Gulf Oil Spill Big Weather Experiment

Why is Corexit 9500 and 9527 dispersant BP's product of choice?

BP executives and board members have direct financial ties to Nalco, so that the more Corexit they use in their "clean-up" efforts the more they stand to profit from the disaster on the back-end. - Gulf Oil Spill Follow the money

Terraforming the Gulf of Mexico with Fuel-Producing Algae

Entities like BP, Citi, Nalco, GM, GE, Goldman Sachs, University of Chicago, holding companies along with Dept of Defense, Billionaires and Politicians are all vested in biofuels. What is going on in the Gulf is directly related to this new industry.

There is a lot more going on in the Gulf of Mexico than the oils spill

BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before Gulf of Mexico oil spill

The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares. That's about a third of his holding in the company sold one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing an environmental disaster.

His decision means he avoided losing more than £423,000 when BP's share price plunged

Read more at Telegraph UK

Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf of Mexico

Financiers Goldman Sachs not only fortuitously dumped millions of its shares in the British oil company, but has strong financial links to the chemical clean up firm tackling the disaster. Moreover, the Wall Street giant's new chairman was boss of BP only three months before.

Goldman Sachs Management (US) sold 6,025,387 of its shares in the British oil giant, BP on March 31, 2010 just days before the rupture of a pipe extracting deep sea oil.

Gulf Oil Spill to Drag Goldman Sachs into Trading Scandal

Halliburton

Boots & Coots has two core businesses. First, there is Pressure Control, which involves prevention and risk-control services for oil- and gas-well fires and blowouts.

Next, Boots & Coots has a Well Intervention division, which helps enhance production for oil and gas operators. This business is likely to benefit nicely from the trend toward unconventional resource plays (such as extracting energy from shale).

Halliburton Snaps Up Boots & Coots

M&A in the industrial and oil services sectors is totally normal, but the timing in this case, is not. Boots & Coots sure seems like the perfect company to own if it would soon become necessary to get more involved with some oil disaster.

Why Did Halliburton Buy an Oil Cleanup Company 8 Days Before the Oil Spill?

I first heard about this particular proposed weather modification technique at the Washington Post. The Capital Weather Gang briefly mentions it towards the end of this article.

"Researchers such as Hugh Willoughby, the former director of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division, and Kerry Emanuel, a tropical cyclone expert at MIT, have hypothesized that coating the ocean surface with an oily sheen would theoretically reduce evaporation and sap a hurricane of some of its strength."

"If the oil slick persists into hurricane season (which begins on June 1), and a tropical storm or hurricane happens to stumble upon it, then some scientists could finally witness a real-world experiment of their proposed weather modification technique."

Rick Knabb, the tropical weather expert over at the Weather Channel doesn't think it's possible, read more here.

"The oil would also seem unlikely to hinder the formation of a tropical cyclone, mainly because chances are that any tropical cyclone that forms will do so in some place that the oil is not. Also, at present the oil slick is relatively small compared to the size of most tropical systems. The slick would probably have to get a lot bigger, and at high concentrations, to affect the formation of a tropical cyclone, and only if the cyclone was trying to form right over the oil slick."

I fished around some more and ran across this article Can We Stop Storms? published at Popular Science magazine in 2005. The article mentions covering the ocean surface with oil to sap strength from hurricanes and cyclones, but also it mentions weather operation experiments have already taken place.

"In July 2001, Dyn-O-Mat engineers dumped 8,000 pounds of their Dyn-O-Gel (an amount capable of absorbing 4,000 tons of water) over a small thunderstorm near Florida. Within minutes the storm disappeared.

But there is no mention of the chemicals contained in Dyn-O-Gel. One can safely assume whatever it is, it's expensive. It's the nature of the chemical industry.