Posted on 06/17/2010 3:47:13 AM PDT by jackietree
CNNs first mention of concerns about the structural integrity of BPs blown-out well occurred on the June 16 edition of the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, during an interview with a member of the governments Flow Rate Technical Group, Professor Steven Wereley.
Blitzer described a conversation he had with an expert who said, Theyre still really concerned about the structural base of this whole operation. This thing could really explode, added Blitzer, And theyre sitting, what, on on a billion potential barrels of oil.
Wereley responded, Ive 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.
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or even a moron whose willing to TALK to oilmen.
The oil would continue to flow out of the damaged well cassing and eventually find its way to the surface. They need to stop the flow below the damaged section.
Not as much as is leaking now, and they could still drill the alternative wells as they are doing now.
Not with a 6 month moratorium on no new drills.
You forgot to factor in Leap Years.
If they can keep the cap they have on it now it wouldn’t be a problem for big rock bags, large cement blocks and ultimately deep gravel buried over it.
Has anyone ever heard of an oil gusher that couldnt be capped?
I think something isamiss hear.
Clearly they r keeping the truth from us.
I suspect the pressures are toogreat tocapthe well and the leak is coming further down.
There’s 18,000 ft of drill pipe . 5000 in water, the rest bedrock. The leak could be anywhere.
Think about it. BP agrees to settle when they dont have too. They re thinking striking a deal now will put a cap on their losses.
We’re being lied too.
I still believe there’s more going on on the ocean floor and below than what we know or are being told. BP is the natural fall guy for all this, and they should take responsibility. But a fundamental geological shift needs to be researched and considered in all this. BP may have just been the victim of it.
What you describe makes one wonder how they every found it stable enough to drill in the first place. This is a stinking pipe in the ground, not a volcano. It could be
buried given enough rock. Particularly in nearly two months time. imho
“Why the heck don’t they just put a metal cone cover over this well head and just weigh it down”
Because the oil would come up through the compromised seafloor.
Do you discount his assertion that the casing could be damaged below the surface (of the seafloor) and could eventually erode the rock/soil that surrounds it?
In the 60s, there was a sci-fi fick called “Crack in the World”. It was about an attempt to tap magma in the Earth’s core with a nuke. Except the nuke ended up causing a crack in the Earth’s crust that started to spread. It threatened to litteral cut the world in too. Scientists tried to stop the crack with a 2nd nuke, but it just caused it to reverse course. At the end of the film, the now oval shaped crack ended up resulting in the birth of another moon from magma within the Earth’s core.
With Obama “in charge”, look for a similar type disaster here.
We could live with a small leak versus what we have now.
Plus they still are working on the relief wells which should reach their targets by next month.
Deepwater Horizon II: a floating "lilly pad" (colostomy bag?) until a more permanent solution is found.
Bush/Cheney (with support from G.H.W. Bush) would have plugged it by now.
you need roughnecks to work on oil wells....
...not pantywaists
1. Has Obama returned the 70,000 in campaign funds from BP, before they got the permit for this well?
2. Has Rahm Emanual paid BP for the apartment he received, rent free, before they got the permit for this well?
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