The word over at “the oil drum” (an internet forum for oil workers to discuss various topics) is that BP engineers believe the well casing has been ruptured and is leaking under the sea floor. That means unless the relief wells work we are going to be dealing with one hell of an epic problem. If the well casing is ruptured, there is no way to kill the well from the top down.
That is the theory that HillBuzz (and alot of their posters) are floating. Is the big ‘keep away’ a postponement of the inevitable? Is the actual situation being kept from us...for the political end game of Cap and Tax?
That’s not good.
they can kill it halfway down thats a relief well.
Disclaimer: I am not a prodigy college professor, nor have I spent a night recently in a Holiday Inn Express!!
we already know they couldn’t kill the well from the top down.
That is what I read as well.
And the collection mechanism that now sits on top of the well is going to slowly push down on the whole thing, and when the BOP fails, that’s all she wrote. One hurricane could trigger this as well.
They mentioned the worse is not even yet to come under that scenario because even if they get relief wells start working, that deposit could be a network of 4 total resevoirs that are estimated at anywhere from 1 to 3 billion barrels. That’s not gallons, but barrels.
And they were also talking about the scenario of if enough oil is expelled at the current rate, a major portion of the sea floor could actually collapse which could trigger an oil release so massive, its beyond your worse nightmare.