Posted on 06/13/2010 6:39:37 PM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonsblog.com ...
Drill, baby, drill has never been more correct.
What they’re NOT saying is that said pressure leaks were caused when the saw blade got stuck as they were prepping for Top Kill.
Picture a leaking hose under pressure. Close the nozzle and the water leaks are worse than when the nozzle is open. The stuck saw blade was the closed nozzle.
Relief wells are the only answer and that won’t be until August. They’ll have to divert the oil pressure far below the damaged well section.
the saw blade did not obstruct the pipe a significant amount. There were reports of this sub-sea floor damage a month before the explosion.
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From what I have read, it’s not the oil that is the problem. The problem is that the Gulf Sea Floor has the largest deposit of methane hydrates under the oil deposits. The same methane hydrates underneath the Gulf of Mexico where a crater larger than the Grand Canyon was caused by a meteor and released the methane hydrates that caused the dinosaur extinction.
Not to mention that the oil rig is right smack on top of the New Madrid fault. Imagine that area creating a sinkhole. Lord help us all.
You can go to this FReeper thread and take a look at some of the comments there, too ...
“I believe this means you cannot cap this well. If you do the oil will come up through the seafloor.”
Ooooo, this means that the ONLY option will be multiple relief wells and we’ll have to pump out the whole damn thing.
...sounds good to me - but then Obama would rather see the Gulf rot in hell (we are Republicans, after all), than to get one useful barrel out of that mess.
No it wasn't. The 'saw' was a wire rope covered with diamonds. It was not some big round saw blade as you are describing, and could only have provided an almost immeasurable back pressure.
Yes, but the sudden increase in pressure broke off more debris, causing the fizzier crevices to open wider.
I read it on the internet. ;^)
I could have sworn I saw a large circular saw blade on one of the video feeds.
I’ll see if I can find it.
I wonder if magma movement could have caused the methane hydrates to expand, raising the pressure on the oil field above it?
There were two volcanoes in Guatamala in just the last month. Would they also be a signal of magma movement?
This oil spill is a game changer, folks. This is the real deal.
They tried the "Junk shot"...the "bridging materials" which also failed and likely made things worse in regards to the ruptured well casings.
Leading up to " As bad as it can get"??
The use of dispersants may actually be causing more problems than it is solving. It would be better for it to rise to the top, en masse, and be sucked up by ships, than to be separated into tiny glops which ‘disperse’ throughout the various thermoclines in the ocean waters.
Not until the governemnt waives all indemity...
The company I work for has been told by internal and external cousel...to stay far away from helping...the federal government is looking to make quick cash via lawsuits.
We have several ideas to share that are propritary...and we won’t share until we are told...we will suffer no consequence if our idea were to fail...if used
Yes you did. Those saws were what they were using to cut the smaller ‘choke’ lines surrounding the central riser tube.
It sounds like a big disaster to me... and BP or Obama aren’t helping very much.
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