. The damaged BOP stack was officially removed for the first time on 3 September 2010. Besides the biggest lie that BP drilled only one well, this would be the second biggest lie of the century in the oil industry.

 

Many industry's insiders were really surprised at this daring “poker game” gambit. If the BOP had been badly damaged as asserted by BP and as evident from the disastrous blowout, it served no purpose to keep the damaged BOP in place. If the expert drilling crew could not control the blowout, it usually means the well head, well annulus and the Formation around the blown well at the near seafloor zone are broken beyond repair. The BOP being the strongest would be the last to be damaged. But even if the BOP was not damaged beyond repair, it would still be pointless to keep the BOP on the broken well head. When a wellhead is broken beyond repair, the most logical procedure to kill the well is by intercepting it at the most strategic section (with reference to the geologic formation) well below the damaged zone. Any top kill would only make a bad situation worse as I had said back in July 2010 – the high risk of capping BP's gushing well from the top.

 

http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/19/4704785-the-high-risk-of-capping-bps-gushing-well-from-the-top

 

The illogical and incomprehensible maneuvers by BP in the aftermath of the blowout, had been viewed suspiciously by industry's experts as buying time and “muddling the pool” to mask their covert operation of setting up the second (fake) BOP on an undamaged wellhead which was Well A abandoned in mid February 2010 (see “Which well are they killing?” published on 1 Sept 2010). http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/01/5024700-which-well-are-they-killing

 

A novice in crime without political support and firepower would not have dared to pull such risky gamble; a technical ploy “full of holes”. Yet they did successfully in full naked view of 6 billions inhabitants of this earth. I was not entirely surprised that they went ahead with the charade. After their block buster success with 911, who could stop them?

 

What I was surprised was the willful blindness by the “respectable” investigators on these glaring discrepancies? It was from that point onwards that I lost all faith in the Oil Industry, in governing and regulating themselves in the interest of Mother Earth. How naïve I was all these years, thinking they did not know? Of course they knew of the safety frauds and violations; the unscrupulous business deals that kill silently hundreds if not thousands.

 

How could these “respectable and highly professionals” not see that the nakedness of the Emperor wearing nothing but BP's magical robes made of cloths woven from fine invisible golden threads? Even ordinary folks outside the industry could see and questioned the numerous ROV sightings of BOP at well B or close to it, at the third well location (S20BC) and several other locations in various poses. Shame on the so-called veteran experts at TOD for putting down those who questioned these ROV sightings. I reckon it is the duty of every oil company man to cover up for their company's mistakes. But to abet them in the murder of innocent lives? To think that the industry has stooped to this low, is totally beyond belief.

 

26 May 2010 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-top-kill-procedure-begins.html

Engineers have begun the "top kill" maneuver aimed at stanching the gush of oil from a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP and U.S. Coast Guard confirmed. The much-awaited procedure began at 1 p.m. Central Daylight Time, according to BP. The maneuver, which BP officials warned could take hours or days to complete, would attempt to overpower the upward flow of oil by pumping drilling fluid -- and eventually a cement mixture -- at high pressure down the well. Several hundred engineers in Houston have prepped for the effort for weeks

 

On 17 Aug 2010, in part 1 of the Ballistic analysis of the DWH-riser-wreck, I wrote:

Video footage of the faulty BOP on top of Well A was only widely available to the public from June onwards. In a video dated 4 June 2010, an apparent “Dispersant Ops” Rov showed the BOP at 61.8 ft above seabed level, at 221.5 ft WNW of Well A location. Figure 3d confirmed our suspicion that the BOP had been “busily travelling” around instead of being Static at Well A as we had been led to believe.

 

But how could one BOP stack be seen at so many places at any one time in the period beginning 20 April till at least the end of July 2010? If we piece all the little discrepancies together, there can only be the logical conclusions that:

The original BOP at the 3rd well (S20BC) was blown off on 22 April 2010 (second more powerful underground blowout) as asserted by the Late Matts Simmons. Some sources even say the “never to be mentioned” second explosion that brought the DWH down was intentionally set off by one of the ROVs. A floating DWH rig would incriminate the perpetrators of this MIHOP disaster.

