Actually, thats all oil coming out.

The white stuff a while ago was oil too?

Anyway if I'm seeing this right it has stopped leaking.

and by God im no longer buying BP gas until that dike of a CEO is booted out. and this really hurts me cause the closest stations to me are BP and fricking CITGO stations. i have to drive out of my way to get to a Clark or a Speedy America one. :angry:

According to a report from CNN, boycotting the BP gas stations really wont do any good. Most BP gas stations are franchises run by individuals and all you're doing by boycotting their gas is hurting those individuals, not BP. BP has a lot of products that you may use without knowing it, for example the aluminum used to make the can your soda comes in could come from BP.

According to a report from CNN, boycotting the BP gas stations really wont do any good. Most BP gas stations are franchises run by individuals and all you're doing by boycotting their gas is hurting those individuals, not BP. BP has a lot of products that you may use without knowing it, for example the aluminum used to make the can your soda comes in could come from BP.

That's what I'm thinking by seeing the lighter colored gas bubbling up with the oil. I wonder if that is normal with drilling in the Gulf... and if BP had taken that into account.

Just curious... So there's oil in the ground, and they've got pipes from all the way down there going up, and somewhere it broke and caused this big OMG oil spill everything goes to hell etc.

Is it possible for such a thing to occur naturally? Like, the ground somewhere deep cracks/erodes, releasing a natural oil deposit into the sea of a similar scale to the BP spill? Would we even notice it if this happened somewhere unobserved?

Well usually when a Oil Rig goes down (which, isn't very common at all, it's usually Oil Tankers that sink or crash, or something that makes the news. Like the Exxon Valdez oil spill in '89. But the thing is, that this Oil Rig was a Super Oil Rig, and they're a lot more massive and consume a lot more, and they go down deeper than other Oil Rigs.

Anyway, in the early years of the Oil-era's, yes oil just seeped up from the ground, but usually not on its own.. unless yes, some sort of deep erosion or crack happened. But that was when the Oil was closer to the top of the ground. When we didn't need all this heavy duty equipment to drill miles down into the ground just to get some 12Million Barrels of oil. That's one of the reasons we have offshore drilling, is because there's still oil out in the oceans that are like what we used to have, the problem though is that it's so far down we have a hard time reaching it (not necessarily through the ground, but all that water on top of it.) And I hardly think there'd ever be something so massive like this BP Spill, that would happen naturally, and unnoticed. All major countries, that have their hands in the Oil Business, are always having surveyors and people like that searching for new oil finds... like in Utah, they have a large Oil Shale deposit, but from what I've read and heard, most Utahn's are against the drilling of the Oil Shale because it's in a national park or some where around there. Plus, most of that from what I've read wouldn't help much anyway like some say it would.

I like to think its clouds of chocolate syrup instead of oil...

Anyway, in the early years of the Oil-era's, yes oil just seeped up from the ground, but usually not on its own.. unless yes, some sort of deep erosion or crack happened. But that was when the Oil was closer to the top of the ground. When we didn't need all this heavy duty equipment to drill miles down into the ground just to get some 12Million Barrels of oil. That's one of the reasons we have offshore drilling, is because there's still oil out in the oceans that are like what we used to have, the problem though is that it's so far down we have a hard time reaching it (not necessarily through the ground, but all that water on top of it.) And I hardly think there'd ever be something so massive like this BP Spill, that would happen naturally, and unnoticed. All major countries, that have their hands in the Oil Business, are always having surveyors and people like that searching for new oil finds... like in Utah, they have a large Oil Shale deposit, but from what I've read and heard, most Utahn's are against the drilling of the Oil Shale because it's in a national park or some where around there. Plus, most of that from what I've read wouldn't help much anyway like some say it would.

Long story short: Earth is running out of oil.

Anyone else see the live feed today? This morning there was a huge machine down there. Now it looks like the hole is plugged up with cement but its (not so surprising actually) still spewing oil and gas. Awesome!

