Oil Spill in the Gulf

"I'm very, very concerned about this filth in the Gulf of Mexico. It's not a spill, it's a flow. I envision a sort of an underground volcano of oil and it keeps spewing over 200,000 gallons every single day, if not more." - Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Volcano of Oil: 200,000 Gallons are Polluting the Sea Every Day... and It Could Take Three Months to Cap Leak, Daily Mail, May 4, 2010



Keeping oil out of local waterways has become a battle between federal and state officials. Last week, Gov. Bobby Jindal sent out vacuuming barges to clean up crude in Louisiana, only to be stopped by the Coast Guard over safety concerns. This is starting to look like Katrina II... next it will be gun confiscations. - celtickev999, BP Spill Latest - CoastGuard Blocks Clean Up Attempts...Feds, State Officials Clash, YouTube, June 19, 2010

How the Ultimate BP Gulf Disaster Could Kill Millions

June 17, 2010

Helium.com - Disturbing evidence is mounting that something frightening is happening deep under the waters of the Gulf of Mexico—something far worse than the BP oil gusher.

Warnings were raised as long as a year before the Deepwater Horizon disaster that the area of seabed chosen by the BP geologists might be unstable, or worse, inherently dangerous.

What makes the location that Transocean chose potentially far riskier than other potential oil deposits located at other regions of the Gulf? It can be summed up with two words: methane gas.

The same methane that makes coal mining operations hazardous and leads to horrendous mining accidents deep under the earth also can present a high level of danger to certain oil exploration ventures.

Critical of Deepwater Horizon oil rig location

More than a year ago some geologists rang the warning bell that the Deepwater Horizon exploratory operation might have been set up directly over a huge underground reservoir of methane.

Documents from several years ago indicate that the geologic formation deep underground indicates the presence of a huge methane deposit.

None other than the engineer who helped lead the team to snuff the Gulf oil fires set by Saddam Hussein to slow the advance of American troops has stated that a huge underground lake of methane gas—compressed by a pressure of 100,000 pounds per square inch (psi)—could be released by BP's drilling effort to obtain the oil deposit.

Current engineering technology cannot contain gas that is pressurized to 100,000 psi.

By some estimates the methane could be as big as a massive 15 to 20 mile toxic and explosive bubble trapped for eons under the Gulf sea floor. In their opinion, the explosive destruction of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead was an accident waiting to happen.

Yet the catastrophe that followed pales by comparison to the apocalyptic disaster that may come.

A cascading catastrophe

According to worried geologists, the first signs that the methane may burst its way through the bottom of the ocean would be signs of fissures or cracks appearing on the ocean floor near the damaged well head.

Evidence of fissures opening up on the seabed have been captured by the robotic submersibles working to repair and contain the ruptured well and by smaller plumes appearing outside the nearby radius of the bore hole itself.

According to some geological experts, BP's operations set into motion a series of events that may be irreversible. Step-by-step the drilling team committed one error after another.

Death from the depths

With the emerging evidence of fissures, the quiet fear now is the methane bubble rupturing the seabed and exploding into the Gulf waters. If the bubble escapes, every ship, drilling rig and structure within the region of the bubble will instantaneously sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast Guard personnel and marine biologists measuring the oil plumes' advance will instantly perish.

As horrible as that is, what would follow is an event so potentially horrific that it equals in its fury the Indonesian tsunami that killed more than 600,000, or the destruction of Pompeii by Mt. Vesuvius.

The ultimate Gulf disaster, however, would make even those historical horrors pale by comparison. If the huge methane bubble breaches the seabed, it will erupt with an explosive fury similar to that experienced during the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in the Pacific Northwest. A gas gusher will surge upwards through miles of ancient sedimentary rock—layer after layer—past the oil reservoir. It will explode upwards propelled by 50 tons psi, burst through the cracks and fissures of the compromised sea floor and rupture miles of ocean bottom with one titanic explosion.

The burgeoning toxic gas cloud will surface, killing everything it touches, and set off a supersonic tsunami with the wave traveling somewhere between 400 to 600 miles per hour.

