A preface here, to any readers on my mailing list who find this article on the bartblog before my Examiner page: I apologize for the email exchange yesterday with that right-wing douche bag, Ashford Schwall. He will no longer be a part of the mailing list, since his mama apparently failed to teach him manners or email etiquette and he pissed off half the people on my list. He’d be a good candidate for monkey mail since he’s sending out right-wing propaganda by a known disinformationist, Sorcha Faal. Feel free to send him an email at: aschwall@comcast.net.
In fact, let the monkey have it! He thinks the oil rig explosion was caused by a torpedo attack by North Korea.
Anyway, this is strictly a report…no commentary.
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Imagine a pipe five feet wide spewing crude oil like a fire hose at a rate of over 200,000 gallons per day from what could be the planets’ largest, high-pressure oil and gas reserve. Now consider that 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?
Even at 200,000 gallons per day, the spill may eclipse the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident as the worst US oil disaster in history in a matter of weeks. But a growing number of experts warned that the situation may already be much worse.
A confidential government report by the NOAA, however, makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf. An animated graphic of the spread of the oil slick can be viewed here. (Hit the examiner link for all the links in this).
Paul Noel, a software engineer currently working for the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal, AL, who has expertise in the oil and gas industry, writes in Pure Energy Systems News:
I…think that the situation is getting further and further out of hand. The nature of the crude had changed, indicating that the spill was collapsing the rock structures. If it is collapsing the rock structures, the least that can be said is that the rock is fragmenting and blowing up the tube with the oil. With that going on you have a high pressure abrasive sand blaster working on the kinks in the pipe eroding it causing the very real risk of increasing the leaks.
More than that is the very real risk of causing the casing to become unstable and literally blowing it up the well bringing the hole to totally open condition. Another risk arises because according to reports the crew was cementing the exterior of the casing when this happens. As a result, the well, if this was not properly completed, could begin to blow outside the casing. Another possible scenario is a sea floor collapse. If that happens Katie bar the door.
The deposit is one I have known about since 1988. The deposit is very big. The central pressure in the deposit is 165 to 170 thousand PSI. It contains so much hydrocarbon that you simply cannot imagine it.
The oil industry has knowledge of the deposit more than they admit. The deposit is 100 miles off shore. They are drilling into the edge of the deposit to leak it down gently to be able to produce from the deposit. The deposit is so large that while I have never heard exact numbers it was described to me to be either the largest or the second largest oil deposit ever found. It is mostly a natural gas deposit. The natural gas that could be released is really way beyond the oil in quantity. It is like 10,000 times the oil in the deposit.
It is this deposit that has me reminding people of what the Shell geologist told me about the deposit. This was the quote, “Energy shortage…, Hell! We are afraid of running out of air to burn.” The deposit is very large. It covers an area off shore something like 25,000 square miles. Natural Gas and Oil is leaking out of the deposit as far inland as Central Alabama and way over into Florida and even over to Louisiana almost as far as Texas. This is a really massive deposit. Punching holes in the deposit is a really scary event as we are now seeing.
Crews continue to lay boom in what increasingly feels like a futile effort to slow down the spill, with all ideas to contain the flow failing so far.
“I’ve been in Pensacola and I am very, very concerned about this filth in the Gulf of Mexico,” Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said at a fundraiser for his U.S. Senate campaign Sunday night. “It’s not a spill, it’s a flow. Envision sort of an underground volcano of oil and it keeps spewing over 200,000 gallons every single day, if not more.”
Read more (and get links to info. and graphics) here: http://www.examiner.com/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner~y2010m5d4-Oil-slick-triples-in-size-in-three-days-landfall-in-FL-imminent