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BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill - 6/24/2010 3:08:50 PM

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Talk about a public relations spin.

BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill

Retaining an upbeat tone, in an email to staff last Friday, Hayward again pledged to “get [BP] through the immediate
crisis as a stronger and safer company.”

That was after a week that saw a congressional grilling, credit downgrades to just above junk status, a pledge to pay $20 billion into a cleanup and compensation fund and a freeze in dividend payouts for the rest of 2010.

But in Planet BP — a BP online, in-house magazine — a “BP reporter” dispatched to Louisiana managed to paint an even rosier picture of the disaster. “There is no reason to hate BP,” one local seafood entrepreneur is quoted as saying, as the region relies on the oil industry for work.

Indeed, the April 20 spill on the Deepwater Horizon is being reinvented in Planet BP as a strike of luck.

“Much of the region’s [nonfishing boat] businesses — particularly the hotels — have been prospering because so many people have come here from BP and other oil emergency response teams,” another report says.

Indeed, one tourist official in a local town makes it clear that “BP has always been a very great partner of ours here…We have always valued the business that BP sent us.”

Fortunately the articles — on which BP declined to comment — don’t go as far as praising that new treat: seasonal shrimps in (crude) oil.

Another little gem from the article for those that think the $20 billion fund was going to bankrupt BP:

The company’s average production of 2.5 million barrels a day in liquids, would make it third in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries if it were a government. Its sales and other operating revenues stood at $239.3 billion in 2009 — larger that the gross domestic product of Nigeria. And BP only has 80,000 mouths to feed.

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RE: BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill - 6/24/2010 3:13:23 PM

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Personally I really don't understand the tourist industries claims when all the worlds media is camped there at the moment to watch tar balls on beaches.

Why also does nobody understand their 'pick your own oil' venture?

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RE: BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill - 6/24/2010 3:39:45 PM

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My guess is they are not making up the volume they would normally have during vacation season.

Not to mention the memory of that spill will linger in people's minds, even after it is cleaned up, and affect tourism.

There are already areas in those states that have seen their tourism plummet even though they have not been touched by the spill.

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RE: BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill - 6/25/2010 3:47:29 AM

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The hot months of summer are not the busy months for Florida hotels. This is the 'off' season. If this mess isn't cleaned up by next March, then it will be trouble in Florida.

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RE: BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill - 6/25/2010 4:08:27 AM

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yay... more people down there! Too bad the wildlife cant get a hotel room.

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RE: BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill - 6/25/2010 3:43:49 PM

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yay... more people down there! Too bad the wildlife cant get a hotel room.

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Aint it the truth. Those horrible pictures of wildlife covered in oil is just sickening and heartbreaking.

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RE: BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill - 6/25/2010 4:20:21 PM

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See the newest on their Arctic drilling? They built a gravel island in shallow water, built a causeway to it, and now it's considered an onshore well. They're going to run the longest-yet traverse (6 or 7 miles sideways to the reservoir), requiring motors at the wellhead rated around 150,000 bhp (50,000's the most powerful to date). Nearest CG station is 1000 miles away. You can only barge stuff in for 6 months of the year; otherwise they'd need to use the ice road. The nearest substantial supply of boom is 3000 miles away.

And these looooong lateral reaches mean that the well is more unpredictable, kicks more often, and will require much stronger pipe than that used to date.

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