• BK Lim et al (first drafted in June 2010, revised 29 Jan 2012)

To keep this article short, we posted these figures earlier at the following links:

Figure 165-3 BP doctored relooped video to make-believe BOP was still intact at 3rd well after 2nd blowout

Figure 165-4 BP's latest PR twist: DWH blowout disaster downgraded into an underwater pipeline burst

Figure 165-5 Undoctored videos confirm oil gushing blown crater was well#3 and not 2^nd leak on the riser

Figure 165-5a Doctored videos of the same blown crater confirm elaborate deception

Figure 165-6 Even DNV was fooled by the fake relooped videos after the 22 April explosion.

(figures 165-0, 165-1b and 165-2 are given in the next posting)

Of all the lies that came out of the Gulf disaster, the most preposterous has been the 3 leaks on the riser story. Figure 165-0a to 165-0c were the first few schematic illustrations of BP’s blowout incident. They were so embarrassingly stupid and logic defying, most experts believed the schematics were deliberately drawn by cartoonists to confuse the average Joe Public. The patchwork of realities resembled a makeshift car hastily assembled from parts of different size vehicles. Obviously a mini car body does not match the oversize truck tires. It is obvious the 5½ inch drill pipe at leak(3) cannot be the same 21inch diameter riser (actually a well casing) at leak(2). Yet the world's technical experts willfully overlooked this fundamental discrepancy and allowed the criminals to get away with murders. And America, the world's greatest nation shouting human rights abuses all over the world, allowed this hideous crime of mass destruction in its own backyard to go unpunished? In China, the corporate criminals responsible for this environmental carnage would have been executed instead of having their lives back. Can the 11 dead crewmen, their young families and thousands of Gulf victims who suffered numerous medical problems from the toxic contaminated Gulf waters and corexit sprayed on them, ever have their lives back?

Surely the world's most technologically advanced country could not have been so easily fooled by this “3 wells & 3 leaks on a single riser” fairy tale (concocted Beyond Phantasm). Besides the many controversial circumstances surrounding the sinking of the burning rig (DWH) and the sudden breaking of the super-strong riser in calm water, how could a third open-ended leak (3) be even possible beyond the completely severed riser at the second leak (2)? See fig165-0c. Leak(2) has to be the blown crater of well no.#3 as illustrated in many of our previous articles and irrefutably shown in Figure 165-5 with the right coordinates in the few undoctored videos.

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” S Homes.

Since June 2010, we have illustrated many physics of impossibilities concocted by BP. Two years later, it seems the world has not awaken from its ignorantly blissful slumber. This disaster is more than just a disastrous mega oil spill. If the world's foremost scientists and investigators cannot figure out the many fundamental flaws in the simple “3 leaks-3 wells” fairy tale, how can there be any hope of ever solving problems beyond kindergarten level? Forget the carbon tax, the ban on hazardous gas emission and just about any anti-pollution measures designed to improve the global environment. All these schemes have sinister undertones with profiting on mass miseries of others.

In the Gulf disaster, you have the biggest environmental polluter in human history. The punishment for a crime of mass destruction that could have been averted, was just a slap on the wrist? If this is not the clearest proof of corruption at the highest level and biggest HSE (health, safety & environment) farce, then what is?

It is clear the current political leaders had not been up to mark in dealing with this disaster. If their blinkered leadership cannot see beyond the deception in the Gulf, the only place they are are capable of leading to, is Hell. Do the American people really want to be sheepishly led down this road to hell? And world leaders follows obediently in tow.

If we do not wake up and smell the Corexit now, pretty soon there would not be a planet to save at all.

It was not the failure of safety regulations but the enforcement of regulations. The government admitted this much by sacking MMS's director and changing it to BOEMRE. It was not the failure of technology but the devious use of technology to cloak unfair business practices or safety farce at the very least. But would shrewd corporate criminals risk billions of investment dollars just to skimp on some daily operation expenses and safety devices? Just like the fairy tale of the 3 leaks, this was just the red herring. The oil industry will start on its decline just as the coal industry did, after its replacement by alternative cheaper and cleaner energy sources (The Future of Free Energy).

Giant global oil corporations may not have the next 10 years to recover their mega billion dollar investments. With the writings on the wall and their failures to control (prevent) the advent of free energy, the oil oligarchs had to devise emergency exit schemes before oil independence becomes public knowledge. High crude oil prices cannot be manipulated too high or long enough to recoup their billions of investment dollars globally. They risk becoming economic dinosaurs.

High oil prices depress global economic growth and hence non-sustainable for too long a period. Shallow, low cost production reservoirs are either not under their control or their reserves have already dwindled. The Middle East wars and conflicts are all about the control of cheap oil supplies. At low crude oil prices, they cannot recoup their high investment costs. Huge deep water oil reserves are just market hype. They are just too uneconomical for exploitation. But like the fake 134 billion US dollar bonds and 26 trillion US loans given out by the FED, mega oil spills could be leveraged as MIHOP environmental disasters for quick mega windfalls. More details in later articles.

Figures 165-0 to 165-6 accurately depict how deep down the abyss the oil industry had sank into. How can we pretend that all is well with the oil industry? The 11 crewmen died not because they did not perform their job well. On the contrary, these men plus the previous drilling crew performed exceptionally well. Otherwise they could not have drilled through hell to reach the reservoir at 18,360 ft below sea level. They were on a “suicide mission” without being told that the nightmare well was supposed to blow once they had successfully reached the reservoir. It is time to put the records straight. As Edmund Burke said; “All that is needed for evil to succeed is that decent human beings do nothing”.

The illustration of the 3 infamous leaks on a badly twisted riser, was designed to confuse and to twist public opinion to their advantage. Many experts in the industry wondered at the ludicrous illustration but no one dare to criticize big brother, BP. Below is one muffled, discussion from an astonished experienced driller at Drilling Ahead.

Riser Problems?(http://www.drillingahead.com/forum/topics/transocean deepwater horizon 1#ixzz1k7tHXgvt)

According to the Coast Guard and BP, oil is leaking from two spots along what is left of the riser system. Here's a schematic view: (figure 165-0b) dated 26 April 2010.

Originally, the risers (represented by the blue line in the graphic above) were affixed to the blowout preventer on the seafloor, and extended 5,000 feet straight up to the "moon pool" of the Deepwater Horizon. When the drilling vessel sank, it took the riser piping and bent it around like a pretzel.

The remnants of the riser system now follow a circuitous underwater route. According to BP, the risers extend from the wellhead up through the water column to about 1,500 feet above the seabed. Then the riser system buckles back down toward the seafloor. (Frankly, I'm astonished that it all held together as well as it has. It's a credit to the manufacturer, which I'll discuss below.)

