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#31 bobdrake12

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Posted 03 July 2010 - 03:57 PM

BP Is Lying About Using Dispersants

One tactic that BP will be using to try to contain the oil spill in the Gulf Coast is to use chemical dispersants. It's a case of the cure being almost as bad as the disease. CNN called Dr. Riki Ott, a marine toxicology expert and author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, to find out what the effects will be on the next several generations of marine life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SamNmFKk8l4

How oil behaves underwater; are N. Carolina beaches in danger?

From a North Carolina news source. Univ. of NC researchers set up tanks showing how oil reacts to different layers of ocean water. They discuss if and when the oil will enter the loop current and the effects on N. Carolina's shoreline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hK254bY32U

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Posted 04 July 2010 - 02:57 AM

B.P. Using Dispersant To Hide Oil (29-Jun-10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UJTmoNidII&playnext_from=TL&videos=Z0z7hH2DeAQ

Gulf Oil Spill: Media Coverage Restricted

Anderson Cooper interviews Billy Nungesser and Craig Tafarro Jr. about how local's are caught in red tape and are struggling to get permission to work with the coast guard and government to protect the coastline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVE7ok788xg

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Posted 04 July 2010 - 03:21 PM

Gloom Pervades Gulf Coast on Holiday Weekend


7-3-2010 CNN NEWS


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Posted 05 July 2010 - 01:26 PM

GULF OIL SPILL IMPACT NOTICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsA6IpClqr0

Oil in Lake Pontchartrain

July 4 2010 Metairie, Louisiana - Oil from the Gulf of Mexico washing up on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C3MDBZj0m8

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Posted 06 July 2010 - 04:32 AM

It's amazing how little we're being told.



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Posted 07 July 2010 - 01:01 AM

Jindal Grows Weary Of Federal Oil Spill Response

Gov. Bobby Jindal is growing weary of federal efforts in the oil spill cleanup process, and in an interview with WDSU anchor Norman Robinson, he took the gloves off.



McCallister Says Jones Act Waiver Would Help BP Cleanup

July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Fred McCallister, a vice president at Allegiance Capital Corp., talks about the need to waive the Jones Act, a 90-year-old maritime law that bars foreign ships from transporting goods between U.S. ports, to help fight the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. McCallister speaks with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness." (Source: Bloomberg)



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Posted 07 July 2010 - 02:18 AM

Jindal Grows Weary Of Federal Oil Spill Response

Gov. Bobby Jindal is growing weary of federal efforts in the oil spill cleanup process, and in an interview with WDSU anchor Norman Robinson, he took the gloves off.

Sounds like Jindal is trying to sound like he's "doing something". What does he expect the federal government to do? He talked about "cutting red tape", but he didn't give any actual examples of that. It sounds like a soundbite designed to fit neatly into the pre-existing mindset of his base, though it may or may not correspond very closely to reality. He's just another Welfare Queen who wants someone else to pay for his problems. Drill, Baby Drill!

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Posted 07 July 2010 - 12:04 PM

Jindal Grows Weary Of Federal Oil Spill Response

Gov. Bobby Jindal is growing weary of federal efforts in the oil spill cleanup process, and in an interview with WDSU anchor Norman Robinson, he took the gloves off.

Sounds like Jindal is trying to sound like he's "doing something". What does he expect the federal government to do? He talked about "cutting red tape", but he didn't give any actual examples of that. It sounds like a soundbite designed to fit neatly into the pre-existing mindset of his base, though it may or may not correspond very closely to reality. He's just another Welfare Queen who wants someone else to pay for his problems. Drill, Baby Drill!


http://cnsnews.com/news/article/68895

Congressional Report Claims Administration Misled About Efforts on Oil Spill (excerpt)
Friday, July 02, 2010
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer


CNSNews.com) – Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, sensed that a chart showing 140 oil skimmers at work -- a chart given to him by BP and the Coast Guard -- was “somewhat inaccurate.” So, Nungesser asked to fly over the spill to verify the number.

The flyover was cancelled three times before those officials admitted that just 31 of the 140 skimmers were actually deployed.



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Posted 08 July 2010 - 01:40 AM

DN! Exxon Valdez Survivor Warns Gufl of Long Term Health Effects

BP Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Getting Sick, Exxon Valdez Survivor Warns of Long Term Health Effects

As the BP oil spill enters its 78th day, cleanup crews across the Gulf Coast are working to try and remove what they can of the expanding oil slick. And many of them are getting sick doing it. A growing number of cleanup workers have reported suffering flu-like symptoms including headaches, dizziness, fatigue, nausea and problems with memory and concentration. We speak with a Louisiana chemist who testified before Congress to call for greater worker protections and a former general foreman of the cleanup crews of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.



