BP Official Admits to Damage BENEATH THE SEA FLOOR

washingtonsblog.com ^ | Saturday, June 12, 2010

[GonzoII]

As I noted Tuesday, there is growing evidence that BP's oil well - technically called the "well casing" or "well bore" - has suffered damage beneath the level of the sea floor.

The evidence is growing stronger and stronger that there is substantial damage beneath the sea floor. Indeed, it appears that BP officials themselves have admitted to such damage. This has enormous impacts on both the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf, and the prospects for quickly stopping the leak this summer.

On May 31st, the Washington Post noted:

Sources at two companies involved with the well said that BP also discovered new damage inside the well below the seafloor and that, as a result, some of the drilling mud that was successfully forced into the well was going off to the side into rock formations.

"We discovered things that were broken in the sub-surface," said a BP official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. He said that mud was making it "out to the side, into the formation."

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[ArrogantBustard]

So I guess this means that anything BP will do is futile until the relief well is done in August.

But that's OK ... the "Sky is falling" apocalyptic screamers of "DOOM!!!" can rant and rave for two months ...

Ixtoc.

[The Comedian]

The following information comes from recent measurements from the EPS and NOAA:

The Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deep well, meaning that the well itself drilled down to as far as 18, to 25,000 feet, nearly throw the Earths crust, we could every well have hit a strata of oil or a Bathetic of oil. Oil at those depths can reach levels of pressure of 70,000lbs psi. There is no technology known that can handle that pressure. Normal psi for a well is 1,500psi.

What this is doing is eroding the pipe and the surrounding area and digging a bigger fissure, much like if you stick a high-pressure hose in the ground, only in this case from the bottom up. This is causing other streams to open up, hence why we're seeing plumbs appearing miles away from the original rupture.

But that isn't the worst part. As bad as the oil is it is biodegradable. Along with the oil, deadly gases are escaping at the following unprecedented levels (from resent EPA measurements).

Hydrogen Sulfide- safe level= 5-10 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 1,200 parts per billion.

Benzine - safe level = 0-4 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,000 parts per billion.

Metholine Chloride - safe level = 61 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,400 parts per billion.

These gases can cause massive health effects ranging from shortness of breath to cancer to death. In fact, we've seen some surface workers hospitalized.

Insiders are now saying that there now may be only one way to stop this monster: Nuke it. However there is no guarantee that this wouldn't make matters even worse by opening up even a bigger rupture or creating multiple fissures in the sea floor.

If nothing at all is done, there is reason to believe this rupture will go on for years, possibly decades.

And if this isn't bad enough, Corexit 9500, the dispersant being used, is many times more damaging than the oil itself. Its highly toxic. At the temperatures in the Gulf waters this toxicity is magnified and turns into a gas that can be picked up by clouds and return to Earth as a toxic rain. This "death from above" precipitation may have the ability to destroy life from micro organisms up through the entire entire ecosystem. So the chemical "solution" to the hydrocarbon Extinction Level Event may turn out to be a localized environmental holocaust.

I really wish I had been wrong about this.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[chris37]

Well, Travis, hopefully you are right. One thing is for sure, time is going to tell us how serious this is, and I think it is going to tell uss sooner rather than later. I think that we will know within a couple of months if the gusher is stoppable or not.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is a deep well in the Anadarko Basin of Western Oklahoma that is producing natural gas..from a 30,000+ deep well and the pressures there are 28,000+...

I believe that is the deepest producing well with the highest pressure in the world.

It is a sediment basin...

The Hugoton basin in Southwest Kansas is from a shallower part of the small basin.

Some history:

ANADARKO BASIN

[Natural Born 54]

“Listen to 80.1 and 80.2

http://www.veritasshow.com/veritasplayer.html

(80.3 is an interview with the Grand Isle Chief of Police - also worth listening to)”

Hit these first, please. Love to hear what you think of the interview @80.2.

[GonzoII]

"Some FReeper (sorry, I forget who) mentioned nuking this as the only option a few weeks ago. Thoughts?"

What was that new bomb we developed for Afghanistan..the one that was the most powerful non-atomic one made?? If they could get as many as necessary positioned just right...