According to the Transocean website, the riser devices on the Deepwater Horizon were manufactured by VetcoGray, a division of General Electric Oil & Gas. The specific designation is a "HMF Class H, 21 inch outside diameter riser; 90 foot long joints with Choke & Kill, and booster and hydraulic supply lines."

~~~~end of quote~~~

Why the pathetic 3 leaks on the broken riser excuse?

If there were really 3 leaks on a single riser, BP could have easily reduced three into one controllable leak at the source by cutting the riser at the top of the blowout preventer (BOP). That was precisely what BP did at the end of May to install the LMRP (Lower Marine Riser Package) cap on 3 June 2010. But why wait for 40 days? Why would BP need to go through the charade of top kill, junk shots, hot hats and all that nonsense? Why wait for 87 days before shutting down the flow at well A on 15 July? Why was there no massive oil spill or gas leaks before 2200z (1700 CDT) 22 April 2010? See the pattern yet?

BP's frauds and deception in the Gulf would have been exposed at the break of the disaster if they had not been so well coordinated and meticulously planned months beforehand. Official coverups could not have withstood the tsunami-force of massive public protests, even with forceful suppression. The pen is mightier than the sword. Deception is more effective in dissipating the focused energy of the masses. Once divided and confused with distorted truths, only can military force be effective in suppressing the sheepish masses to be culled. TPTB have been having lots of target practices in the third world countries and now it is time to use these tactics in their home crowd. Nothing happens by accident. Certainly not the BP's Gulf disaster which had been planned as early as 2007.

The ROV inspections of the wellhead, marine riser and BOP in the immediate aftermath of the incident show that the mega oil spill could have been easily averted with several run-of-the-mill options. It was the sort of controllable rig blowout-fire situation the industry expects and routinely trained for. It could have been recovered safely without ending in a disastrous mega oil spill. James Cameron of the Titanic fame was quoted as saying “US shouldn't be relying on BP's underwater intel. Those morons don't know what they're doing!”. Really? Or was ingenuity behind the cloak of stupidity.

The main reason for the deliberate blunders and delays in the recovery of the blowout and the oil spill, was to intentionally flood the Gulf with massive oil to cause market panic. No massive oil spill means no justification for spraying unprecedented massive amount of COREXIT. Bio-remediation was available and ready to be used. Yet millions of gallons of corexit had been stockpiled weeks before the mega spill occurred and surprisingly on standby to disperse on the first day itself. Yet there are those who still believe there was no vested business connection. The concerted media, political and industry deception onslaught was unmistakably deafening. Stupidity and global domination do not go hand in hand.

The initial gas blowout (20 April 2010) which killed 11 drilling crew on the burning Deepwater Horizon rig, failed to unleash the massive oil spill as PLANNED. A detonated explosion within the well shortly after 2200z (1700 CDT) did. That triggered explosion induced a bottom hole blowout that unleashed the full power of the gushing oil from the Macondo reservoir. Period!

Is it not a federal offense to lie so blatantly to the US Congress and American Public? Or is the system so screwed up, it is fashionable or even brilliant to get away with submitting doctored ROV videos to Congress? For the uninitiated, there were many accounts of BP committing perjury before and after Tony Hayward' congressional testimony. All ROV videos showing the still standing BOP with the Bent Riser (without the gas leak) from the 23 April till mid May 2010, were relooped footage recorded prior to the 22 April explosion shortly after 1700 CDT. Why? Because the BOP was already in pieces scattered over the seafloor after the 22 April bottom-well blowout. Again the doctored videos were deliberately ignored by investigators and mainstream media. Obvious, is it not?

Continue: Part 1 The farcical 3 leaks on the broken riser story

James Cameron: US shouldn't be relying on BP's underwater intel

Those morons don't know what they're doing!

(Reuters) - BP Plc won a court order keeping several potentially damaging emails out of a scheduled trial to determine responsibility for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Wednesday's ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan in New Orleans came a day after U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier rejected the oil company's effort to keep evidence about settlements it had already reached out of the trial.

The rulings came as Barbier prepares to preside on February 27 over a non-jury trial to assign blame for the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 people and caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

Plaintiffs include individuals and businesses, represented by a plaintiffs' steering committee that had sought to introduce the email evidence, as well as states and the U.S. government.

The main corporate defendants include BP, rig owner Transocean Ltd and Halliburton Co, which provided cementing services for the Macondo oil well. Anadarko Petroleum Corp, one of BP's partners in the well, is also involved in the trial.

Shushan granted BP's request to exclude as hearsay several 2009 emails among Anadarko employees about tropical storm damage to another Transocean rig that had been under contract to BP.

In one email, an Anadarko employee expressed disappointment that BP had not disclosed some information related to the damage, prompting another to respond: "Bummer. I'm amazed that they did not tell us about this."

Shushan also granted BP's and Transocean's request to keep out a June 2010 email from Halliburton employee Ryan Haire questioning their reported findings regarding some tests, saying he had no personal knowledge of those findings.

The judge also granted Halliburton's request to exclude an email from a BP geologist to a colleague in February 2010, offering "thanks for the @!$%#ty cement job."

Halliburton contended that the email was no more than a casual, tasteless joke made by one friend to another. Shushan concluded that there was no showing that the email was a "business record" of the cement work that could be introduced into evidence.

Barbier had on Tuesday ruled in Halliburton's favor on whether evidence of BP's settlements with Anadarko and other companies was admissible at trial.

Halliburton had said such evidence could show the settling companies' potential bias in BP's favor, while BP had countered that they were irrelevant to establishing liability.

Here in America, as a foreign entity you can kill 11 men, injure 17 more, cause unprecedented ecological and economical destruction to 4 states, destroy hundreds of thousands of animals, take over the media, science and regional healthcare, decimate cultures, chemically poison thousands of people, and leave a big fat mess behind, for the same cost as one bank’s government bail out, (Wells Fargo 2009).

Heck, last year alone BP slammed a net profit of $25.7 billion. So much for the 2010 worry that BP might go into bankruptcy over the fiasco.

And according to a UPI.com article, found here

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/02/05/Settlement-possible-in-BP-oil-spill-case/UPI-61971328459069/, state officials may actually be encouraging the idea, with the help of the DOJ and the administration.

It's official: 2011 was a record-busting year in the oil industry, with the five largest companies -- BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Royal Dutch Shell -- reporting all-time-high profits of $137 billion. That's a 75 percent jump from the year before, even though the giants produced less oil than in 2010.

It's the multinational way to go in a slumping economy: Get paid more for doing less.

BP an­nounced today that its 2011 profit to­taled $26 bil­lion, a 114 per­cent jump from the year be­fore, when the com­pany’s “fail­ure of su­per­vi­sion and ac­count­abil­ity” caused the worst oil spill in U.S. his­tory. As the com­pany pre­pares for its up­com­ing crim­i­nal trial, let’s take a look at how BP has made out after the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon dis­as­ter:

Look at this important ROV video. It is a technique taken from the "Art of Mass Deception".

How do you hide evidence by showing it?  

Clue: Throughout the week we have been showing evidence of heading and orientation. When confused, try looking from a different perspective.  

On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill site, crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 3.4 million gallons a day, an amount a million gallons higher than what the government later believed spilled daily from the site.

The email conversation, which BP agreed to release Friday as part of federal court proceedings, suggests BP managers recognized the potential of the disaster in its early hours, and company officials sought to make sure that the model-developed information wasn't shared with outsiders. The emails also suggest BP was having heated discussions with Coast Guard officials over the potential of the oil spill.

America is in trouble. This a planned disaster no doubt. We are looking at the greatest catastrophe to hit Mankind. ....And they can't fix it or won't fix it. 

How do you bring the world's greatest Republic to its kness?

Kindra: Does that make my people expendable?

Santa Barbara cinematographer Mike deGruy died in a fiery helicopter crash Friday in New South Wales, Australia.

According to KEYT, deGruy, 60, was in Australia to scout locations for an upcoming documentary project.

The Age newspaper in Melbourne reported that deGruy and the helicopter’s pilot, fellow filmmaker Andrew Wight, were killed when their aircraft crashed and burst into flames during takeoff near Nowra on the south coast of New South Wales. Local authorities said both men died at the scene.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

One of the films on which he worked was Deepwater Rising, which chronicled the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Friend and fellow Santa Barbaran Harry Rabin, CEO of On the Wave Productions and the documentary’s cinematographer, spent two months on location with him for the project.

It appears high-level BP officials made a concerted effort to keep secret a completely legitimate spill estimate – based on a tested scientific model – and disclosed a completely unfounded, grossly inaccurate flow rate. Go figure.

The series of decisions surrounding the “false estimate” episode are all neatly packaged in a damning email exchange between BP employees released in federal court in New Orleans on Friday (Jan. 27). The startling new evidence provides a glimpse inside what is shaping up to rank among the biggest, most flagrant corporate coverups in recent history. From a Jan. 27 Times-Picayune report:

The April 22 email from Rob Marshall, BP’s subsea manager for the Gulf of Mexico, to deepwater project manager Gary Imm and corporate vice president Jonathan Sprague is an exhibit in the massive oil spill litigation slated for trial Feb. 27.

Marshall advised Imm and Sprague that an expert named Alistair Johnston had a new model for how much oil might be spewing from the wellhead a mile below the surface and 50 miles from the Mississippi River delta. Johnston’s new estimate, Marshall wrote, was 82,000 barrels a day if the well has an open hole.

The response from Imm suggests that BP and the Coast Guard were already butting heads over how much oil was coming out of the busted well – and that 82,000 barrels a day wasn’t a number BP wanted anyone to hear.

“A number of people have been looking at this and we already have had difficult discussions with the USCG (Coast Guard) on the numbers,” Imm wrote back to Marshall and Sprague. “Please tell Alistair not to communicate to anyone on this.”

So much for the “complete transparency” and cooperation BP pledged to embrace.

In 2005 President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act, which retained the focus of Cheney's report, into law. It included what has become known as "the Halliburton loophole," which removed authority from the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate a potentially dangerous gas-drilling process invented by Halliburton.  

These links, the fact that Cheney's former campaign press secretary Ann Womack-Colton has recently become BP's head of U.S. media relations, and the general pro-oil, anti-regulation atmosphere in the Bush years have not escaped the attention of the pundits. MSNBC's Chris Matthews highlighted the Halliburton-Cheney connection in an interview with Jay Leno on the BP spill. Frank Rich, in The New York Times, pointed out that the Interior Department degenerated into a "cesspool of corruption," under Bush and Cheney, and that the pair bequeathed Obama "a Minerals Management Service as broken as the Bush-Cheney FEMA exposed by Katrina."

• BK Lim et al (first drafted in June 2010, revised 29 Jan 2012)

Why would BP spend more than 100 millions USD on PR media blitzkrieg to change public perception of the massive oil spill? Remember the famous doctored photos which BP admitted to?

http://gizmodo.com/5592836/bp-photoshops-another-official-image-again-terribly

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jul/23/bp-oil-spill-pictures

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/oil/7904221/BP-admits-it-Photoshopped-official-images-as-oil-spill-cut-and-paste-row-escalates.html

2010 July 30- why-is-bps-macondo-blowout-so-disastrous-beyond-patch-up

4 What you don’t see can be covered up.

Perhaps the botched-up “photochop-chop” photos put up by BP was just a test. To see how keen the public eyes were in following BP’s clean up efforts. It would be hard to believe BP paid professionals for such a shoddy job. We should give BP more credit than that (remember the shares issues)? Let’s play dumb and the problems will go away.

Many experts in the oil industry were surprised and questioned the rationality of capping the well when the relief wells were so close to achieving their “bottom kill” objectives. They could have installed the TOP CAP much earlier. This means that BP knew if the gushing well was completely shut at the top, the oil and gas would spread beneath the sea floor and gas seeps would start appearing. So the TOP CAP had to be placed just before the relief well was ready for the “magic show”. Hurricane Bonnie spoilt the show and the delay is already showing signs of stress (gas seeps).

This could also mean that BP was getting less and less confident that the relief wells would work. The relief wells were held up as the last Trump card. If it fails in full (ROV) view of the concerned public throughout the world, BP’s shares would drop like a stone. There are good geological reasons why the chances of the relief wells’ success are less than 30%. But that would be in the next posting.

So instead “of going on a public stage with a final trump card of 30% chance of success” and risking everything BP stands for, a magic show will be set up so that what ever happens, it will be a success. How?

With a gushing well in full view, a successful bottom kill would show oil slowing down to eventually a tickle. With the cap on, it would be easier to manipulate the data. Thus botched-up photos were a test to check the keenness of the public eye. If the bottom kill fails, there is no independent monitor to prove it. BP could quickly pack and leave the site. Without ROVs’ video, the world is blind. Independent scientific researches later on could be disputed or controlled in post-recovery mopped up battle plan.

The TOP CAP had to be installed and the integrity pressure tests used as an excuse to completely shut down the flow. There is no need to prove the well is leaking. It is already a fact. David Copperfield could not have performed better.

~~~end of quote ~~~~

A primer on QC analyses of doctored ROV videos. What? BP doctored ROV videos?

It is almost unbelievable that a respectable global giant like BP could be so unethical. If you can't make it, fake it. That was what BP did. So far we have been proven right. There is a lot more. Each time we dig, we found more dirt. Many had also wondered how we could tell the difference especially in the light of so many doctored videos released by BP. And why isn't the mainstream media keeping so quiet on BP's data frauds.

With some fundamentals, you can also be your own detective. Here is the how.

Time & space, cannot be created or subtracted but flow continuously in unison. For example, if an ROV moves from point A to B and then to C, its movement can be described by time, motion, speed and position. You cannot substitute C by A without screwing up the consistency of the all the time-spatial relationships. BP substituted well A coordinates on videos which had been recorded previously at the 3^rd well location showing the BOP and Bent Riser. You might wonder why? Such elaborate deceptions played in frontal view of world's audience cannot be just for an April Fool's joke. See later articles coming up on the series.

Essentially it means that you can lie to some people some of the time but you cannot lie to all the people all of the time.

As you add more factors or constrains, the narrow path of lying becomes even narrower. It is like broadening the stage prop. Remember in the Art of Mass Deception, the stage prop is meant only for the front view audience. Look beyond the stage prop and you will see the flaws. The depth variation constrain was added to our analyses which apparently the fraudsters (not being surveyors) were largely ignorant of.

All of the video footage handed to us have their time-spatial details embedded in them. Adulterating them (by us) would leave graphic evidence no matter how professionally done, especially with videos. Our job here was to prove inconsistencies and adulteration of time-spatial details. We do not adulterate videos submitted to us for analyses in order to fit our analyses. There are many ways to check this but this is not included in our primer here for obvious reasons.

BP's raw video feeds were recorded independently without embedding the time-spatial details. Hence it would have been very easy for BP's technicians to broadcast even live video feeds with superficially generated time-spatial details. This is what we suspected they did generally but not all the time. Each video in question has to be examined on case to case basis.

Depending on operators, the date format can sometimes switch from American (mm dd yy) to British (dd mm yy) and feet to metric. The coordinates are all in feet, but depth and altitude can be in feet or metres. The depth here refers to the ROV Depth or the height of the water column above the ROV (measured by a depth pressure sensor which had to be correctly calibrated). If there is a bulk error (say 30ft) it should rightly appear in all depths displayed. Thus, by subtracting the bulk (or datum error) we can retrieve back the right depth. Altitude, depth, coordinates, heading, are all designed for automatic input from the sensors without human intervention once the system is calibrated, up and running. Any human intervention thereafter is likely to be for fraudulent purposes other than normal operation.

