There are currently more than 3850 oil rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico!
Worldwide there are over 3.5 million oil rigs.
How much do oil rig workers earn?
Want to know?
Just click this link to see the salary survey of oil rig workers!
Oil rig disasters are not a new thing at all.
There have been many since oil drilling first began.
I'm providing all information with photographs on the most tragic, the deadliest, the most expensive oil rig spills/disasters that have occurred prior to the current environmental oil spill.
Click this link to see the records, and the pictures of most of the world's worst oil spill messes!
What about Oil Dispersants? What are they and what do they do? Oil dispersants are toxic chemicals, in fact some of them are a lot more toxic than the oil that they are sprayed onto! Anyway, the oil dispersants do not remove the spilled oil, they do not clean it up, like a mop does. What the dispersants do is break the oil into tiny globs and allow it to mix with the water column, so that it mixes with the seawater and gets washed away with the tides. "Away where?" "Everywhere" is a good answer....
Dispersants act to dissolve the oil in the oceans where some of the oil residue can be attacked by natural organisms, but most of it just falls to the ocean bottom, where it continues to ruin marine life for centuries.
Stopping the flow of oil,
That is the priority!
John DeFlumeri Jr. in Clearwater
"Decisions About Money and Controversial Commentary"
copyright 2010 John DeFlumeri Jr
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