  • BP secretly deployed another BOP stack (referred to as the FAKE BOP) at Well A, removed the broken riser on the original BOP and fixed on the the Fake BOP.

  • Any of the ROV videos during this “critical” remove and reattached riser operation period would incriminate BP. That is the main reason BP cannot release any of the video footage of the ROV at work before June 2010.

  • So this will mean there should be 3 BOP stacks altogether. First we have the Original BOP, then the FAKE BOP which was installed on well A in the aftermath of the blowout and retrieved on 3-4 September 2010 and the Replacement BOP which was eventually retrieved on 5 November 2010.

    We should be able to adduce the evidence from the following videos 160-1 to 160-4. I strongly advice readers to download the following You-tube ROV videos before they are completely “wiped off” from their respective websites.

    How do I know all these are true and accurate (if not in minute details at least the main story)? The proof is in the pudding. If I had been writing nonsense, would they have bothered to kill me along with the others from 24 Nov 2010 to July 2011?

    Incidentally, my wife and I should have been murdered on 24 Nov 2008 with fatal head wounds, cuts and bruises from the relentless battering by 4 personnel armed with 2 feet long machetes. Who could survive all that slashing and bounce back less than a week later, if not for the help of GOD? Incidentally, the life threats from the Oil Mafia started on 20 April 2008. Extremely coincidental isn't it? The oil mafia paid shills would have jumped on me long ago, if these dates were not true.

    There were serious attempts to eliminate me and my whole family in the first 6 months of 2011. Divine Guidance and of course the thousands of prayers around the world kept us safe. Unfortunately, in their desperate attempts to eliminate me, others were innocently poisoned or shot at. As with all covert murderous schemes, they cannot afford to have any eye-witnesses. In any case, the deaths of accidental eye-witnesses added to the confusion and planted misleading evidence. If all these sound familiar, it is. Look into all my past articles on the Art of Mass Deception practiced throughout the Gulf Disaster.

    To understand the ROV video footage of the BOPs, see figures 160a to 160c. Forget the fine details of the BOP stack. Look at the well-head connector, the frames and general layout of the BOP stacks. Each BOP stack is different. Essentially if the BOP stack raised onboard the Helix Q4000 on 5 Sept is different from the BOP stack seen in the video of the original BOP in June 2010, then you know for sure the Presidential Commission and all investigation reports based on the FAKE BOP are fundamentally wrong. So now you know what I had been talking about since July last year and the reason they need to secure my silence. Since I cannot be bought, my silence can only be secured through my demise.

    Lastly I wish to honour Bill Young, a former CIA agent living in Chiang Mai. He was murdered on 1 April 2011 in his home with a revolver in one hand and a cross in the other. I do not buy the suicide theory. How could the revolver and crucifix remained clutched in his hands after shooting himself? Like everything else, the revolver and crucifix were placed in his hands long after he was dead, to make it look like a suicide. He would rather die than betray GOD. God bless his soul. Amen.

    http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/77251,people,news,cia-hitman-bill-william-young-found-dead-at-his-chiang-mai-home-air-america#ixzz1UMulZvFZ

    An American missionary's son who became a top CIA Vietnam War-era hit-man in the jungles of Burma, Laos and Thailand has been found dead in his Chiang Mai home, a bullet in his head, a revolver in one hand and a crucifix in the other.

     

    Video#160-1 of original BOP stack that blew off the third well (S20BC), fell to the seabed and was raised from the seabed on 3 July and held suspended for 13 days. The BOP was covertly dismantled and loaded onto one of the vessels and shipped off from site. Video and information - courtesy of Mr BeePee. Visit his website to see other videos. (could not load video link, click http to view)

          http://www.youtube.com/user/BeePeeOilDisaster#p/u/404/rbWZZiZVmTs

     

    Video#160-2 of FAKE BOP. Uploaded by X2YeZCAMCNC on Jun 9, 2010

    BP Gulf Oil Spill Leak Gusher 06-09-2010 03:46P BOP Subsea FlexJoint Cleaning BS Logo Removed

    In this narrated clip the ROV (remotely operated vehicle) is using the wire brush hydraulic tool to believe it or not remove the company logo (Oil States International Inc.- FlexJoint) plastered on the side of a part at the top of the damaged BOP (blowout preventer). Weird I just said that a few hours ago when I saw them getting this tool out, while joking. Don't they have better things to do.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5mY_QNpspA 

    Video#160-3a-c of FAKE BOP being removed from the well-head at Well A from 3 to 4 September 2010. Compare the base of the BOP stack and well-head connector. Spot the huge differences.