DN! Media Clampdown in the Gulf Coast

Media Clampdown in the Gulf Coast: Government and BP Place More Restrictions on Journalists Covering the Oil Spill

Covering BP's massive oil spill disaster has been a challenge for journalists given the numerous restrictions placed by BP and in many cases, local law enforcement and federal officials. But reporting on the spill and the clean-up efforts just got even harder. Last week the Coast Guard put new restrictions in place across the Gulf Coast that prevent the public--including photographers and reporters covering the BP oil spill--from coming within 65 feet of any response vessels or booms on the water or on beaches.



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Posted 09 July 2010 - 01:51 AM

Day 79 B.P. Still Stalling On Flow Rate Of Oil Spill


Abandoned Oil Wells Found In The Gulf


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Posted 09 July 2010 - 10:56 AM

BP Cleanup Workers Sick - Democracy Now. Reported Total 128 todate

Democracy NOW! - DN! As the BP oil spill enters its 78th day, cleanup crews across the Gulf Coast are working to try and remove what they can of the expanding oil slick. And many of them are getting sick doing it. A growing number of cleanup workers have reported suffering flu-like symptoms including headaches, dizziness, fatigue, nausea and problems with memory and concentration. We speak with a Louisiana chemist who testified before Congress to call for greater worker protections and a former general foreman of the cleanup crews of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.


Part 1


Part 2


#42 bobdrake12

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Posted 10 July 2010 - 12:14 PM

Gulf's Human Health Crisis Explodes


OLS - Cancer Alley - Future Foretold In The Gulf - 2010


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Posted 11 July 2010 - 12:31 PM

Doomsday BP Oil Tracking Simulation One Year Forecast

These animations show the spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over one year. They were created from a series of computer simulations by a team of researchers at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Fabian Schloesser from the Department of Oceanography, Axel Timmermann and Oliver Elison Timm from the International Pacific Research Center Hawaii.

For the simulations, 5 million buoyant particles were released continuously from April 20 to September 17, 2010, at the location of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The release occurred in ocean flow data from simulations conducted with the high-resolution Ocean General Circulation Model for the Earth Simulator (OFES). The paths of the particles were calculated over 360 days from the beginning of the spill. The simulations were conducted with surface ocean circulation data of 5 typical years rather than the actual flow fields. The dispersal of the particles does not capture such effects as oil coagulation, formation of tar balls, chemical dispersion and microbial degradation. Computed surface concentrations relative to the actual spill may therefore be overestimated. The simulation, thus, is not a detailed, specific prediction, but rather a scenario that could help guide research and mitigation efforts.

The animations show the calculated surface particle concentrations for grid boxes about 10-km-by-10-km in size into April 2011. For an estimated flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon well of 50,000 barrels per day over a 150 day period, a concentration of e.g. 10 particles per a grid box corresponds roughly to an oil volume of 2 m3 per ~100 km2 area. The animations show the initial spreading of oil into the Gulf of Mexico followed by its entry from the Loop Current into the narrow Florida Current and then the Gulf Stream. Transported by the Gulf Stream, the erratic paths of the particles in the Atlantic are due to strong current instabilities associated with ocean eddies and recirculations. This leads to a high degree of particle dispersal and dilution in the open Atlantic away from the coast.

These computer simulations suggest that the coastlines near the Carolinas, Georgia and Northern Florida could see the effects of the oil spill as early as October 2010. The main branch of the subtropical gyre is likely to transport the oil film towards Europe, although strongly diluted. Furthermore, the animations show that as the northeasterly winds intensify near Florida around October and November, the oil in the Atlantic moves closer to the eastern shores of the US, whereas it retreats from the western shores of Florida. These changes are due to a balance between wind forcing of ocean currents and the Coriolis effect.

The animations furthermore suggest that the narrow, deep Straits of Florida force the Florida Current into a narrow channel, creating a tight bottleneck for the spreading of oil into the Atlantic. After one year, about 20% of the particles initially released at the Deepwater Horizon location had been transported through the Straits of Florida into the open Atlantic according to an averaging over the 5 different years of typical ocean surface current data. The animations suggest that a filtering system in the narrowest spot of the Florida Current could mitigate the spreading of the oil film into the North Atlantic.



Breaking News Truth About Gulf Disaster

State Trooper Greg Everson speaks with KNOWLEDGE of what people in the gulf states MUST do.



