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Article Source: VOA News
The Chinese government is stepping up its pressure on the companies involved in an oil spill in the Bohai Bay, with calls for a thorough investigation into the incident and a limit on new construction in the bay.
On Thursday, Chinese media prominently featured Premier Wen Jiabao’s calls for a probe into the oil spill in the Bohai Bay.
He says the environmental deterioration already is alarmingly severe and has not yet reached its limit. He says, if the current trend continues, the Bohai will become a dead sea.
Fishermen in Shandong, Hebei and Liaoning provinces, which border Bohai, say that leaking oil has killed a large part of this year’s seafood harvest.
The leaking began in June at the offshore Penglai 19-3 oil field. Since then, Chinese authorities say about 700 barrels of oil and 2,500 barrels of drilling mud have leaked into the bay.
This compares to nearly five million barrels of oil released into the Gulf of Mexico from last year’s Deepwater Horizon spill.
When the leaks first occurred, Conoco-Philips said they were just leaks on the pipelines and valves that could easily be shut off.
OIL companies often lied to their teeth to save their skin or agendas. Can we expect BP to be the only saint among the devils? The answer can easily be found in BP's own conducts in the Mega Oil spill disaster in the Gulf.
Enough of lying. Common folks of the world unite before the elitists plunge the world into total chaos with their sinister agenda. Remember no missiles, no nuclear detonation, no wars and certainly not even a plane could crash into a building, if the "common folks" had not been duped into doing it. Wake up and smell the corexit before it is too late. We are just human resource to them; to be expired after exploitation.
#1 - Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:57 AM EDTI've been following this intermittenly, for the Chinese to come out with this more openly, yep they're not happy campers with Conoco.
Trouble is, open public opinion is not tolerated there. They suffer in silence even when something is clearly wrong.
they did this with the milk scandel: A total of 21 executives and middle-managers from the now bankrupt Sanlu Group, which sold the milk, were tried and sentenced in January by a court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang for their involvement in the case."
Those Conoco exec's might want to think about it. :)
Right mstanley. They might be slow in realisation but they are swift in executing their criminals.
Wish they would publish more info on the Bohai Oil spills.
there was this from SignOn San Diego:
But the State Oceanic Administration contends that monitoring by satellite, underwater robots and other means shows the oil is still seeping. It criticized ConocoPhillips' containment measures as stopgap and said the company may have caused oil to seep through faults in the seabed by putting too much pressure on the oil reservoir.
Addressing the issue is rather complex,
Dong Xiucheng, a professor at the China University of Petroleum, described the accident as "unusual."
"It is hard technically to find the reason and the exact location of the spill and to try to stop it since it is on the seabed not in a pipeline. Both ConocoPhillips and CNOOC must have tried to do it, but it takes time," Dong said.
" Grieder said. "They're trying to identify small cracks on the sea floor in a situation where you can't see much."
ConocoPhillips said Monday that divers were continuing to search the ocean floor and that remote-controlled robots were taking seabed samples to monitor the situation. The company said it was working with CNOOC on a plan to reduce pressure in the oil reservoir and was preparing a revised environmental impact report.
Thanks Stanley for the quote and links confirming my earlier suspicion.
"It is hard technically to find the reason and the exact location of the spill and to try to stop it since it is on the seabed not in a pipeline. Both ConocoPhillips and CNOOC must have tried to do it, but it takes time," Dong said.
This is not true at all. In the many oil spills / site investigations of geohazards, one can easily and logically locate the leaks thru the faults or fissures in the seafloor or beneath it looking at the seismic sections. Send me the seismic sections and I will tell them where the leaks were.
The leaks occurred after a series of strong after-shocks following the 11 March 2011 9mag Japan earthquake. That should give a clue. A most likely scenario....the geohazards survey missed out on the faults / shallow gas /oil emplacement or the oil companies ignored the warnings (either way it sounds familiar). Now that the leaks had occurred thru the reactivated faulted pathways, they cannot admit for fear of liabilities. So again "natural causes" replace "professional negligence".
The oil industry is full of this @!$%#. Yeah blame Mother Nature to save their own skin.
Ditto on the blaming Mother Nature. The Gulf has fault lines too. I was discussing this with some of those folks who want to wide open the drilling in the Gulf. They can't seem to wrap their mind around underwater earthquakes. LOL
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