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Pulling this trigger takes 2.
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Posted on 06/03/2010 2:34:57 PM PDT by 7thOF7th
With each gallon of oil that leaks out of the hole in the Gulf, a vacuous cavity is forming and no longer providing structural support to the subterranean oil deposit. It is this very pressure that pushes the oil out of the hole. Under normal operating conditions sea water or heavy mud is used to replace the volume of oil extracted. If nothing is filling the space of the leaking oil, a catastrophe of immense and long lasting impact could occur. If the ceiling of the subterranean cavern collapses, it will release the entire oil deposit into the Gulf of Mexico. This would be biblical in size and scope of disasters as over a billion gallons of crude oil and gas are released all at once. IMHO
“I’m not a geologist so my physics may be off.”
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It's 18,000 feet below the sea surface, 13,000 feet below the sea bed.
“I’m not a geologist so my physics may be off.”
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I bet it will fill up with magma and lava will start flowing out of the well and then all the sea animals will evolve into the kind that live around those hot sea vents and then we will have those shrimp to eat.
The oil is found within the pore space of a highly porous and permeable sandstone. The reservoir likely has a strong water drive in that for every molecule of oil that leaves the reservoir, it is replaced by a molecule of salt water from below the oil/water contact. There has been subsidence around some oil fields (up to 20’ in field south of Houston,) but a subterranean cavern - no chance.
“It’s 18,000 feet below the sea surface, 13,000 feet below the sea bed.”
In rods, furlongs, leagues, cubits, hands, light years?
At 5,000 ft. below the surface (seabed floow), the pressure is 2300 psi.
Any idea how powerful that is?
I think we should get us a movie director, with his submarines and fiber optics, and go down there and wrestle with 2,300 psi, jagged metal, and just “plug that damn well.”
It will be even better if we have the lawyers help the movie director.
You might be thinking of the Yellowstone Caldera configuration. Oil deposits are not comparable to calderas.
http://www.armageddononline.org/yellowstone_caldera.php
Wrong Wrong Wrong.
charlie the Geologist
“expert”
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Oil isn’t sitting around in a big pool, just waiting for us to run a giant straw through a hole and suck it up. It’s inside rocks. It has to be forcibly removed.
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Spert = drip under pressure.
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The Morlocks are pushing the oil out.
AWESOME.
The gas belts will leak into the voids created by the oil being lost and support the roof of the cavity.
See how easy it is when you have familiarized yourself with the world of MU?
Well, there are some caverns of oil, Irann field, Dollarhide and Indian Hills to name a few. The biggest I have heard spoken of was 50 feet, we did drop 20 feet on one kelly in the Dollarhide.
That said, my sister did bite a moose on the cheese once.
IBTZ is easier.
I vote for IBTZ.
There is 18,000 feet of rock there it’s not likely to collapse.
If the riser is removed and they can get to the top flange why would you not place another BOP on top of what they have? I can see not doing it before because removing the bent riser lets more oil escape, but why not now?
Two if you ran drill pipe into the BOP now, assuming it is open, could you run it to a good depth or would you get so much back flow every time you connected a stand that it would be imposable? If you could run it in, pumping mud at a few thousand feet would be far better than the Top Kill idea, even though you would lose a hell of a lot of it.
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