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Posted 12 July 2010 - 10:27 PM

ALL LIFE IS AT RISK IN THE GULF


BP Gulf OIl Spill Has Destroyed Thousands of Peoples


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Posted 14 July 2010 - 03:37 PM

Read this report and try to explain it. It doesn't make sense to me. Obviously something is going on they're not telling us about in this report. Why would the government be telling BP to stop what they're doing? The government doesn't know more than BP so why would they butt in?

http://news.yahoo.co..._gulf_oil_spill
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 08:03 PM

Read this report and try to explain it. It doesn't make sense to me. Obviously something is going on they're not telling us about in this report. Why would the government be telling BP to stop what they're doing? The government doesn't know more than BP so why would they butt in?

http://news.yahoo.co..._gulf_oil_spill


Here's hoping this is not the reason.


B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Armageddon and now there is no stopping it.

June 11, 2010 at 09:14:33

B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Armageddon and now there is no stopping it. Senator Bill Nelson has told us how bad it is.

My worst fears have been realized. If this link is true and the oil is coming through the sea floor, they have either blown out the formation or blown out the cement (which we know they did anyway to get the blowout to occur). I am beginning to realize why they have not wanted toclose the valves on the cap. The more theyclose it, the more oil is going to come up through the sea floor, next to the well casing. I listed 12 points in my attached article. The really big concern here is that their directional wells are now pointless. They are GUARANTEED to fail because you can not pump mud or cement into a blown out well. It just does not set with oil and gas roaring past.

The next biggest concern is that they have to get 8 new wells in immediately to relieve the background oil and gas pressure. The oil is going to start coming up at an ever increasing rate along the casing and theblowout preventer.The oil and gas is going to act as ahigh pressurepressure washerand erode away all the sandstone and mudstone.There is nothing they can do about it.

This is also the end of B.P. The claims will go on forever.

What these guys do not understand is that it is much worse than they think. Here is the reason why.

They need to date the oil to find out how old the oil is. The rock formation might be 30 to 200 million years old here. I do not know and have not looked at under sea maps.

The oil is either old oil, say almost as old as the formation, or they have drilled into a massive active fault zone that is reducing carbon dioxide to methane. If it is high inhydrogen sulfide, it is reducing calcareous sediments to oil and more natural gas in the presence of salt solutions. Now they are providingmore saltwater, so via the Wurtz Synthesis more oil is going to be created than natural gas. The methane is going to be converted to ethane, propane, butane, pentane and other long chain organic compounds.You see if oil is being made now, at a very rapid rate in this area, the pressure is never, ever going to drop off along the casing and the oil is going to flow into the gulf forever.The only hope to reduce the pressure will be by sinking more new wells into this area and try and drain off the oil and gas as quickly as it is being made.

You see oil is basically inorganic. It is not made from dead squashed plankton. It is not a fossil fuel. It is an inorganic chemical compound reduced from calcareous sediments and carbon dioxide and methane gas. My peer reviewed published papers using chemical and thermodynamic equations show how this occurs. The link to the papers is available below. Of course although I was published by The American Institute of Professional Geologists in 2009 and the Association of Environmentaland Engineering Geologists in 2008, it does not mean that my theories are accepted by the majority of geologists. It will probably take 50 years, as with the theory of Continental Drift to get accepted by geologists in general. Maybe this disaster will shave off 20 years. Things evolve slowly in geology!

We can only hope it is old oil. We can only date oil back 100 000 years by carbon dating, but that is fine. We need to know if this oil is 10 to 100 years old and if its age is changing as it escapes. Is the escaping oil getting older or younger? So we need to start dating the oil on a weekly basis to see what is happening.

I volunteer for the job.

One last point that the public does not understand. It is not about deep water drilling where the problems have arisen. It is about high pressure oil and gas drilling that creates the problems. These zones can be found on land as well as at sea and can start from as little as 10000 feet, not the 20000 of this well. These high pressure wells have always been a problem. Of the millions of wells drilled, there are thousands of these ticking time bomb, high pressure wells in existence and new ones are being drilled every day. New risks are being taken daily.

The world has to make a concerted effort to get off oil. It is killing us.

I hope Ihave not been too technical, but the matter is grave.

This is our worst nightmare. The oil industry has killed the Gulf of Mexico

As a geologist, I delivered two peer reviewed presentations to prove the theory, one to the Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists in 2008 (AEG). See http://www.aegweb.or...c/abstracts.pdf, page 17.

The other was to The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) in October 2009. Seehttp://www.aipg.org/Meetings/2009%20Annual%20Meeting/2009proceedings.pdf, page 94.

