THE Thunder Horse Thread (merged)

by **frankthetank** » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 22:10:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ig BP oil rig listing badly in U.S. Gulf By Jim Jelter, MarketWatch Update: July 11, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- BP Plc. said late Monday that Thunder Horse, one if its big Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil rigs, was listing badly after Hurricane Dennis swept through area this past weekend. The semi-submersible rig, an essential component in the development of the Thunder Horse oil and gas field on Mississippi Canyon Block 778, about 150 miles southeast of New Orleans, was heeled over at an angle of 20 to 30 degrees, the company said.
While too early to say what caused the rig to lean, righting and repairing it could pose a costly delay to BP's plans to bring the field on line later this year.

by **BabyPeanut** » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 22:27:24

This is just like last year when the news barely whispered about the damage Ivan did to off-shore oil rigs.

by **RonMN** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 00:06:28

Listing 20-30 degrees???

I believe that's damn serious! Any tech's out there than know how bad that could be? is it in any danger of sinking?

by **Lora** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 00:27:25

See picture of "listing" oil rig here: link Better get it upright before Emily.

by **DantesPeak** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 00:52:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', 'T')his is just like last year when the news barely whispered about the damage Ivan did to off-shore oil rigs.

by **DriveElectric** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 01:17:42

250,000 bpd offshore oil rig in trouble. Cool picture. :twisted:

BP - Thunderhorse oil rig listing badly in U.S. Gulf

by **Armageddon** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 01:27:54

too bad it didnt sink

by **Carrie** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 03:29:11

Wasn't Thunder Horse one of the megaprojects that was going to help stave off peak oil for a bit?

Oh well.

by **I_Like_Plants** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 04:06:47

It's all smushed over to one side and stuff, wonder if they can take it to (honk! honk!) AAMCO?

by **linlithgowoil** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 05:33:14

250k barrels a day is a fair amount of production, though this damage may not delay things for much more than a few weeks i dont think.

just shows you though that things never go 100% smooth and on time in oil projects, as the guy that did the mega-project update said. Another few problems in other new projects would surely bring the peak forward, yet extend the plateau a little further.

Looks like we're there though, give or take a couple of million barrels.

by **VinceG** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 10:19:39

I find it rather funny how something that used to be totally irrelevant for the price of sweet crude oil can nowadays rocket oilprices in an instance. Last week we saw thehurricane forecast in Middle America, today we have the malfunctioning of just one, even still under development oil platform. These minor events immediately have effect on oil prices.

by **khebab** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 11:32:03

It looks like the market has taken notice and the price of oil is going up again!

by **strider3700** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 11:53:35

cnbc showed this exacy picture this morning and blamed supply concerns for the job in price today

by **khebab** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 13:07:03

hmm...doesn't look too good to me! :cry:

How do you put this monster back up!
Photo and Photo

by **Cyrus** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 13:38:05

Thunderhorse platform down for 3-6 months

Hm, that runs right into the time we will already expecting 1.5 mil bpd. Anybody ready for $80 bbl? I'm not..

by **Cyrus** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 13:41:38

I'd also like to add that the tropical storm "Emily"'s projected path seems to cross with Thunderhorse, just like Denis.

by **LadyRuby** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 13:43:02

Yikes, ThunderHorse isn't looking too happy. See photo:

http://www.bpissuenews.com/external/ind ... ntID=78643

by **RonMN** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 13:47:48

EEEEEK! This is NOT good!

by **Leanan** » Tue 12 Jul 2005, 13:48:52

Yikes. 3-6 months? That's not going to be good for the 4th quarter.

What happened? I thought BP was saying it could be an easy problem to fix.

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