Neil -
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
There is seepage detected near the BP oil well:
Seepage Detected Near BP Oil Well : NPR
This could be a very bad thing -- seepage can become a flow, and a flow can become a torrent, and that would erode the sea floor and possible cause it to collapse. Or at the very least, it would start leaking from a place that would be impossible to control... |
This article sounds similar to what this Matthew Simmons fellow is saying :
What’s in the Gulf? 1 Capped Well … Or 1000s of Gushers?|Gulf Oil Monitor
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If the news seems reassuring, veteran oil industry expert Matthew Simmons isn’t buying it. In fact, his perspective on what’s really happening deep below the ocean’s surface is beyond disturbing: speaking at a forum in Maine this week, Simmons said he believes the real blowout isn’t the one we’ve been watching on BP’s video feeds … ie, the one that’s just been capped. Somewhere, probably six to seven miles away from the leaking riser we’ve all been watching, is the true disaster, he says: a gaping hole in the ocean floor that continues to spew unchecked even now, sending another 120,000 barrels of oil and gas into the Gulf every day.
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But Simmons is also scary because he proposes the "nuclear option", aka detonating a nuke at least 10K feet into the well. I can understand the idea of glassifying the rock with a nuke, but I don't think we've ever had any "practice" at doing this, so I'm not very confident that it would work. You know what I mean?
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