AP Photo/Dave Martin What are Obama's plans for the oil spill?
Oil Spill Greater Than Reported
More and more reports are coming out by oil field professionals who claim the oil spill is far greater than being reported by the mainstream media. The number of fish, sea critters, birds, and other animals in the gulf area affected are growing everyday and the grave situation will not get better until the leak is stopped.
Nonetheless, human illnesses are likewise escalating and with other chemicals associated with the oil emissions such as the deadly benzene gas marine toxicologists are extremely concerned.
“It is well known that oil vapors cause respiratory problems; central nervous system problems,” said Nikki Ott marine biologist in an interview with Greenopolis TV recently at the site of a cleanup project near Grande Isle,
. Louisiana
Ott was involved with the Exxon Valdez oil spill over twenty years ago in Alaska and said there were well over six-thousand people who became sick or died from that incident.
“The symptoms for chemical induced illnesses mimic colds and flu,” she went on. “We are talking about toxic exposure. If it’s cold and flu you get over it when you go home…We want to make sure that it’s safe to live here, as well… Given the extent of what we’re dealing with, where are the health precautions commensurate with the risk? I’m not seeing it” Ott said.
Ott went on to say that BP and Barack Obama need to step up now and do something. But the thing is Obama does not want this oil spill to go away.Scientists who are studying the ordeal and who say they must remain anonymous because Obama and BP does not want this information out, paint an incredible dismal picture.
Extreme High Pressure Destroys Well Head
Moreover, experts claim that the pressure of the oil discharge varies from 20-thousand to 70-thousand pounds per square inch (psi). To put that into perspective the normal pressure at a well head is about 15-hundred psi, so even at the lowest of 20-thousand psi, that’s more than 13 times greater than the average. That means the pressure is so high that the oil and abrasive particles spewing forth is acting as a sand blaster.
This sand-blast affect has thinned the pipe at the well from its original thickness of two inches to an inch or less. As the oil continues to flow at this high pressure rate eventually all the pipes and fittings will disintegrate, the well head will be blown off the drilled hole, and the hole where the well is will be bored larger and larger, and therefore, the oil will discharge unobstructed.
Tidal Wave Could Destroy Coastal Cities
At this point these marine scientists expect billions of barrels of oil to emit from the hole, draw water into the hole with temperatures 400 degrees and higher, a subsequent collapse of the gulf floor, and then a boiling and volcanic affect that will propel the bottom of the gulf upward with a force so great that a giant swell will be created.
“The tsunami wave this will create will be anywhere from 20 to 80 feet high, possibly more. Then the floor will fall into the now vacant chamber. This is how nature will seal the hole,” Dr. James P. Wickstrom wrote in a recent on-line article.
“Depending on the height of the tsunami, the ocean debris, oil, and existing structures that will be washed away on shore and inland, will leave the area from 50 to 200 miles inland devoid of life. Even if the debris is cleaned up, the contaminants that will be in the ground and water supply will prohibit re-population of these areas for an unknown number of years,” Wickstrom wrote in his piece.
Are You Prepared?
In view of that, if this tidal wave were to go inland as much as 200 miles, how many people will be affected and what kind of warning will gulf coast residents have? Furthermore, why can’t Obama step up any action that may prevent this and is he really putting his best efforts into the oil spill resolve? The “proof is in the pudding” as for as Obama’s urgency is concerned or in this case in the “sludge” and the sludge is growing bigger by the minute.
What's your take on this? Are you prepared to evacuate in the event of this taking place? Do you think Obama really wants this oil leak to be fixed or do you believe he has other sinister ideas for what's happening in the gulf? Make your voice be heard in the comments section of this article and subscribe to other articles by clicking on to the subscription area of this article.
Comments
I believe it has been an Obama and crew set-up from the beginning! Why else would SWAT teams be the first responders? There is no limit to what this traitorous government will do to bring down the destruction of the U.S. Just look at their bogus law suit against Arizona. They are turning their backs on America and embracing a Socialistic style government that they hope will bring us all to our knees.. Well, I'm on my knees alright but it's to pray for the ousting of Barak Obama and his legions that control our economy, our schools, our hospitals, our auto industry, our oil industry, our banks,our agriculture, our transportation industry and our military! God Bless the U.S.A and GOD D@#MN Obama!
Who are these idiots? The bottom hole pressure may be near 20K but surface pressure is less than 8000 psi. (Bottomhole pressure)-(hydrostatic pressure in the wellbore)= (surface pressure). The top kill pressure was limited to 8200psi due to burst disks in the well. Top kill was pumped 68 barrels per minute at 8200 psi. this required at 13,500HHP (hydraulic horsepower). They had capabilities to go to 20,000HHP but could not because of the burst disks.
There is NO surface equipment in the oilfield that can handle more than 20,000psi surface pressure and no pipe of any significant diameter capable of that type of differential pressure.
If what these morons say were true there would already be an underground blowout not just a surface blowout. For clarification, underground is below the mud line.
In any case, the relief wells allow heavy drilling mud to be pumped into the well from the bottom and flow up the wellbore until the well can no longer flow.
Petroleum Engineer
This reply goes to "what".
What, you call these people morons yet you as a petroleum engineer offer no solutions to the problem. If you have the answers as opposed to insults get to it.
Don't sit on your hands and critisize the reporters for trying to get information to the public. If you have inside information, by golly, give it to us.
