BP's altered photo distorts spill center activityNot a big thing but a large camel's nose under the tent-flap. What else is falsified in their photographs. Trust, once forfeited is a bitch to regain and the one thing that BP needs right now is public trust. One thing that I have not heard -- people are talking about well pressure this and well pressure that but nobody is saying what the pressure is. 5,000, 10,000? Just curious to know what we are dealing with. Posted by DaveH at July 20, 2010 9:08 PM | TrackBack
BP acknowledges it posted on its website an altered photo that exaggerates the activity at its Gulf oil spill command center in Houston.
The picture posted over the weekend showed workers monitoring a bank of 10 giant video screens displaying underwater images.
Spokesman Scott Dean says Tuesday that two screens were blank in the original picture and a staff photographer used Photoshop software to add images.
Dean says the company put the unaltered picture up Monday after a blogger wrote about telltale discrepancies.
He says the photographer was showing off his Photoshop skills, and there was no ill intent.
Dean says BP has ordered workers to use Photoshop only for things like color correction, cropping and removing glare.
NBC Nightly News regularly reports the pressure in the 6500-7000 psi range.
If you take that reading as accurate and hear all the hullabaloo about the "off-the-scale" readings (which I had read skeptically as well) -- then the well integrity is presumably poor and the casing is leaking.
Posted by: Spork at July 21, 2010 9:30 AMHi Geran
I had heard the same numbers and didn't believe them.
Wow!
Posted by: DaveH at July 21, 2010 9:22 AMThe oil pressure is "off the scale"--I've found some web sources that estimate as high as 30000 psi.
The thermodynamics taking place are incredible. The oil is under such immense pressure that it acts like a refrigerant when "escaping" into the gulf. Even though the oil temp is over 200 degrees F, it was causing icing problems in their first attempt to cap.
Posted by: geran at July 21, 2010 5:05 AM