Posted on 07/03/2010 4:10:34 PM PDT by EBH
I think they are going to have the new CAP in place sooner than expected.
The new CAP is now sitting on the bottom while they attach the hoses to it.
The old CAP has completely lost any seal it had, and it appears to be leaking about as much as it was when the CAP was off. The CAP has been bouncing around for at least two days.
Here are two relevant links:
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2002/11nov/rift_zone.cfm
http://culturelifesciencenews.blogspot.com/2006/02/52-earthquake-dead-center-in-gulf-of.html
Well blow-outs like this have been uncommon but they have happened and they have been dealt with.
A bit overheated. In other news, I see they’re doing brisk business in “evacuation kits”. Or at least trying to.
Sometimes, the models and metaphors just don't do justice to the reality. First, EVEN IF the "cavern" were deflating, the volume escaping is infinitesimal compared to the volume of the earth. Second, as another poster has said, there is no "cavern", its rock, lots and lots of it, porous rock and strata...
This is retarded. It can only be considered by the numerically illiterate. The volume of oil in the gulf leak is about 1 quadrillionth the volume of water in the gulf. If one were to try to descibe the volume in terms of earthen land mass it would be an order of magnatude less significant.
Someone recently told me that we should expect a massive earthquake in Michigan because we haven’t had one for millions of years.
I gave up on trying to explain the stability of the region. There is an ancient rift valley under lake superior but the southern part of the state sits in a vast stone bowl that can be seen running north northeast from Greenbay, along the southern edge of the upper peninsula, curving down southward to create Georgian bay in Ontario.
Geology is pretty cool and I wish more people paid some attention to it.
The source doesn’t say, but I’m guessing the unidentified author is no geologist. One could further speculate that the little illustration with a balloon and books demonstrate a profound ignorance of geology on his/her part.
( sarc.)
Geologically speaking, all the oil extracted from the gulf over the past 50 years is a pimple as well.
Correct
Stop living in de Nile. It’s your turn for a massive earthquake. ;^)
Blowouts like this at that depth and pressure have never happened. This is all new stuff.
Ah, another deNileist shows up. You will believe in Balloon Earth Theory when the whole thing goes Pop!
I believe it’s sensationalist BS. First of all, the thousands of other Gulf oil rigs remove more as a matter of course. The leak site has lost something like 2% of its oil so far.
Is it causing a seismologic crisis? Very unlikely...
It amazes me why the media never mentions the blowout only 650 miles to the west that blew oil for 9 months.
I guess that is because it was shallow and Mexican so that oil is different then BP oil and did not destroy the environment as a result....
But then we are building electric cars powered by coal to replace petroleum powered cars for 3-4 times the cost.
And we call others stupid.
It is not all new stuff. The technology of deep water drilling rests on over 100 years of oil drilling technology and experience. There was a first-ever on land well blowout. There was a first-ever shallow water well blowout. There was a first-ever well fire.
Bingo! If this accident had not happened BP would have plugged this well and started drilling a bunch more into this reservoir and produced more oil than is escaping from this disaster each day.
*ping*
They knew it would be different so they came prepared with robots. They appear to have not counted on everything getting iced up with methane so quickly.
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