The water depth at the ROV location is the sum of the altitude (measured by an ultrasonic transducer to the seabed) and the ROV depth. This is where the bathymetric chart (in BP's exploration plan) comes in handy. Both well A and B have the same water depth at 4992 ft (+/- 5 ft). The third well being up slope, has a water depth of about 4960 ft. An error range of 5 -10 ft is acceptable but the sensitivity (or variation) when the ROV is stationary should not be more than 1 ft. Heading (Hdg) is the direction of the ROV, measured by the gyro, in degrees from 0 to 360. Be aware that the ROV cameras have both zoom and tilt capability. Some of the ROVs (we are told) have hind cameras mounted on them as well. Still that does not explain the motion and orientation discrepancies in the video; resulting in obvious disconnect between the motion in the video and relative position of the recording ROV.

What we have been unable to demonstrate on still snaphots are the inconsistencies in the motion, speed, direction or orientation so obvious in the playback of these doctored videos? For example on a stationary viewport showing the spewing well, the recording ROV could not have move by hundreds of feet without affecting the area of view. With a stationary ROV (coordinates variation < 1 feet) the object in view (within the viewport) should move in opposite direction to the camera's rotation. For example, if the ROV is rotating to the starboard (increasing heading degrees, to the right facing the bow) the object in view should move towards the left and out of the viewport. But in BP's doctored videos, you will see the disconnect caused by superficially adding the navigation information after the field recording.

One BP schill commented that BP might have accidentally merged the wrong navigation information from other dives. Perhaps. But why do these “wrong navigation information” consistently get merged for only certain sensitive locations and events? Consistency in the “accidental errors” could only mean intent to cheat under the guise of “naturally occurring” accidents or errors.

In many doctored videos, you will see the heading change significantly but the BOP remained stationary within the viewport. You can demonstrate this by using a narrow beam pen-torch light shinning on an object. Of course there are the classic time skips (forward and backwards in time), coordinates jumps of more than hundreds of feets etc etc. Hopefully you can have some fun watching these ROV videos with the right perspective.

BP could only fool the world because the world allows BP to.

Having established some fundamentals, we now analyse figure 165-5, an early video example where the actual ground details were recorded, unadulterated. (So far we had not found any on these sets of videos but readers are welcome to feed us back if we had missed out on any). As a comparison to doctored videos, see Figure 165-5a Recycled Data, Frauds & BP's Gulf Disaster.

All the 3 snapshots extracted from different videos show the famous blowout crater with the huge black oil plume, gushing out to the south (see red arrow in the RT video, bottom left). BP misled the world in claiming that this was just a leak on the broken riser. It was not. It was the blown crater of the third well, which they labeled as well BE. Why would they label the well that blew on 20 April 2010 as well BE and not well A? There is a lot more in depth details in figure 165-5. This is just the tip of the iceberg (frauds in the industry). See later articles for more amazing deception by BP.

We can be quite confident on the direction of the oil flow (from the north) as the picture frame is almost parallel to the pipe (casing). The video snapshot on the lower left was captured from RT broadcast dated on 30 May 2010. The top snapshots were extracted from video recorded on 23 April and 5May(blurred?) 2010. All 3 snapshots show the supposedly 2^nd leak on the riser in a crater, referred to as Leak(2).

Based on our past analyses and cross-references, we beg to differ. We had argued from different angles, that leak(2) was in fact the blown crater of the third well (BE) which they intentionally blew shortly after 1700 CDT (2220z) on 22 April. Besides trying to misrepresent the third well (BE) as well A, this “missing massive explosive event” was one of the main reason BP's official story was so ludicrously inconsistent.

The main story (BP's Deception in the Gulf, exposed) will explain further but for now we want to demonstrate the consistencies in the un-doctored videos on an obviously same oil-spewing crater.

The graph on the right bottom is a to-scale plot of the location of the 3 wells. The red text gives the details of the ROV position as per the coordinates in the snapshot. On this video, the ROV was 43ft west of the well BE crater. Thus the heading of 97 deg is about right. The water depth (4957.7 + 4.7) of 4962 ft is much closer to the depth of well BE than well A or well B.

Both the top photos show the yellow pipe (casing) to be dipping northward into the “cemented sediment” with the oil plume gushing out south. Thus all the 3 photos are consistent with each other. The fact that no coordinates were displayed for the videos on 23 April 2010, strongly suggest that BP was well aware of the sensitivity of that information. On some of the earlier videos, the coordinates were displayed as blanks or zeros. In later videos, the coordinates were falsified.

What is the chance of a falling 5000ft long super strong riser (with a 3.5 million pound load-carrying capacity) breaking into two at exactly the same location the DWH burning rig was reported to have drifted to? And where is the other half of the broken riser in the crater? It could not have floated away if it was heavy enough to dig itself into more than 5m of cemented seafloor. The probability must be astronomical, considering that BP made the report (that the burning DWH rig had drifted 714 ft NW from well A) at 220402z (23:02 CDT 21 April); less than 2 days after the discovery of the blown crater. How did BP know beforehand the 5000ft riser was going to break at that point? More amazingly, could a burning rig drift in a dead calm sea, as evident from independently taken photos? BP acknowledged the semi-sub was “anchored” in place by the riser attached to the BOP at the wellhead. Is this not inconsistent with the Drift Theory? How come none of the fire fighting vessels noticed the drift at sea? Why did the reported drift came from BP's Command Centre and not from the coastguards in the field?

As there is negligible slack in the non-stretchable riser, the burning rig had to sink by at least 50ft for it to move that distance. The burning DWH was observed to be listing from the morning of 22 April with the riser still intact. The DWH did not start to sink until the riser was (intentionally) severed at or around 10:22 CDT 22 April. Such precise timing!

This was what we wrote on 25 Aug 2010.

Twisted tale of the missing 3^rd well that blew on 20 April 2010.

DWH never moved 714ft NE as reported by BP to the Coast Guard. BP had to come up with something to explain why the burning DWH was in that location. The sea was calm and DWH had no power to move. This further confirmed DWH was sitting on top of the S20BC location as correctly predicted by the seabed debris forensic analysis. BP had to move the fallen BOP and placed it on Well A in the aftermath of the blowout. This is one of the many reasons BP cannot release the video footage of the BOP immediately after the second explosion blew off the BOP and broke off the bottom fifth of the riser string as detailed in The-mystery-of-the-april-20-blowout-revealed and in The-art-of-mass-deception-part-1.

While many missing parts to the giant jigsaw puzzle have yet to be put in place, it is evident we are getting very close to the truth. Hence the intensified attacks and cointelpro on us. We had been confident enough since July 2010 to boldly publish what insiders can only whisper in private.

The significance of figure 165-5.

It confirms that the crater with the massive oil plume which BP claimed to be the second leak on the riser was indeed the blown 3^rd well. The unadulterated videos are “consistently” consistent with our earlier assertions that the 3^rd well that blew its top (BOP, well casing etc) and ended up as an open crater, gushing massive oil directly from the Macondo Reservoir 18,360 ft below. It is time the American public, victims and the world know the truth. BP had pulled wools over America's eyes with the fabricated 1 well - 3 leaks on the riser story long enough.

You have to wonder why BP spent more than 100 million USD to mercilessly pound their fabricated lies into the mainstream media and cyberspace to conceal the truth. The massive oil spill in the Gulf is only one of their Planned-To-Happen series of disasters. It is not for fun. These disasters including 911 were planned and triggered to serve their multiple global agenda of controlling the world. The late Matts Simmons sacrificed his life to bring the American public the truth of the BP's Gulf Disaster. His death and scores of those fallen heroes, must not be in vain. We will continue to suffer as victims (one way or another) of past and yet to materialise Inside-Job disasters.

God help us all if the truth continues to be suppressed. The next disaster may be much worse than just a massive oil spill.

A sneak preview of the startling truths in the Gulf disaster in the coming articles.

The making of BP’s Mega Oil Spill in the Gulf

There was no mega oil spill before 1700 CDT 22 April. The mega oil spill could have been averted with several run of the mill options. The 20 April incident was the sort of controllable rig-blowout fire situation the industry expects and routinely trained for. It could have been recovered safely without ending in a disastrous mega oil spill. The facts will show that an explosion within the well was purposely detonated on the evening of 22 April 2010 to induce a second blowout that unleashed the high pressure oil gush from the Macondo reservoir. The second bottom-hole blowout, breaking of the marine riser and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH), were clear subterfuge from within. How could the official investigations into the causes of this environmental disaster, miss out on all these?

The initial gas blowout (20 April 2010) which killed 11 drilling crew on the burning Deepwater Horizon rig, did not unleash the massive oil spill as BP and the government regulators had wanted us to believe. A detonated explosion within the well on the evening of 22 April, shortly after 2200z (1700 CDT) did.

BP’s Killing Spree in the GOM

Irrefutable proofs and connections of the dots would be presented in the later parts of this series dubbed “BP’s Killing Spree in the GOM”. The articles would show that BP knowingly drilled into 3 hazardous (high risk) well locations (not 1 well as BP officially declared before the US Congress) without adequate risk aversion precautions.

 

It is like having repeated unprotected sex with a confirmed HIV positive partner despite being forewarned. The evidence would also show that BP’s killing spree in the gulf, unmistakably started as early as March 2010. Pro BP apologists argued the abnormal high number of stranded cetaceans (> 60 dolphins and whales) in March 2010 (a month before the blowout in April) was proof that the cetaceans were stranded from unknown natural causes before the mega oil spill. The March average for the years 2002-2009, was less than 19. They failed to mention that Methane, Hydrogen Sulfide (commonly encountered in exploration drilling), drilling mud and cement had been spilling in enormous quantities (abnormal circulation losses suffered by BP) into the gulf since February 2010.

 

The toxicity peaked in March 2010 coinciding with the heaviest drilling losses from the 3 wells at the more problematical shallow zone; from late Feb to early April. BP abandoned well A in mid Feb with hefty drilling losses during an out of well control situation, drilled well B and well BE (3^rd well) with even heavier drilling losses from 16 Mar to 7April. There is no necessity to invoke unexplained natural causes as the stranded rate correlates very well with the level of toxicity in the gulf.

The spike for the month of March 2011 was again due to increased toxicity caused by the 9.0 Japan earthquake which shook up more oil discharges into the gulf water from the shallow oil accumulations. The statistics on the stranded dolphins accurately reflect the toxicity in the gulf water as revealed in this article,Mystery Of The New Found Oil Revealed.

 

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge has ruled that Halliburton, the Houston-based company that supplied cement for the ill-fated Macondo well that blew in the Gulf of Mexico, may not have to pay many of the pollution claims that resulted from the catastrophic spill because it was shielded in a contract with well-owner BP.

Still, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier said Tuesday that Halliburton is not exempt from paying punitive damages and civil penalties that arise from the April 20, 2010, blowout off the Louisiana coast. Those penalties could amount to billions of dollars.

The judge also said Halliburton's indemnity could be voided if the company is found to have defrauded BP. He did not rule on BP's allegations that Halliburton committed fraud by declaring the cement safe to use.

(Updated 02 Feb 2010)

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.....Mahatma Gandhi

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.......George Orwell.