    Video# 160-3a

    Recorded by JoseGerbils - Helix ESG Q4000 pulls the DWH BOP, weight gauge read 844,500 lbs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgm6iUbaWCo&feature=related

    Video# 160-3b

    Recorded by Suzieconley – BOP removal Sept 3 2010

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Y6BU_wfbY&feature=related

    Video# 160-3c

    FAKE BOP raised onboard the Helix ESG Q4000 on 4 Sept 2010.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy8Zr46r7yA&feature=related

    Video#160-4 of Replacement BOP being removed from the well-head at Well A on 5 Nov 2010. Could not believe the stark difference? How on earth could the world's most highly paid, highly qualified professionals miss this crucial evidence? As Bernie Madoff said from his prison interview; “They had to know. But the attitude was sort of, ‘If you’re doing something wrong, we don’t want to know.’” What was that word again?.... Willful Blindness.

    Recorded by Moonofa – ... the end, my friend. Developer Driller II is unlatching and lifting its Blow Out Preventer from the BP Macondo well MC 252#1. Speed is 1x.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3GgGRrTO4U&feature=related

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    BK Lim

    The video evidence, the timing, the unusual long delay in showing ROV footage of work done in the immediate aftermath of the blowout ......etc etc.... all point to massive cover up.

    Although the evidence is very clear, why did the blowout investigation focused on the wrong BOP? For more than a year I waited to see if the investigators were really earnest in getting down to the truth.

    Well I guess not. What do you think?

    • 9 votes
    Reply#1 - Sun Aug 7, 2011 6:35 PM EDT
    Jaybao

    How about that? I had always thought they look different from different angles. Let's see how BP wiggle out of this.

    • 8 votes
    Reply#2 - Sun Aug 7, 2011 6:59 PM EDT
    LifeTravler

    BK, I think about you often and your crusade to show us the truth. I will be forever grateful to you for risking your life to make us aware. Every time I go to Port Fourchon, which is several times a month, I think of you and pray that you and your family are all right. I become outraged every time I think of the danger you are in! I cannot thank you enough!!!

    • 9 votes
    Reply#3 - Sun Aug 7, 2011 7:24 PM EDT
    bore-head007

    You have them dead to rights, BK. Nailed.

    • 9 votes
    Reply#4 - Mon Aug 8, 2011 2:44 AM EDT
    BK Lim

    Thank you guys.

    All of us do not like what they are doing to Mother Earth and eventually all of us (some more now, others eventually) suffer. Geohazards experts (like me for instance) the vanguards, the people who are supposed to look out for hazards and dangers, feel especially bad that we have somehow failed, failed in our duty to forewarn, to educate and to prevent. We have no choice but to move forward positively or perish. I hope my former colleagues, bosses and acquaintances read this and understand the implications of not standing up and be counted.

    What the "Tale of the 3 BOPs" shows us is that people who know and could have done something to stop this atrocity, stood by and did nothing. The oil mafia has no hesitation to terminate you once your usefulness to them is no more. I used to be very bitter that the very people who wanted to so badly kill me now, were the ones I have helped financially, technically and socially in their times of need 20 to 30 years ago. But now I grief no more, once I understood the laws of nature and karma.

    I now truly understand the inner meaning of "Forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" - Jesus when he was nailed to the cross.

    The oil mafia and people who were paid to lie, to be of disservice to the people by applying good laws and enacting twisted laws for evil benefits, by subverting justice etc etc..... are also killing themselves. They think they can insulate and isolate by building "cocoons" to protect themselves. The laws of karma do not work that way. Whatever they enjoy now is just temporary.

