VIDEO: “Oil Confirmed to Be Leaking from Cracks in Sea Floor”

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http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/06/video-oil-confirmed-to-be-leaking-from-cracks-in-sea-floor/


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In the interest of clarification, the blog title is that of the original post.
I received the link to this video last night just as I was getting off line, so it is the first one I am posting this morning. The headline is one of the most disturbing ones I’ve read in some time. A worst-case scenario may, indeed, become a reality:

On the video, we see oil leaking from the oil floor. What does this mean? It means that the oil pipe in the ocean has burst and now the oil is leaking from the seafloor. Simply put, there’s probably no realistic way we can stop this.

There are simply no words left…

Here are a few details:

This video was recorded from the Viking Poseidon — ROV 1 on June 13th, 2010 at 2:58 AM EST.

Location of the sea floor crack leaking:
N:10431633.05
E: 1202852.27

My calculations indicate:

The ROV is 19.11 feet north and 55.75 feet west of the leak point.
The ROV is 58.93 feet away from the leak point.
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sigh

[dipsydoodle]

1. How does it follow

that the oil pipe has burst ?

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Methane Gas leaking from cracks in Massey big branch mine.

Massey says teams find crack in Upper Big Branch mine’s floor

http://www.register-herald.com/disaster/x1358985936/Massey-says-teams-find-crack-in-Upper-Big-Branch-mine-s-floor

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3. its like they are linked by 'cracks'

dangerous killer cracks

[Hubert Flottz]

12. They kill more people than crackheads do.

[AndyA]

4. Not good, not good at all.

That means the relief wells they're working on will likely not do as intended. :(

I've suspected this for a couple of weeks, as have others in the industry. I wonder how long this will be kept out of the M$M?

[zipplewrath]

5. This is a leap

Cracks are bad, but the relief wells purpose is to diver the oil several thousand feet below the surface. At that point, the original hole is filled with concrete. That concrete will fill cracks, and broken pipes.

Is that all guaranteed? No. For one thing, you have to be able to get the concrete down in the hole, deeply. And if there is alot of flow out of "cracks" the concrete may never set. It will depend greatly upon their ability to divert a significant flow of oil through the relief wells.

[ensho]

6. we are held hostage by - - 'IF' - -

nt

[jaxx]

7. This was discussed at TOD after that dougr posted his doomday scenario.

kalliergo on June 14, 2010 - 3:09am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Parent subthread | Comments top

"dougr's analysis would go a long way towards explaining Bp's secrecy and lax attitude about shore protection. What would be the point of them bothering to do much but put on a show if things are this bad?"

dougr's predictions are quite a bit more dramatic than those of the best-informed and most-experienced oilpatch people here. The construction of the well makes the "falling-over BOP" rather improbable, for instance. And it seems quite likely that a relief well will, indeed, eventually be successful in killing this beast.

That said, I don't think anyone who is even marginally well-informed on the issue is confident that any fix is coming soon, or that the first relief well will necessarily be successful on the first attempt or without delay. And I don't think anyone would bet that things couldn't get worse before getting better.

A huge part of the Gulf is badly damaged, gravely injured. It's not going to be all better for a very long time. That's plenty of doomsday for me.

"Is there someone here who can explain just what is going on in this video?"

Oh, sure. Dozens of us. How many explanations would you like? ;^)

Here's mine: Viking Poseidon ROV 1 is doing a sea floor survey, perhaps of the area where the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon landed. Early in the clip, a puff (or puffs) of substances that look like methane and, perhaps, oil, are emitted from a crack in (a) the seabed, or (b) a piece of the wreckage. Following that, much larger clouds of material can be seen. Those are almost certainly clouds of silt stirred up by the ROV's thrusters.

I'm sure you'll be getting more detailed answers soon.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6599#comment-649810

Read on, there is more.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. thanks for the link

[SidDithers]

9. Ahh, more dougr nonsense...

thanks for the link.

Sid

[jaxx]

10. Yep this keeps surfacing.

Remember the people at that godlikeproductions.com place are pushing this.

[pipi_k]

13. BREAKING NEWS!!!

Video confirms gas leaking from a crack in anonymous newscaster's ass!!!


Details at 11 PM

[Urban Prairie]

11. Thought that there was around 1000' of muddy sediment on the seafloor

Before the drill hit what passes for "bedrock"...so if there is or are leak(s) within the well casing, I am hoping that it or they are confined to the sediment and not the substrata below it.