Coast to Coast Interview with Richard Hoagland on the Oil Gusher and the Risk of a Toxic Gas Cloud and Catastrophic Tsunami

June 16, 2010

Project Avalon - Many of you will already have heard Richard Hoagland on Coast to Coast AM two days ago, vividly describing the risk of a collapse of part of the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico, with a resultant catastrophic tsunami. Click here for the MP3 of the Hoagland interview on Coast to Coast [Editor's Note: Don't miss this informative broadcast].

I've just now completed a 40 minute audio interview with Dr. Bill Deagle in which he identifies precisely the same risk, informed by his own separate sources. Click here for the MP3 of the Deagle interview. Bill Deagle (see next story) was unaware of Richard Hoagland's summary when he spoke to me.

It may be of interest to many that 'Dr. Bill' seriously recommends the nuclear solution described in this recent Russian newspaper article.

BP Oil Gusher: Volcanic Tsunami and Poison Gas Alert

June 20, 2010

Before It's News - Dr. Bill Deagle says there is a real danger we could see a tsunamia triggered by an 'underwater volcano' that BP drilled into. He also talks about how this event could result in a mini ice age in Europe due to disruption to the flow from the gulf stream. Also, Dr. Deagle goes into the dangers of the gases being emitted from the sea floor.

This catastrophe is only just starting to unfold. The worst is still to come.



Gulf of Mexico, Not Only Oil Leak, Volcano Too 1 (10 minutes)
Gulf of Mexico, Not Only Oil Leak, Volcano Too 2 (10 minutes)
Gulf of Mexico, Not Only Oil Leak, Volcano Too 3 (8 minutes)

Gulf Oil Full of Methane, Adding New Concerns

June 18, 2010

AP – It is an overlooked danger in the oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico's fragile ecosystem.

The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits, said John Kessler, a Texas A&M University oceanographer who is studying the impact of methane from the spill.

That means huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.

"This is the most vigorous methane eruption in modern human history," Kessler said.

Methane is a colorless, odorless and flammable substance that is a major component in the natural gas used to heat people's homes. Petroleum engineers typically burn off excess gas attached to crude before the oil is shipped off to the refinery. That's exactly what BP has done as it has captured more than 7.5 million gallons of crude from the breached well.

A BP spokesman said the company was burning about 30 million cubic feet of natural gas daily from the source of the leak, adding up to about 450 million cubic feet since the containment effort started 15 days ago. That's enough gas to heat about 450,000 homes for four days.

But that figure does not account for gas that eluded containment efforts and wound up in the water, leaving behind huge amounts of methane. Scientists are still trying to measure how much has escaped into the water and how it may damage the Gulf and it creatures.

The dangerous gas has played an important role throughout the disaster and response. A bubble of methane is believed to have burst up from the seafloor and ignited the rig explosion. Methane crystals also clogged a four-story containment box that engineers earlier tried to place on top of the breached well.

Now it is being looked at as an environmental concern.

The small microbes that live in the sea have been feeding on the oil and natural gas in the water and are consuming larger quantities of oxygen, which they need to digest food. As they draw more oxygen from the water, it creates two problems. When oxygen levels drop low enough, the breakdown of oil grinds to a halt; and as it is depleted in the water, most life can't be sustained ...

Crews Drill Deep into Gulf of Mexico to Build Relief Wells for Halting Leak

June 20, 2010

Associated Press – Drilling crews are grinding ever deeper to build the relief wells that are the best hope of stopping the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

The crew of Transocean Ltd.'s Development Driller II was on track to pour cement starting early Sunday to firm up a section of metal casing lining one of two relief wells.

BP and government officials say the wells are the best option for cutting off the gusher that has spilled as much as 125 million gallons into the Gulf since the Transocean drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.

About 50 miles off Louisiana's coast, a newly expanded containment system is capturing or incinerating more than 1 million gallons of oil daily, the first time it has approached its peak capacity, according to the Coast Guard.

BP hopes that by late June it will keep nearly 90 percent of the flow from the broken pipe from hitting the ocean.

It will likely be August before crews finish drilling the relief wells.

On the Development Driller II, one of two rigs working on the effort, BP wellsite leader Mickey Fruge said the well has reached a depth of roughly 5,000 feet below the seafloor. There's still another 8,000 feet to go.

The other well is deeper, but drilling superintendent Wendell Guidry says it's anyone's guess which team will intersect the damaged well first.

Once a relief well intersects with the damaged well, BP plans to shoot heavy drilling mud down the well bore, then plug it with cement.