[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

[Tex-Con-Man]

Great graphic.

Now BP... we don’t another oil-spewing hole in the ocean floor.

[SouthTexas]

bump

[elpadre]

just wondering - why do they have to go so deep to tap into the line??

[Moonman62]

That appears to require incredible precision. How do they do it?

[tillacum]

How are the dispersable chemicals working, which make the oil glob together and drop to the bottom of the sea. Yes, globs of oil to seep up naturally then sink to the bottom where it helps the environment by adding minerals etc to the see bottom. Years ago there was a constand oil slick from So CA to Mexico from oil naturally seeping up. It became a trickle and I think it’s completely gone, now, with the advent of oil rigs tapping into the the oil caverns.

[tillacum]

How are the dispersable chemicals working, which make the oil glob together and drop to the bottom of the sea. Yes, globs of oil to seep up naturally then sink to the bottom where it helps the environment by adding minerals etc to the see bottom. Years ago there was a constand oil slick from So CA to Mexico from oil naturally seeping up. It became a trickle and I think it’s completely gone, now, with the advent of oil rigs tapping into the the oil caverns.

[WoofDog123]

heck how thick is the crust down there? IIRC only 4-5 miles?

I hope to live long enough to see results from actually probes into the mantle, or maybe even the beginnings of borehole tech.