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Old Ducker
06-13-2010, 02:17 PM
Interesting piece that covers abiotic origins of hydrocarbons as well as challenges the myth of "peak oil."


by F. William Engdahl

The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could continue for years unless decisive steps are undertaken, something that seems far from the present strategy.

In a recent discussion, Vladimir Kutcherov, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and the Russian State University of Oil and Gas, predicted that the present oil spill flooding the Gulf Coast shores of the United States “could go on for years and years … many years.” [1]

According to Kutcherov, a leading specialist in the theory of abiogenic deep origin of petroleum, “What BP drilled into was what we call a ‘migration channel,’ a deep fault on which hydrocarbons generated in the depth of our planet migrate to the crust and are accumulated in rocks, something like Ghawar in Saudi Arabia.” [2] Ghawar, the world’s most prolific oilfield has been producing millions of barrels daily for almost 70 years with no end in sight. According to the abiotic science, Ghawar like all elephant and giant oil and gas deposits all over the world, is located on a migration channel similar to that in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.


Read on (http://www.voltairenet.org/article165797.html)

NiceGoing
06-13-2010, 03:44 PM
We need a theory that encompasses the "Why" of the extreme secrecy in BP's operation. In other words, what is it that they are so desperate to hide, if the whole truth is that oil is spilling in vast amounts??

Since we all 'know' (or assume) that, there is a very great mystery here, which is: what is it that the beaches and waterways would tell us--if honest and competent experts were brought in to identify, photograph, examine them? To me that is the real question, for it's obvious that something big IS being steadfastly hidden.

foofighter20x
06-13-2010, 10:53 PM
Could go years?!

B.S.

It'll go until they cap it or drill a relief well (which will only take a few months).

Aratus
06-14-2010, 11:10 AM
if its like the Ghawar... you need at least 15 to 20 wells within a 15 to 50 mile radius
of the central core well to drain the top of the field, and given that the methane and
natural gas has this being like the frothy foam in the top of a well shook guiness stout
can of beer escaping with a pressure similar to any and all champagne bottle corks...
if obama's people want to allievate pressure, we have not even begun to even fathom
how big the field is, and HOW many wells have to be drilled ABOVE the big pool to even
slow this all down. we either TOP HAT this or we can't TOP HAT this due to the intense
pressure. the CEO of BP was not alive when the SAUDIs first noticed the big oil field. he
also was not alive when TEXAS was put on the map. the oil is going to spurt until there
is at least 100 derricks trying to drink up the whole pool. the fellow is too young to remember
what the heyday & apex of the USA and saudi oil industry was like AFTER the hughes drill bit.

Aratus
06-14-2010, 11:11 AM
the native peoples of the armericas are correct. the sensitive skin of mother earth is thusly that...

Aratus
06-14-2010, 11:15 AM
i am thinking of all the old photos of how crowded the pennsylvania and texas & oklahoma
fields were. the very idea of a new derrick every 100 to 300 feet like for a half mile and each
person taking a shotgun or a revolver to each other person as all stare askance at all who
drill at 30 degree or 45 degree angles. from what i can see, BP drove straight down into the
depressed center of the big pool and then gave everything at the top of the pool a vent area.

Aratus
06-14-2010, 11:18 AM
the great plains were once the bed of an ancient ocean. a gusher in texas circa the 1920s or 1930s with an
equal pipe ampature but being closer to the surface would have created a small pond or lake of oil
if the well had geisered up and kept on gushing. we insted are talking a mile of ocean...

Travlyr
06-14-2010, 11:37 AM
Seems like there ought to be a way to capture the oil and gas instead of just letting it leak into the sea.

Zippyjuan
06-14-2010, 11:55 AM
Seems like there ought to be a way to capture the oil and gas instead of just letting it leak into the sea.

That is what they were trying to do with the "straw" pipe and the two caps they have attempted to use.

The "relief wells" are an attempt to drill down near the original well then drill sidways until you reach the first one and pump in cement to try to seal it off. They can't really "drain off pressure" to stop the flow. That could possibly take years if not decaded depending on the mass and pressure within the oil basin.

There was a similar event on an exploratory well in the Gulf in 1979- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill although in considerably much shallower water- and that took nine months and two relief wells to get stopped. The great depth on this one makes it much more difficult to deal with- due to distance, cold temperatures, and pressures down there.

Aratus
06-14-2010, 12:08 PM
in california's san joaquin valley, between 1910 and 1911
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeview_Gusher (18 months!)