[unkus]

Well, it is very big, and it under higher pressure than anyones’ used to dealing with.
And the batty brit’s went and poked the monster with a big stick.

It’s in a reference plane with central Americana volcano region.

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I don’t know the terminology, but if a “big stick’ pokes a hole in a “volcanic reference plane”, is that not good? It sounds like it could trigger something nasty.

[Robert A Cook PE]

It is a big oil field (I’ve heard larger than all of Saudi’s fields) and is deep underwater.

But it is also only a nine diameter pipe with 1 inch walls, inside a larger outer 21 inch casing.

No vast steam leak is possible. Wellhead pressure is between 6000psi and 15,000 psi (a net upward force of some 850 tons) but it is manageable. Some bits of truth hidden in the hysteria of the message.

But not much.

[norraad]

Yeah, that's what I'm concerned about.

If the gov. idiots in charge of this had two brain cells, they would have said, Let's not bother this monster just yet, n'est pas?"

We don't know what we don't know, but we are messing with pressures of massive underground 'Things" that tend to go boom when there are pressure changes.