By J. DeVoy
BP confirms that there’s a hole in the sea floor, spewing oil and deadly methane gas into the Gulf of Mexico. While some reports indicate that this fissure has existed since the crisis’ beginning, details remain hard to find. The high volume of methane gas found in this fissure is worth noting, and troubling, as it corroborates earlier reports about a giant, deadly lake of methane gas lying beneath the oil reserves tapped by the Deepwater Horizon.
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No it doesn’t. Your “earlier” report was complete junk and it says a lot about you that you keep pushing that trash.
The reporting on this incident has been crap in general; I’m just working with what I’ve got – which is increasingly supported by more credible sources that dig into the facts.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20100508/ai_n53512084/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20100618//ai_n54112980/
Nope, no reason at all for ALL THAT METHANE to be there! I’ll cop to sensationalism, but claiming that there’s not an extraordinary and dangerous amount of methane in this particular oil reserve – despite the explosion being caused by there being 8x more methane than normally found in oil reserves – is willful ignorance.
And here’s more. I line up with Zerohedge’s take: there’s an infinitely small likelihood of the entire Southeast being blown out, but there’s evidence of dramatically more methane than found in other drilling operations being in the Gulf.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/methane-release-gulf-oil-spill-what-does-it-mean-how-bad-could-it-get
http://www.lakecharleslapersonalinjury.com/2010/06/methane-adds-to-environmental-contamination-concerns-in-the-gulf.shtml
But even if it’s not going to kill us all, it’s volatile and creates a new dimension of complexity in remedying the oil leak – especially if it’s coming from the sea floor.
Here’s more on the hole in the bottom of the sea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagniqQ7VTY&feature=related
The “popping methane gas bubble” theory hasn’t been adopted by many oil/gas engineers or geologists, so i’m not buying it either. But fissures in the caseing and surrounding seabed are probably the reason why the top kill (which is an tried-and-true method for killing out of control wells) did work last month ago, and is the reason why many knowledgeable commentators have predicted that another containment cap wouldn’t work. Here is a good explanation, though i don’t think I am getting on board with “the BOP is falling over” argument”:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593#comment-648967
The issue now is that the fissures can further erode, causing an out-of-control and un-containable fissure between the reservoir and the seabed and unimpeded flow of oil and gas into the gulf. Which is basically a huge fucking problem.
damn, so many typos. I meant “why the top kill DIDN’T work”
Who cares about a hole in the sea floor? It’s Moon day!