Posted on 07/16/2010 3:58:37 PM PDT by Mike Darancette
NEW ORLEANS — In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday, trying to determine whether BP's capped oil well was holding tight or in danger of springing a new leak.
No immediate leaks were spotted, which was encouraging. But midway through the testing period on the new temporary cap that was bottling up the crude inside the well, the pressure readings were not rising as high as expected, said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the crisis.
Allen said two possible reasons were being debated by scientists: The reservoir that is the source of the oil could be running low three months into the spill. Or there could be an undiscovered leak somewhere down in the well. Allen ordered further study but remained confident.
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Typical liberal would file for a federal grant about now. Studying blown oil wells...101.....
I’m guessing they were wrong about the pressure to begin with.
Maybe not the oil but the very high natural gas pressure behind it. I’m not an oil drilling expert but a 90-day unrestricted burp can expel a lot of methane.
That is unpossibull. Do you dare accuse the great one (in charge since day one) of being wrong? Blasphermer!
Along the lines of your accurate comment, I have wondered if hysteria and opportunism are all that drive science these days.
If this new cap works, will the oil companies now have more reason than ever to go ahead with deep sea drilling?
That or Fidel or Hugo have secretly been siphoning it off.:)
Hmmmmm, NOAA Predicted an above normal hurricane season... Its almost August,,, not one storm in the Gulf... Hmmmmmmmm
Usually have had at least a few little ones by now.
Knock on wood!
one ... two ... three .....
awwwwwww.
Hook a hose up to it and start filling tankers!!!
Follow that very long sideways straw and you’ll see where it ends up. Havana.
These guys have so much invested in their computer models they don’t see the forest for the trees. And then if you throw in the data collection points being skewed to favor warmer climes (like putting sensors near cities or in unusually warm atypical zones)and there’s hundreds of these examples, it’s a wonder they know anything.
They will fill the holes and no more oil will be captured --- bad oil well!!!
Well we still have to last until October or so.
The only bad oil well is one that doesn't have any oil...
The problem is, we have bunch of idiots in charge of our government and large corporations!
I'm not worried,, I live on the Gulf Coast,, love hurricanes,,, Free MRE's ya know,, get to play with my camping gear and generator,,,,vacation,,,Hurricane Ivan's center went over my house,,(30 miles north of the coast) lost the privacy fence,, but did not loose a shingle....Where's my danged chain saw!!!!!!!!
Hurricane Ivan was the 10th most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. The cyclone was also the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
PSS,,, I live above sea level,,,, unlike New Orleans.........
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