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BP Official Admits to Damage BENEATH THE SEA FLOOR
washingtonsblog.com ^ | Saturday, June 12, 2010

Posted on 06/13/2010 6:39:37 PM PDT by GonzoII

As I noted Tuesday, there is growing evidence that BP's oil well - technically called the "well casing" or "well bore" - has suffered damage beneath the level of the sea floor.

The evidence is growing stronger and stronger that there is substantial damage beneath the sea floor. Indeed, it appears that BP officials themselves have admitted to such damage. This has enormous impacts on both the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf, and the prospects for quickly stopping the leak this summer.

On May 31st, the Washington Post noted:

Sources at two companies involved with the well said that BP also discovered new damage inside the well below the seafloor and that, as a result, some of the drilling mud that was successfully forced into the well was going off to the side into rock formations.

"We discovered things that were broken in the sub-surface," said a BP official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. He said that mud was making it "out to the side, into the formation."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonsblog.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bp; corexit; deepwaterhorizon; doomsday; oilspill
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To: The Cajun

“Looks like a CBL run for cement evaluation was never done.”

Correct - it wasn’t. Mid March (when the tool got lost) was also about when an internal memo regarding the conditions and summary of the hole to that date was prepared. Also about the time that BP CEO sold 1/3 of his BP stock. And Goldman-Sachs sold a bunch too.


221 posted on 06/15/2010 1:42:48 AM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: 21twelve
Yeah, I saw the government committee report that a SCMT tool was run and assumed it was for a bond log, forgot those suckers could be run for stuck pipe also.
Plus noticed the date was way back in the middle of March.
222 posted on 06/15/2010 1:54:42 AM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: Star Traveler

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223 posted on 06/15/2010 5:13:33 AM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: mojitojoe

I’m not trying to scare anyone, but I have been consumed with research this past couple of weeks (recovering from surgery and my laptop has been my best friend during down time) and these things are not some cooky stuff. I also watch a lot of Discovery channel and remembered the crater discovered off the Mexican coast and the part about hydrogen sulfides. Started looking into it and found a scientist who was familiar with the extinction event.

I am NOT saying we are all gonna die. I am saying that we take for granted that big giant things can’t happen out of our control. This was an event started by human hands, but it is a possibility that it will soon be out of our hands.


224 posted on 06/15/2010 6:49:55 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf aInd dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: DallasMike

Ok, so, I guess I should use Corexit 9500 to wash my clothes in then...maybe my dishes too. perhaps we should let children swim in it as well. Should be fine.


225 posted on 06/15/2010 7:40:40 AM PDT by chris37
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To: autumnraine
Not to mention that the oil rig is right smack on top of the New Madrid fault. Imagine that area creating a sinkhole. Lord help us all.

Oh...That's nice...

226 posted on 06/15/2010 7:45:36 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: DallasMike; mojitojoe
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

--John Adams

He was right!

227 posted on 06/15/2010 7:58:11 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: autumnraine

There is a thread today with a link to a local TV station where they broadcast a film of crop damage that is occurring. It is damaging all crops , and killing some birds.

Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2531970/posts


228 posted on 06/15/2010 9:42:07 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Natural Born 54

I proposed, last week, that magma movement down deep could have caused a rise in pressure of the oil wells. The others, long in place, were safer, and constructed better (no skimping on seals).

No one probably remembers, or was aware of this, but two Volcanoes erupted in Guatamala. A sign of magma movement? Yes. Close to the Gulf? Yes.


229 posted on 06/15/2010 9:47:11 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Smokin' Joe; D-fendr
some of the newer steerable drilling assemblies, the odds are far greater than they would have been only a decade ago.

These 'drills' are equipped with a 'homing device'. They target in on the magnetic field of the pipe casing.

230 posted on 06/15/2010 9:49:50 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: DallasMike; chris37

I never said ALL dispersants are bad. I don’t give a flying *%&^ how many degrees you have, NONE of them make you an expert on millions of gallons of Corexit being used 5000 feet under the water. BP, EPA have both admitted this is uncharted territory.
I would hope than anyone that owns a computer knows how to copy and paste. If they don’t, they are sure wasting a lot of time. Are you suggesting that we should retype every link and article rather than copy or cut and paste? You are a maroon. Don’t bother to reply to me again, I won’t respond. How much Nalco stock do you own?


231 posted on 06/15/2010 11:17:41 AM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Bigun

Indeed they are. :)


232 posted on 06/15/2010 11:18:20 AM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: UCANSEE2

I am unaware of magnetic sensors, but there may be some aside from the normal survey tools. But come to think of it, those are affected by casing, and may well serve as a close proximity steering aid.


233 posted on 06/15/2010 11:22:58 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: mojitojoe; DallasMike

Thanks, mojitojoe. It really seems like there are a number of people doing whatever they can to deny, discount, crack jokes, or whatever about this spill. I can’t really understand why people are doing this, and I also don’t care.

DallasMike, if you want to continue to insert your head in the sand about this catastrophe, then please, by all means, do so. Let me just suggest that you stick your head in the sand of Grande Isle, Louisiana. Then perhaps you may understand the gravity of this situation, but somehow, I doubt it.


234 posted on 06/15/2010 11:31:32 AM PDT by chris37
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To: autumnraine

I know, and I don’t doubt you. They are not telling us the truth, they are hiding things. I’ve done research too and have several friends in the Coast Guard. There is a cover up and I don’t know why.


235 posted on 06/15/2010 12:04:19 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Star Traveler

Do you wear a mask in case her’s falls off? Had to throw some humor in there.


236 posted on 06/15/2010 3:00:56 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Terry Mross

LOL ... I did think that the picture, itself, was humorous ... :-)


237 posted on 06/15/2010 3:08:47 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: The Comedian
"Hydrogen Sulfide- safe level= 5-10 parts per billion. What's been measured: 1,200 parts per billion. Benzine - safe level = 0-4 parts per billion. What's been measured: 3,000 parts per billion. Metholine Chloride - safe level = 61 parts per billion. What's been measured: 3,400 parts per billion."

WHERE did you come up with this??? Any hydrogen sulfide immediately dissolves in seawater, and then precipitates as a harmless solid, as soon as it finds a calcium or iron ion.

3000 ppb (actual 3 ppm) of benZENE (not benZINE) is about what is normally present in gasoline. You breath it every time you fill your cars gas tank. Have you died yet???

And "metholine chloride" (actually methylene chloride) is not a constituent of oil, nor is it naturally found in the earth. So this has to be total bullshit.

And your ravings about Corexit are completely nuts. There is nothing in Corexit that has that kind of toxicity.

238 posted on 06/15/2010 4:32:08 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: GonzoII; All

Anybody else had it up to their eyeballs yet with the “dead mackerels and seaweed” theory of where all that oil is coming from?

This is abiotic oil coming from the mantle and there is far more there than what’s in the mideast.

But we might not be able to control/contain it.


239 posted on 06/15/2010 4:35:19 PM PDT by djf
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To: djf
This is abiotic oil coming from the mantle and there is far more there than what’s in the mideast.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

You got it in one.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

240 posted on 06/15/2010 4:53:04 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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