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If that is the case, would it be safe to assume this is something that would have happened anyway, and BP simply hastened the wound in the earth?
I still think the government/BP are lying to us and know they have subterranean problems with the casing. They want to try to push the oil/methane back down below the leak. TECHNICALLY they might be able to do it but the problem is that if oil/methane has been blowing out the side since last Thursday @ 6000psi it's probably hollowed out a of a hole by now. Considering the "seep" as they are calling it is showing up 2 miles from the site thats a lot of void to fill.
If that is the case, would it be safe to assume this is something that would have happened anyway, and BP simply hastened the wound in the earth?
Fluid under pressure will take the path of least resistance. Theoretically if all the pressure was relieving out the top and being pumped to tankers the oil/methane wouldn't be squirting out the side of the casing. I think they are hoping the leak is small enough that they can force mud past the leak and then get a cement plug below it to hold.
If the seep is 2 miles away then its probably a naturally occurring seep right?
I ing hate BP.
Not necessarily. Remember this is under 6000psi. It can shoot out in the rock strata and run for miles till it finds a break to escape up and out.
The relief wells are not required to plug up the main hole once it's capped.
The relief wells are required to pullout the flowing oil/reduce the pressure in the unplugged main hole.
The danger of the "static kill" is that pumping plugging stuff into the hole may pop a leak in the main pipe, and worse, well below the surface.
You are wrong. The relief wells are to plug the existing well at the bottom. They will drill into the side of the casing and then inject mud/cement to plug it.
From my understanding of physics, that makes perfect sense.
u guys read this yet?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/bre...-1225894829955
lol why not declare bankruptBP PLC says it is selling several major assets to Apache Corp for $US7 billion ($8.06 billion) to help pay the costs from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The proceeds will go towards a $US20 billion ($23.04 billion) fund to help pay cleanup costs and damages from the spill.
BP said in June that it planned to shed as much as $US10 billion ($11.52 billion) in assets over the next 12 months.
The sale doesn't include BP's stake in Prudhoe Bay, countering published reports that said a deal for the Alaska field was in the works.
Wow. is there a news blackout or something? The ONLY article I could find was about it being hard for the offshore skimmers to find anything to skim...
What happened with the other leak that was a couple of miles from the BP site...last I heard on the news last night was the Government spokesman saying "we decided that leak was from ANOTHER well" and nobody even questioned him on it...WTF? We've got oil /gas leaking through the sea floor and they won't talk about it? WTF is going on?
I'm really not into conspiracy theories normally but something stinks about this one...
Yep, looks like the WH doesn't have this disaster to milk any longer...
Who knows if that place was seeping before?
Is the pressure still holding?
They won't have to do this if the static kill works.
Because if there's one thing the WH wanted, it's keeping an ecological disaster going as long as possible...
Seems stupid in hindsight right? So why try to milk political capital out of the disaster by demonizing the oil industry as a whole and trying to preach cap n trade?
You think this is over?
As Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
As Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
Just making fun of Rahm Emanuel. I'll bet he hopes it's not over.You think this is over?
How droll. (Ahem.)
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I doubt it.
Max sustained winds of 35...
It's 3 days away and lots of warm water between.
Come on, WC, you know Magic Negro is rooting for this storm to go Level 5 hurricane, so he can keep milking the oil spill news cycle.
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