Potential Gulf Oil Disasters in the making

[Bob]

27,000 unused oil/gas wells existed in the Gulf of Mexico, in deep and shallow water as of 2010 when BP's Gulf oil disaster happened. Today that amount has increased.

Over 3700 wells with TEMPORARY seals, so that the oil companies can go back in and get the oil when the price is UP, and possibly when an older producing well has started to dry up..

A temporary seal is designed to last for a couple years. Over 3500 wells that were "temporarily" sealed are now more than a year old, exposed to the salt water and sea bottom conditions.

Undersea oil wells are subject to corrosion and intense pressure at depths down to almost two miles below the water's surface. Drilling penetrates as far as six miles into the seabed. Immense pressures exist at those depths, and the potential for leakage or "blow-out" continues to increase every day these temporary seals are subjected to the environment.

The worst-ever offshore U.S. waters oil well disaster, the Macondo well of BP, occurred while the company was in the process of temporarily closing. A well of that volume and pressure was being temporarily sealed so that "production" could resume at a later time. The Macondo well is located roughly 41 miles (66 km) off the Louisiana coast. BP was the operator and principal developer of the Macondo Prospect .

The accident killed 11 workers and spilled up to 172 million gallons of oil. Federal officials defend their well safety efforts since then, and there have more permanent closures.

From 1960, there have been 50,637 wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Of that 21,783 produced. The rest are supposed to be properly plugged and abandoned, OR are temporarily sealed to allow for "re-entry" at the time the oil company feels it is desired to do so.

Source - AP, and BOEM (http://www.data.boem.gov/homepg/data_center/index.asp)

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management - Government Management Organization

[Citizen No2]

You need to hear what this man, Ian R Crane , has to say about the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

An ex-oil executive and a man who knows of such things.

Listen without prejudice.

http://www.richplanet.net/starship_m...?ref=23&part=1


Regards.

[Rex]

Maybe not the same exact video but posted a few years back:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...91-Ian-R-Crane

[Selkie]

Posted by Citizen No2 (here)
You need to hear what this man, Ian R Crane , has to say about the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

An ex-oil executive and a man who knows of such things.

Listen without prejudice.

http://www.richplanet.net/starship_m...?ref=23&part=1


Regards.

I definitely want to listen to this. Tomorrow, most likely.

[Selkie]

I just have to say this, even thought it sounds totally off-the-wall and like complete woo: what if all the drilling, fracking, etc., is about releasing pressure from within the earth that would otherwise fracture her beyond her ability to sustain any life at all, like what happened to the planet that used to inhabit the asteroid belt? Just a thought.

[Selkie]

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p.s. I don't know what happened. I had a kind of vision. It was triggered by the OP for some reason, but it wasn't appropriate to it, and so I have deleted it.

[Citizen No2]

Silkie,

I too once had that fleeting, brief thought................. a moment of the heart, of wondering if 'they' had our best interests in mind, to prevent some impending disaster.

Then I woke up and smelled the coffee.

F*** the consequences it's all about the:

£££££'s

$$$$$'s


Regards.

[Selkie]

I know...I know...but...

Not saying anyone should agree, lol!

[Bob]

Posted by Silkie (here)
I just have to say this, even thought it sounds totally off-the-wall and like complete woo: what if all the drilling, fracking, etc., is about releasing pressure from within the earth that would otherwise fracture her beyond her ability to sustain any life at all, like what happened to the planet that used to inhabit the asteroid belt? Just a thought.

Going to do a cross post referral - see, this thread which gets into the mechanics of the lubricated "fault" issue.. There were solar CME events which it is believed helped to lubricate numerous tectonic plates, trigger volcanic activity up and down the Ring of Fire.

Pressurized wells leaking, formations fractured.. all such events could lead up to a set of disasters that could be worse than the Macondo well event of 2010.