You're the oil professional so stop this flipping leak.
this article is irresponsible journalism... the "scientific" facts are total bulls#t. This is liberal fear mongering.
This would be another layer of toxins post Katrina leaks when the coast was flooded. See references in the Documentary Gasland. As for the rest, I cannot speak to the technical aspects of this journalism. What I want to know is why the people directly responsible for this rig and it's condition, are not in jail? And why BP isn't issuing OSHA approved Safety Gear like Respirators. Tax payers will be picking up the bill for a lot of sick and dying people before this fat lady is done singing. Because by the time their cases hit the courts, BP will be spent, due to cleanup here, and in other countries because this will eventually leave the American Coastline, and may even start to wash up on the UK at some point once it gets around the Florida Peninsula.
I would also like to know, since when BP was given Police Powers to seize things like Cameras and Camera phones or deny access to public beaches. We are going to end up eating this, because if we destroy BP, we will destroy a large part of England's Economy, pensions paid by BP not withstanding.
Wow , that has to be the dumbest article I may have ever read.
Total BS doesn't even describe it. A tsunami, really? That is almost as good as the crackpot that claimed a hurricane was gonna ignite the oil and the winds would be tossing flaming tarballs onto the coast.
Damn!!! I just spent half a fortune on a "Flaming Tar Ball" Insurance rider at Allstate and now another bunch of Leftist-Socialist "grant scamming" Eco-Weenies come up with another reason to fear breathing.
Is "Tsunami Insurance" part of the Federal Flood Insurance Program, or is it another one of those "Boilerplate" issues where your house gets wiped out by a Tsunami, but Insurance Guy says its a Flood so they won't cover it???
And, knowing how slick the Insurance Industry is, do any of you scum sucking, bottom feeding attorneys out there know if they can get around paying the claim by declaring the Tsunami was not caused by a genuine "Gulf Floor Rupture" not related to a failed Oil Well???
Oh, Crap!!! I forgot to ask. Are the roofs on FEMA Trailers "Flaming Tar Ball" resistant or just Formaldehyde free???
And the earth was to freeze in the 1970's. Same people who predict disaster after disaster of whom the press loves to quote.
Go to jameswickstrom-dot-com to see the nut job who's the source of this. Even the most ardent teabaggers would have to have doubts about his credibility. Or maybe not.
Mr. Oxymoron...I mean rocketsurgeon....or would that be an oxymoron? You must be pretty smart. At least you attest to that by calling yourself a cross between a rocket scientist and brain surgeon. So what is it? Or are you both?
As a scientist as you claim you are there are many mysterious happenings when it comes to weather.
But to call this the dumbest article you've ever read takes a great deal of faith even for a liberal such as yourself. Why don't you do some research for yourself and see what's really going on at the gulf.
Do you think obama wants to stop this leak?
Perhaps you have your head stuck up your intestinum rectum. Oh, maybe I shouldn't be using your scientific words. I don't want to insult you.
Yeah, and Bigeasy if you get off your welfare liberal tail you might see that that information didn't come from that website. It came from someone inside the Bilderberg ranks. There might be some truth to it.
But other than that you sound like a nice ragmop of a guy..
You people are some clowns, I tell you. Clowns.
Obviously, shrieking hyperbole under the guise of journalistic integrity will solve the problem. Now I remember why the Examiner is worth nothing more than a liner for a bird cage.
Jay and "not a nut"....sounds like you are both liberal morons...
sounds like you both have p-brains for your birdliners.
You wouldn't know journalistic integrity if it slapped your insolent mouth. Why don't you offer some of your own research and give the answers instead of kissing obama's butt.
Oh of course since he is a closet gag you both probably are as well and want to join him with that tickling feeling up your legs.
If you can't come up with a good solution to this problem you are part of the problem.
There are some good studies in here. Other parts are editorial. Good read.
I absolutely believe that Obama wants this crisis to continue. Didn't Rahm say to "never waste a good crisis?" Yes, there's a more sinister plan!! And the thought of the gulf floor collapsing is rather UNNVERVING, but it makes complete sense!! With all that oil coming out, what does it leave? A hole. What happens then? The floor collapses & it causes a tsunami?? Quite an incredible scenario!!
OBAMA is the ANTICHRIST!!! he knows what is going on and if i recall it was HIS PEOPLE that let this happen to begin with! how many people tried telling BP and Obama,not to drill in Gulf in fear of what would happen??? do you think of them listened? NO!!! now look at what has happened to our beautiful Gulf and look at what disater has become of this.so.....as far as im concerned,Obama and BP have no more worries about what will and is going to happen to everyone than they do about the oil spill and what it is doing and what it is going to do,which is NONE! they have no worries about any of this and it makes me sick to the core to know what is about to happen and its all of BP and Obamas fault!
I'm glad I don't read this website on a regular basis. You guys are nuts.
I've been sick for week now w headaches and cold symptoms...I've taken meds just doesn't seem to work. Who knows..what if this is possible people...
Iam tied of emails about OBAMA, don,t like him, didn,t vote for him, don,t trust him as far as my nose, and i hope to God he wasn,t involved in the "oil spill" if so we are in one more hell of a mess,BP knew what they were doing, they wre told about the Volcano,down their, I only hope to God it can be fixed, if not start packing your bags
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