BP

BP is one of the world’s shortest and most valuable brands. The Helios logo (Helios is the name of the Greek sun god), represents energy in its many forms. The company owns the two letter internet domain bp.com, which the company registered in 1989.[citation needed] BP’s tagline is “beyond petroleum”; according to the company this represents their focus on meeting the growing demand for fossil fuels, manufacturing and delivering more advanced products, and enabling the material transition to a lower carbon future.[80]

ampm

Main article: ampm
ampm is a convenience store chain with branches located in several U.S. states including Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, recently in Illinois, Indiana, Georgia and Florida, and in several countries worldwide such as Japan. In the western US, the stores are usually attached to an ARCO gas station; elsewhere, the stores are attached to BP gas stations. BP Connect stations in the US are transitioning to the ampm brand.

ARCO

Main article: ARCO
ARCO is BP’s retail brand on the US West Coast in the seven Western States of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Utah. BP acquired ARCO (formerly the AtlanticRichfieldCompany) in 2000. ARCO is a popular “cash only” retailer, selling products refined from Alaska North Slope crude at plants at Cherry Point (WA), Los Angeles (CA) and at other contract locations on the West Coast.

BP Travel Centre

BP Travel Centers are large scale destination sites located in Australia which on top of offering the same features of a BP Connect site with fuel and a Wild Bean Cafe, also feature major food-retail tenants such as McDonalds, KFC, Nando’s and recently Krispy Kreme, with a large seating capacity food court. There are also facilities for long-haul truck drivers including lounge, showers and washing machines all in the same building. There are 4 travel centers located in South East Queensland, Australia. Two on the Pacific Highway (Coomera and Stapylton) and two on the Bruce Highway (Caboolture). A fifth travel center was opened in 2007 at Chinderah in northern New South Wales.

BP Connect

BP Connect is BP’s flagship retail brand name with BP Connect Service stations being operated around the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other parts of the world. BP Connect sites feature the Wild Bean Cafe which offers cafe style coffee made by the staff and a selection of hot food as well as freshly baked muffins and sandwiches. The food offered in Wild Bean Cafe varies from each site. BP Connect sites usually offer table and chair seating and often an Internet kiosk. In the US, the BP Connect concept is gradually being transitioned to the ampm brand and concept. Some BP Connect sites around the UK ran in partnership with Marks & Spencer with the on-site shop being an M&S Simply Food instead of a BP Shop.

BP Express

BP Express was the flagship BP brand prior to the introduction of BP Connect in 2000. There are still some BP Express sites operating around the world but most have been either upgraded to Connect or changed to an alternative brand. BP Express offers a bakery service but doesn’t have the selection of food offered in the Wild Bean Cafe and usually coffee is only available through a self service machine.

In the Netherlands BP is opening unmanned stations with no shops or employees. these stations are called BP Express.[81] Some of these stations used to be ‘ordinary’ BP stations, some are new to the BP network. Apart from these stations BP Express shopping does also exist in the Netherlands.

BP Shop



A BP Petrol prices sign outside a BP Shop garage in the United Kingdom (prices in UK pence per litre).

BP Shop is commonly used on smaller sites mainly independently owned sites. Products vary in each BP Shop but usually a selection of convenience store style food and automotive products.



BP 2go branded petrol station in Australia

BP 2go

BP 2go is a franchise brand used for independently operated sites in New Zealand and is currently being rolled out throughout Australia (Although not all BP 2go stores are franchises in Australia). BP 2go sites mainly operate in towns and outer suburbs in New Zealand. BP 2go offers similar bakery food to BP Connect but in a pre-packaged form. Some BP Express sites around New Zealand and Australia that were considered too small to be upgraded to BP Connect were given the option to change to BP 2go others were downgraded to BP Shop. Staff at some BP 2go sites wear a different style of uniform to the rest of the BP branded sites, however in company owned and operated 2go sites in Australia the same uniform is worn across all sites.

Castrol

Castrol is a brand of motor oil and other lubricants which is entirely a BP brand but tends to retain its separate identity.

Air BP and BP Shipping

Air BP is the aviation fuel arm, BP Marine the marine fuels and lubricants arm and BP Shipping is the Shipping arm within the BP group

BP Shipping provides the logistics to move BP’s oil and gas cargoes to market as well as marine assurance on everything that floats in the BP group It manages a large fleet of vessels most of which are held on long term operating leases. BP Shipping’s Chartering Teams based in London, Singapore and Chicago also charter third party vessels on both time charter and voyage charter basis. BP-managed fleet consists of Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), one North Sea shuttle tanker, medium size crude and product carriers, liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers and coasters. All of these ships are double-hulled.