    We need our neighbours to live well in order for us to be well. You kill the masses, you kill yourself (a little by little) because we are all one and the same; interconnected as you can see the from the long term consequence of the GULF DISASTER around the world just as Fukushima will in turn affect the world on the other side.

    One of the messages I perceived from the "SKY IMages", is that if you can take events from different times and match them in a story framework and they fit in the time-line; you not only prove what had really happened but have a guideline of what to expect (predictions if you prefer).

    So you see the story of the 3 BOPs tells a lot more than what was written. It is up to your interpretation and your inner self. Most of all it tells us of what we failed in our duties, what we failed for our children and our future.

    the lies multiply, and humans die like flies
    the truth that binds, limits the pain we leave behind.......

    • 8 votes
    Reply#5 - Mon Aug 8, 2011 4:40 AM EDT
    BK Lim

    Blowout preventer ‘not the root cause’ of Macondo accident: Spill Commission counsel

    The National Oil Spill Commission released Thursday a lengthy report from its chief counsel that concludes the blowout preventer at BP’s Macondo well was not “the root cause” of the accident that killed 11 people and sent millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf last year.

    The report, from Chief Counsel Fred Bartlit, is the commission’s strongest statement yet that the BOP, which many have said was the key piece of evidence in the accident investigation, was not to blame. Bartlit said that while the BOP’s performance was “flawed,” it did not cause the blowout.

    “Even if the BOP had functioned flawlessly, the rig would have exploded and 11 men would have died,” the report’s executive summary said.

    http://www.stuarthsmith.com/blowout-preventer-not-the-root-cause-of-macondo-accident-spill-commission-counsel/comment-page-1#comment-6211

    Of course the root cause is never that simple .... the underlying greed and power play.

    They had been looking at the wrong BOP switched in May. First they get the media to focus intensely on the BOP. Now they say it is not the root cause.

    • 8 votes
    Reply#6 - Mon Aug 8, 2011 5:45 AM EDT
    MajWilliamMartin

    I know you have them by the ball's. I also know as you know of the killings that they are liable for too. Where is this OBAMA that was going to "KICK SOME ASS?" All he has ever cared about was reading his teleprompter to make sure he LIED to John Q Public and kept his Story.... LIES Straight as he jumped from Lie to Lie.

    We know where Everyone stands today.. Behind Banks that send their Money to Mexico to support Drug Lords and those who are sworn to Protect and Serve, ATF, FBI, DEA, DHS and DOJ that send Weapons to Mexico to fuel the Drug Wars. I can only guess that the Missing CIA was running the DRUGS with an AIR AMERICA 2011 Program that as Usual Holder and Obama will claim they knre nothing About. At least Reagan said "IT HAPPENED ON MY WATCH" Even though he was the one that started to dismantle Social Security.

    BP will get theirs, It will come in the form of another 'Said' Accident. Just like BP was not even supposed to have that COREXIT and suddenly they have Millions of Gallons of it on supply. Where did it come from if they were not supposed to have it in Inventory?

    Then the Reports from RSOE EDIS that is logging the countless Thousands of Fish from all different type of species in and around the Florida area that are dying. Is it not interesting that ALL the Fish in the World are said to be dying from NO OXYGEN. Does that mean NO OXYGEN or does it mean OUR OCEANS ARE DYING? Is this a Page out of SOYLENT GREEN?

    Then BP has their BUDDIES pass a law that say's they are not going to pay for any more Clean-up and that the TAX PAYER has to shelter that cost now. A Investigation needs to be done into WHO Received Money from BP and how much to look the other way. Not realizing that their Children will grow up with these Cancers and Lung issues. A Audit needs to be done on the ER Rooms along the GULF Hospitals for the Flesh eating bacteria where many have died and lost their limbs for just "Walking in the Gulf's Waters" not even swimming.

    Hey Tony!!! We just want to get back to OUR LIVES too. What is OUR NAME? Who Are We Tony?

    MWM

    • 6 votes
    Reply#7 - Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:21 AM EDT
    kokohito

    Well said Major.

    • 6 votes
    #7.1 - Tue Aug 9, 2011 10:28 AM EDT
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    TR-421173

    !!!

