If this post is close to factual, there are some US Government politicians who should be summarily executed.
The US GOvernment should have gotten ALL AVAILABLE drilling rings to start drilling relief wells to tap theis resevoir and begin relieving pressure. As far as I can tell, only BP had 2 releif wells being drilled , and last I heard, one of them was diverted to work on something else.
When you start talking “Sea floor caving in” I get pretty sceptical. Were talking about 10,000 feet of earth. That is 2 miles deep. i have a hard time believing that the ocean floor will collapse due to this.
Interesting information, but must be taken with a grain of salt.
Agree with you on that one, but we do have at least one methane deposit down there that was above the oil deposit. That methane came up and melted the rig. So the ground down there probably contains many pockets. It is at the bottom of an ocean. Worse case would be a significant shifting of land. A landslide. I would only expect to see that however after a nuke is used. We are however drilling two relief wells into the same sea bed.
In the 1960's the greater Long Beach area was caving in, settling as much as three to four feet from pumping of oil from the Signal Hill area. They eliminated the problem by injecting salt water into the depleted oil domes. Granted they pulled out a lot more oil than we currently have gushing out of the gulf but who knows?