Mother of All Gushers Could Kill Earth's Oceans
- May 04, 2010 01:51:21
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Mother of all Gushers Could Kill Earth's Oceans
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Official In Charge of Responding to the Oil Spill Was Official In Charge of Responding to Hurricane Katrina
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Mother of all Gushers Could Kill Earth's Oceans
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Imagine a pipe 5 feet wide spewing crude oil like a fire hose from what could be the planets' largest, high-pressure oil and gas reserve. With the best technology available to man, the Deepwater Horizon rig popped a hole into that reserve and was overwhelmed. If this isn't contained, it could poison all the oceans of the world.
"Well if you say the fire hose has a 70,000 psi pump on the other end yes! No comparison here. The volume out rises geometrically with pressure. Its a squares function. Two times the pressure is 4 times the push. The Alaska pipeline is 4 feet in diameter and pushes with a lot less pressure. This situation in the Gulf of Mexico is stunning dangerous." -- Paul Noel (May 2, 2010)
Last night we received the following text in an email, author not identified. I passed it by Paul Noel, who is an expert in the field. His response follows thereafter. In calculating the gallons required to kill the oceans, remember that oil goes to the surface, where life is concentrated.
The Oil Mess
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The original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work. [See Paul Noel's ideas above.]
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that.
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ShroomDuke May 04, 2010 05:12:15+3what an insane unnecessary disaster, this is greed and arrogance, WTF are we doing drilling at 5000'? Oil Companies have been murdering people for Oil for many years, they have been polluting, poisoning, bribing, stealing, lying, Why do we allow this?
Nationalize the Oil, Cancel the Contracts, and give ALL OIL COMPANIES the Corporate Death Sentence!
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I have worked in the Gulf of Mexico for a prominent underwater services company based out of Morgan City, Louisianna. I worked for them as a commercial diver, and later as a deepwater installation technician. My latter job consisted of placing Underwater Terminal Access (UTA) devices to the wellheads so if the rig was ever lost, you still had control of the wellhead. This device was the last line of defense if the hydraulic connections were damaged from the rig to the BOP. This UTA manually operates the wellhead at the BOP. (This was not installed on the Deepwater Horizon.)
My assessment of this situation is somewhat different from what they have been telling us.
First, if you break down the stated 5,000 barrels a day down to gallons per second, we see that the leak is only producing a little over 2 gallons a second. Now that the cap is in place we look at the leak and we can still clealy see we are leaking much more than 2 gallons a second. So we know that is complete BS and indeed they keep raising their estimates. I stand behind my original estimate of between 6 and 8 million gallons per day. (Oh, and by the way, the riser - or "5 foot wide pi...
I have worked in the Gulf of Mexico for a prominent underwater services company based out of Morgan City, Louisianna. I worked for them as a commercial diver, and later as a deepwater installation technician. My latter job consisted of placing Underwater Terminal Access (UTA) devices to the wellheads so if the rig was ever lost, you still had control of the wellhead. This device was the last line of defense if the hydraulic connections were damaged from the rig to the BOP. This UTA manually operates the wellhead at the BOP. (This was not installed on the Deepwater Horizon.)
My assessment of this situation is somewhat different from what they have been telling us.
First, if you break down the stated 5,000 barrels a day down to gallons per second, we see that the leak is only producing a little over 2 gallons a second. Now that the cap is in place we look at the leak and we can still clealy see we are leaking much more than 2 gallons a second. So we know that is complete BS and indeed they keep raising their estimates. I stand behind my original estimate of between 6 and 8 million gallons per day. (Oh, and by the way, the riser - or "5 foot wide pipe" - is actually 20" in diameter. Still a large pipe...just not quite 5'.)
Second thing that bothers me is the fact they won't fix it. Having my experience I am well aware of our underwater capabilities at these depths. (Our deepest installation was in excess of 5500 feet.) I know for an absolute fact the flange which is directly below the cut they made can be unbolted and a new BOP (which is basically a large valve) placed ontop. The valve would have to be in the open position to avoid fighting force of flow, but once bolted on the valve could then be closed. This is FOR A FACT all within ROV capabilities. No, it is not quick and easy, but it is a permanent solution that's faster than drilling two...do I hear 3?... relief wells. Come on, think everyone...How does everyone think those BOPs got down there and bolted on to begin with?
I have also stated my thoughts about the damage being far worse than we are told. I have brought up the fact that drilling too fast through certain substrates could crack the mantle. And now it seems there are people who are saying there is in fact damage far below the earths crust. ( http://www.infowars.com/bp-of... )
I have a feeling this is going to get much worse. If there is damage far below the earths crust, then it can't be stopped. Doing so would cause greater damage to the seafloor and potentially cause the well to leak uncontrollably and at full force.
This is bad. Hang on, we're in for a heck of a ride.
I really think this is going to be a Global Castastrophe...maybe a global killer...your thoughts? The implications........!!!!!
But the dispersant, on top of it being toxic, acts to hold the oil underwater allowing it to travel along on underwater currents virtually undetected. There are natural microbes which eat oil and break it down. They will be in a feeding frenzy which will deplete oxygen levels and strangle wildlife if those blobs of oil remain in one spot very long. However this will mean the oil - if travelling - is going to wash up somewhere else. If it doesn't spread along our east coast it may very well end up in Europe.
Global killer...I hope not, but if it isn't I think it is going to be a near miss for the human race.
The benzine which is being emmited into the atmosphere mixes with the rain which kills the vegetation. There are large amounts of this being exhausted on account of this leak.
This very well may be the prophesy of Revelations 8:8-9.
Never mind the oil, it's the escaping benzine and other gasses that's going to cause the problems. Mixed in the atmosphere with moisture and it becomes acid rain.
So let's say we get a hurricane which track toward Houston. Once it makes land the front looses power and slows down it's westward track and becomes influenced by the east moving fronts. The path of the storm now moves north and east dumping poisonous acid rain the whole way.
This is the agricultural heartland we are talking about. What is going to happen if the benzine is concentrated enough in the rain to kill the vegetation? What if the concentrations were enough to poison water supplies, lakes , and rivers? Now we are talking about a mass dying off of large numbers of livestock, wildlife, and crops.
Granted, this is worse case scenerio, but the longer this thing remains leaking, the better the chances of something of this magnitude happening.
There is too much at stake from ALL angles.
Oil has been NATURALLY been leaking into the Gulf for millienia. As it typically remains closer to the floor of the Gulf very few know this fact, but let's all panic about the FACT that the 0bamanation is weeks late in following through on plans set up well over a decade ago on how to handle occurances like this one ...
Former NOAA oil spill cleanup boss says Obama waited too long in Gulf disaster
http://www.washingtonexaminer...
Oh well. Let's give BaLACK 0bama some cover on this ...
Nationalize the Oil, Cancel the Contracts, and give ALL OIL COMPANIES the Corporate Death Sentence!
It seems as if so many have pictured Obama as God and they will expect a miracle out of him. Not me, but possibly others