Renewable Revolution

Here's a fictional tale about our very possible future that you might enjoy. Feel free to pass it on with, or without, attribution.


Star Date 344,757.093821 (late naked ape tool makers date 2066): Gardener Commander Zarkploof Report 747:

The last of the naked ape tool makers ceased biochemical activity in the most recent revolution of the blue planet around it's sun. It fell in a nuclear waste pool while being chased at night by a pack of large canines. The canines left at dawn. The ape swam, then crawled, out but lapsed into unconsciousness from treading water for so long. It was then bitten by several large rodents and bled to death while trying to fend them off. The rodents, the canines and a nearby ant colony disposed of the remains. All of those creatures subsequently died of radionuclide poisoning. The radionuclide pollution is extensive. We have sent probes to aid existing species in maintaining some vitality. We are doing this in order to provide the biochemical substrate for reseeding efforts so we won't have to start from microscopic autotrophs in rebuilding the biological energy absorption pyramid.

It is estimated that 245,000 local years will be required for the nuclear contaminants (Mostly the one the naked apes called Plutonium but there are several others) to cease degrading the biosphere with harmful mutations.

Our DNA bank has 157% of the species populating the planetary biosphere prior to the naked ape polluting millennium that destroyed the naked apes. NOTE: We will file a detailed report on the extinct species such as the giant reptiles and mammals in regard to the reseeding timeline.

For the next 100,000 years we will seed various fungi to absorb radionuclides for the purpose of collecting them and depositing them in the local sun. Perhaps, because of this activity, the time for active reseeding can take place somewhat earlier than 245,000 years. But we must bear in mind what happened on the Zeta 382, which required an increase in wait time, instead of a decrease. As was the case at Zeta 382, there are chemicals the naked killer apes produced in their ignorance that, though not radioactive, are deleterious to life and even more difficult to eliminate than the radioactive elements. The glyphosate poison is one of many that are ubiquitous in this thoroughly degraded biosphere.  So caution is advised.

As to the naked killer ape tool makers, we recommend the DNA of this species be modified to prevent self awareness. It seems that self awareness, though it does help them develop primitive cause and effect horizon logic, does not aid them in avoiding the manufacture of tools to wantonly exploit the biosphere they require for life. These beings always seem to fail through the "fool with a tool" axiom of degenerate self aware species development postulated by the philosopher Glado the Putzenko in his "Beings that Don't Understand Being" treatise. They cannot seem to grasp the idea that defecating where one obtains nourishment is suicidal when the product of defecation is an industrial pollutant.

This planet is a very depressing and sad place to visit at the moment. Speaking for myself and all of the crew, I request home leave equivalent to 20 local planet years on our home planets.

One of the factors creating stress in our crew is the fact that the naked killer ape tool makers looked so much like us.



Respecfully,

Gardener Commander Zarkploof
 

Major Offshore Gas Discovery For Kosmos Energy 


Published at 06:25PM - 27/01/16

A major offshore gas discovery has been made by Kosmos Energy that looks likely to contain reserves greater than 20 trillion cubic feet.

Texas based Kosmos Energy made the discovery, with the offshore drillship Atwood Achiever, whilst exploring offshore Senegal.

Kosmos announced the news Wednesday 27th saying: “We are pleased to have delivered another major discovery with our first exploration well offshore Senegal.”

Offshore Gas Discovery

The Guembeul-1 offshore gas discovery is part of Kosmos Energy’s wider exploration of an area located due north of Senegalese capital Dakar. The firm is officially calling the the offshore discovery ‘significant’.

Kosmos stated that they now believe the wider Tortue reservoir formation, which includes Guembeul-1, holds reserves in the region of 11 trillion cubic feet (Tcf).

They have also been more bullish with their estimations of gas reserves across the entire complex, upping them form 15 Tcf to 17 Tcf, although further exploration wells over wider area are yet to be drilled.

