I received the following in an email.
What the scientists are not allowed to say.
Due to threat of severe repercussions scientists confirming these findings cannot be named.
Summary of what is happening
The estimated super high pressure release of oil from under the earth's crust is between 80,000 and 100,000 barrels per day. The flow of oil and gas is bringing up with it rocks and sand which causes the flow to create a sandblasting effect on the remaining well head device currently somewhat restricting the flow, as well as the drilled hole itself. As the wellhead becomes worn it enlarges the passageway allowing an ever-increasing flow. Even if some device could be placed onto the existing wellhead that would be able to shut off the flow, what remains of the existing wellhead would not be able to contain the pressure.
The wellhead piping is originally about 2 inches thick. It is now likely to be less than 1 inch thick, and thinning by the moment. The oil has now reached the Gulf Stream and is entering the Oceanic current, which will carry it throughout the world within 18 months. The oil along with the gasses, including benzene and many other toxins, is depleting the oxygen in the water. This is killing all life in the Ocean. Along with the oil along the shores there will be many dead fish etc that will have to be gathered and disposed of.
Summary of expectations
At some point the drilled hole will enlarge itself beneath the wellhead to weaken the area the wellhead rests upon. The intense pressure will then push the wellhead off the hole allowing a direct unrestricted flow of oil etc. The hole will continue to increase in size allowing more and more oil to rise into the Gulf. After several billion barrels of oil have been released, the pressure
within the cavity five mile beneath the Ocean floor will begin to normalize.
This will allow the water, under the intense pressure at 1 mile deep, to be
forced into the hole and the cavity where the oil was. The temperature at that
depth is near 400 degrees, possibly more. The water will be vaporized (turn to
steam) creating an enormous amount of force, lifting the Gulf floor. It is
difficult to know how much water will go down to the core and therefore not
possible to calculate the rise of the floor. The tsunami wave this will create
will be from 20 to 80 foot, possibly more. Then the floor will fall into the now
vacant chamber. This is how nature will seal the hole.
Depending on the height of the tsunami, the Ocean debris, oil, and
existing structures that will be washed away on shore and inland will leave the
area from 50 to 200 miles inland devoid of life. Even if the debris is cleaned
up, the contaminants that will be in the ground and water supply will prohibit
repopulation of these areas for an unknown number of
years.
Florida State scientist: NOAA ignores spill findings – 80,000 barrels a day
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7011584.html
BP – Obama Admin Coverup?
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m5d9-Gulf-oil-spill-Suggestions-of-BP-cover-up-with-Obama-Administration-on-massive-amount-of-oil-being
Video: The Oil is in the Loop Current – Will head up the East Coast
http://video.godlikeproductions.com/video/Oil_Spill_Disaster_2010_part197_-_Eric_Burris_Gives_Tuesday_Oil_Spill_Forecast
Benzene in the Air - Plans to Evacuate Gulf Population
http://gazbom.blogspot.com/2010/05/benzene-killer-plans-in-place-to.html
I question and disagree with several statements in the posted article, specifically the following section:
ReplyDelete"The hole will continue to increase in size allowing more and more oil to rise into the Gulf. After several billion barrels of oil have been released, the pressure within the cavity five mile beneath the Ocean floor will begin to normalize. This will allow the water, under the intense pressure at 1 mile deep, to be forced into the hole and the cavity where the oil was.
The temperature at that depth is near 400 degrees, possibly more. The water will be vaporized (turn to steam) creating an enormous amount of force, lifting the Gulf floor."
FIRST:
From where does the writer get the figure of "several billion" barrels of oil? He just made it up!
One source states the oil reservoir was estimated to hold 50 million barrels of oil prior to the blowout. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#cite_note-size-7
Another source states BP considered the well reservoir to be 50-100 million barrels - a "modest" find.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0519/Gulf-oil-spill-What-if-BP-taps-leaking-Macondo-well-again
SECOND:
If the pressure of the well reduces to that of the ocean floor (The writer uses the word "normalize"), then it is impossible for the "tremendous pressure" at the ocean floor to force sea water into the well. Although the writer uses the word "normalize", he would be more accurate to use "equalize". Equal pressures between two volumes of liquid cannot force one liquid into the other liquid. Oil would continue to rise to the surface because its displacement is less than that of water, but only at the same volume that sea water sunk into the well. This would occur very very slowly and easily plugged by that time. Therefore, there would be no chance for the water to "turn to steam" and cause the seabed to rise. This is a ridiculous statement well worthy of the ridicule it will surely receive.
Water is pumped under pressure into oil wells all over the world on a routine basis to maintain pressure as the oil in the well is pumped out. It has not turned to steam and caused the surface of the earth or seabed to rise.
Clearly this writer knows very little, if anything, of what he writes. This writer is hysterical and I recommend hysterical paroxysm as a treatment. He would benefit by engaging in these treatments several times a day, and we would benefit because he'd have no time to write such nonsense and waste our time.
One question that should be obvious but isn't being asked is "how was all this oil created in the first place?" At this point, does anyone still think that oil was created by dinosaurs that died a long time ago? With all the oil that is coming up, and that is only from one well, that's sure is an awful lot of dead dinosaurs, and that is not even to mention how they ended up under the sea, thousands of feet under the sea floor. Isn't it more likely that oil is actually produced by the Earth itself, from deep within itself, as Thomas Gold, in his wonderful book "The Deep, Hot Biosphere" explains so eloquently? If there are any lessons to be learned from what is happening, surely one of them ought to be that the origin of oil, as a "fossil fuel", is a fantasy, told to us when we were children, to fool us into thinking that oil is scarce. And wouldn't it be a hoot if oil, the original non-fossil fuel and a product of the Earth itself, was Gaia's way of cleaning Herself of a shit-load of humans?
ReplyDeleteMillion gallons a day – Not an “official” estimate. But this blog is for “alternative” news, right?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread574738/pg1
This news is not “official”, but is being spread on alt blogs today. People are saying something happened on Sunday that's being hidden. The feeds are now being looped. It makes sense that they'd try to hide the feeds. If it wasn't a million per day before, it could be now! “A series of explosions appears to have collapsed the seafloor and blown up the BOP at the well head. Oil and gas are billowing out of a depression in the seafloor where the BOP used to be at an exponentially greater rate than anything seen before.” http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread574603/pg1
Also there were reports on Sunday that military units are being called to the Gulf.
And threats that the White House is going to take over. Oooowoooo!
This is a major disaster, the full nature and implications of which, are being minimized by misleading blatherings from many "experts".
ReplyDeleteConsidering the Miss. delta is a major spawning ground for sea life and a major nesting ground for birds in the Gulf of Mexico, many species may never recover.
British Petro should be punished severly. They got away chep for the negligent spill in Alaska due to their poor maintenance of the pipeline (despite being warned1). The govt. should seize their assets in the U.S
The scenario outlined above does not look so fantastic now. In fact, it looks pretty accurate. If it's one million gallons a day ... it becomes a billion eventually.
ReplyDelete“The New York Times has reported that scientists suspect the leak is thousands of times larger than what BP has been reporting. Some estimates are as high as one million gallons a day.
Rock particles, gas and oil escaping under pressure are pushing against the capstone on the sea floor that surrounds the actual well. If it collapses, the canyon of oil will escape with a vengeance.
Neither BP nor anyone else wants to say what will happen it the wellhead gives way or the sea floor around it caves in. All anyone is certain of is that the worst case scenario is the one everyone wants to avoid.”
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m5d23-BP-oil-leak-Fallen-Deepwater-Horizon-was-tapping-second-largest-oil-deposit-in-the-world