We have presented many examples of doctored ROV video with adulterated details since the start of our independent investigation on the BP's Macondo blowout and the mega oil spill in the Gulf. Although any form of adulteration is unethical, we have unearthed many forms of doctored documents, videos, survey logs and even seismic data in our QC/QA (quality control / quality assurance) work in the oil industry. Unbelievable but in reality such fraudulent practices are the norm rather than the deception. Smooth Operators work around regulations as the following extract shows.

Below is a fictionalized account of the safety frauds that are occurring on a daily basis in the offshore industry.

Nobody believes it when you are telling the truth, fictions are more believable.

Imagine a geohazards survey vessel commissioned by an oil company (NeverDelay Oil) for an urgent survey. Geohazards surveys are always urgent and the safety clearance (insurance purposes) for drilling an oil well is always required like yesterday. But the vessel master who was contracted by the shipping agent to command the vessel just a week ago, refused to sail a vessel of such dilapidated condition.

The vessel (let us call it M/V Broken Junk 1 aka BJ1) had been mothballed at port for many years. Although the sea worthiness and safety certificates had just been issued, the Indonesian sea captain knew better than to risk the lives of his 40 crewmen comprising nationalities from several countries including Australia, Singapore and UK, He asked for urgent critical repairs to be made first in Singapore as required by law. But the world's largest contractor (fully accredited ISO 9000 plus) also known by the name FuGold Intl (Forever UnderGoing Repairs Offshore) insisted that the vessel sail by the next 3 days. Faced with extreme pressure, the captain resigned on the spot. No problemo.

The smooth operator always have a list of subservient free-lunch employees who they can depend on at times like this. Captain SNA (ServeAlways Noquestions Asked) answered the urgent call for duty but his medical fitness was a problem. He has been suffering from abdominal pains for months. He was afraid of going for a proper medical checkup in case his persistent medical condition grounded him permanently from offshore duties. He needed the job. This last minute call up was what he had been waiting for. He informed Fugold his medical certificate had expired (offshore workers over 50 years old require annual checkup). Again no problemo. “just fly in to port, we will arrange..” said the operation manager widely known as Mr SafetyFraud. He called up SMC (SickaPoor Medical Centre) for the instant medical certificate to be issued without physical examination. Fugold could have insisted Capt SNA take his medical examination at Manila but he would be needed to attend the Offshore Safety Survivor Safety course as required by HSE (health, safety environment) regulations. It would have taken another 3 more days. At 50,000 USD/day charge to NeverDelay Oil (NDO), it would mean a loss of 150,000 USD chargeable income, besides incurring additional berth charges at port and full onboard survey crew costs. Why bother when counterfeit safety certificates can be faxed to the vessel for cursory inspection? After all, almost all of the vessel's certificates had been fraudulently obtained in the country of registration where corruption is rampant. It would only be a cursory inspection once the credentials of the EU registered international global company is impressed upon the would-be inspectors.

Fugold is accredited against the international quality standard ISO 9001:2000 and operates in accordance with a Health, Safety standard OHSAS 18001:999 and Environmental Management System standard ISO14001:2004 which is integrated with its Quality Management System. Together these systems conform to all national and international legislation as well as industry guidelines. Fugold is a member of the multi-national group of companies with 200 offices operating in over 45 countries. Clients can benefit from individual and collective experience of hundreds of survey professionals worldwide.

With credentials like that, who would dare to question the authenticity of the medical certificate issued from a respectable first world country ranked as the least corrupted country in the world.

The vessel sailed 3 days later after the QC Client Rep from RePeeAss (Restassured Problems Aside Intl) skimmed through all the safety papers and certificates, rushed immediately to his cabin to pass out from 3 days of booze-binge before coming offshore. Less than 3 hours out into the open sea, fire broke out at the engine room followed by a total blackout.

The contractor's party chief (KendoNever SayDie) assured the crew everything was in order. He issued a warning “I am afraid we might not be able complete the survey before this old junk totally breaks down. So please rush everything just in case another fire puts us out of operation. I want everyone to keep a constant lookout for fire breakout 24/7. Our lives depend on it. We have disengaged the fire alarm. Otherwise nobody gets any sleep at all. I know it will be hot in your cabins. The chief engineer informed that the central air-con system cannot be used without risking another fire from the messy burnt internal wiring. Treat this as your privileged Sauna Bath cruise. The operation and recording rooms are fitted with new external air-con. This will be added incentives to work longer hours. Good luck and God Bless us all.”

PC KNSD then ordered the engineers to by-pass the safety fuse-box with direct wiring, disengaged the pesky fire alarm and went on to report to FGHQ SF.

PC KNSD: “Houston ...we have a problem....blah....blah”

FGHQ SF: “IRY. But proceed with O survey plan, repeat urgent. Put incident as Successful Fire Drill. How's CR?”

PC KNSD: “Still passed out”

FGHQ SF: “Good thing we had 3 days at Manila. Put the bar tab as Mob Expenses & Port clearance. Use the Misc ER”.

PC KNSD: “Ok, but..err..fraid' the x-wire might not hold for 3 weeks. BJ1 leaking, MER heating up, stalled a couple of times and Bilge pump NF. Other minor problems but culd burst into bigger things. Man this bucket shudn't even be out here”

FGHQ SF: “Typhoon startin' in the Pacific. Shud hit landfall some time next week. Call weather, head to nearest port next week. Cebu alright? Parts heading there”

PC KNSD: “We are too far south to be affected but Ok, Think of somethin' ”

3 days later 5 am:

PC KNSD: “Houston ...we have a new problem”

FGHQ SF: “Huh? What's up? Port call another 2 days to go”

PC KNSD: “Capt passed out. He's in extreme pain”

FGHQ SF: “OMG. What happened?”

PC KNSD: “His appendix burst, I think. Can't move. Can't touch stomach area. Need Medivac”

FGHQ SF: “Jeezus. Finished the priority site yet?”

PC KNSD: “No, another 5 hours to go. Err another problem.. seismic compressor gone total kaput last night. Halon gas-fire smothering system discharged by another fire in MER. Control panel burnt. No rudder control, Total radio comms blackout”

FGHQ SF: “Jeezus. This is worse than I thought. Knew we shudn't hv taken that MF old junk. But GM said NO. Price as low. @!$%#. Git her for 500USD and charge NeverDelay Oil 50,000 USD/day. How much lower can u get? Log these down, will ya. Will git Mohan to give another month free for all these @!$%#in problems. Hold a minute. Get back to you”.

After 10 minutes.

FGHQ SF: “Ok. Pull up gears and head for Manila”

PC KNSD: “What! Site not completed yet. El Nido is nearest, get there in 3 hours.”

FGHQ SF: “No. Change of Plans. Reloop previous data for present site. Look Dbase in 2007 for Dummo Petroleum. They are just 50 km apart. Similar seafloor & water depth. Will pm RepeeAss on better than expected survey progress. Cite the exceptionally calm sea before the storm. Can't repair them @!$%#in French-made power supply-voltage regulator. Need to be in Manila for major rep job. Do the necessary data swap and details. Can you limp back to port?”

PC KNSD: “Think so. At half speed ok but ...but Capt's in pain. Dunno if he can make it that long. Shud we drop him in El Nido first?”

FGHQ SF: “No, No! Don't @!$%#in do that. Will blow our cover. No port call before Manila. It wuld be in the records. Can't have that. Open Sea okay. @!$%#! He is such a pain in the ass. Just pump in some more morphin or somethin. If he doesn't make it, report an accident or somethin that don't put us in a spot. Serve him right for getting onboard with a pre med problem. Shuld hv known better than to get him that fake MC. He will git us all into lots' trouble. Make sure it is an accident, ok? Don't ask again. Anybody knows. What about the CR?”

PC KNSD: “only the mess boy and Chief mate. Can handle 'em. A big bonus'll do. At M'nila, a night out ok? Don't worry bout' CR. Gave him somethin' for his hang-over. Will keep him in bed next 2 days until M'nila. Over and out. ”

(NB: Capt SNA had advanced gallstones in the bladder medical conditions. Immediate surgical procedures saved his life just in time upon landing. His doctors commented he would have died if he was brought in a bit later. )

At Manila Port, 2 days later.

NeverDelay Oil company (project manager) to FGHQ SF, PC KNSD & survey crew at sign off:

“I want to thank everyone for an excellent job. Evrything went smoothly and exceptionally well. Best of all we beat the deadline. The CR told me you guys went overboard to save us from being hit by weather. Thanks. Let me buy you all a dinner tonight at the Hilton.”

~ above is a compressed rendition of 95% truth and 5% fiction (times, names of parties involved). With this happening everywhere in the world, it is no big surprise the videos from BP were doctored to cover the truth to conveniently play out the deception game. If things play out better than expected or the field operations run too smoothly, junk it. It never happens. Murphy's Laws always apply.

See figure 165-5a as one of the many proofs of recycled data and doctored video. It will be apparent in the coming articles that the blown crater with the oil plume (referred to as Leak(2) on the riser) is actually the blown crater of the third well (BE). As the crater on the seafloor cannot be moving, it is obvious that BP falsified the navigation details on the video. Adulteration, faking and all sorts of frauds are being committed every day in almost every segment of the industry. Because what you don't know, don't hurt until a disaster blows up in our face. Then it is called an “Accident”. In BP's Macondo blowout and mega oil spill disaster, it was more than just an accident.

Douglas H. Brown, the chief mechanic for the Deepwater Horizon, testified Wednesday that he witnessed a “skirmish” on the rig between a BP well site leader and crew members employed by Transocean, the rig’s owner, the morning of the blast.

¶ Mr. Brown said the disagreement followed BP’s decision to replace heavy drilling fluid with lighter saltwater before the well was sealed with a final cement plug.

¶ “Well, this is how it’s going to be,” the BP official said, according to Mr. Brown.

¶ Mr. Gowers declined to answer questions about workers’ accusations or about whether cost may have factored into the company’s decision to use the casing system it chose for the Deepwater Horizon.

Mark Hafle, the BP drilling engineer who wrote plans for well casings and cement seals on the Deepwater Horizon's well, testified that the well had lost thousands of barrels of mud at the bottom. But he said models run onshore showed alterations to the cement program would resolve the issues, and when asked if a cement failure allowed the well to "flow" gas and oil, he wouldn't capitulate.

Hafle said he made several changes to casing designs in the last few days before the well blew, including the addition of the two casing liners that weren't part of the original well design because of problems where the earthen sides of the well were "ballooning." He also worked with Halliburton engineers to design a plan for sealing the well casings with cement.

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BP Pressured Rig Worker to Hurry Before Disaster, Father Says
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The truth of the disaster is:

1. BP drilled 3 wells (well A, well B and then the third which was labelled BE).

2. The blowout that occurred at 2200 CDT 20 April 2010 did not breach the base cement plug as we had analysed as far back as July 2010. It was caused by a shallow gas influx from the gas-saturated weak Sub Formation (GWSF) zone.  See http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/30/4781973-why-is-bps-macondo-blowout-so-disastrous-beyond-patch-up

3. The more disastrous second bottom-hole blowout occurred on the evening of 22 April  (after 1700 CDT). It was induced by a powerful explosion detonated from within the well. This started the mega oil spill in the gulf. The BOP, riser and top hole casings were blown off the well and lay scattered on the seafloor.  In its place, the famous crater with the oil spewing out. BP called it the 2nd leak on the riser. Tony Hayward tried to twist it further by saying "It was only a small leak in a big ocean".

