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Yep, the lobomized Dufuses in the US governmant are afraid that the entire sea floor will erupt in oil if the well is not un-capped. It makes perfect sense to the DC bureaucrats and political pukes: Just open up the well and let is spew millions of gallons of oil while the hoses are hooked up to oil tankers.
If the government forces BP to uncap that well it opens up the liability issue.
Yep, the lobomized Dufuses in the US governmant are afraid that the entire sea floor will erupt in oil if the well is not un-capped. It makes perfect sense to the DC bureaucrats and political pukes: Just open up the well and let is spew millions of gallons of oil while the hoses are hooked up to oil tankers.
If the government forces BP to uncap that well it opens up the liability issue.
The Government has not ordered BP to uncap the well, it has told them to more closely monitor the seabed around the well and be prepared to uncap the well very rapidly if it becomes neccessary.
The concerns that the Government has are not groundless. It had been calculated that if the well casing was intact the pressure in the cap should have reached 8,000 psi to 9,000 psi within 48 hours. However, after almost four days it is still only 6,770 psi which could indicate that the casing under the well has been breached and oil and gas are leaking into the seabed under the wellhead. In addition, there are reports that hydrocarbon seeps have been reported coming from the seafloor near the wellhead.
While the lower than expected cap pressure could be the result of dissipation of pressure in the oil resevoir after three months of uncontrolled flow and the seeps, which are not uncommon on the seafloor, might not be related to the well, the Government has to consider the worst case scenario and how to confront it. If the seafloor collapses under the well or oil leaking from the casing starts to gush from a breach in the seabed, there will be no way to fix it and no way to collect the oil that is leaking. If the well is uncapped, oil will leak into the Gulf for about three days but then should all be collected by the tankers until the relief well is completed.
BP does not want any more video of oil leaking into the Gulf, even if only temporarily. The Government is more concerned about a spill that will be impossible to control if indeed the well casing has been breached and the cap is forcing oil into the seabed around it. The evidence is still somewhat ambiguous and that is why they are allowing the well to remain capped for the time being and constantly reviewing the situation and making sure BP can uncap the well in short order if it becomes obvious that oil is leaking into the seabed.
In addition, there are reports that hydrocarbon seeps have been reported coming from the seafloor near the wellhead.
The government says that there is a seep in the ocean floor about two miles from the well head. Has this seep been there all along? Bet that the government cannot give you an honest answer to that question. For three months the government let BP lead the operation with little or no input from the federal bureaucrats.
The government has been opposed to keeping that well capped well before BP even lowered the new blowout preventer onto the well stack. The governmant made it plain that it wanted the oil to go into surface ships.
There could very well be a political motive behind the government's sudden interest in this well. The elections are 15 weeks away. For three months the spotlight has been off of congress and the Obama administration and on BP. If the well stays capped with no oil spewing into the ocean, the newsies will pack up and go away. Some of them will take up residence in DC and start nitpicking congress and the Obama bunch.
The Government has not ordered BP to uncap the well, it has told them to more closely monitor the seabed around the well and be prepared to uncap the well very rapidly if it becomes neccessary.
The concerns that the Government has are not groundless. It had been calculated that if the well casing was intact the pressure in the cap should have reached 8,000 psi to 9,000 psi within 48 hours. However, after almost four days it is still only 6,770 psi which could indicate that the casing under the well has been breached and oil and gas are leaking into the seabed under the wellhead. In addition, there are reports that hydrocarbon seeps have been reported coming from the seafloor near the wellhead.
While the lower than expected cap pressure could be the result of dissipation of pressure in the oil resevoir after three months of uncontrolled flow and the seeps, which are not uncommon on the seafloor, might not be related to the well, the Government has to consider the worst case scenario and how to confront it. If the seafloor collapses under the well or oil leaking from the casing starts to gush from a breach in the seabed, there will be no way to fix it and no way to collect the oil that is leaking. If the well is uncapped, oil will leak into the Gulf for about three days but then should all be collected by the tankers until the relief well is completed.
BP does not want any more video of oil leaking into the Gulf, even if only temporarily. The Government is more concerned about a spill that will be impossible to control if indeed the well casing has been breached and the cap is forcing oil into the seabed around it. The evidence is still somewhat ambiguous and that is why they are allowing the well to remain capped for the time being and constantly reviewing the situation and making sure BP can uncap the well in short order if it becomes obvious that oil is leaking into the seabed.
That's pretty much what i heard this morning...oil has been found seeping up thru the sea floor...not a lot, and part of the low pressure issue is being conjectured as being due to the pressure in the oil reservoir being less, after 80+ days of uncontrolled spewing.
Still, it's not a good thing...they are talking about opening up the cap, and fitting hoses to pump the oil onto ships which is supposed to keep the pressure down, and alleviate the seafloor seepage. That change could cost us 3 or more days of uncontrolled gushing of oil into the Gulf which the new well head is fitted with whatever apparatus they need to pump oil out of the well.
Couldn't BP figure out a 2nd drilling location and drill a well properly to relieve this backed up oil pressure, harvest oil like they wanted to in the first place and simply get 'r done?
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Couldn't BP figure out a 2nd drilling location and drill a well properly to relieve this backed up oil pressure, harvest oil like they wanted to in the first place and simply get 'r done?
That's what they say they are doing, but I'm beginning to belief the Norway scientist that said BP drilled right in top of a Volcano and no one will be able to control the pressure for long
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KB, I hadn't heard that before and that would change a lot of things, including the complexity and difficulty of fixing the problem.
Falcon, I should have stated it but I was thinking about another oil platform/derrick, etc., not just a tanker ship with a long hose. There may be a complication with that but it seems like that is a more secure way of doing things.
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I can't second-guess the pros...certainly lots of things disconnect their moorings and equipment when hurricanes barrel thru the area, I would think this is no different. What does concern me, is the comment a poster made regarding drilling into a 'volcano'. I'd not heard that before and wondered if more details can be had ?
It's capped!
