Wolf Blitzer: “Billion potential barrels of oil” under BP well; “Could really explode”
Check out # 59.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2536374/posts?page=59#59
[Thanks, Natural Born 54.]
Posted on 06/17/2010 3:47:13 AM PDT by 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.”
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Wolf Blitzer: “Billion potential barrels of oil” under BP well; “Could really explode”
Check out # 59.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2536374/posts?page=59#59
[Thanks, Natural Born 54.]
You do know that the pressures are different than what you would encounter in your back yard....I hope.
You just now getting to the discussion?
A nuke....the ultimate fracturing device....should really help with the flow.
My best deal was $0.259 per gallon for
premium in 1972. One gallon into the
tank of my Honda CB175. I saved enough
for a piece of bubblegum :-)
>I think it was on Kook to Kook AM that they had some “expert”
suggesting many nightmare scenarios, including a HUGE gas bubble under the sea bed, as well as numerous fissures that
might open up, due to the relief well drilling, unleashing billions of barrels of oil that could flow for MANY years.
To say that this situation is under control may be quite premature.<
Your right. I don;t think that they want to panic anyone. But I have read trade articles that say that if there is as much pressure as they say there that relief drilling could actually cause the dome over the oil to drop after a major blow of oil. They speculated that it *could* cause a tsunami.
Meanwhile our emperor is eating ice cream ....
So what are the competing pressures involved here?
Someone on the Oil Drum is saying that the pay zone is only 60 feet....
Lot's of other reservoirs in the GOM are 300 to 400 feet....
Amount of Oil and Gas is directly related to the depth of the payzone....
No Bedrock over it either....
Not worth it...see my note just above.
Thanks.
You think the floor is changing?
Do you think there is a giant open cavern down there holding Gas?
AMEN!
Hey works in the backyard...should work there....is that the logic?
Try the 30k+ deep gas well in the anadarko basin of Oklahoma with pressures of 28K+.
No but I do believe that gas (volatile vapor) is escaping along with the oil.
We know gas is escaping from the well...there is a flare burning.
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