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Post by helter on Jul 15, 2010 12:18:49 GMT -8
US confirms undersea BP 'oil plume' UPDATED ON: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 04:50 Mecca time, 01:50 GMT US officials have found oil plumes from BP's blown-out wellhead floating beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, confirming what many scientists have been saying for weeks. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said experts were investigating reports of the undersea oil plumes said to be as deep as 1,000 metres and have drifted as far as 230km from the gushing well. english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/06/20106903054354753.html'Low concentrations of subsurface oil.' Quite unlikely, or toxic tar balls seaboard/ Gulf Stream wide. _________________________________ TAMPA (2010-5-27) - New tests show what appears to be a massive, second underwater plume in previously untested waters northeast of the leaking BP wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine scientists have discovered a new, wide area of “dissolved hydrocarbons” in that Gulf. It is six miles wide and goes as deep as 3,300 feet. More tests are being run, but researchers from the University of South Florida suspect the plume may be from chemical dispersants used to break up the gushing oil leak a mile below the surface. www.wusf.usf.edu/news/2010/05/27/underwater_oil_plume_discovered_near_mobile_bay
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Post by moabiter on Jul 16, 2010 0:14:51 GMT -8
Suttles added, 'It may be down to how you define what a plume is here,...'
BP containment effort set back as government acknowledges undersea oil plumes By Hiram Lee - 25 June 2010 The report states that, “The preponderance of evidence based on careful examination of the results from these four different cruises leads us to conclude that [Deepwater Horizon] oil exists in subsurface waters near the well site in addition to the oil observed at the sea surface and that this oil appears to be chemically dispersed.” “During the time of these cruises,” says the report, “approximately 230,000 gallons of subsea dispersants were used. If the subsurface oil was successfully dispersed into small droplets, processes can result in oil remaining in subsurface waters, with horizontal transport potentially more than 10 km beyond the well.” www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/bpoi-j25.shtml
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Post by moabiter on Jul 16, 2010 20:07:32 GMT -8
NOAA Data Says Cracks In Sea Floor EcoAlert: "Could the Gulf Oil Spill Trigger a Cataclysmic Global Methane Bubble?" A huge ragged gash on the ocean floor hundreds of feet long has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go down miles into the earth. That gash too is hemorrhaging oil and methane. It’s 10 miles away from the BP epicenter. Other, new fissures, have been spotted as far as 30 miles distant. Measurements of the multiple oil plumes now appearing miles from the wellhead indicate that as much as a total of 124,000 barrels of oil are erupting into the Gulf waters daily-that’s about 5,208,000 gallons of oil per day. Northwestern University's Gregory Ryskin, a bio-chemical engineer, has a methane extinction theory: The oceans periodically produce massive eruptions of explosive methane gas. He has documented the scientific evidence that such an event was directly responsible for the mass extinctions that occurred 55 million years ago, when massive combustible clouds produced by methane gas trapped under the seas and explosively released could have killed off the majority of marine life, land animals, and plants at the end of the Permian era—long before the dinosaurs arrived. If the methane bubble—a bubble that could be as big as 20 miles wide—erupts with titanic force from the seabed into the Gulf, reports Helium.com, "every ship, drilling rig and structure within the region of the bubble will immediately sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast Guard personnel and marine biologists participating in the salvage operation will die instantly. An ocean bottom collapse would follow, instantaneously displacing up to a trillion cubic feet of water or more and creating a towering supersonic tsunami annihilating everything along the coast and well inland. Like a thermonuclear blast, a high pressure atmospheric wave could precede the tidal wave flattening everything in its path before the water arrives." www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/07/ecoalert-could-the-gulf-oil-spill-trigger-a-cataclysmic-methane-bubble.html------------- Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event The bottom line: BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years. The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set the stage for the eventual premature release of a methane mega-bubble. Ryskin’s methane extinction theory Northwestern University's Gregory Ryskin, a bio-chemical engineer, has a theory: The oceans periodically produce massive eruptions of explosive methane gas. He has documented the scientific evidence that such an event was directly responsible for the mass extinctions that occurred 55 million years ago. [4] Many geologists concur: "The consequences of a methane-driven oceanic eruption for marine and terrestrial life are likely to be catastrophic. Figuratively speaking, the erupting region "boils over," ejecting a large amount of methane and other gases (e.g., CO2, H2S) into the atmosphere, and flooding large areas of land. Whereas pure methane is lighter than air, methane loaded with water droplets is much heavier, and thus spreads over the land, mixing with air in the process (and losing water as rain). The air-methane mixture is explosive at methane concentrations between 5% and 15%; as such mixtures form in different locations near the ground and are ignited by lightning, explosions and conflagrations destroy most of the terrestrial life, and also produce great amounts of smoke and of carbon dioxide..." [5] www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 7:20:30 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 7:25:06 GMT -8
Underwater Lakes Of Oil From BP Spill Will Continue To Cover Gulf Beaches With Toxic Layer Of Invisible Oil For Months July 28, 2010 But as Washington points out that doesn’t mean the oil has magically disappeared as the media is widely reporting. To the contrary has I have pointed out several times as little as 2% of the oil released in the BP Gulf Oil spill may make it to the surface. The study called Project “Deep Spill” was first a black eye for BP and the Federal Government when they claimed it didn’t make sense that there where huge plumes oil floating in the ambient currents beneath the surface of the sea because as they put it “oil floats”.
