BP just discovered a billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Tue, 01/08/2019 - 9:22pm

Crap. We all know how this story plays out...

BP just discovered a billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico

•BP discovers 1 billion barrels of oil at its Thunder Horse field in the Gulf of Mexico.

•The oil giant also says it will spend $1.3 billion to develop a third phase of its Atlantis offshore field south of New Orleans.

•BP credits its investment in advanced seismic technology for speeding up its ability to confirm the discoveries

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BP now expects its fossil fuel output from the region to reach 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by the middle of the next decade. Today, it produces about 300,000 boepd, up from less than 200,000 boepd about five years ago.

On Tuesday, the company said it will spend $1.3 billion to develop a third phase of its Atlantis field off the coast of New Orleans. Scheduled to start production in 2020, the eight new wells will add 38,000 bpd to BP's production at Atlantis. The decision comes after BP found another 400 million barrels of oil at the field.

BP made the massive 1 billion-barrel discovery at its Thunder Horse field off the tip of Louisiana.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/08/bp-just-discovered-a-billion-barrels...

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Oh lovely! Big Oil has a whole new area of the Gulf to destroy.

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Submitted by Roy Blakeley on Tue, 01/08/2019 - 9:58pm

Well, this should grease the skids

on our descent into climate Hell.

Submitted by divineorder on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 12:47pm

But the greasing will be done in a bipartisan manner!

@Roy Blakeley

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Beto O’Rourke broke his No Fossil Fuel Money pledge: https://t.co/2JXiU9gJMk

Beto O’Rourke voted against the majority of Democrats to repeatedly help the GOP boost the oil/gas industry during a climate crisis that threatens to kill millions of people: https://t.co/RFsb4662ZU

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 9, 2019

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Submitted by WoodsDweller on Tue, 01/08/2019 - 10:36pm

Too bad

every drop of it needs to stay in the ground forever.

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"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone

Submitted by Centaurea on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 1:58am

BP

The US government in cahoots with British Petroleum (now BP) enacting regime change in Iran in the 1950s was how the destablization of the Middle East got started.

Over the years, BP has acquired subsidiaries and contractual interests of various companies in the American petroleum industry. It is now deeply intertwined with the US and with the MIC.

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Submitted by divineorder on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 1:19pm

One might say that BP has reached the keystone of their

@Centaurea relationship here with the ascendancy of the Trump Administration and it’s billionaire puppeteers.

"A true Green New Deal would need to be more like a Green Shock Doctrine." "Time to put our shoulder to the wheel."
A climate essay well worth reading from @nplusonemag https://t.co/DzEq6utviS

— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) January 7, 2019

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Submitted by pindar's revenge on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 7:19am

cue that picture

Of the guy executing a prisoner with a gas pump to his head.

Submitted by divineorder on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 12:54pm

Multiple ways of killing.....

@pindar's revenge

In the past two years, Trump's administration has bolstered the coal, oil & pesticide industries

As a result, Americans are being exposed to toxic pesticides, arsenic, mercury, methane and other harmful pollutants.https://t.co/7noHq2Ij9W

— Friends of the Earth (@foe_us) January 9, 2019

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 8:20am

I don't really see what the face in the Oval Office

@divineorder

has to do with any of this, seeing as how the two Presidents immediately preceding Trump did the same exact thing. Didn't Obama boast about being the President who laid more pipeline than any President previous?

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-- Fiver

Submitted by pindar's revenge on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 9:59am

Because

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

with all honest respect, he's the face there RIGHT NOW. We need to focus. I despise prior villains, but he's the villain we have now.

Tactics. Face the current enemy. Strategy: organize against the plutocracy.

I believe that phony "friends" like BO are worse than "honest" enemies, but mango mussolini is the public face enabling evil now. And he makes a great organizing target, uglier and not as "charming" as BO.

Submitted by edg on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 11:17am

That's so cute!

The "Atlantis" field. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy? As Donovan sang, "Hail, Atlantis!"

Submitted by Centaurea on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 1:39am

And we all know

@edg what happened to Atlantis.

According to legend, the Atlanteans couldn't handle the technology they developed. And here we are again ...

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"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi

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~Caitlin Johnstone

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 11:49am

As a native of the Gulf coast

this sends my stomach into surges of nausea.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by divineorder on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 1:03pm

Gulf has been under attack for decades! Sickening.

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

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The US government shutdown has paused fishing, wind farm plans and new drug proposals. But oil drilling permits are still being granted and oil development continues, and a former deputy chief of staff at the Interior Department says that "may be illegal." https://t.co/mpG5X6LxqG

— Unearthed (@UE) January 8, 2019

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 8:21am

On that, you and I totally agree.

@divineorder

Don't know if you're from the Gulf Coast too, but it hurts.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 8:21am

Why would Trump pay any attention to laws, after all.

@divineorder

The motherfucker.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by pindar's revenge on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 2:39pm

Haven't been to the Gulf in a long time,

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

It was still pretty clean, no casinos, tourists mostly AL and GA. I loved it.

I cried repeatedly when BP blew it.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 8:22am

My reaction was extreme.

@pindar's revenge

It's not a place I want to return to. Absolutely hysterical. That's not normal for me, as you might imagine.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by pindar's revenge on Thu, 01/10/2019 - 10:19am

me too (strike that: Also)

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal @Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

I obsessed over the images and the news. My wife was worried about me; she took me to talk to a coal activist about dealing with the depression.

How do you deal with, handle, the grief? I love the Gulf, but I didn't grow up there. Must be bleak to see.

Ironically, I posted something a few days ago about a demo I was at. It was a BP demo. I still have the signage I made: an oil-drenched dragonfly on an oily stem, with a Van Vliet quote: "What's on the leaves ain't dew no more".

edit: sorry, i just noticed my subject is a hashtag. blech. changed.