4. They had to fake the standing BOP from earlier recorded footage. The only trouble is ....there was no gas/oil spewing from the cracks in the Bent Riser. Because the videos on 23 April onwards were all recorded before the 2nd bottom hole blowout. 

5. 20 days later, they reassembled the riser onto a new BOP at well A. What you saw then was the "fake blowout gushing well" while the real gusher well was bellowing 720 ft NW of well A.

Hard to believe. Stay tuned as we present even more evidence. If this is not the truth, we would have been tripping over a thousand times since July 2010. The fact that we did not, shows we had been on the right path towards unearthing the whole truth about this disaster. The truth is so much stranger than fiction. Wait till you read the coming series, currently in their final drafts.

BP's deception in the Gulf, exposed.

BP's killing spree in the Gulf ~ dealing with long term environmental consequences of the Gulf disaster

The mafia in the global oil industry ~ the crime of mass destruction and unscrupulous market manipulation behind these mega oil spill disasters.

Washington, DC — Top Obama officials manipulated scientific analyses of independent experts to seriously lowball the amount of oil leaking from the BP Deepwater Horizon, according to a scientific integrity complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

Documents obtained by PEER through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit indicate White House pressure to present low-range estimates as best estimates. In fact, numbers presented to the public were less than half the true flow rate.

On May 19, 2010, one month after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, the White House announced creation of a group of experts from academia, industry and government to generate an accurate and independent estimate of the oil leak rate. This group was called the Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG).

Using new scientific integrity rules, PEER today filed a complaint charging that the leader of one of the FRTG Teams, Dr. William Lehr of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), manipulated the scientific results of the FRTG experts throughout the entire crisis to significantly understate the spill rate. Lehr is also the author of the now infamous “Oil Budget Calculator” and a report concluding 75% of the oil was gone from the Gulf by August 2010.

The pictures speak for themselves on the gross distortion of truth. Are we going to let BP get away wit this? Did 11 crew die in a preplanned mega oil spill?  Three things you cannot hide, the SUN, the Moon and the Truth ~ Buddha.

According to all mainstream media and investigation reports, the gas blowout on 2200 CDT 20 April 2010, started the oil gushing out of the Macondo Reservoir continuously for the next 87 days. Total estimated oil leaked: 5 million barrels. Yet on all the video footage on 22 April 2010, there was no leaks at all.

Early morning of Friday, 23 April 2010, CBS News broadcast the following statement from the Federal On-Scene Coordinator Rear Admiral Mary Landry (the ranking federal official on the spill response at that time):

“At this time there is no crude emanating from that wellhead at the ocean floor . . . . there is no oil emanating from the riser either. That statement was made after BP enlisted remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to investigate the immediate wellhead area. Footage shown from those ROVs did not show any leaks”.

BP’s own videos at http://OilSpillhub.org show no leakage at this time.

Yet 20 days later, the world was mesmerized 24/7 with the live broadcast of the Gushing Well? How did BP manage to turn on and off the well? Why were the videos from 23 April 2010 till mid May showing the BOP with the Bent Riser all doctored with falsified ROV details, inconsistent coordinates and headings? This has to be the greatest magic (deception) show on earth; "BP's deception in the GUlf". 

Tony Hayward, the former chief executive of BP, has been accused of giving untruthful evidence to US Congress, by plaintiffs suing for damages over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

In court filings, lawyers argue that Mr Hayward "at best, has a unique view of the truth", citing his congressional testimony from June 2010, in which they claim he was untruthful over the scope of BP's internal investigation into the disaster.

The allegations were made in response to BP's attempts to preclude parts of Mr Hayward's deposition - when he was questioned by the plaintiff's lawyers in preparation for the court case - from being used in evidence at the trial on the grounds he was asked "improper questions".

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This a shortened version of the video captured on 7 July 2010 at 1:54PM by Youtube user "X2YeZCAMCNC," so thanks to him or her. This shows once again, this time with excellent video quality, the well at site B which BP says does not exist. Taken from the Skandi Neptune ROV 2 video feed.

You will never hear this on the main news.

An Ill-fated Discovery
According to news accounts, at about 10 p.m. CDT last Tuesday, Deepwater Horizon was stable, holding an exact position in calm, dark seas about 45 miles south of the Louisiana coastline. Water depth in the area is 5,000 feet. The vessel manifest listed 126 souls on board.

Deepwater Horizon was finishing work on an exploration well named Macondo, in an area called Mississippi Canyon Block 252. After weeks of drilling, the rig had pushed a bit down over 18,000 feet, into an oil-bearing zone. The Transocean and BP personnel were installing casing in the well. BP was going to seal things up, and then go off and figure out how to produce the oil -- another step entirely in the oil biz.

The Macondo Block 252 reservoir may hold as much as 100 million barrels. That's not as large as other recent oil strikes in the Gulf, but BP management was still pleased. Success is success --
certainly in the risky, deep-water oil environment. The front office of BP Exploration was preparing a press release to announce a "commercial" oil discovery.

PLEASE sign the online petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/demand-independent-survey-of-bp-s-relief-...

The government documentation provided in this video Prove beyond any reasonable doubt that BP is lying about the status of the Relief Well D in the Gulf of Mexico that was drilled as a means to 'kill' the original Macondo well that blew. The Relief Well D was reportedly sealed by BP in September 2010. Why and how was a BOP Test ran on a 'permanently sealed' and capped well? That my friends is physically IMPOSSIBLE! So, now that you know, are you going to allow our government to continue covering up for BP and allowing them to manage their Own Crime Scene? Or are you going to be a voice of courage and reason?

Links to publicly available documents at BOERME:

WAR Reports
(3-6-11) http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/fastfacts/war/war.asp?-169939
(2-8-11) http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/fastfacts/war/war.asp?-169392
(8-22-10) http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/fastfacts/war/war.asp?-161557

APM's
(8-19-10) http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/fastfacts/apm/apm.asp?-128502
(2-8-11) http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/fastfacts/apm/apm.asp?-130805
(3-2-11) http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/fastfacts/apm/apm.asp?-132244

End of Ops
(3-8-11) http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/fastfacts/EndofOperations/eor.asp?-111448
(8-21-10) http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/fastfacts/EndofOperations/eor.asp?-111448

Again, a sincere Thank You to Shirley Tillman, Lorie Williams, Laurel Lockamy, and Trisha James. Also Thank You Dahr Jamail reporter and Erika Blumenfeld photographer for AlJazeera and all the Gulf Warriors who are continuing to report the ongoing depth of the true devastation in the Gulf of Mexico due to BP's disasterous explosion of the Deep Water Horizon.

This research and accompanying petition are solely the expressed opinion of Rhea Aker.

What really brought down the deep water horizon?

Continuing oil leaks from the reservoir & spraying of corexit are creating health problems in the Gulf.  You need to listen to this series of video, to understand the crimes BP had committed.

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I took this video of HUNDREDS OF DEAD FISH every step on he beach KILLED BY THE BP OIL SPILL on 6-9-11 in Gulfport, Mississippi

Today is Thursday September 29, 2011. A friend of mine just returned from Venice, Louisiana on a fact finding mission. He spent 2 days there and talked to dozens of fishermen and BP contractors and Coast Guard personnel and there is alot of oil at the Deepwater Horizon-Macondo well site. It is not a sheen, It is several inches thick in some spots. A chemical analysis has confirmed it is Macondo oil.There is alot of activity in Venice and resources are being ramped up.
Word is that geological formation above oil deposit is unstable and oil is leaking from fissures around wellhead. All sealife on ocean bottom is dead according to Woods Hole Oceanograpic Institute in 30+ mile radius from site and Corexit dispersant is present in large amounts. According to Sergio Alex Villalobos who is a toxicologist for Nalco, the company that makes Corexit,”Once It’s mixed with oil,that’s where you get the most impact, that’s were you see most of the toxicity”.
He was quoted in the September 2010 issue of Scientific American magazine on page 26. There are alot of sick people that worked on the initial oil spill cleanup and residents in many coastal towns and cities that are sick. This is the second inning of a long nightmare and anyone who signed a release to get a ‘quickpay’ from BP and their minion Fienberg should hire a lawyer asap and hope they can get their release annulled. BP top brass are sociopaths… “

Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out.

You've heard and seen much about the Gulf disaster that killed 11 BP workers. If you have not heard about the earlier blowout, it's because BP has kept the full story under wraps. Nor did BP inform Congress or US safety regulators, and BP, along with its oil industry partners, have preferred to keep it that way.

The earlier blowout occurred in September 2008 on BP's Central Azeri platform in the Caspian Sea.

As one memo marked "secret" puts it, "Given the explosive potential, BP was quite fortunate to have been able to evacuate everyone safely and to prevent any gas ignition." The Caspian oil platform was a spark away from exploding, but luck was with the 211 rig workers.

It was eerily similar to the Gulf catastrophe as it involved BP's controversial "quick set" drilling cement.

Kimberly Wolf, a Gulf Coast resident and environmentalist affected by the BP oil disaster, was one of the featured speakers at the Spill into Washington D.C. rally on Labor Day weekend 2010. This is the first half of her speech from 9/5/10.

--Scientists Fear Fresh BP Oil Surfacing at Deepwater Horizon Site Is Making Landfall 100 Miles away --As public concern escalates, the critically acclaimed oil spill documentary "The Big Fix" premieres Nov. 12th-14th in Los Angeles

 

The Gulf Coast is reeling from reports that fresh oil rising from BP's Macondo Reservoir - ground zero of last year's massive spill - is coming ashore, again. Scientists have confirmed the existence of a "second wave" of BP oil fouling Gulf waters and beaches, poisoning marine life and wildlife, and posing a grave public health risk.

While federal officials fail to acknowledge the problem, the situation in the Gulf worsens by the day. "It's deja vu all over again, in the very worst way," says New Orleans-based environmental attorney Stuart H. Smith. "We have fresh oil surfacing again at the Deepwater Horizon site.'

Through rigorous "fingerprint" testing, LSU chemist Ed Overton confirmed that slicks sweeping across the Macondo Prospect since mid-August are made up of BP oil. "It is a dead-ringer match," Professor Overton said. "I was amazed that the ratios matched as good as they did."

Chemical confirmation that the oil is from the Macondo wellsite provides vindication for those who pursued the truth for months despite a hard-nosed campaign of denial, intimidation and obfuscation executed by BP and its partners in the federal government. It is this very type of corporate-government "teamwork" that The Big Fix - the critically acclaimed oil spill documentary - portrays in riveting detail.

Based on lab-certified test results of oil samples taken last month on Horn Island - a narrow strip of federally protected land just 12 miles off the Mississippi coast -researchers believe that fresh BP oil from the Macondo Prospect has made landfall more than 100 miles north of its origin.

There were "many, many restrictions" within the well and other drilling equipment on the seafloor, Suttles said, dramatically slowing the release of oil. "This is a long way away from something more significant."

Events soon proved Suttles' reassurances to be terribly misplaced. The leak rate at the time was far, far higher than BP portrayed to the Coast Guard -- more than 50,000 barrels per day from the moment the rig went down until the well was capped 87 days later, a government-led panel of physicists and engineers would conclude that August. At that rate, the leak had produced an Exxon Valdez-sized spill at least every five days.

