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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let's start here:

“The bubble is likely to explode upwards propelled by more than 50,000 psi of pressure, bursting through the cracks and fissures of the sea floor, fracturing and rupturing miles of ocean bottom with a single extreme explosion,” Matai explains

One of the reasons the water in town comes on when you turn on the tap is that pressure in a system equalizes, less friction, of course.

So the pressure before the well blew out is representative of the formation pressure==and that is the same throughout the formation.

If 16.8 pound per gallon mud was holding that back, the formation pressure is less than .052*the weight of the drilling mud in pounds per gallon* the height of the fluid column. IOW, 16.8*.052*18000, or 15,724 psi. Now that was holding the formation fluid in the formation, so it is the upper limit fo the formation pressure. The pressure exerted by the column of drilling fluid was reduced by roughly 2200 psi when the 16.8 pound mud in the riser was displaced by seawater, roughly 8.5 pounds per gallon, and about 5000 ft. of that. The math gives you a lower limit for the formation pressure, around 13,500 psi. The actual pressure is somewhere between that and 15,724 psi.

Not 50,000.

Methane is virtually insoluable in water at surface pressures, a mile down a bit more so, but if they are measuring that at the surface, the methane bubble has expanded 150 times, so some wild numbers are possible.

Basically, I think you are seeing some really hysterical BS, here, trying to get people in a panic. The end result of that only pumps the 'green' agenda, cap and trade, and panic, which makes fertile ground for Socialist seeds.

Knowledge is power.

While H2S is readily dissolved in water, wherever there is oil on the surface, it would be evident, because it dissolves in oil, too, and comes out of solution very well at warm temperatures and normal atmospheric pressure. In other word, you'd have smelled it by now. NO ONE on any beach cleaning up has the right gear on for H2S exposure, they aren't dead, therefore, there isn't very much out there--nothing close to hazardous amounts.

One more thing, in order to have an explosion (chemical reaction variety), you need to have oxygen in abundance or an oxidizing chemical in the system. Methane, H2S, and oil are fuels, but not oxidizers. The mixture has to be in the right range as well, and to do that in a very large area has defied the ability of arms technicians and inventors for decades.

12 posted on 06/24/2010 10:22:20 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Very impressive! Thanks Smokin’ Joe.


19 posted on 06/24/2010 10:36:05 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Smokin' Joe

Basically, I think you are seeing some really hysterical BS, here, trying to get people in a panic. The end result of that only pumps the ‘green’ agenda, cap and trade, and panic, which makes fertile ground for Socialist seeds.
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I completely agree!

I also find reports from Russia interesting, too...I’ve never been of the opinion they have our best interests in mind.

Shoot, BP is done for and Chavez nationalized American oil rigs in the last few days, a little more help from Obama and pals, the EPA etc— America should be on her knees pretty good.

I think they want us hysterical, so that we run to Big Gov’t to save us but it will be our cage, they will make us dependent and slaves.

The rich and powerful will oversee all the natural resources of this country and we will have just rolled over and given it to them.


20 posted on 06/24/2010 10:37:45 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: Smokin' Joe
Basically, I think you are seeing some really hysterical BS, here, trying to get people in a panic. The end result of that only pumps the 'green' agenda, cap and trade, and panic, which makes fertile ground for Socialist seeds.

Nails it. They want yet another issue to panic about. This sounds as ridiculous as a low budget Hollywood thriller.

41 posted on 06/25/2010 5:26:08 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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