BP oil leak: Fallen Deepwater Horizon was tapping second largest oil deposit in the world

Examiner.com/Miami ^ | 5/23/2010 | Maryann Tobin

[mojitojoe]

BP oil leak: Fallen Deepwater Horizon was tapping second largest oil deposit in the world

If there is a single aspect to the dangers of the BP oil leak, it lies in the question CEO Tony Hayward and other BP executives have been avoiding since the first drop of oil went rogue: How much oil is leaking?

The real answer is - more than anyone wants to admit, because the well holds enough oil to make Saudi Arabian drillers jealous.

The oil field the Deepwater Horizon had tapped is said to be the second largest deposit in the world. Viewzone.com reports, “The site covers an estimated 25,000 square miles, extending from the inlands of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Texas. “

The oil deposit is so large, it could produce 500,000 barrels of a day for more than a decade.

[chilltherats]

Oops, my mistake. The bill is to quadruple the tax, not just triple it.

[Diogenesis]

"Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million
to federal …with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama"

"U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study"

"Obama admin exempted BP's Gulf drilling from environmental impact study "

"Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
are covering up the magnitude of the volcanic-level oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico"

"Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement"

"Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig "

"US allowed drilling 'without required permits"

"U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits
The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP …
to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits "

”Obama sat on sand berm request 2 weeks, still no reply"

“Lab Chosen To Test Oil Spill Water & Animal Samples Has Ties To BP
In addition to this potential conflict of interest, federal officials have mandated that BP
gets to hire the companies that collect data as part of efforts to rescue wildlife covered with oil."

“Oil Spill - CBS Threatened With Arrest For Filming The Oil Spill (Coast Guard: "This Is BP's Rules."

[visualops]

I told my husband yesterday we just need to be pumping the oil out, not trying to stop it.

[a real Sheila]

I don’t even trust that to be a “live streaming cam.”
I think it is on a loop.
At this point, I don’t trust a damned thing by BP and especially don’t trust our government to be truthful with us!

[a real Sheila]

can that be accomplished with some other explosive not as powerful as a nuke?

What if something goes wrong with the nuke?

[a real Sheila]

omg!

[DuncanWaring]

We may not have an ocean ...

No ocean, but plenty of beach. ;-)

[a real Sheila]

I think the governors of all gulf states need to say “FUBO” and start dredging RIGHT NOW to protect what is not already damaged in their waterways to prevent that crap from pushing inland when it arrives.

Keep lots of cameras and media on hand to show the world when the feds try to come in and stop the dredging.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks, I certainly bow to your far greater knowledge. You might want to edit and repost that as a stand-alone thread at some point.

Do you buy BP’s “60-70%” chance of success guesstimate with the top-kill gambit this week? Or are they hyping the probability for PR?

[Travis McGee]

See 109, I think Joe has the best handle on this.

[Travis McGee]

See Smokin’ Joe’s input at 109.

[Travis McGee]

See 109.

[FreeAtlanta]

So, did our Saudi "friends" sabotage the thing?

Or, George Soros mercenaries.

[bitt]

“?The World’s SECOND LARGEST DEPOSIT????? If this is true, then why in the *%$\ do we not know about it??!!!!! The fact that that could be true against all we have been LEAD to believe is the true scandal here!! We have been enslaved thinking that we have to be dependent on foreign sources. Why??? THAT IS THE QUESTION THAT SHOULD BE ASKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Just sayin’.... :)

We should be celebrating and sending all tankers and sweeps to the region. They should be sending a consortium of AMERICAN companies to the site and collecting every single drop for the Strategic reserve.

What a way to turn this economy around by harnassing the leak and announcing that we have solved our fuel problems for decades...

[a real Sheila]

thanks for adding some HUMOR to an otherwise very depressing thread...:-)

[a real Sheila]

As an aside, it is a crying ashame none of the fire booms which were supposed to be in the gulf were there, or much more of this could have been contained and burned off before it ever got near an estuary.

and sadly, if and when this is ever FIXED, there will still be NO PLAN, NO fire booms and NO equipment available when the next big one occurs!

[DuncanWaring]

...very small tac nuke detonated 4,500 feet under water...

Recall that water is incompressible, a fact exploited by Barnes Wallis and the RAF 617 Squadron.

Sinking it a few hundred feet under the seabed first might work better.

[Travis McGee]

I think Smokin’ Joe has it a lot better at 109.

[GOPJ]

The currents might carry it to the keys - and up the other coast...

[valkyry1]

Thanks for the ping I read it!