Re: [Paddlewise] More on the Transocean/BP Gulf Oil Disaster

     This morning I found an oil slick in my bathtub. I guess the BP
Gulf Oil Disaster is worse than I thought.

Brad

Subject: [Paddlewise] More on the Transocean/BP Gulf Oil Disaster


> For some reason - maybe it's my location way up here in the NW corner of 
> the
> country - I've been confused about the situation surrounding the Deepwater
> Horizon drill rig disaster. This morning I found a graphic that explains 
> it
> all much better. Here is a link:
>
> http://paddlingtravelers.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-kill-oil-spill-gulf-of-mexico.html
>
> It's quite a link but worth looking at. I had been confused over reports 
> of
> crude oil coming from up to three separate locations. This made me think
> that the well had been so poorly cemented that there had been a blowout
> through the sides and up through the sea floor. This, as it turns out, is
> not the case. The oil is flowing only from the wellhead BOP but from the
> riser (the 40" casing that encloses the drill pipe and mud) which lies
> damaged and leaking on the sea floor and these are the sources of the 
> other
> leaks. This all makes better sense now.
>
> I suspect that the oil will continue to flow from the well until they can
> get a relief well drilled. The rig they will be using for that is depicted
> in this link:
>
> http://paddlingtravelers.blogspot.com/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-one-way-or-another.html
>
> Look closely and you will see two derricks side-by-side. This means that
> they can be drilling two wells simultaneously. By doing this they can 
> drill
> one relief well to siphon off the pressure and another well above it to
> cement in the old well. Should be an interesting job.
>
> What a mess!
>
>
> Craig Jungers
> Moses Lake, WA
> www.nwkayaking.net
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