An amazing bit of footage of an undersea gas leak that has me puzzled.
Probably just an illusion but odd nonetheless.
Tim
Maybe the orange glow is within the cloud of steam/spray from the fire hoses trained on it?
"The turbomachinery of Ku-Maloob-Zaap's active production facilities were affected by an electrical storm and heavy rains."
We shall see :-)
I suspect the oil company were eager to downplay oil pollution. However, too many people are interested now. Someone who understands these things will explain it.
I just have no idea what that means. I'm a tinsy winsy bit suspicious that the leak had been ongoing and was only exposed when it lit up.
It's a gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico, now extinguished by pumping nitrogen down the pipeline. Quite how the bubbling gas on the sea surface ignited is a moot question.
A lightning strike?
I might have thought it was more environmentally sound to allow the gas to burn rather than enter the atmosphere unburnt.
Can I sell you a tinfoil hat?
You cant lie about shit like this: too many people know the truth. And to be seen to have tried to cover up is far worse than having the issue
I think you need a shrink
A little paranoia is sensible, but really....
Surely they will never put it out till they turn off the gas and fix the leak. Brian
There might be a trace of oil but I expect that it is mostly methane and other low boiling point hydrocarbons perhaps up as far as pentane. Traces of sodium from the sea water will ensure that the flame is nice and bright yellow irrespective of how clean the burn is.
Bubbles in the water are making the sea look white.
Any kind of spark will be enough. Many oil rigs perhaps surprisingly have flare stacks to burn off excess gas so that could have provided a source of ignition once there was a big enough bubble of gas escaped.
It is just about possible for phosphine from swamps to spontaneously ignite on contact with air but I have no idea if it is an impurity in natural gas from wells. Once it is lit then it stays lit until you do something pretty drastic to put it out.
No, I will get mine from a reputable dealership, not from someone who drives an Arthur Daley car.
Standard PR, lie about the event just after it happens, i.e. minimise your culpability when everyone is listening. By the time a nerd explains what actually happened most people will have lost interest.
The journalists are also sceptical, I guess they just don't have the scientific ability to openly contradict the Pemex account:
---Quote--- Angel Carrizales, head of Mexico's oil safety regulator ASEA, wrote on Twitter that the incident "did not generate any spill." He did not explain what was burning on the water's surface.
Actually there are are some good videos of it if you have a google.
Most interesting
Ta
Except that if they are also trying to repair damage on the nearby rig, and there is a risk of gas leakage while doing that, the last thing they need is an adjacent ignition source.
After seeing more video footage of the fire I can see how close it was to the rig.
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