Today, more than a year after the spill ended, serious questions remain about BP's role in estimating the size of the undersea gusher.

What is clear is that BP failed, throughout the event, to produce an accurate estimate of the size of the leak to the federal government or the public. Also readily apparent is the company's strong vested interest in downplaying the size of the spill: federal pollution laws stipulate fines as high as $4,300 for every barrel of oil unlawfully discharged into U.S. waters.

Less obvious is precisely how and why the multinational energy giant fell so short in its efforts to determine the scale of the disaster. BP officials have adamantly denied deliberately lowballing the size of the spill, arguing that the company was overwhelmed by the technical challenge of measuring the deep-sea leak and claiming that the government shares equal responsibility for the early flow estimates.

Yet a review by The Huffington Post of thousands of pages of documents, along with interviews with dozens of engineers, scientists and government officials, has uncovered new information challenging BP’s portrayal of its efforts to measure the leak -- and found the company may have withheld crucial data on the well’s flow rate from federal responders during the spill.

According to federal officials, BP was solely responsible for producing the very first spill estimate of 1,000 barrels per day, a figure which led to a sense of complacency about the seriousness of the event among some federal and state responders at the outset of the disaster, the presidential commission on the oil spill concluded in January 2011. BP has never publicly acknowledged generating this figure and even the commission’s investigators could not determine the methodology used to produce it.

Water sample analysis conducted independently by EcoRigs shows a positive correlation to BP’s oil spill samples. “The presence of fresh BP MC 252 crude oil in surface waters 2 to 14 months after the well was reported to have been capped suggests that crude oil from the BP DWH MC 252 field may have found new pathways to the seafloor.” The evaluations conducted also reveal that the toxic chemical Corexit is now being applied to the subsurface leak located 1500 meters beneath the ocean’s surface at the wellhead. This is done with the intention of further decomposing the oil so that the smaller particles do not make it to the surface and the continuing oil spill can be easily kept from the public eye.

In a 43 minute television documentary investigation supported by documents, testimonies, visual proof and first hand straight forward lies from BP, the program Conspiracy Theory hosted by former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura pulled the curtain off the cover up and revealed that the oil spill was not only an accident, a disaster, a tragedy, but it was in fact a carefully crafted event to bring about coastal mass depopulation, death, sickness and control of resources; all on behalf of corporations. The documentary not only reveals one of the largest conspiracies I have ever learned about, but also points out how the oil spill is part of a series of test events to cause the depletion of the gulf area in order to cause the mandated migration of at least 17000 families, many of which have lived there for over 100 years. The depopulation plans are not limited to the coastal areas or the Gulf of Mexico. It extends to as far inland as Louisiana.

A BP scientist identified a previously unreported deposit of flammable gas that could have played a role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but the oil giant failed to divulge the finding to government investigators for at least a year, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

While engineering experts differ on the extent to which the two-foot-wide swath of gas-bearing sands helped cause the disaster, the finding raises the specter of further legal and financial troubles for BP. It also could raise the stakes in the multibillion-dollar court battle between the companies involved.

• by BK Lim (7 Sept 2011, revised 13 Sept 2011)

This is one of the several inquiries from concerned residents in the gulf:

I recently made a post to your wall regarding the NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer which in past weeks has spent a great deal of time running grids in the Macondo Well area. If you click on the link in the message it will take take you to the NOAA Fleet Map. In the left hand column you can click on the Okeanos Explorer button and it will highlight that vessel's location, which at present shows it still in the Macondo area.

If you click on the Okeanos symbol, which is EX, a window pops up. Within that window is a link showing the vessel's latest track. You can zoom in on that track with the tool provided in the left hand corner of the screen. After reading through the list of this vessel's capabilities, my guess would be that they are mapping the sea floor extensively in this region. They also ran down the ridge along the entire Florida coast south to the Keys.

I was wondering if you might have any thoughts on what information they might be able to gather or what they are looking for.

http://shiptracker.noaa.gov/gShiptracker/map.aspx

NOAA Fleet Map ; shiptracker.noaa.gov

1. Thank you Peter for alerting me on this. Had been busy with some "discoveries" on the tsunami-triggering devices. Another stealth weapon of mass-destruction with enormous economic spinoff for the perpetrators. There is always a broad spectrum of stocks you can invest in and short sell to reap enormous windfalls on an accidental "disaster" that could be reliably predicted well before hand.
2. Since the beginning of the disaster, experts had known the wide and long term consequences of the Macondo Blowout. The perpetrators knew as well but it was to their interest to narrowly focus on just Well A; so as to avoid highly embarrassing questions for which the answers were blatantly obvious.
3. They were at the same time also interested in knowing the scope of their destruction; in preparation for their next disaster in the pipeline.
4. But they could not openly survey in the immediate aftermath of the blowout. It would be an open admission that the late Matts Simmons and many gulf-truth advocates were dead right. Well A was just the dud. The blown crater at the 3^rd well was spewing more than 100,000 barrels per day. Even worse the highly corrosive mix of brine, and gas ingress into every crevices and permeable sections of the formation, creating new pathways to the seafloor for the heavier hydrocarbons from the Macondo reservoir.
5. A seafloor survey then would have revealed the ugly truths about the broken seafloor and precarious salt formation they were trying so hard to hide.
6. So why now?
7. Well, thanks to hard working and persistent gulf-truth activists (Trisha Sprinstead, Trisha James, Real Coastal warriors, Maureen, Michele & others) and the unfortunate recurrence of dead wildlife, tainted seafood, oil slicks etc, the fundamental issues of the BP Gulf Oil disaster were kept alive. Contrary to what the court and regulators said, the number of sick gulf victims increases and the gulf water is not getting any better. BP has no choice but to come up with a better PR exercise, one that is more convincing in stamping out the persistent doubts of BP's “good intentions to make the Gulf as good as before” if not in deeds but at least in a documented “scientific research” remotely controlled and funded by BP.
8. Is this supposed to be the “ultimate survey-research” that will put an end to more than 15 months of “speculations”? No wonder WHOI would have no part of it. If I refused as WHOI had, I could then be dismissed as being “not credible” and unwilling to submit to ground-proofing.
9. After more than a year of grouting, patching up and destroying all critical evidence in the seabed around the Macondo wells they are confident enough, the "modified seafloor" would not be criminally incriminating. It is akin to letting a murderer a month to clean up the crime scene before sending in the CSI team. Previous ROV videos showed planted marker ropes and buoys at the known gas vents and oil seeps locations at between 50 to 700m from well A. See one video of the gas / oil vent at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgDxR0nYTFo
10. Having marked and monitored these gas / oil vents, it would be easy for BP's funded seafloor survey to avoid those locations with a single sweep lines a few tens of metres apart. The irregularly spaced lines would have too much uncovered zones in between to be of significant value.
11. The fact that the seafloor survey (using the various multibeam sonar and sub-bottom profiling techniques) has been delayed by more than 15 months is by itself an open admission BP had a lot of skeletons to hide in this disaster. Such seafloor survey should have been conducted as soon as possible as to determine the causes of the disaster. So my strong hunch is that this belated seafloor survey is nothing more than a carefully choreographed survey designed to show the world that the Macondo Disaster had ended and the new oil spills are nothing more than natural random spills.
12. So now you see why I was asked to submit my recommended locations for ground proofing?
13. It was a well-calculated risk game that BP could not loose...akin to “Head BP wins, Tail BK lose”. I had played this game many times in the past. Rov camera view is like a “pin-hole” view of the universe. A gas vent or oil seep just a few metres off the ROV track and you see nothing. Without an expert's interpretation, many of you would not make anything significant out of the video shown in (9). In fact if I had not followed a rov live tour of the seabed on 1 Nov 2010, I could not have been so dead certain of the seabed conditions.
14. see http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/31/5386300-a-new-drilling-rig-at-macondo-site?commentId=18975303#c18975303 ….quote “ LT, I had a 2 hours live tour of the seafloor around the site last night. It is a lot worse than we thought. Will be writing on it shortly.” …..#4.3 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 6:15 PM PDT
15. Should I obediently followed BP's orders into the “trap”? Heck no, especially when so many of my predicted scenarios are being proven right.
16. Should I be surprised I was asked to recommend some locations to check with the ROV, so soon after BP's denials of the new oil spills in late August 2011? How could BP be serious about finding the truth of the new oil spills if they had already outright rejected any connection to the Macondo Wells and blowout in April 2010. I do not blame my contacts and those gulf-truthers who had been working hard to get my assessment verified. BP should know better than to come up with this trick of “urgent requests” at the very last minute. I am sure they had the research-survey cruise planned months ago.
17. There was no excuse for such a last minute request on 30^th Aug 2011: “BK, I need to know what needs to be looked at and photo'd to support your letters claims that oil is leeching from the fractures and fissures justifiying the concerns addressed in your letter. Do you know the GPS coordinates and location that need to be re visited with the discovery being requested. Time is critical as BP and USCG has assets there, trying to determine where the oil is coming from.”
18. But I was prepared. Instead of specific locations, I requested “routine systematic mapping” in which the survey lines were run on regular grid-lines with data scan overlapping and crossing each other. This is how all site surveys had been conducted. Many leading geohazards survey companies like Fugro had been caught cheating trying to beat the grid-line survey system. You can't since adulterating the data on some lines will lead to discrepancies on the other lines. It is like you can cheat on some lines some of the time but you cannot cheat on all the lines at the same time. But with single lines recce, you cannot tie in data from isolated lines. There is a lot of room for adulteration. Why waste millions of dollars on a survey that is going to be full of holes and open to serious technical contention?
19. BP's Macondo bathymetric chart was supposedly surveyed using an AUV with MBES. In truth, the chart was compiled from a surface single beam echo sounder, a secondary backup system in the event the AUV mounted MBES (primary system) failed to function. It is an industry-wide scam because leading geohazards survey companies get away with such crimes with impunity all the time. BP's erroneous Macondo bathymetric chart is one documented example of such a scam.
20. See http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/03/5039904-forensic-analysis-of-bps-bathymetric-chart
21. Struggling between airports and travelling with a high fever, I managed to send in my recommendation of a detailed AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) survey utilising multibeam echo sounder (MBES), seafloor mapping system using side scan sonar and sub-bottom profiling (4x4 pinger); all of which are standard site survey tools. See figures 161-1 and 2 which are self-explanatory.
22. My survey recommendation was the minimum to establish the link between between last years oil spew (scattered rov videos with adulterated coordinates), the seafloor and sub-seabed features with the recently observed oil slicks.
23. If we can establish where the past and recent oil had surfaced at the seabed, we can generally interpret the "migrating" and widening circles of new pathways since April 2010. This information would be critical in designing battle plans to solve the worsening periodic oil spills the Gulf is going to experience time and time again whenever there is shallow crustal adjustment. It is no coincidence the recent new spills followed the 5.8 (mag) 6km (depth) 23^rd Aug 2011 shallow quake 8 km SSW from Mineral, Virginia. The last major oil slicks were observed in mid to late March, following the great (9 mag) Japan quake on 11 March 2011.
24. Although data from the ongoing seafloor survey carried out by Okeanos Explorer since 1Sept 2011 are not yet available, the different emphasis in survey coverage is already telling.
25. The vessel's track history seemed to suggest a higher emphasis in the south-western edges of the Biloxi Dome, the southern edged of Whiting Dome and generally south of the Macondo prospects. While there may yet be geologically valid reasons for the emphasis south of the Macondo wells, the shelf edges 6 to 8 km north-west of Macondo Wells and the badly eroded north-western edges of Whiting Dome should at least be surveyed with some grid-lines (see areas A and B in figure 161-2, 161-2A and 161-3).
26. BP's vessels and drilling rigs had been observed working for quite some time in both areas (A & B) even after the well was supposedly capped in 15 July. The 22 mile long underwater plume (first denied by BP and later confirmed by many independent research cruises), was suspected to have originated from the cracks in the seafloor at these locations. By avoiding these critical areas, can the present survey investigation be truly objective and independent in investigating the truth of the Macondo Blowout?
27. Almost all the oil sightings are north of the Macondo wells, not south. Why did the survey deliberately (?) avoid the shelf edges north of Macondo to concentrate in the south? In March 2011, new oil spills were suspected to have come from "leaks in the seabed" north of the Matherhorn field. The shelf edges bordering the Mississippi-Alabama Shelf, appear pretty fractured with large crevices and in potential danger of sliding into gigantic submarine landslides. Submarine landslides are more effective in generating tsunami than quakes without significant landslides. Both the 2011 Japan and 2004 Sumatra Quakes had giant tsunamis due to the accompanying large submarine mass displacement.
28. If the Okeanos Explorer could afford to survey the shelf edge all along the West Florida Escarpment down to the Florida Keys, why can't BP or the organisers of the research-survey cruise spare some effort to survey the more "rugged" shelf edge bordering the Mississippi -Alabama Shelf where the new and past oil slicks had been observed?
29. Is the main objective of the BP-funded and probably BP-directed research-survey cruise, to reconnaissance for naturally occurring oil/gas seeps and other geological data to substantiate and distance the new-found oil slicks from the Gulf Oil Spill disaster that originated from the Macondo Blowout on 20 April 2010? Could the main objective be looking for any evidence to absolve BP from living up to their legal obligations; rather than seeking the truth?
30. These are my expressed concerns following numerous inquiries on the "strange" course of action taken by NOAA. NOAA can survey every inch of the Gulf seafloor for the next 30 years (for all we care) but should the priority not be determining the linkage and long term consequence of the Macondo Blowout first?

