in the reservoir that Horizon drilled.
scary stuff:
More than a year ago some geologists rang the warning bell that the Deepwater Horizon exploratory operation might have been set up directly over a huge underground reservoir of methane.
Documents from several years ago indicate that the geologic formation deep underground indicates the presence of a huge methane deposit.
None other than the engineer who helped lead the team to snuff the Gulf oil fires set by Saddam Hussein to slow the advance of American troops has stated that a huge underground lake of methane gas—compressed by a pressure of 100,000 pounds per square inch (psi)—could be released by BP's drilling effort to obtain the oil deposit.
Current engineering technology cannot contain gas that is pressurized to 100,000 psi.
By some estimates the methane could be as big as a massive 15 to 20 mile toxic and explosive bubble trapped for eons under the Gulf sea floor. In their opinion, the explosive destruction of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead was an accident waiting to happen.
Yet the catastrophe that followed pales by comparison to the apocalyptic disaster that may come.
A cascading catastrophe
According to worried geologists, the first signs that the methane may burst its way through the bottom of the ocean would be signs of fissures or cracks appearing on the ocean floor near the damaged well head.
Evidence of fissures opening up on the seabed have been captured by the robotic submersibles working to repair and contain the ruptured well and by smaller plumes appearing outside the nearby radius of the bore hole itself.
According to some geological experts, BP's operations set into motion a series of events that may be irreversible. Step-by-step the drilling team committed one error after another
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http://www.helium.com/items/1864136-how-the-ultimate-bp-gulf-disaster-could-kill-millionsI believe BP believes that if they keep their head down all the media attention will go away and this will be ended. But I believe this is not the end. Nowhere near the end. Not even nowhere near the end of the beginning.