Damage to BP Well Under Sea Floor Causing Oil to Seep Through Rock and Come Up in Plume Miles Away From Well Hole

[bcassill]

Sorry for the long title, but had to catch the synopsis. I was listening to Alex Jones broadcast (Alex is a putz but sometimes his guests are good) a few days ago that elaborated on what might actually be going on with the oil spill. Seems that there is not just one leak from the well hole but maybe as many as two more leaks coming from fissures in the ground up to five miles away. How is this possible? Well, it seems that it is likely that the well casing which is nothing more than pipe and concrete to line the bore hole was fractured some way down during the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon. This would enable oil to leak into the surrounding rock strata at extremely high pressure and travel through fissures/porous rock for a long distance away from the original well. Anyhow, a site that has a synopsis of all this is here:

BP Admits to Damage Under Sea Floor

Lots of good detail with supporting video links as well.

Meanwhile, the government continues to manage the flow of information coming from the Gulf via a news blackout. Seems now they are using the national guard to prevent news crews access to clean up efforts. Below is a short clip from Anderson Cooper of CNN:

Anderson Cooper speaks out on Gulf Media blackout

Aside from the staged photo ops, news crews have been allowed ZERO access to the disaster, one that is likely several magnitudes greater than anyone is admitting.

As America moves closer and closer to the centrally planned and controlled oligarchical society that the powers that be want to create, we are likely to hit a few bumps on the road along the way. Of course, "Change We Can Believe In" became "More and More of the Same."

Try as they might, they will not be able to hide the disaster that has occurred no matter how many spin doctors and PR firms they hire. When the next leg down economically comes, BP will be held up as the poster child of government regulatory capture along with the Wall Street firms.

[Minion]

Re: Damage to BP Well Under Sea Floor Causing Oil to Seep Through Rock and Come Up in Plume Miles Away From Well Hole

Interesting.

It seems the push to secure damage payments in escrow is our govt's response to the bankruptcy risk.......

[Rajiv]

Re: Damage to BP Well Under Sea Floor Causing Oil to Seep Through Rock and Come Up in Plume Miles Away From Well Hole

Sorry for the long title, but had to catch the synopsis. I was listening to Alex Jones broadcast (Alex is a putz but sometimes his guests are good) a few days ago that elaborated on what might actually be going on with the oil spill. Seems that there is not just one leak from the well hole but maybe as many as two more leaks coming from fissures in the ground up to five miles away. How is this possible?

See also from 1 min to 2 min on this Soviet Oil Nuclear Bomb video

[open4]

Re: Damage to BP Well Under Sea Floor Causing Oil to Seep Through Rock and Come Up in Plume Miles Away From Well Hole

Interesting post,

The current gulf oil leak is an astonishingly serious and difficult problem,

The use of a nuclear device to notionally plastically deform rock to restrict or stop oil flow is not a certain outcome, it is likely that the alleged success clamed in the nuclear video you attach was illusory and that most likely mass fragmentation and void creation in rock, over a wide area occurred causing bulk diffusion of the well gas throughout the induced radioactive porous rock mass and an apparent well flow stop that in the case of invisible methane gas would thereafter pass as stopped.

It is not certain that the use of a nuclear device in the current Gulf scenario would result in a permanent stop to oil flow, rock is in fact highly elastic so it would be necessary to place any nuclear device capable of fitting in a practical borehole within tens of meters of the well thereafter it is likely that oil flow may then pass trough the induced crater entraining radioactive material to the sea.

Evidence from Chernobyl suggests that contrary to previous doctrine low level radioactivity may not be harmful so it is likely that the nuclear option will be tried.

[bcassill]

Re: Damage to BP Well Under Sea Floor Causing Oil to Seep Through Rock and Come Up in Plume Miles Away From Well Hole

See also from 1 min to 2 min on this Soviet Oil Nuclear Bomb video

The Russians successfully nuked about 4 to 5 wells and shut them off. However, supposedly the rock strata they had drilled into was granite. The strata that BP was working in is supposedly much more porous and prone to fracturing. The argument I've heard against using a nuke in this case is that it has the possibility of causing massive fracturing around the the site of the bore hole which could actually increase the flow of oil out of the ground. Not only that, the leakage would not stop until the oil reservoir was completely depleted.

[GRG55]

Re: Damage to BP Well Under Sea Floor Causing Oil to Seep Through Rock and Come Up in Plume Miles Away From Well Hole

The Russians successfully nuked about 4 to 5 wells and shut them off. However, supposedly the rock strata they had drilled into was granite. The strata that BP was working in is supposedly much more porous and prone to fracturing. The argument I've heard against using a nuke in this case is that it has the possibility of causing massive fracturing around the the site of the bore hole which could actually increase the flow of oil out of the ground. Not only that, the leakage would not stop until the oil reservoir was completely depleted.

Granite is an igneous rock...incapable of acting as a hydrocarbon reservoir.

Maybe somebody should find out what the Russians REALLY did before we assume a nuke is the answer.

[Roughneck]

Re: Damage to BP Well Under Sea Floor Causing Oil to Seep Through Rock and Come Up in Plume Miles Away From Well Hole

While it is certainly possible for this to have happened, I have not seen one piece of credible evidence to suggest that there is a sub sea leak from a different location than the well bore.

[Minion]

Re: Damage to BP Well Under Sea Floor Causing Oil to Seep Through Rock and Come Up in Plume Miles Away From Well Hole

While it is certainly possible for this to have happened, I have not seen one piece of credible evidence to suggest that there is a sub sea leak from a different location than the well bore.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/...sea-floor.html

I'm not sure if you take an anonymous BP official's testimony, but the Govt' scientists only recently had access enough to size up the real leak rate....