Posted on 07/21/2010 6:38:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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The Global Economic Crisis Review
I need a shower with cleansing soap.
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Some of the worries about seeps in the vicinity have now been put to rest, in his brief yesterday Admiral Allen noted:
The first one was to see pitch about three nautical miles (Ed. Note amended to kilometers) from the wellhead itself. We do not believe that is associated with this particular well integrity test or the Macando well.
Similarly the bubbling from the sediments around the well have not been seen as something to worry about, although the material ejected is being tested. (It proves very difficult to get a meaningful picture of this).
There is, however, one leak that is due to the well, and that is in the equipment that is sitting on the well itself.
Maybe I’m sticking my head in the sand too much.
I appreciate such videos less and less.
We already know the general outline the future will take.
The details can be nauseating.
And who but God knows what’s true amidst all the disinformation, half-truths and truth.
There are a few suspensions of disbelief needed to even make a good 'B' movie out of this. THis is presented in blue to prevent misquotes and mosconceptions:
One: You have to believe in abiotic oil. Something far from proven, never found, and in the instances people cite as 'proof' pretty easily explained as a rule. But once you get over the hurdle of believing in something there is no definitive evidence for, you can have the limitless supply of oil from the center of the Earth you need for step two...
Step two involves envisioning an oil reservoir like a magma chamber beneath a caldera.
This allows two plot lines: endless pressure from the center of the Earth blowing up a big balloon, or A big, open cavity full of oil or gas, which supports a roof, and once enough leaks out, the roof collapses. While that works with a caldera and magma, it isn't the case with oil and gas. The only big, open cavities full of oil or gas are caverns in salt hollowed out by solution mining for the purpose of storing that oil and gas for later use. The ordinary reservoir rock for oil and gas (to trot out one of my favorite examples) is just the space in between particles in rock composed of grains or shell fragments, and while sometimes enhanced by solution passsageways between the spaces and fractures in the rock, has more in common with a glass full of marbles than an open cavern.
There are rare exceptions where there is oil or gas found in what is known as a paleokarst, and I have worked in areas where this happens (think old cave systems full of oil, buried below a caprock), but the caverns would be there at depth with or without the oil--they are stable, if oversized pores in limestone.
By combining misconceptions with a theory which has only been used to pump investors (abiotic oil), the image of the yellowstone caldera can be combined with the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico to produce a horrorshow scenario worthy of late nights with that special someone at the Drive-in (the movie? what movie? (8^D))
The big question is one of why generate panic (or try to) when the problem appears to be under control?
For that, we have to dig a little deeper (maybe).
Speculation on creating panic may be as simple as getting website hits to continue a little longer so the ad rates can stay up. $$$$$ talks, and BS can bring that in, especially in a day and age where scientific (particularly Geological) education is often lacking and crackpot theories are a dime a dozen on the web.
Notoriety and name recognition sell books, speaking appearances (with juicy honoraria) and other wealth producing venues, so I'd say the bottom line is that panic sells, it is a distraction from the machinations of a government run amok, and people are hungry for something, anything to draw them away from their day-to-day troubles in a fouled up economy.
Not to be confused with The Avalon Project, Project Avalon actually has a decent treatment of the issue on their blog, Project Avalon (scroll down to the July 20 post where they actually refute Simmons), albeit as a matter of setting some things straight.
Read there and decide.
Me, I"m sticking with what I know after years of formal geological education, 31 years of experience on wellsites in the Western US, and the examination of drilled samples and cores from well over a million feet of wellbore (more like 1.5 million). Out of all that, less than 50 feet was cave (paleokarst--no samples, needless to say), and no well drilled on the abiotic model has, to my knowledge, ever produced any oil from sources not later proven to be biogenic.
Wait a second.
I got up today and the sun had risen in the east...but..my toast was shaped like the Bermuda Triangle...
That is very ominous...please consult your local oracle...
Simmons is just piggybacking off of Hoagland it appears to me...see links above .
Oh boy...it's a HUGE continent, he doesn't say where, if the sea-floor was rising (and lowering?) by 13 feet every day, the entire globe would tremble. He may be referring to a region of ocean off the coast of Western Australia where there are off-shore oil deposits. I read somewhere recently that a sure sign of oil deposit is an elevation known as a 'dome'
Thanks for the pings, I've been following your threads without comment, you are a lone voice of sanity in an ocean of gloom and doom IMO.
It is pretty much a given now that the casing is bad. In fact it was admitted that they blew out the casing earlier in the drilling stage. They supposedly fixed that one, but the way the major blowout occurred, and the way they went back to monitoring the gas leaking from the well head this morning, casing is bad. BTW - Skandi 2 showed an ROV collected gas samples from the well head this morning. There are occasional stream of gas bubbles coming from corrosion points on the wellhead main pipe itself.
OK....hmmm.
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Just thought you ought to know that the earth was expanding in your area,...and it needs to be more even Globally...
thinking maybe you could help....LOL!
For the Lurkers...the Expanding earth is a competing theory to Plate Tectonics.
ROV Observation - Skandi 1. Getting very difficult to see the BOP and Upper Stack from a distance. Even with multiple lights illuminating the area.
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