No oil spills after Katrina on Gulf Oil rigs. Does that mean drilling technologies are safer now?

Elmo, you are so wrong, new rigs are being built all the time. No new refineries have been built since the 70s. And to answer the original question, yes the drilling technology is much safer now. More oil leaks out of the bottom of the ocean floor than leaks from drilling rigs. They have what are called 'zero discharge' technologies, nothing (no oil or any of the chemicals used in the drilling process) gets into the water.No oil spills after Katrina on Gulf Oil rigs. Does that mean drilling technologies are safer now?
Your information is from what source? Yes, there were oil spillssss after Katrina, see below. Also, to avoid passing on fabrication you should 2nd, 3rd or even 4th check you sources and information. This way you can be sure you are educated and not passing on inaccuracies...





Your information that there was not oil spills because of the hurrican is false. Very often the information given through news media is biased and this sounds like you got fabrication! Right away I found honest reporting in a conservate magazine called 'Business Today- online' exerpt to follow:


';Oil prices hit $70.80 a barrel yesterday after Katrina forced the shutdown of nearly all the region鈥檚 oil production, more than 80 per cent of gas operations and forced eight refineries along the coast to shut.





The US Coast Guard said it received early reports of oil platforms and rigs adrift in the storm鈥檚 wake. Shell said that two of its oil drilling rigs under contract were adrift.





An oil drilling platform broke free of its mooring in Mobile Bay, Alabama, and slammed into a bridge due to the high winds.





Hurricane Ivan, wiped out a total of around 45 million barrels of US oil output over six months.'; The byproduct of that is OIL SPILLAGE. and Bush wants new drilling off Florida, meterologists (J.Hansen) are finding there is and will be an increase in the intensity and duration of these storms, in part, because of global climate change.





May 2006, the U.S. Minerals Management Service published their offshore damage assessment: 113 platforms totally destroyed, and - more importantly - 457 pipelines damaged, 101 of those major lines with 10'; or larger diameter. At least 741,000 gallons were spilled from 124 reported sources (the Coast Guard calls anything over 100,000 gallons a ';major'; spill). ';





MMS report to follow:


';Wells and platforms were shut down before the storm, so leakage from those facilities was minimal. Pipelines were shut down too. But what the officials failed to mention is they don't require industry to ';purge'; pipelines before a severe storm - so they were probably still loaded with oil, gas or liquid gas condensate. Any section of pipeline that was breached leaked all of that product into the Gulf within hours of the storm. That's what we think accounts for the widespread slicks seen on the imagery from September 1 and 2, covering hundreds of square miles and obviously emanating from many points of origin. These slicks dispersed after several days of high winds offshore, as shown by our followup imagery taken on September 12, but a few problems remained as evidenced by ongoing leaks from wrecked platforms. ';








This report from MMS details the pipeline damage that occurred.








OIL DRILLING IS NOT SAFE.





McCain, Bush, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are pushing hard to open our national coastlines to oil drilling. In fact, Newt Gingrich has put together a petition like this that more than 750,000 people have signed! They鈥檙e using high gas prices and economic concerns to help their friends in the oil industry make even more money.





But here鈥檚 the real truth behind drilling offshore:





-- Seismic testing to locate oil creates decibel levels of 260 鈥?twice as loud as an ambulance 鈥?underwater. Exposure to these levels of noise underwater can cause disorientation, brain hemorrhaging, or even beaching for whales and dolphins.





-- Offshore drilling creates an increased risk of oil spills close to our beaches and coastlines.





--The need to address global warming means it is time to invest in renewable energy sources. Drilling for oil in dangerous locations will take years to reach the market and will only serve to increase global warming impacts when it does.





Tell John McCain that if he wants to stop global warming, he needs to stop helping the big oil companies and start making real change.





Ultimatly by drilling we have small short term gains for high long term costs. There is immense pollution to water and air done by drilling. And even if the drilling starts we will see NO decrease in fuel costs. The oil companies will be the beneficiaries because they will have lower costs per barrell, but will not pass on the saving. The gas crises of the 70's showed us that increase profit or supply does not translate into less cost for the consumer.No oil spills after Katrina on Gulf Oil rigs. Does that mean drilling technologies are safer now?
We build new oil rigs all the time and drilling platforms are only part of the solution it is also the extraction methods that have improved,more oil seeps naturally from the ocean floor in one year than we have spilled from an off shore platform in the history of U.S. deep sea drilling.
we haven't built any new oil rigs since the 70's how did we make them safer? it's like wine it gets better with age? haha


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really well i did not know that coolhand, i'll admit i was wrong then, surprising that liberals admit they are wrong?


i found something interesting though, http://www.wtrg.com/rotaryrigs.html


why have more offshore oil rigs closed down than opened up this year from last?
Sure it is...I know the far left wants to say it is not because they don't like oil. The want us all to ride bikes and drive electric cars.
yes. early spills were caused by cracks underseas





hugs!
Yes, MUCH safer.
Yes. Don't tell the Liberals though.
Sure.