Then came a horrible abscess on the side of her face, near her eye. In just hours, her face blew up like a basketball, and she was rushed to the hospital. They lanced it, gave her three antibiotics, sent a sample off to be tested.  It wasn't a staph infection.  She had to return three times before it became manageable.  Then, she developed a rash. Not an ordinary rash, but giant boil-like lesions that burst, leaving crater-like hideous scars all over her legs an' arms.  Again she is on antibiotics, but the rash still comes an' goes.

Her test results are available to anyone who wishes to see them, an' show that she is quite toxic. Benzene, Toluene , m.p-Xylene, Hexane, 2-methlypentane, 3-methylpentane, at dangerous levels.

Here it is: videographic evidence of massive amounts of oil and Corexit all over the Gulf beaches, both before and after Hurricane Lee. I want to emphasize that this is happening NOW. These are not shots from 2010. If you ask me, this is pretty damning evidence that the BP Gulf spill is not cleaned up–and that oil in the Macondo Prospect could still be gushing through cracks in the sea floor. Why this is not major news is beyond me.

Thanks go out to the photographers and videographers who captured these images. (Credits can be viewed by clicking through to YouTube.)

• 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:

1. The original BOP at the 3^rd 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.

2. 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.

3. 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

Exactly a year ago, former White House energy advisor Carol Browner informed the world that 75% of the oil from the worst oil disaster in history had been cleaned up, evaporated and dispersed or burned off. “Mother Nature did her part,” Browner told the world.

Don’t tell that to Cherri Foytlin, the oil worker’s wife and mother of six who walked from the Gulf to Washington for the one-year memorial of the BP blowout last April. The media has been largely silent since then, so Cherri and others decided they needed to remind people that “the oil is not gone.”

Yesterday, protesters staged a protest at BP’s gleaming downtown New Orleans offices, where they dumped a batch of black gooey tar balls freshly hauled in from the beaches of Mississippi. After sitting in front of the BP's office building doorway for three hours as police tried to convince them to move, Cherri and two other protesters were arrested and booked for trespass later in the evening. But they had made their point.

Fresh oil is surfacing all over the northern quadrant of the Gulf of Mexico. Reports of slicks that meander for miles and huge expanses of oil sheen that look like phantom islands are becoming common, again. Fresh oil, only slightly weathered, is washing ashore in areas hit hardest by last year’s massive spill, like Breton Island, Ship Island, the Chandeleurs and northern Barataria Bay. BP has reactivated its Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) program to handle cleanup. It’s a sickeningly familiar scene that has fishermen, researchers and public officials searching for answers, as haunting memories of last year’s calamity come roaring back.

The fifty-thousand-dollar question, of course, is where is all the new oil coming from?

BP's permit to drill Macondo well was submitted to MMS on 10 March 2009

These videos talking about "something wicked (a depopulation event)" about to happen. Mexico was mentioned many times with reference to the Aztec human sacrifice. They were speculating on a volcanic eruption of some sort. Coincidentally the radio interviews were 20 and 28 of April 2009. So words must have leaked out but details were fuzzy; leaving room for a lot of speculation. Look for the keywords like mass destruction, vaccine, population reduction, mexico etc.

The Macondo well was destined to blow up in Nov 2009 but Hurricane Ida spoiled the plan. The April 2010 blowout event was a backup plan, a retry.

• by BK Lim (first written on 10 Aug 2010, revised on 28 April 2011)

The first few obvious discrepancies to stick out like a sore thumb were the “2 major leaks on the riser” substitution for the real leaks on the seabed. These discrepancies were first raised in the forensic analysis of the Deepwater Horizon wreckage (DWH blowout CSI: Why-it-could-not-have-happened-as-reported-by-BP ) in July 2010.

In figure 157-1, these discrepancies are illustrated diagrammatically. BP's official story on the leaks on the riser are given in figures 157-2 and 157-3. Till this day, none of the main stream media had ever questioned the flaws in BP's story of the two leaks on the riser. One year later, we again bring up the discrepancies to illustrate the physical impossibilities.

To refresh readers, BP claimed that the BOP was largely intact and still standing after the DWH sank on 22 April 2010. The 5,000ft riser was bent but still connected to the BOP at well A. BP claimed that all the oil spilled into the gulf came from two leaks on the riser. The first (1) were several punctures sustained on the riser when it bent as the DWH sank. The second (2) and bigger leak was the severed end of the “riser” 480 ft north of well A. Rov videos and images of the second leak were shown first in early May 2010. The first leak (1) on top of the BOP was only shown weeks later.

Discrepancy #1

It is obvious that the severed casing at 2 had not been bent, twisted and broken off during the sinking of the DWH. If it was, the casing could not have maintained its almost circular shape. It appears more likely to have been either cut or torn-off as in “blown apart”. This itself rules out the severed casing being the mid section of the riser since there would not be any reason for the riser to be blown apart anywhere in its mid section.

Discrepancy #2

The diameter of the casing at 2 is evidently much larger than the diameter of the bent riser at 1. They do not appear to look the same at all. The casing at 2 appears more likely to be part of the casing coming directly out of the seabed than being connected to the riser coming from the top of the BOP.

Discrepancy #3

Assuming BP's official version, how can the second leak (480 ft away from the BOP) have a large volume of oil/gas flow than the first leak (1) directly on top of the BOP? If the oil and gas were flowing out of the same riser pipe, should not the first leak be the larger of the two?

Discrepancy #4

Leak (1) is about 70 ft above the seabed. Could oil and gas flow downwards past the punctured bend at 1 to reach the second leak 480 ft away at seabed level? If some oil and gas did leak through (1), then leak 2 should be spewing less oil and gas than leak (1) – see discrepancy #3. But even BP admitted leak 2 to be the large of the two.

Discrepancy #5

Leak 2 appeared in all videos and images to spew more oil than gas and with more ferocity than leak (1). How can that be when all the pressure would have leaked out at (1)?

Discrepancy #6

Well A and the BOP was south of the second leak location. So if well A was the source, the oil and gas would have flowed northwards. But in all the rov videos, the casing was coming out of the seabed from the north with the oil and gas flowing southwards. So where is the connection?

There are many more discrepancies but the few that I have listed above should be enough to completely refute the official version of 2 leaks on the riser coming out of the BOP at well A. For what reasons must BP lie so blatantly on the 2 leaks on the seabed?

The evidence in pictures - main article at

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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/June 2010

But is the industry truly ready to go back to work? A couple of points make one uncertain. For starters, assurances that BP was the only bad actor aren't good enough, and verge on the naïve -- all actors in the Gulf knew or should have known that any accident by anyone would affect all.

What about the spill containment equipment? As described, this is an impressive bit of work. Yet it also has a distinct political quality -- in order to get working again in the United States, the industry was forced to take such action; otherwise no one would be convinced it is serious about the environment. But we see no word of such equipment being deployed elsewhere in the deepwater world, such as in Angola, Brazil, Canada, Nigeria and Norway. Are we to believe that the Gulf of Mexico is the only place at risk of a big spill?

• by BK Lim (23 Feb 2011) email: bklimgeohazards@gmail.com

Is there a common factor between the quake off Fort Morgan on 18 Feb 2010 and the recent swarm of quakes occurring in the vicinity of the New Madrid Fault zone? You are right if the BP Mega Oil spill and the Deepwater Horizon blowout on 20 April 2010 comes to mind.

They are all quakes similar to the disastrous 22 Feb 2011 quake that occured close to Christshurch in New Zealand. Their shallow epicentres are off the main tectonic (or intra-plate) main fault lines. There are significant differences though, especially in magnitude and tectonic plate settings. The recent NZ disaster was more devastating than an earlier quake 11 times more powerful with its epicentre on the plate margin.

Since the 2Aug 2010 quake at Louisiana, we have been warning of more occurrences of such shallow low magnitude quakes. See figure 145-1 which shows some of the hidden series of NW-SE strike-slip fault lines typical of intra-plate movement. The fault chart (prepared in August and updated only with annotations) was only published on 10 Nov2010, Update On BP Rigs Location & the Fault Connection. The consequence of the continuing corosive erosion along these faults by leaking hydrocarbons from deep reservoirs (not only from the Macondo prospect) is the release in stresses between the upper and lower crust; resulting in shallow quakes of generally low magnitude. This was mentioned in a recent article, first written on 14 Feb and updated 20 Feb 2011.

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For millions of years, the south-eastern part of the North American tectonic plate (south-east of the New Madrid Fault line) has been thrusting in a north-easterly direction while the western half of the plate has been moving south along the San Andreas fault line. This is the main reason for the present gulf seabed morphology.

