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.

[mojitojoe]

http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,68178.675.html

[Dinah Lord]

BTW - do you have a ping list?

I feel like we should have a live thread tomorrow during the ‘top kill’ procedure...

Have you looked at the live cam lately?

[Dinah Lord]

Great pics - could it have been a gas bubble????

[mojitojoe]

http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,68178.675.html

[mojitojoe]

This was the best part, when the exploding gasses came straight at the ROV camera.... http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php?PHPSESSID=7bcbd7ddd3c6ffea70a71625e60ac8e2&topic=68178.690

[Vendome]

Being from Oklahoma and understanding how fracking works and hearing about the casing failure at the coupling I was “WTF!”.

Essentially what happens is now the pipe is broken some 300 feet down and will eventually wear through the soil, from the break and expose more routes of egress for the oil flow.

Think of poking a hole in a hose, say three feet down, and add water pressure to that and continue to increase pressure until it reaches a maximum. At the point or points you poked a hole in the hose, the water(oil/gas/detris) will continue to erode upward at whatever path of least resistance it can find, until it reaches the surface and BLAMO! A new leak and it is under pressure, Increased velocity and can erode who knows how much soil.

Now get this, if there is too much erosion you can have a Sink Hole develop and this is happening where you have increased velocity, erosion and guess what?

IT’S ONE MILE UNDER WATER!

WHAT WOULD A SINK HOLE IN DO?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Maybe there was a sudden erosion of something somewhere,...in the stream.

[mojitojoe]

Here is a video of the entire event, part 1 of 3. I will post 2 and 3 when they are ready. I added you Vendome. I thought you were already on it, sorry. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASvown8rFM&feature=player_embedded

[Dinah Lord]

WHAT WOULD A SINK HOLE DO?

Sink baby, sink!

So, this whole thing could essentially blow?

Might that be the reason that BP is now saying that the top kill effort 'may be delayed'.

[mojitojoe]

Here are videos 2 of 3 and 3 of 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCn7BhqVaE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgNLmFKUf3M

[mojitojoe]

Now get this, if there is too much erosion you can have a Sink Hole develop and this is happening where you have increased velocity, erosion and guess what?
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That’s Katie bar the door time. I’m getting real nervous about now. The water here was so beautiful today. The thought of that oil makes me sick.

[mojitojoe]

OMG!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What happened, we saw it we have a right to know. I am livid.

[mojitojoe]

Yes, i added you. Now they are saying they are not doing it tomorrow. Grrrrrrrrr

[Dinah Lord]

I hear you.

But there's nothing definitive on delaying the top kill procedure yet - and other reports still say the procedure could take place as early as dawn on Wednesday.

I can't tell if the BP brass is just hedging their bets (and trying to cover their butts) based on the outcome of the "diagnostics" - or what.

Meanwhile President 'Plug the Damn Hole' Delays Oil Spill Recovery Efforts For San Francisco Fundraiser With Getty Oil Heirs

[Dinah Lord]

Thanks for adding me to your ping list.

Katy bar the door time is right.

If I may ask, where are you FReeping from, MojitoJoe?

[Domestic Church]

Yeah, time to call eminent domain on the gulf oil, seal it with a small nuke and then properly drill it with all the safety checks possible.

[Vendome]

So you get the concept of Blow and Sink Hole?

Now get this: What about a burp? In other words, that damn suddenly and catastrophically implodes, the water drops into the hole and other water suddenly fills it.

What then? Tidal wave as it suddenly settles out?

What about a continuous that draws water down or that essentially stabilizes but leaves a lower water table that draws the land or shore toward the sinkhole.

See hear for a small scale example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPGOtCb4A3M

Here is a sinkhole from 2008 in Texas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsF_G5qLasM&feature=related

The thing that worries me most about this is what happens during a catastrophic failure of the dome well.

[little jeremiah]

Thank you.

Now I will have to read more and inform myself, as horrible as this is.

:-(

[Vendome]

Looks pretty clear now.

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html

[Royal Wulff]

Lots of ROV activity on the live feed right now.