[GonzoII]

"Some FReeper (sorry, I forget who) mentioned nuking this as the only option a few weeks ago. Thoughts?"

What was that new bomb we developed for Afghanistan..the one that was the most powerful non-atomic one made?? If they could get as many as necessary positioned just right...

[Natural Born 54]

Listen to 80.1 and 80.2

http://www.veritasshow.com/veritasplayer.html

(80.3 is an interview with the Grand Isle Chief of Police - also worth listening to)

If you only have time for one, choose 80.2 and let me know what you think.

[MattinNJ]

I strive to be a "good lawyer"-one that cuts through the garbage and gets to a fair resolution. I would say 90% of lawyers seek the opposite-getting bogged down in expensive litigation as they hide behind "zealous advocacy". I will remain silent on their motives.

But you are right, lawyers will screw this up.

[Rio]

Can they push a liner inside of the damaged well casing?

[holly go-rightly]

later

[LibertyRocks]

I haven’t had time to read the whole thread and the article, yet, but I have a ‘quick’ question...

Is there some kind of geologic indication that this could affect the areas you mentioned, or are you using that as an example of the things in the Earth’s crust that can cause extreme harm to humans if it ‘busts through’, or decrease stability of the crust catastrophically (like this current problem could be)?

It occurs to me that if that asteroid that people think hit the Earth to basically create the gulf really did (I think it’s highly likely), that they were digging far deeper into the crust than it would have been if you really were on the ‘crust’, and not IN a crater WITHIN the crust.

This may well turn into a disaster of Biblical proportions because it may indeed be right out of the Bible, if you interpret the reddish-hue of the oil spill at some times, and in some places it indeed looks like blood.

[smokingfrog]

I’ve never seen a powered wheelchair with balloon tires like that. Pretty cool!

[emax]

I wouldn’t worry about thayt just yet. I beleive Christ as the second Messiah will return for the true Christians and rescue them before any of that happens. Then we see the burning of trees and grass and the sea turniung to blood of some sort. It is people like the Obama gang who sat on their asses and allowed this who will be enduring those tribulations.

[wolfcreek]

Here a bit of *inside* info I learned from a friend who works for an environmental testing lab.

They were hired some weeks back to do testing on various aspects of the spill. (sea water and ground water mostly with some air sampling)

This past week, BP decided to use their *own* labs and pulled the project.

Coincidence?

[Whenifhow]

This may well turn into a disaster of Biblical proportions because it may indeed be right out of the Bible, if you interpret the reddish-hue of the oil spill at some times, and in some places it indeed looks like blood.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2534365/posts?page=18

[Whenifhow]

Gulf Coast Evacuation Scenario Summer/Fall 2010 Martial Law Alert!

http://beforeitsnews.com/news/78/024/Gulf_Coast_Evacuation_Scenario_Summer_Fall_2010_Martial_Law_Alert.html

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

What was that new bomb we developed for Afghanistan..the one that was the most powerful non-atomic one made?? If they could get as many as necessary positioned just right...

I don't know if you're talking about those "fuel-air bombs" or not, but I suspect so, as they're supposed to be the most powerful non-nuclear bombs around.

The only problem is that they require the oxygen in the atmosphere to work ... :-)

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Thermobaric weapon

A thermobaric weapon, which includes the type known as a "fuel-air bomb", is an explosive weapon that produces a blast wave of a significantly longer duration than those produced by condensed explosives. This is useful in military applications where its longer duration increases the numbers of casualties and causes more damage to structures.

Thermobaric explosives rely on oxygen from the surrounding air, whereas most conventional explosives consist of a fuel-oxygen premix (for instance, gunpowder contains 15% fuel and 75% oxidizer). Thus, on a weight-for-weight basis they are significantly more powerful than normal condensed explosives. Their reliance on atmospheric oxygen makes them unsuitable for use underwater or in adverse weather, but they have significant advantages when deployed inside confined environments such as tunnels, caves, and bunkers.

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GBU-43/B "Mother Of All Bombs"

[Star Traveler]

Yeah, it looks like it would be fun to run around the beach on it ... and it comes with its own umbrella ... :-)