Project “Deep Spill” is now hitting them with another black eye and debunks the lie that the methane gas being released from the well is floating to the surface and not being absorbed into the sea.blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/07/28/underwater-lakes-of-oil-from-bp-spill-will-continue-to-cover-gulf-beaches-with-toxic-layer-of-invisible-oil-for-months/PROJECT DEEP SPILL: www.boemre.gov/tarprojects/377.htm
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 7:30:55 GMT -8
UNC researchers say much of oil spill floating under Gulf mAY 20 2010 Chapel Hill, N.C. — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers say the amount of oil spewing from a wellhead beneath the Gulf of Mexico is much more than official estimates, and much of the oil is trapped undersea. Richard McLaughlin, a mathematics professor, said he and his colleagues estimated the British Petroleum well is spilling about 56,000 barrels of oil a day into the sea, which is more than 10 times BP's estimate of 5,000 barrels a day. The UNC estimate is based on the geometry of the broken drilling pipe and the speed of the oil flow seen in underwater video, McLaughlin said. www.wral.com/news/local/story/7640522/
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 7:34:21 GMT -8
BP CEO Tony Hayward Before House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee – Liveblog Part Three Thursday June 17, 2010 11:18 am BP CEO Tony Hayward is testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation. The meeting is chaired by Bart Stupak (D-MI). It is expected that the meeting will be interrupted throughout the morning for a series of House votes. You can watch the testimony live on CSPAN 3. You can find part one of the liveblog here and part two here. 2:19 – (Notice who is not in the committee room anymore. Joe Barton, they man who apologized to Hayward.) ... 4:35 – Joe Barton (R-TX) ask how much oil did BP think they were going to find in this well. Hayward said 50 million barrels. Barton is pointing out that with this flow rate of the spill the well should be empty soon. fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/06/17/bp-ceo-tony-hayward-before-house-energy-and-commerce-subcommittee-%E2%80%93-liveblog-part-three/
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 7:41:05 GMT -8
X-ref: March '09: BP in 'giant' new oil discovery pyrelog.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=bpoilspill&thread=112&page=1BP is currently the largest producer of oil and gas in that area, with net production equivalent to more than 400,000 barrels of oil a day. The company said it had *drilled the well, dubbed Tiber, to a total depth of about 35,055ft (10,685m), making it one of the deepest wells drilled to date.* BP shares rose 4.3% to £5.41, making it the biggest gainer in the FTSE 100. Potentially hugeTiber represents BP's second material discovery in the *Lower Tertiary area of the Gulf of Mexico, after Kaskida.* BP said the discovery, amounting to more than *three billion barrels,* would "support the continuing growth of our deepwater Gulf of Mexico business into the second half of the next decade". pyrelog.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=bpoilspill&action=display&thread=112
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 8:17:23 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 8:20:29 GMT -8
"Almost nothing has escaped." BP CEO Tony Hayward "I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest." BP CEO Tony Hayward "The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into [the Gulf of Mexico] is tiny in relation to the total water volume. BP CEO Tony Hayward "The oil is on the surface. There aren't any plumes." BP CEO Tony Hayward "What the hell did we do to deserve this?" BP CEO Tony Hayward Yours Truly, BP www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbZe43pTC8www.nrdc.org/energy/gulfspill/
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Post by subsea Gulf oil plumes on Aug 5, 2010 18:10:32 GMT -8
Researchers confirm subsea Gulf oil plumes are from BP well Fri Jul 23, 9:10 pm ET ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's runaway Deepwater Horizon well — the first direct scientific link between the subsurface oil clouds commonly known as "plumes" and the BP oil spill, USF officials said Friday. Until now, scientists had circumstantial evidence, but lacked that definitive scientific link. The announcement came on the same day that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that its researchers have confirmed the existence of the subsea plumes at depths of 3,300 to 4,300 feet below the surface of the Gulf. NOAA said its detection equipment also implicated the BP well in the plumes' creation. Together, the two studies confirm what in the early days of the spill was denied by BP and viewed skeptically by NOAA's chief — that much of the crude that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon well stayed beneath the surface of the water. news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100724/wl_mcclatchy/3575859
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Post by wtf on Aug 11, 2010 3:05:37 GMT -8
USF says government tried to squelch their oil plume findings In Print: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 A month after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, scientists from the University of South Florida made a startling announcement. They had found signs that the oil spewing from the well had formed a 6-mile-wide plume snaking along in the deepest recesses of the gulf. The reaction that USF announcement received from the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agencies that sponsored their research: Shut up. "I got lambasted by the Coast Guard and NOAA when we said there was undersea oil," USF marine sciences dean William Hogarth said. Some officials even told him to retract USF's public announcement, he said, comparing it to being "beat up" by federal officials. www.tampabay.com/news/environment/article1114225.ece
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Post by moabiter on Aug 19, 2010 20:26:23 GMT -8
News Release : WHOI Scientists Map and Confirm Origin of Large, Underwater Hydrocarbon Plume in Gulf August 19, 2010, 2 p.m. Source: Media Relations Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The 1.2-mile-wide, 650-foot-high plume of trapped hydrocarbons provides at least a partial answer to recent questions asking where all the oil has gone as surface slicks shrink and disappear. “These results indicate that efforts to book keep where the oil went must now include this plume” in the Gulf, said Christopher Reddy, a WHOI marine geochemist and oil spill expert and one of the authors of the study, which appears in the Aug. 19 issue of the journal Science. The researchers measured distinguishing petroleum hydrocarbons in the plume and, using them as an investigative tool, determined that the source of the plume could not have been natural oil seeps but had to have come from the blown out well. Moreover, they reported that deep-sea microbes were degrading the plume relatively slowly, and that it was possible that the plume had and will persist for some time. www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=79926&ct=162
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