Thursday, June 17, 2010

Downhole Leak in the GOM - Relief Well Is Our Only Chance

Most people are not getting the full and disturbing information on the GOM runaway oil leak from the mainstream media. No wonder. After you read this, you will understand why. Things are not going well and they are not likely to improve anytime soon. I would like to be optimistic about the outcome, but it is difficult to find much hope in this fiasco.

BP may have punctured a critical barrier in the earth's crust. There may be a vast amount of oil deeper than anyone ever dreamed (this oil may be of non-biological origin). The technology we have may be just too puny to deal with oil at temperatures in excess of 500 deg. F and pressures up to 70,000 psi.

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