The remaining wells are likely to tip the gross reserves north of 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas bringing it further towards ENI’s giant Zohr gas discovery that came in at 30 trillion cubic feet last year.

Commenting on the news Kosmos Energy CEO, Andrew G. Inglis, said: “Guembeul-1 confirms the presence of a world class gas resource that extends into both Senegal and Mauritania.”

“With our successful appraisal program and support of both governments, the initial gas development is gaining momentum,”

“The Guembeul-1 well continues our 100% success rate in the outboard Cretaceous petroleum system offshore Senegal and Mauritania, which we believe is a strategically important new oil and gas province and we are focused on unlocking the basin’s full potential.”

Guembeul-1 was drilled by the Atwood Achiever drillship in a water depth of 8,858 feet (2,700m) and a total well depth of 17,208 feet (5,245m), with the well encountering a net gas pay of 331 feet (101m).

Kosmos Energy Senegal

The Guembeul-1 is part of a joint venture between Kosmos Energy 60%; Timis Corporation Limited 30%; and Petrosen 10%.

Under the terms of the Senegal offshore licence, Kosmos are entitled to explore the area offshore St Louis, with a Senegal Government production sharing agreement coming in to force when production starts.

Atwood Achiever

The Atwood Achiever deepwater drillship, delivered in 2014 by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea, is on lease from Atwood Oceanics at a day rate of US$495,500.

The drillship has been designed to operate in a maximum water depth of 12,000 ft (3,657 m) and the maximum drilling depth of 40,000 ft (12,192 m).

http://www.offshorepost.com/major-offshore-gas-discovery-for-kosmos-energy/

The REALLY inconvenient truth...

Nicolas Torres  February 26, 2016   

A former BP site manager was found not guilty on Thursday for a Clean Water Act violation charge tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.

According to the Associated Press, former rig supervisor Robert Kaluza was facing a single count of violating the Clean Water Act that carried a penalty of up to a year in prison.

Kaluza, 65, was accused of bungling a critical pressure test that may have indicated the Macando well was not securely plugged with mud and cement, the AP said.

“We’re just pleased and thankful that the jury carefully considered the evidence and came to a just verdict,” Kaluza’s lawyers told Bloomberg.

Kaluza was the final defendant facing charges related to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident that killed 11 people and caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

In December, federal prosecutors filed a motion to drop involuntary manslaughter charges against Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, a fellow site manager, for their roles in the accident.

The two men were facing 11 counts of seaman’s manslaughter, but in accordance with a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling earlier this year, the charges were dismissed because their duties did not qualify them for a maritime crime.

Vidrine pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act in December and will be sentenced in April.

He is facing up to 10 months of probation and financial penalties.

http://petroglobalnews.com/2016/02/final-deepwater-horizon-defendant-found-not-guilty/

In response to the drop in the price of oil, the fossil fuelers like MKing calmly assure us that, after the "shake out" of  fossil fuel Industry Bankruptcies from the "insufficiently predatory capitalist" (see: "weak" and "undeserving of survival as an apex predator") and Mergers by the "successfully ruthless"( see: "deserving" of "survival as an apex predator") , everything is going to be "all better for all of us".

I say, SEE BELOW: 

In the late 1990’s, as they designed their own offshore oil rigs to account for sea level rise, Mobil oil paid for advertisements telling the American people that climate science was uncertain and that the U.S. should not join other nations in a global climate agreement.2

Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, the great grand-daughter of ExxonMobil’s founder, donated her shares this year so that the proceeds could be used to support nonprofit work to fight global warming.3

After 15 years of failed shareholder engagement and meetings between the Rockefeller family and ExxonMobil to encourage diversification, she declared that “I lost faith in ExxonMobil’s future value.”4

Let’s be clear – If the Rockefellers cannot convince ExxonMobil to change, Vermont will not succeed in effecting change through shareholder engagement.

Text of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s speech to the Vermont Pension Investment Committee