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BP hit wellhead pressure of 70,000 psi, Destroyed all safety valves.........

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Asheron
Asheron Posts: 1,229 Forumite
BP drilled about 30,000 feet into a strata that has never been drilled into before, already starting 5,000 feet down. So we’re talking as far as 7 miles into the earth.

The Russians have drilled this deep, but they had the sense to do it on land.

“They drilled between 25 and 30 thousand feet deep in 5 thousand foot water. … They hit something so catastrophic and unexpected that they could not contain it.”
“They hit a wellhead pressure of somewhere between 20, 000 and 70,000 pounds per square inch (psi).” Compare this to Prudhoe Bay oil pressure at 1,500 psi.

Having been told that the fail-safe valve was warped, the foreman proceeded anyway.

The flow is much larger than BP is letting on. It’s actually gushing at about 4 million gallons of oil per day!

The pipe is fractured in many places. Some plumes are coming up as far as 20 miles away.

“The oil is not the greatest danger. … What comes up with the oil is what is deadly [to humans]” — toxic gasses that could be blown across the eastern United States during the next hurricane.

The only way to stop the oil spill is with a Nuclear device. But this could take about 2 more months to angle drill the hole, and its super risky. The nuke could damage the strata further! “You are not going to see this well capped anytime soon.”

This could double or triple the price of gasoline

This could bankrupt the airlines, so they’ll be nationalized.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYhugmaAL3A
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  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,466 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    but how will all this affect the price of gold?
  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    Its nonsense like this that gives HPC and the like a bad name.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 13 June 2010 at 9:07PM
    Nothing to worry about then. Just choose between deadly gases or nuclear attack.

    Tin hat anybody?
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Informative video on how BP deal with disasters.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Is this the Illuminati guy?
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    Sorry but I have tried to listern to alex jones before, but it always seems to distort reality.

    Now if you punch a whole in an oil resvoir you release preasure. For other oil jets to suddenly break free from the same source is difficult to believe. If any thing the preasure will be less due to the inital release far reducing the chances of other breaches. Like water oil takes the path of less resistance.

    Now maybe they mean it goes up and then some how sideways higher up in a plain of weakness and them again up to make more exit points. However if the preasure was this great the oil would act as a cut agent through the stone making the intial whole far bigger. This isn't happening.

    Sorry but this looks a bit fake. I could be wrong but I did study a few modules in geology and geohazards, fluid mechanics and water bore holes at uni.

    Alex Jones makes us so called doomsters on this website look like hard core bulls.
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  • damanpunk
    damanpunk Posts: 192 Forumite
    Awesome, so the same will happen with the two relief wells they are drilling?
  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    damanpunk wrote: »
    Awesome, so the same will happen with the two relief wells they are drilling?

    The relief wells will reduce the preasure on main well. If placed close by either side and pump hard enough the draw down effect will pretty much cut the main well.
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  • damanpunk
    damanpunk Posts: 192 Forumite
    brit1234 wrote: »
    The relief wells will reduce the preasure on main well. If placed close by either side and pump hard enough the draw down effect will pretty much cut the main well.

    Brit I was taking the !!!! :rotfl: If Asherons source was correct do you think they'd bother drilling a relief well (remember the second relief well is purely a backup incase anything happens with the first) with similar equipment?
  • but how will all this affect the price of gold?


    Up up up.... :rotfl:
    Not Again
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