Chris Landau

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 12:37 AM

No problems




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Posted 15 July 2010 - 01:52 AM

BREAKING Obama is Bringing in Nuclear Experts to Address the Spill

FOX: Could a Nuke Save The Gulf?
Nuking the oil spill: nuclear option being considered?
Obama is Bringing in Nuclear Experts to Address the Spill



Michio Kaku speaks with Keith Olbermann (Nuke the Oil Well?)

Nuke the oil well? Prof. Michio Kaku talks about the proposal of using a small nuclear device to melt the oil well shut in the Gulf of Mexico and what could go wrong.



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Posted 15 July 2010 - 04:38 AM

Why BP is readying a 'super weapon' to avert escalating Gulf nightmare

by Terrence Aym

In a desperate attempt to stop a huge area of the Gulf ocean floor from possibly rupturing due to subterranean methane gas (leading to a calamity no human has ever seen) BP has ripped a page from science fiction books.

The giant oil company is now quietly preparing to test a small nuclear device in a frenzied rush against time to quell a cascading catastrophe. If successful they will have the capability to detonate a controlled fusion generated pulse.

While the world watches BP's attempt to contain the oil gusher at the former Deepwater Horizon site, company officials have given the green light on an astounding plan to use what is known as a nuclear EPFCG charge if all else fails.

Sea floor compromised

Reports still indicate that methane is flooding the Gulf waters at a rate one million times more than normal, and the NOAA research vessel, Thomas Jefferson has reported spotting new fissures. [1]

Last week the science ship stunned some reporters with the revelation that the oceanographic team had discovered and measured a rift in the ocean floor miles from the BP wellhead. The rift was reported to be more than 100 feet long and widening. Oil and methane continues to plume from that rift.

BP has also admitted damage beneath the sea floor. [2]

The Omega plan

Most enterprises—whether business, government, or exploration—have a Plan B to fall back on. To date, BP has attempted Plans B through N. Yet it is the last ditch plan-the Omega plan-that hold the greatest risk. Yet that plan may be the final hope to stop what some insiders now consider a catastrophe that could culminate with a world-killing mass extinction event that modern civilization could not survive.

At a super-secret security base-CFB Suffield-located in southern Alberta, Canada, area reports indicate that high level engineers, physicists and military scientists are feverishly working to complete an ‘explosively pumped flux compression generator’ (EPFCG).

According to published scientific papers [see sources below] an EPFCG generator can be powered by a very small, controlled fusion explosion-in other words, a tiny nuclear bomb.

Why the UK based BP has set up operations at CFB-Suffield is obvious: The company already runs three oil rigs on the base, have worked with Canada’s chemical and biological efforts on and off for almost 40 years, and have strong ties to the Commonwealth’s infrastructure.

The CFB Base, which incorporates DRDC Suffield, is one of six Canadian military research facilities and critical to the security of the country. DRDC Suffield is the lead facility for all of Canada’s engineering and weapons systems R&D.

The EPFCG—a Star Wars super weapon

A device that can only be used once, the EPFCG generates a high power electromagnetic pulse. It achieves this by using a powerful explosive, preferably nuclear. Advanced, nuclear driven EPFCGs can instantaneously create up to billions of amperes and hundreds of terawatts. Such raw power exceeds lighting bolts by huge orders of magnitude.

The pulse can be shaped and directed and used to knock out electronics-or more importantly in this case—to fuse virtually any material—including crumbling rock strata deep under the sea. The fantastically energized pulse can also compress objects to very high pressures and densities. [3]

According to engineers familiar with the technology, the devices can generate plasma arcs hotter than the surface of the sun that will melt and fuse materials in nanoseconds.

A special security force manned by members of AEGIS, a UK based paramilitary security corporation similar to the old US Blackwater Security company, is reported to have cordoned off the base. The security lid has clamped down hard while the engineers and scientists work with the nuclear materials.

BP’s secret Omega Plan kicked off in earnest on July 7th, 2010. According to sources on the base the British Geological Survey (BGS), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), BP and Halliburton have set up a test site at one of the drill rigs.

While the plan would admittedly only be executed if a worst case scenario seemed imminent, some geo-chemists have expressed concerns that detonating an EPFCG in the Gulf might ignite the methane.

Meanwhile the preparations for the test continue in Canada.

http://www.helium.co...-gulf-nightmare

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Posted 15 July 2010 - 05:31 PM

.......... el oh el
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Posted 16 July 2010 - 01:44 AM

Source

BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher (excerpt)

By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers Colleen Long And Harry R. Weber, Associated Press Writers – 2 mins ago


NEW ORLEANS – The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring.

