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Posted on 05/27/2010 1:21:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Hurricanes could rupture underwater oil and natural gas pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico, which is already struggling with the worst oil spill in U.S. history, according to a new study by researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Mississippi.
The study looked at the effects from 2004's Hurricane Ivan, which disrupted several underwater pipelines in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Disruption of the seafloor can reach depths of 300 feet from destructive currents, which can continue for up to a week after the hurricane passes, the researchers found.
"It doesn't go away, even after the hurricane passes," said Hemantha Wijesekara, lead author of the study, according to a statement issued by American Geophysical Union, which will publish the study's results on June 10.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
ap on yahooie
US predicts up to 7 major Atlantic hurricanes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_re_us/us_hurricane_forecast
afp on yahooie
2010 hurricane season may be worst on record
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100527/ts_alt_afp/usoilpollutionenvironmenthurricanes
reuters on yahooie
Top U.S. hurricane forecaster sees “hell of a year”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100526/us_nm/us_storm_hurricanes_forecast
WSI sees most active hurricane season since 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100525/us_nm/us_storm_wsi_forecast
Of course that is a possibility, but how many wells are out there and how many have been destroyed by hurricanes, and why do they wait until now to tell us this? Surely this is nothing new, or if it is, then someone is incompetent as hell.
That’s weird, and here I thought a drill rig drilling a new exploratory well blew up. Was there a pipeline involved that I missed.
Didn’t the 2005 hurricane season do no damage to the sadly underwater pipelines. Never heard of a submarine hurricane though.
It’s strange how the propaganda media brews it’s toxic lies.
Oh yeah, forgot, it’s Saudi Rooters News ...
...just because Odumbo is president
The Left is sabotaging domestic oil production.
It’s a shame we can’t drill land fields. Not only do we have to get oil offshore, the feds, and States have pushed drilling way offshore into deep water.
Had this happened in shallow water or on land we likely wouldn’t have even heard about it.
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