Wolf Blitzer: “Billion potential barrels of oil” under BP well; “Could really explode” expert says

Florida Oil Spill AW ^ | June 17, 2010 | jackie

[jackietree]

CNN’s first mention of concerns about the structural integrity of BP’s blown-out well occurred on the June 16 edition of the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, during an interview with a member of the government’s Flow Rate Technical Group, Professor Steven Wereley.

Blitzer described a conversation he had with an expert who said, “They’re still really concerned about the structural base of this whole operation.” “This thing could really explode,” added Blitzer, “And they’re sitting, what, on — on a billion potential barrels of oil.”

Wereley responded, “I’ve heard concerns about the structural integrity of the well.” More precisely, the structural concerns were if “the casing of the well is — is faulty at some point.”

SNIP

[thecodont]

Found an interesting graphic of salt structures that lead to trapped oil, at this site, The Paleontological Research Institution: http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/backyard/sections/southcentral/southcentral2.html Though I think this page dates from 2001, if the salt structures indicate trapped oil, we've only just begun to get at it. The Deepwater Horizon subsea gusher is SE of the Mississippi Delta.

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While the days of the "gusher" is a thing of the past (which is a good thing - gushers are extremely dangerous and damaging to the environment), plenty of oil and natural gas production is still occurring in onshore areas of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas.

Just onshore, in south eastern Texas and southern Louisiana, the flowage of salt domes has been the predominant mechanism for creating traps for oil. Salt of Jurassic age occurs here. When it is put under immense pressure by overlying rocks, this salt, which is less dense than the rocks surrounding it, will begin to flow upward. As it does so, it displaces, folds, and faults the rocks around it. In this way, traps can be created.

The Louann Salt is more than 200 million years old, and is located at great depths along the Gulf of Mexico's shoreline. In some places, however, this salt has moved due to the enormous pressure being put on it from the rocks above. The map below shows us exactly where the Louann Salt is located below the surface (south of the blue line), and where structures (dark green "blobs" on the map) have been created by its underground movement.

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[Quix]

GOODNESS!

Thankfully, God has made clear HE is not going to trash the entire earth at this time. Though He did say that unless the days were shortened, no flesh would be saved.

I think the elites are going to discover that their super expensive super deeply buried cities etc. have become horrid tombs for their bodies on their way to hell.

[Quix]

INDEED.

[Cvengr]

The environmentalists remind me of the Witch of Endor.

She obviously for many years dabbled in the occult, but believed more in slight of hand and getting other people to imagine things, but when the real thing showed up in part by her cause, she was flabbergasted it existed.

Ever notice how vapid the environmentalists are when a real environmental catastrophe occurs? They become mute, as if they are thinking to themselves, “Hey, wait a minute!,,, this really does have negative consequences on our surroundings and our lives, which we hadn’t ever really believed could happen.”

[Cvengr]

I believe the Lake of Fire has already been made, but some of the me outlandish suppositions on the future of the Gulf of Mexico, Hillary becoming SecDef, global quakes, seismic events in the US of apocryphal proportion, and the continuing globalist/Obama agenda sometimes makes me wonder.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Lot's of good scary stuff at the Sorcha Faal Website.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is for real:

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left [Paperback]

David Horowitz (Author)

[Natural Born 54]

This guy - Mike Miller:

Safety Boss is an oil well fire fighting company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The company and its CEO, Mike Miller, became most famous by becoming the number one fire-fighting company in Kuwait after the 1991 Gulf War. The company doused 180 out of the 600 fires, more than any other company there. Safety Boss set the rapid pace that had to be matched by other companies in Kuwait, and as a result, the fires were out within nine months, instead of the many years that was initially given as the earliest possible date to put out the fires.

The last fire to be put out was set up by Safety Boss to be doused by the push of a button by the Emir of Kuwait.

The technology that allowed Safety Boss to take the lead was the Smokey fire truck, developed in 1983 after an especially stubborn and damaging oil fire in A

[Quix]

More than a little understandable.

[Quix]

Mostly mysticism a la ET’s & New Age garbage, IIRC.

However, even those clueless sorts can come across accurate stuff occasionally.

[Quix]

FOR SURE.

BTW, ERNEST,

WHAT BEACH?

[Natural Born 54]

Who is Sorcha Faal and what is the purpose of all the bizarre articles this person writes? Uses the EU Times as one outlet. This author’s stuff is all over the place. It gets set around in emails. I suppose the purpose is to drive traffic to the site that posts his/her crap. Anybody know who this person is?

[Natural Born 54]

It’s just an example of the power of a methane gas explosion. Not surprising that there would be methane gas at a large old garbage dump. By the way, it’s not “my” link. It was one of a list that someone else put together.

[1000 silverlings]

I don’t know, disinformation I suppose, tinged with screwyness

[Natural Born 54]

Re their agenda on food:

Obama, on June 10, 2010, issued an Executive Order – Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. In short, the CODEX council. Here is a section from it:

“Section 6 (g) contains specific plans to ensure that all prevention programs outside the Department of Health and Human Services are based on the science-based guidelines developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under subsection (d) of this section.”

In other words, ALL prevention programs, even those outside of the umbrella of the Department of Health and Human Services, must align with CDC guidelines, which are “science-based.” What do we take for prevention? Herbs and vitamins. Herbs that you grow in your backyard and vitamins that are not approved by your doctor do not fall under these “science-based” guidelines, and are not allowed. Therefore, this will effectively open the door to outlawing ALL disease prevention practices that use herbs and vitamins not prescribed by a doctor, and implement CODEX ALIMENTARIUS right here in the good old U.S.A.

[Quix]

INDEED.

QUITE SO.

I haven’t EVEN wanted to get into all that.

HORRID GENOCIDAL TRUTHS THERE.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Quix]

AGREED.

[Natural Born 54]

The article in the Guardian is one of a number published on this topic. I posted the article about Mike Miller’s report as well. You show up here and pronounce this to be wild speculation and don’t post one source from one geologist to refute this. And then you ping the site owner to report this “wild speculation” like a self appointed moderator. It is not a wild speculation and the effort here is to try to find verification. Did you read all of the material or just see “Giant Bubble” and arbitrarily decide it was the Big Foot in the oil patch?

The government and BP have not been forth right throughout this situation. That’s becoming more obvious every day. If something like this actually were developing, do you think they would announce it? Maybe it’s a story they planted so they can justify a mass evacuation and further disrupt the country’s economy. Who knows? With these people, you can’t trust anything.

I just don’t understand why you pop onto the thread and ridicule, no report on people who are legitimately trying to verify something which could be very serious and accuse me and a few others of “fear-mongering”. You think we are that weak-minded - well, thanks a lot.