Though a temporary fix, the accomplishment was greeted with hope, high expectations — and, in many cases along the beleaguered coastline, disbelief. From one Gulf Coast resident came this: "Hallelujah." And from another: "I got to see it to believe it."

If the cap holds, if the sea floor doesn't crack and if the relief wells being prepared are completed successfully, this could be the beginning of the end for the spill. But that's a lot of ifs, and no one was declaring any sort of victory beyond the moment.



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Posted 16 July 2010 - 02:28 AM

BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher

Well, that's ok, I guess, but it's not as cool as

a world-killing mass extinction event that modern civilization could not survive


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Posted 16 July 2010 - 11:24 AM

BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher

Well, that's ok, I guess, but it's not as cool as

a world-killing mass extinction event that modern civilization could not survive


If we believe BP (with their news restrictions imposed on the reporters), everything is OK.

http://www.floridaoi...-test-is-absurd

July 15: Matt Simmons says BP covering up MASSIVE HOLE miles away, cap test is “absurd”

Also mentions how they located the BOP with casing stuck through it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scl2dgK_-Nw&feature=player_embedded

Chris Landau: BP Cap will not stop leak from ocean floor

Chris has worked on about 70 Oil Wells. He is a Geologist who has written dozens of articles as the Gulf Oil Spill has unfolded.



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Posted 17 July 2010 - 04:47 AM

Bob Cavnar on KPRC Local News re: BPP Oil Disaster in the Gulf 07-15-2010


Caution - Now Entering an Oily Ice Age...


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Posted 17 July 2010 - 07:39 AM

What BP and the MSM is allowing us to know is the pressure didn't build up as much after they capped it as they were looking for. The said if it was 7 or 8 thousand psi it's all good, but if it's only 6 thousand psi that would be bad. I'm surprised they're letting us know it's only 67 hundred psi. That sounds like it's leaking to me, and the way BP is acting doesn't discourage that kind of thinking. I think they thought it was going to be way over 8 thousand psi, so 6 thousand was safe to say.

That's what we know, but I've been hearing rumors all along that there's a bigger hole in the ocean floor about 10 miles away from the well head. It's easy to find people talking about it but it's harder to find any actual evidence of it.

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Posted 18 July 2010 - 02:58 PM

Latest updates concerning corexit


Matt Simmons 7-17-2010 - Disaster in the Gulf

Eric King Interviews Oil Veteran Matt Simmons on the Gulf Oil Volcano.

Matthew Simmons: Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Ocean Energy Institute & Former Chairman Emeritus of Simmons & Company International



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Posted 19 July 2010 - 07:35 AM

They could relieve some pressure if they started pumping the oil to the surface. With less oil under the ocean's surface, there's less risk of another leak if the cap cracks or becomes dislodged. Besides, I will be taking a road trip on September and could sure appreciate some cheaper fuel.

Edited by Ghostrider, 19 July 2010 - 07:35 AM.


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Posted 19 July 2010 - 08:18 AM

That's what we know, but I've been hearing rumors all along that there's a bigger hole in the ocean floor about 10 miles away from the well head. It's easy to find people talking about it but it's harder to find any actual evidence of it.

That should be easily visible in freely available satellite imagery due to the seepage, unless BP is capturing all of the oil for the moment?

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Posted 19 July 2010 - 11:20 AM

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38302949

Engineers Detect Seepage Near BP's Capped Oil Well (excerpts)

Published: Monday, 19 Jul 2010 | 2:53 AM ET Text Size By: Reuters


Engineers monitoring BP's damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico detected seepage on the ocean floor that could mean problems with the cap that has stopped oil from gushing into the water, the U.S. government's top oil spill official said on Sunday.

Earlier on Sunday, BP officials had expressed hope that the test of the cap which began Thursday could continue until a relief well can permanently seal the leak next month. Oil gushed from the deepsea Maconda well for nearly three months until the new cap was put in place last week.

But late on Sunday, the U.S. government released a letter to BP Chief Managing Director Bob Dudley from retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen that referred to seepage near the mile-deep (1.6 km-deep) well as well as "undetermined anomalies at the well head."

"I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed," Allen wrote.



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Posted 19 July 2010 - 01:19 PM

Some of these videos are absolutely hilarious.

Onoes! The loop current is broken. Lets ignore the obvious knowns like the Tortuga Eddy ...lmao

Edited by mikeinnaples, 19 July 2010 - 01:22 PM.





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