    • 7 votes
    Reply#8 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:35 AM EDT
    BK Lim

    It is amazing the investigators and many in the industry did not see through the charade, the falsification of criminal evidence etc.

    In a single murder case, such tampering of evidence would have enraged the world at large. So why are we so tolerant to a multitude of collaboration in this mass murder crime? The secret is to get everyone involved in one way or another and the "payment in kind" gratitude for contributions funds, for the easy contracts, for the employment, etc.......one good turn deserves another.

    Many had written on this and this BOP fraud and adulteration of the crime scene is just the proof of it....the er ..err oil corruption I mean. There I finally said it.

    • 8 votes
    Reply#9 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:54 PM EDT
    TR-421173

    A bit of green in the pocket of the right people seems to buy a lot of oil colored glasses. So many are looking at the little bit of green in their hands they fail to see the black in their water or mixed in their food. It disgusts me to no end.

    • 8 votes
    #9.1 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:19 PM EDT
    bore-head007

    Sent this article to Washington Post.

    • 8 votes
    #9.2 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:37 PM EDT
    BK Lim

    Will do BH. But then all my past articles sent to the MSM, oil companies and govt regulators - none has been acknowledged with the exception of Singapore. HAving said that, acknowledgement means nothing if there has been no follow up action in response.

    • 8 votes
    #9.3 - Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:05 PM EDT
    bore-head007

    I have been stymied with every attempt from politicians to reporters as well.

    I did send it to the WP a couple of times. We stay the course.

    • 8 votes
    #9.4 - Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:29 PM EDT
    BK Lim

    BH, we stay the course. It may be a long time coming but eventually the truth will prevail.

    I never expect them to publish anything I wrote. I am still writing. I am extremely grateful to have met and others at the newsvine. You all have been here for a much longer time and have not given up. Perseverance, that's a virtue.

    • 6 votes
    #9.5 - Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:27 PM EDT
    TR-421173

    To quote a cheesy movie line "Never Give Up, Never Surrender".

    • 6 votes
    #9.6 - Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:04 PM EDT
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    BK Lim

    Will be posting soon the video evidence of the 3 wells.

    • 8 votes
    Reply#10 - Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:06 PM EDT
    BK Lim

    Revised section on 10 Aug 2011:

    For example, BP reportedly started the top kill on 26 May 2010, more than 1 month after the blowout. Okay, even if BP was given the benefit of doubt in pussyfooting, it still does not explain why there was a “dangling BOP” from 3 to 16 July 2010

    when the world was mesmerized with the constantly gushing BOP stack on top of Well A from May till 15 July 2010 when the well was finally capped. BP had maintained that the BOP Stack could not be removed from the gushing well, for fear of escalating the oil spew. The damaged BOP stack was officially removed for the first time on 3 September 2010. Besides the biggest lie that BP drilled only one well, this would be the second biggest lie of the century in the oil industry.

    Many industry's insiders were really surprised at this daring “poker game” gambit. If the BOP had been badly damaged as asserted by BP and as evident from the disastrous blowout, it served no purpose to keep the damaged BOP in place. If the expert drilling crew could not control the blowout, it usually means the well head, well annulus and the Formation around the blown well at the near seafloor zone are broken beyond repair. The BOP being the strongest would be the last to be damaged. But even if the BOP was not damaged beyond repair, it would still be pointless to keep the BOP on the broken well head. When a wellhead is broken beyond repair, the most logical procedure to kill the well is by intercepting it at the most strategic section (with reference to the geologic formation) well below the damaged zone. Any top kill would only make a bad situation worse as I had said back in July 2010 – the high risk of capping BP's gushing well from the top.

    http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/19/4704785-the-high-risk-of-capping-bps-gushing-well-from-the-top

    The illogical and incomprehensible maneuvers by BP in the aftermath of the blowout, had been viewed suspiciously by industry's experts as buying time and “muddling the pool” to mask their covert operation of setting up the second (fake) BOP on an undamaged wellhead which was Well A abandoned in mid February 2010 (see “Which well are they killing?” published on 1 Sept 2010). http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/01/5024700-which-well-are-they-killing

    A novice in crime without political support and firepower would not have dared to pull such risky gamble; a technical ploy “full of holes”. Yet they did successfully in full naked view of 6 billions inhabitants of this earth. I was not entirely surprised that they went ahead with the charade. After their block buster success with 911, who could stop them?

