All of our marvellous science and technology is completely stumped on
this one.
How do you 'cap' a well under immensely high pressure 5000 feet below
the ocean surface with a huge oil rig flipped over it---with unknown
quantities of high pressure oil in reserve?
Well---we wanted oil---we got oil...
Words fail....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/apr/22/deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-fire?picture=362056941
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7660183/Louisiana-oil-slick-Gulf-coast-residents-fear-damage-worse-than-Katrina.html
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George Ure Saturday:
The Oil Mess
12 days into the oil rig 'accident' events continue to evolve and
weather is slowing down efforts to contain things, we have two
interesting items to report that are not in the MSM yet...OK, three
then.
1. While there are many reports on the 'net that the rig disaster was
an attack by a North Korean mini-sub, and other such fanciful things, we
have heard that a supply ship arrived just before the explosions and it
was reported to be 'manned by all new people, nobody aboard was from
the 'usual supply crew'. This purported industry source continues:
there were a total of 14 explosions and these could have been cutting
charges. Moreover, the shut off valve below the surface (5000 feet
down) on the seabed is not longer controllable. Still, lots of disinfo
and speculation scampering around the netosphere. While this is bad, it
gets worse.
2. A reader who is an engineer of considerable experience says watch
this one evolve carefully because it is destined to continue to grow and
he shares this long (but worthy explanation why:
"Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this
morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are
totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.
First fact, 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.
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.
3. The third thing to bring attention to is the predictive linguistics
discussion of the 'blue flue" in the latestShape of Things to Come
report of what's ahead for the world's oceans. In particular, what
strikes me is that while some of the focus is on the possibility of
methane hydrate releases later in the year, the spelling in the report
is 'flue' (and in upward conveyance, not 'flu' and is sickness per se).
"This [big clue methane related] incident then goes onto cause a
[big stink] within TPTB [minion class] {ed note: most notably the CFR -
Council on Foreign Relations}. Not only are humans and other life
directly impacted by the large [clouds of drifting complex methane
housing gas] but the mere [release] of the quantity to be seen causes
the TPTB and their [minion class] to go [apeshit] trying to [locate (a
believable) scenario] to explain the [blue flue events(s)].
I'll grant you that the methane and oil gurgling out of the Gulf of
Mexico (GOM) right now is not methanehydrate but rather compressed
methane, but around here, that's close enough especially when the 'blue
flue' to the surface has been destroyed., Curious how just a little
spelling like this can tip us off that we've got something of a serious
hit developing.
The latest trajectory map out of NOAA which should be updated over the
weekend looks like this....in a word: Grim...
We hear - again from people who are reliable sources, but who we won't
name in order to keep them from getting fired, is that there are a
couple of parishes (county equivalents) in Louisiana which are preparing
evacuation plans because people are being made sick by the smell of the
oil and gas being blown onshore.
Looking ahead to Sunday through Tuesday, we'd expect as this grows that
there will be emergency operation centers set up and some moving of
people to begin, which would then feed in to the Diaspora meta data
layer of Cliff's work.
Not to be glum, but you can see most likely how this all starts to tie
together?
We will be topping off our 'investment grade diesel reserves and getting
our additional solar panels ordered this week, so as to hit the next
level of energy independence before the global impacts come into focus
over the next month or two.