Posted on 06/30/2010 8:41:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Uh, remember after the passage of Obamacare, King Barry was mocking the American people by saying, "I don't see any asteroids falling out of the sky. I don't see any cracks opening up in the earth."
His mocking was oddly creepy when he did it and worse now.
You don’t need casing to plug a well via a relief well. The operative factors include being able to introduce kill mud to shut down the flow, and cenent to plug off the producing zone. That can be done in open hole or cased hole, so long as fluid can flow through the hole from bottom to top.
We shall see.
That the system below the sea floor has serious failures of varying magnitude in the complicated chain, and it is breaking down and it will continue to.
What does this mean? It means they will never cap the gusher after the wellhead. They cannot…the more they try and restrict the oil gushing out the bop [blowout preventer]?…the more it will transfer to the leaks below. Just like a leaky garden hose with a nozzle on it.
IIRC, this area under the Gulf had a major earthquake in 2006. Wonder if that started a process of underground formation movement that made pipe failure likely.
Choppy isn’t a problem. Waves have a sounding depth of about about half their wavelength. You’d need a wave with a two mile wavelength to even stir the mud on the bottom a little.
When that CAP was moving a lot earlier today, the backside RV (Enterprise : ROV 1) showed some nasty up and down motion. You could just about feel the mass from that cap smashing down into the BOP. That puppies life span is getting shorter every day. Found a WSJ article that stated seas were up to 7 feet high at the site. They probably should disconnect in seas higher then 4 feet, IMHO.
bttt
Yes, this is quite odd. And the media quietly going along with it is even odder.
Flames??? 5000 feet down??? Maybe from over firing dat doob dude.
Then they will cut the entire BOP off the bore and fill the casing and drill pipe inside it with cement.
Well, that should impact illegal immigration, at least for a while. Yikes.
Well could be killed in 14 days, they think, but company sticks to August date
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7086967.html
The boat is connected to the collection tube and the collection tube is connected to the CAP. Not moving freestanding mud. Moving a collection boat on the surface dragging a big anchor weight (CAP).
I dont know.
I heard some fellow who was big money in the business that said the casing is shot and the geology is problematic.
He concluded the relief wells will fail
Plug the damn hole!
It isn’t the waves disturbing the bottom.
It is the cables attached to the ships, and to the caps.
The waves are making moving the ships up and down. Unless you see a physics problem with that.
: )
Or perhaps you have another explanation for why the CAP was seen by me, and countless others, bouncing all over the top of the BOP.
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.....Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.
An earthquake would not have to be directly at the well site to nevertheless cause or put in motion future shifting and crumbling of the rock layers and formations under the Gulf.
The coast guard is well aware of these seeps, which is are the source of most tar balls that have been washing up on gulf coast beaches well before Louisiana was a wet dream in some Frenchman's mind.
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