    What I was surprised was the willful blindness by the “respectable” investigators on these glaring discrepancies? It was from that point onwards that I lost all faith in the Oil Industry, in governing and regulating themselves in the interest of Mother Earth. How naïve I was all these years, thinking they did not know? Of course they knew of the safety frauds and violations; the unscrupulous business deals that kill silently hundreds if not thousands.

    How could these “respectable and highly professionals” not see that the nakedness of the Emperor wearing nothing but BP's magical robes made of cloths woven from fine invisible golden threads? Even ordinary folks outside the industry could see and questioned the numerous ROV sightings of BOP at well B or close to it, at the third well location (S20BC) and several other locations in various poses. Shame on the so-called veteran experts at TOD for putting down those who questioned these ROV sightings. I reckon it is the duty of every oil company man to cover up for their company's mistakes. But to abet them in the murder of innocent lives? To think that the industry has stooped to this low, is totally beyond belief.

    • 6 votes
    Reply#11 - Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:13 PM EDT
    BK Lim

    revised section on 10 Aug 2011

    How do I know all these are true and accurate (if not in minute details at least the main story)? The proof is in the pudding. If I had been writing nonsense, would they have bothered to kill me along with the others from 24 Nov 2010 to July 2011?

    Incidentally, my wife and I should have been murdered on 24 Nov 2008 with fatal head wounds, cuts and bruises from the relentless battering by 4 personnel armed with 2 feet long machetes. Who could survive all that slashing and bounce back less than a week later, if not for the help of GOD? Incidentally, the life threats from the Oil Mafia started on 20 April 2008. Extremely coincidental isn't it? The oil mafia paid shills would have jumped on me long ago, if these dates were not true.

    There were serious attempts to eliminate me and my whole family in the first 6 months of 2011. Divine Guidance and of course the thousands of prayers around the world kept us safe. Unfortunately, in their desperate attempts to eliminate me, others were innocently poisoned or shot at. As with all covert murderous schemes, they cannot afford to have any eye-witnesses. In any case, the deaths of accidental eye-witnesses added to the confusion and planted misleading evidence. If all these sound familiar, it is. Look into all my past articles on the Art of Mass Deception practiced throughout the Gulf Disaster.

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    Reply#12 - Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:14 PM EDT
    eth-2299740

    Hi Bk

    Thanks for posting this update.

    Keeps us informed and let's us know you are safe.

    Eth

    • 6 votes
    Reply#13 - Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:33 AM EDT
    BK Lim

    will do, thanks

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    #13.1 - Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:47 AM EDT
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    etva

    Thanks for the updates, BK! Stay safe!

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    Reply#14 - Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:43 PM EDT
    BK Lim

    (((((((etva)))))) thanks for dropping in. Things are happening in the background. Trish & co are gathering support for the showdown in Washington DC in Sept.

    Please pass the word around.:

    http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=242215185818381&id=1292132417&notif_t=like

    Trisha Springstead Thanks Donna I am going to DC by hook or by crook my husband is even in full support of me going. This among other things needs to be addressed. I am Going as a Gulf of Mexico Advocate and I do want my country back, I will be in Good company and people are jumping on board. the Website is www.October6.org4 hours ago · Like · 2 people

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    #14.1 - Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:40 AM EDT
    etva

    I will! Thanks:) ((((((((BK)))))))))

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    #14.2 - Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:02 PM EDT
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    MajWilliamMartin

    Isn't it interesting how the US Media remains silent on the "New OIL SPILL" in the North Atlantic by Shell, a BP subsidiary? On Friday when they noticed a Sheen on the water, Saturday it was 19 Miles by 2.5 miles in size.

    That is a Sheen to some I guess.

    US Media remains silent because of it's BP ties.

    "Bravo!" I say, "Bravo!"

