BP's Oil Spill Armageddon - Any hopes for recuperation???

For years, corporations have been known to put the financial bottom line ahead of everything else. As long as shareholders are happy, the coffers of the organisation is overburdened with dollars and the CEOs are jetting all over the planet in their private and executive jets, it is assumed that everything else will eventually fall in place. The mentality of "if it isn't broken don't fix it" takes hold. This of course does not mean that these so called captains of commerce are not cutting corners to make ends overlap, rather than just meet. So then, theirs becomes like the case of a cat-woman thief who has surfaced in New York recently and made two successful cash grabs. To the thief, everyday is just another lucky day. But one day, one little slip causes the thief to land in hot water.





This is the exact path that led BP to land in the hottest water they could ever have imagined in their entire history. The history of BP of course, is not one worthy of emulation under any circumstances. As with other large corporations, BP has always been absolutely profit motivated and will go to any extents to satisfy its urge for financial gains. With the tacit support of the British and American governments, BP ruled the oil patches of Iran for more than seventy years. It was probably BP's activities in Iran that eventually caused the Islamic revolution to thrive in that country.

BP has been in the oil business for more than 101 years. If the number of people who have worked with BP over the years were taken into consideration, that will be more than 100,000 years of combined experience in crude oil mining. BP has oil rigs scattered all over the planet that function very well. However the Freudian slip that led to the current Gulf Oil spill, that has been labelled the worst in the history of crude oil mining, would probably have been avoided if BP has not thrown caution to the winds. BP, it seems has become complacent in its activities. Which raises the question as to what BP may have been able to cover up in less developed countries, if it can allow this kind of disaster to occur in the world's most advanced nation. How can a world leader in the oil industry allow such a disastrous event to happen?

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Conspiracy theorists all over the planet are known to hold the view that certain invisible and powerful forces are bent on reducing the United States to the level of a pariah state just so that the one world government project can take off the ground. This may not be totally baseless as we have seen the fall of the Soviet Block, and the divide and conquer tactics that has obliterated the hopes and aspirations of many states, like Iraq. With this in mind it can probably be concluded that this oil spill in the United States coupled with the ongoing economic crisis are all planned sequence of events designed to bring down the world's most powerful democracy to its knees.

Or perhaps it is the force of Karma that is at work here. The average American is a fervent religious believer. "In God We Trust" is the motto of the United States inscribed on her currency. For a country that trust's in God's supremacy however, the United States has always taken the most proactive stance at every opportunity. Witness the unnecessary Iraqi war that devastated an otherwise thriving albeit oppressive nation. There are far worse nations on earth which exhibit a much more aggressive stance than Iraq when it was invaded.



Okay, so the damage is done and now a solution is being sought fervently. Everything that has been tried so far has done little or nothing to alleviate the problem. Lives of millions of US citizens who depend on the Gulf for their livelihood is under threat. The marine life in this region is under the threat of extinction. Thanks also to media hype, tourism to the sunny southern states of the US has become anything but thriving. And then an injunction to stop mining in the region was denied in a US court no less. Meanwhile, the oil keeps flowing.



BP seems to have a plethora of long and short term solutions under it's sleeves. The one that interests me the most is the relief well being drilled and meant to act as a permanent solution to contain the oil spill. It occured to me that such relief wells should have been recommended as part of the oil mining process in the first place. Imagine if about ten kilometres away from the current oil spilling well, there was a dormant but fully functional oil well or even two that can be activated to contain a spill, a company like BP would have been the hero, not the villain it has now become. Redundancy systems like this abound in the engineering world, so it is difficult to understand why it is not being used for oil mining purposes. Since a US judge has determined that oil well drilling must go on, it behoves the Obama administration to institute stiff guidelines for oil prospectors to be prepared to have one active and two dormant relief wells for every functioning oil rig, rather than risk becoming unpopular or seen as stifling the economy.

In addition to this, considering the amount of money it is going to cost BP to eventually contain this oil spill, I do not think it is out of order to make it mandatory that containment fences designed using reverse osmosis technology should be part and parcel of every oil rig new or existing. With such a fence the oil will at least be contained within a very small area until such a time that it can diverted to another well.



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