Well casing is gone, oil spill about to get worse

[sgreger1]

Here is what the team observing the ocean floor for BP says:

According to Sagalevich’s report, the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico is not just coming from the 22 inch well bore site being shown on American television, but from at least 18 other sites on the “fractured seafloor” with the largest being nearly 11 kilometers (7 miles) from where the Deepwater Horizon sank and is spewing into these precious waters an estimated 2 million gallons of oil a day.

warns that the Gulf of Mexico sea floor has been fractured “beyond all repair” and our World should begin preparing for an ecological disaster “beyond comprehension” unless “extraordinary measures” are undertaken to stop the massive flow of oil into our Planet’s eleventh largest body of water.




This is going to be an extinction-level event if not contained.

http://www.thelibertyblog.net/2010/0...exico-sea.html



For the bible types:

"The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. Revelation 8:8 (NIV)"

[NonServiam]

Uh-Oh! Time to batten down the hatches! Since there is absolutely nothing I can do to solve this problem, I might as well sit back and enjoy the show. Although, I do feel bad for the wildlife.

Edit: Now that I've read the article in full. Nuke the damn thing will ya'. Sh*t! But ohhhhh nooooo. Once again, Big Oil runs this country, if not the world.

[truthwolf1]

This sounds like a dam that starts out small but gets bigger with time. Glad we were on top of things from the start!

[Bigblue1]

me and nonserviam enjoying the show

sorry truthwolf and sgreger forgot to add you guys

oh tex and stuklu decided to come


Oh welcome danielan and timholian

[sgreger1]

From what I have been reading in the news this could lead to essentially a volcano of oil emerging that cannot be capped. The only option is to nuke it! I hope they nuke it, but it would spray water up on the beaches which would suck, but long term it may be the better option since all that oil won't get out. It's been done before.

[texasmade]

me and nonserviam enjoying the show

sorry truthwolf and sgreger forgot to add you guys

oh tex and stuklu decided to come


Oh welcome danielan and timholian

I'll pull a seat up

[texasmade]

From what I have been reading in the news this could lead to essentially a volcano of oil emerging that cannot be capped. The only option is to nuke it! I hope they nuke it, but it would spray water up on the beaches which would suck, but long term it may be the better option since all that oil won't get out. It's been done before.

Obama’s government, on the other hand, has stated that a nuclear option for ending this catastrophe is not being discussed,


As to the reason for Obama’s government refusing to consider nuking this oil well, Sagalevich states in this report that the American’s “main concern” is not the environmental catastrophe this disaster is causing, but rather what the impact of using a nuclear weapon to stop this leak would have on the continued production of oil from the Gulf of Mexico, and which in an energy starved World remains the Planet’s only oil producing region able to increase its production.



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[Darwin]

The spill could be a gusher shooting a hundred thousand barrels a minute half a mile into the sky and they wouldn't nuke it. Bush might have had the stones to approve that but the O'man--never ever ever. The relief wells should work when they are completed. Relief wells are a proven technique they are just not for the immediate gratification crowd. Aside from the environmental damage the real shame here is that such a productive well is not in proper operation and were losing that crude from our supply stream.

[NonServiam]

me and nonserviam enjoying the show

sorry truthwolf and sgreger forgot to add you guys

oh tex and stuklu decided to come


Oh welcome danielan and timholian

HaHa!!! I love those little popcorn eatin' smiley dudes! When the end of days comes, and I'm huddled up in the cellar with my head between my knees, tobacco in my lip, and a bottle of liquor in my hand, I'll be smiling thinking of these little smiley dudes!

[sgreger1]

The spill could be a gusher shooting a hundred thousand barrels a minute half a mile into the sky and they wouldn't nuke it. Bush might have had the stones to approve that but the O'man--never ever ever. The relief wells should work when they are completed. Relief wells are a proven technique they are just not for the immediate gratification crowd. Aside from the environmental damage the real shame here is that such a productive well is not in proper operation and were losing that crude from our supply stream.

I thought that since the casing got too heavily damaged that a relief well will not relaly be able to fix anything? I don't know the specifics but everything ive been reading makes it sound like if casing is destroyed than no real hopes of capping the well.

[justintempler]

From what I have been reading in the news this could lead to essentially a volcano of oil emerging that cannot be capped. The only option is to nuke it! I hope they nuke it, but it would spray water up on the beaches which would suck, but long term it may be the better option since all that oil won't get out. It's been done before.

If they nuke or use explosions, they drill a hole and backfill behind the explosive charge before detonation. There is no risk of human exposure. It's like an underground nuclear test that they used to do all the time.

[Bigblue1]

Yeah but like tex said it may screw all the reserves, We can't have that. Remember folks everything we eat has a huge petro foot print, We would truly be screwed without oil........

[Darwin]

Relief wells are usually spotted in hundreds or even thousands of feet below the wellhead so unless the damage does all the way down they have a chance of controlling it this way. At least they should be able to relieve most of the surface pressure at the old well head which will allow them to more effectively seal off the fractured area.

[sgreger1]

If they nuke or use explosions, they drill a hole and backfill behind the explosive charge before detonation. There is no risk of human exposure. It's like an underground nuclear test that they used to do all the time.

I know they do that but the when the russians did it I swear I saw a picture of it blowing water up into the sky. perhaps not, and then again this is all a mile below sea level but still.

I didn't mean water from the blast would reach land, I mean that the explosion would cause waves that would spray more oil up onto the beaches, but still it's better than letting this thing bleed out over the next 30 years.

[deadpool99]

They know the well pipe is damaged. Thats why they cut the pipe on top of the BOP and thats why they stopped trying to seal it off at the top of the well. Sealing it off up their will make the pressure of the oil in the pipe go up and blast out of the damaged sections even more and add to the erosion of the seabed around the broken section. If they can get the relief wells to work we will be ok.

What we really or at least the gulf states have to worry about is Hurricanes bringing this oil onshore. Its happening right now and they aren't even getting a direct hit.
But once the relief wells are in place they might use those wells to relieve the pressure on the main pipe going up and load it with a nuke or a crap load of high explosives.

A nuke would either seal it off or blow the proverbial cork on the whole oil reserve.