    • 6 votes
    Reply#15 - Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:44 AM EDT
    BK Lim

    something starting to smell like Conoco-Phillips in the Bohai Bay spill.

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    #15.1 - Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:12 PM EDT
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    Trisha Springstead RN

    BK Lim this is right up your alley. Anoter fake shot of the Top Kill

    Check it out?
    Trisha

    • 6 votes
    Reply#16 - Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:25 PM EDT
    BK Lim

    Yep, Trish. Thanks for taking time to drop in. I know you are pretty busy propagating the Gulf truth. Keep up your good work; you have my support.

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    Reply#17 - Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:51 PM EDT
    The Gallowglaich

    The oil spill mentioned above by MajWilliamMartin was in the North Sea, not the North Atlantic and Shell is not a "BP Subsidiary". It was probably not reported extensively in the US media because it was from a pipeline, not comparable at all to Macondo and not in North America. G

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    Reply#18 - Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:13 AM EDT
    BK Lim

    Gallowglaich

    I am so glad to hear from you. Thanks for the correction. North Sea is close enough to North Atlantic for those outside the industry. Shell is one of the original oil giants, before BP barged in with a high speed acquisition of other oil companies.

    Conoco-phillips started by saying the leaks were from pipelines as well. But how do you get 9 leaks on pipelines suddenly. I have seen several pipeline leaks on new defective pipes after they were tested. They were immediately decommissioned and a new line laid. Corruption was involved and the pipes were not to required standard.

    You and I know for pipes which had been flowing for several years, either the leaks were caused by wear and tear (depends on the age of the pipelines, as in Alaska) or by accidents. Leaks on pipelines are easily detected by pressure drop and shut down by closing the valves to the affected lines.

    So Shell declared the two leaks were on one of its flow lines and near a relief valve. SO why struggle????

    on 19 Aug 2011:

    Royal Dutch Shell says it still does not know what caused the worst North Sea oil spill in a decade but the leak is now only pumping one barrel — or 42 gallons — of oil into the cold water per day.

    Company spokeswoman Sally Hepton said Wednesday the company is still trying to isolate and shut down the leak.

    Shell had said the main spill was caused by a leak at an oil flowline at the Gannet Alpha platform 112 miles (180 kilometers) east of the Scottish city of Aberdeen. It said that was under control but it is struggling to control a second leak from a relief valve near the flowline.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/shell-still-investigating-cause-of-north-sea-oil-spill-struggles-to-shut-off-leak/2011/08/17/gIQAA7FrKJ_story.html

    on 17 Aug 2011

    Shell still investigating cause of North Sea oil spill, struggles to shut off leak

    By Associated Press, Published: August 17

    LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell says it still does not know what caused the worst North Sea oil spill in a decade but the leak is now only pumping one barrel — or 42 gallons — of oil into the cold water per day.

    Company spokeswoman Sally Hepton said Wednesday the company is still trying to isolate and shut down the leak.

    Shell had said the main spill was caused by a leak at an oil flowline at the Gannet Alpha platform 112 miles (180 kilometers) east of the Scottish city of Aberdeen. It said that was under control but it is struggling to control a second leak from a relief valve near the flowline.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/shell-still-investigating-cause-of-north-sea-oil-spill-struggles-to-shut-off-leak/2011/08/17/gIQAA7FrKJ_story.html

    LONDON | Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:26am EDT

    (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said it had moved closer to stemming Britain's biggest oil spill for over a decade by closing a valve from which crude had been seeping for over 8 days.

    "Closing the valve is a key step," said Glen Cayley, Technical Director of Shell's exploration and production activities in Europe.

    "We will be watching the line closely over the next 24 hours and beyond," he added.

    Divers closed the relief valve on Friday, after being sent down to inspect the faulty valve at the Gannet field 180 km off the Scottish coast. Shell said it had "made good progress" in stopping the leak from a flowline to the Gannet Alpha oil platform.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/19/us-shell-spill-idUSTRE77I4EO20110819

    WHy do all these reports sound so familiar? No wonder everyone is confusing one oil company for another. They all breathe and drink the same oil tainted air and water.

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    #18.1 - Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:38 AM EDT
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