This is such a joke! Oil degrades in saltwater in about 22 days depending on the salization quotient. The crime here now that the well is not leaking is the insanity of plugging it,This is the largest well on the nort American contenent.Whynot produce it to benifit our country??What is the rationalefor detroying it now. We need the damned OIL!!
logic has long departed
This was posted on an earlier thread and was from TOD, today.
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Interesting series of posts at ZeroHedge, dated today.
I am on scene on one of the largest oceanographic research vessels working in the GOM. I am not being paid by NOAA or BP. This is a factual statement: Beyond 20 NM from the wellhead we have not detected subsurface oil at any depth in concentrations above 20PPM, beyond 40NM we have not detected any oil above 2PPM that was associated with Deepwater Horizon. We have seen the usual seep concentrations around Vioska Knoll, Green Canyon, etc.
Just wanted to add that out of tens of thousands of samples, the positive hits are coming from extremely limited areas “Plumes” which are measured in tens and perhaps hundreds of meters, not in miles. I have access to all of the raw and preliminary data coming in from 8 of the vessels sampling for the SMU (Subsurface Monitoring Unit)
The well is damaged and cannot be repaired. They will cement it shut and then drill other production wells into the same reservoir. Don’t worry, we will get that oil. Unless, of course, Obama continues on his destroy American tack. But what are the chances of THAT happening?
As if the Feds have any interest in making lemonade out of lemons. You are absolutely right. This well should be exploited to the max. A virtual mother lode.