The resultant torsion tension is reflected by the fault pattern illustrated in a previous article BP's Rigs Location & Fault Connection. Besides lateral stresses, vertical stresses also developed between the upper and lower section of the tectonic blocks due to differential upper and lower slide movement. The abnormal occurrences of hundreds of shallow and low magnitude earthquakes since the Macondo blowout are the direct consequence of the continual release of these pent-up stress zones. FEMA recently sent out RFI (request for information) to identify vendors for the emergency supply of food rations, various fuels and hydration in support of disaster relief efforts based on a catastrophic disaster event within the New Madrid Fault system for a survivor population of 7 million to be utilised for the sustainment of life during a 10-day period of operations. Is FEMA having privileged information of an impending disaster in the New Madrid Fault area, 9 months after the BP's Mega-oil Spill disaster?

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What is the area extent of these continuing leakages of hydrocarbons along these faults , vaporisation of methane hydrates due to warming effect of these leaking hydrocarbons and rapid mass depletion caused by continuing sub-seabed erosion? Judging by the number of reported quake-swarms, we are pretty close to the point of no return if we have not passed that point yet.

So far the quakes had been low magnitude between 2 to 4 on the Richter Scale. FEMA is expecting a major quake disaster similar to the recent Christchurch Quake in New Zealand. As we have seen, the shallow quakes are more devastating than a deep one at the base of the crust. The New Madrid Fault is an intra-plate tectonically stressed zone. It behaves very differently from the tectonic plate margins.

Since these shallow intra-plate quakes had been unleashed by the drilling and blowouts at the Macondo prospect, it makes sense to monitor closely the seafloor and the continental shelf edges. Mapping the gas vents in the vicinity of these faults and shelf edges would go a long way to making accurate predictions of what to expect in the vicinity of the New Madrid Fault zone. More powerful need not necessarily be more devastating but one thing for sure, the disaster has not ended yet despite what you have been told. Christchurch was hit by a hidden fault (???)

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New_Zealand_Earthquake_Science By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer–Tue Feb22, 6:10pmET

No one died in that early morning quake — which was 11 times stronger — mainly because it was centered farther away, about 30 miles west of the city center. It was also twice as deep as Tuesday's aftershock. Shallower quakes tend to be more damaging.

LOS ANGELES – The latest New Zealand earthquake was a deadly combination of distance, depth and timing. While weaker than the one that rocked the area last September, it did more damage and cost lives, primarily because of its location. Tuesday's magnitude-6.3 quake was centered about 3 miles from the populated hub of Christchurch, toppling buildings, killing dozens and trapping others. It was also only about 3 miles deep and occurred during the middle of a workday when commercial buildings were filled with employees.The jolt "is squarely beneath the city itself," said seismologist Egill Hauksson of the California Institute of Technology. "All the old historic buildings are being shaken more violently than they were built to withstand." Scientists classified it as an aftershock of the powerful magnitude-7 that struck last Sept. 4.

The recently published National Commission Report to the President of the United States of America (11th January 2011) and BP's own earlier Accident Investigation Report dated 8th September 2010 have focused almost entirely on the failings of equipment and processes on the drilldeck of the Deepwater Horizon, on the seafloor BOP and associated equipment and on the errors and mistakes made in drilling and cementing up of the close to completed well.

The fact is that BP were drilling at Macondo MC 252 in an area of well known and documented geological hazards (known in the industry as "Geohazards"). At Macondo these included such features as extensive beds of frozen gas (or methane hydrates) and a number of layers of artesian overpressured sands where the interstitial natural water pressures could cause casing collapse due to disturbance of those sands. This process is known as "liquefaction", also known in the trade as "shallow water flows" [SWF]. The presence of gas hydrates and shallow water flows in this Mississippi canyon shelf edge zone is very well documented by the MMS, BP and other operators.

As we have seen in many cases, disasters can be highly profitable for those who know in advance or “privileged few in the know” (PFitK). This is very clear from the pattern of massive selling by BP’s directors and Goldman Sachs before the advent of an impending disaster. See A pattern of massive shares sell-off by BP directors prior to expected disasters.

Though hard to believe, there are many who would profit without hesitation upon the miseries of others. A mega-disaster like the BP’s Oil Spill is one of those. Sometimes it is hard to say if a prescribed cure is supposed to make you feel better or improve the bottom line of the one prescribing it. Time will always tell, as it is revealing in the case of the BP Gulf Oil disaster.

Just as it would be highly improper for surgeons to mislead on the medical procedures, BP the “doctor” should lose its “medical license” and be held criminally liable for deliberate misleading information on so many occasions. Six months later, NOAA and the Presidential Investigative Panel should have been able to evaluate not only the effectiveness of the medicine prescribed but also the manner it was administered. If these regulatory bodies are still sleeping on their job after six months, then either delinquency or corruption has already set in.

By most accounts BP, NOAA and all the regulatory bodies fared poorly in this disaster. Later postings will delve into the technological and geological aspects. In this posting, we will concentrate on the question whether the post-disaster recovery program had become a profitable scam. It goes without saying that BP as an organization would suffer hefty financial losses not monetary gains. That would make it all the more; much “safer” for the privileged few to profit personally. Evidence of profit motives in the post-disaster recovery efforts would substantiate earlier suspicions that this disaster had been allowed to happen.

It is an undeniable fact that corners are cut everyday across the globe in almost every sector of human societies. Of all the industries, the offshore oil industry is the most regulated with the most stringent HSE policies. Hence it is logically impossible for a potential mega disaster to sail through the elaborate screening “Check & Balance” process. Unlike wildcat drillings in the pre-seventies, every location to be drilled had to be evaluated with respect to exploration and production objectives, shallow geohazards, seabed and logistics problems. That is why few mega-disasters occurred even though near-misses and accidents do occur on a daily basis. By all accounts, this disaster could have been averted. Yet it was allowed to happen. Why?

Obviously there must be a profit motive, not for BP but for the PFitK. Having established this fact we will proceed to examine the deliberate misleading information BP has been giving recently. In every post-disaster recovery efforts, there is the right way and the wrong way. No crime is committed even if the wrong (but profitable) way was deliberately chosen. There is no lack of senseless recovery works that can be carried out without contributing anything to the recovery or the welfare of the Gulf Victims (environment, people and marine wildlife). Readers can contribute more examples but for now we concentrate on the high cost items.

Four Drilling Rigs at Site

We can argue until the cows come home on BP’s intentions but does BP really need four expensive rigs at the cost of 0.5 to 1 million USD/day at the Macondo site? Even if they need to drill more wells (relief or otherwise) it would stretch resources to the hilt with 5 wells going together within the same site. But if the intention is to chalk up tax-deductible expenses for the idling rigs then it made sense. No wonder the recovery costs keep ballooning especially in early November with an additional 7.7 billion USD.

Normal exploration budgets are guided by precedence. In a mega disaster, there is virtually no cost control. Would BP exploit the disaster to dump all their idling rigs into the Macondo site? You bet BP will, given its opportunistic instincts. BP’s unfortunate partners (Mitsui and Anadarko) will have to foot 10% and 25% respectively. Few would dare to question the need for four drilling rigs under classified disaster circumstances. Is that why the Live Feed from West Sirius ROV1 is still shown on BP’s website even though West Sirius had moved out of the Macondo site to park at the edge of Mississippi Canyon, south of Grand Isle? Obviously the ROV1 cannot be deployed from West Sirius to work at the Macondo site 165km away. Alternatively if the ROV1 is working at the Mississippi Canyon (for whatever reasons), the daily operation cost of West Sirius cannot be charged to the Macondo Post-Disaster Recovery Program (MPDRP). Any responsible corporate would not cheat and evade tax on an unfortunate disaster.

It would probably look less absurd if West Sirius is sitting within the Macondo Site. It however, moved out less than a week (3 NOV) after an earlier posting (A New Drilling Rig At Macondo Site) questioned the need for 4 drilling rigs to be stationed so close to each other. Drilling rigs normally work in isolation with support vessels. This was strange when Well A was already declared capped in mid July and permanently killed in mid Sept by DD3 at Relief Well C.

There was not much news on DD2 at Relief Well D. Industry’s experts were surprised when BP spared no efforts to drill 2 relief wells when one should be sufficient. Anyone questioning the need for two relief wells in May would have been scorned, if not “executed”in the press. This is the unconstrained purchasing power of any disaster; 911, Afghan War, Iraqi War or any disaster-relief efforts. You question, you die either by character assassination or … !

Anyway it was thought to be a good PR move, to show the world that BP would spare no effort to contain the spill. Those with the “evil thoughts” that BP could be fielding the additional drilling rig to pad up the MPDRP expenses had to hold their tongues and wait to be vindicated. But when the Discovery Enterprise (DE) was added on and all the 3 rigs (DE, DD2 and DD3) did not demobilize from site after the completion of the relief wells, the suspicion firmed up. When the West Sirius moved in, all doubts were erased.

Drilling rigs that do not drill offer many corrupt opportunities. With skeletal maintenance crew and cooperation between the operation managers of BP and contractors, the lure to “capitalize” on operational costs for unused operation workers is just too high to ignore. Even at the minimum average of 500 USD/day/worker for 100 workers works out to be 1,500,000 USD/month per rig. This common scam of fielding virtual workers is undetectable by outside parties except the most diligent accountant / QC consultant.

Materials, consumables and disposable instruments offer abundant opportunities for site managers to cooperate with suppliers to cheat. Besides wastage, the important question is “Are some of the work at site warranted or merely to line up the pocket?” It is virtually impossible to QC the volume needed to grout the seafloor, notwithstanding whether they were effective or necessary. Like virtual workers, the reported amount consumed could actually be more than triple the actual amount used. No wonder contractors, body shops and suppliers laughed their way to the bank and workers paid handsomely with bonuses do not talk.

If anyone has any doubt in this, just look up the drilling rig position at www.marinetraffic.com. For months tracking the drilling rigs’ position was never a problem. A week after A New Drilling Rig At Macondo Site was posted on 31 Oct, the position of these rigs went haywire. DE was flung (virtually) to Lake Superior, DD2 to South Pacific and DD3 to Arctic, Africa and South Pacific. It is hilarious that BP would control www.marinetraffic.com website to adulterate the satellite position. These position anomalies just confirmed the accuracy of this report and our previously reported ROV coordinates adulteration. It also confirms BP’s record spending on buying up websites like The Oil Drum and bloggers so that they speak kindly of BP in spite of BP’s evil deeds. No wonder the main media all over the world speak with one silence voice on BP’s evil ways. Now you understand.

So when BP says “We Are Here To Stay And Make Things Right”, they probably meant it wholeheartedly. Who wouldn’t? With impunity for causing any disaster (Alaska pipeline, Texas Refinery, Macondo and future) life is good for BP in America when they make things right (for themselves).

E-mails and letters obtained by ProPublica show that the main contractor BP was using to check its facilities, Acuren, employed inspectors who weren't certified to perform their jobs and may not have been properly trained. The certification issues affected at least 19 inspectors responsible for more than 13,000 locations along the line and were serious enough that they were reported to BP's board of directors in London.

Pascal, a career Environmental Protection Agency attorney only seven weeks into her retirement, knew as much as anyone in the federal government about BP, the company that owned the well. She understood in an instant what it would take others months to grasp: In BP's 15-year quest to compete with the world's biggest oil companies, its managers had become deaf to risk and systematically gambled with safety at hundreds of facilities and with thousands of employees' lives.

This is an excellent "Must Read" article to understand the BP's disaster.