I am not sure, but my guess is that means it will collapse into the area the oil is in and start more and bigger leaks. But I’m just guessing.
I am no expert in this area, but I have read a lot of what experts say. Your guess may be correct. Some of the petroleum engineers have long been concerned that the hydraulic effect of a subterranean leak in the well bore could router out the sand deposits, "soft" rock and/or salt domes and provide a volcanic like path to the pressurized oil pool. I think it is like hydraulic mining where they use high pressure water hoses to router way earthen banks to expose minerals.
That's a reasonable guess. But if there had been no leak in the drill line, wouldn't that have happened eventually anyway? Same oil from the same hole from the same depleting source of oil = total collapse of the Gulf ocean floor = cataclysmic destruction of this planet.
If you happen to own some Gulf coast beach property, I'd be happy to buy it from you........
All kidding aside, these F'n morons actually think we are dumber than them............
If the sea floor collapses, it’s Katie bar the door time. This reservoir is enormous. Some say the 2nd largest in the world.
Anyone remember that weird “earthquake” in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico a year or so ago?