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  • From: jamesdavid Sneed <harvestcircle@hotmail.com>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] From TruthOut
  • Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 08:15:52 -0700


It was completely avoidable if we would cease our addiction to oil, or any
"easy" energy.

> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 23:25:42 -0400
> From: venaurafarm@bellsouth.net
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] From TruthOut
>
> carolyn anderson wrote:
> > http://www.truthout.org/slick-operator-the-bp-ive-known-too-well59178
>
> Interesting.
>
> "Tankers run aground, wells blow out, pipes burst. It shouldn't happen,
> but it does. And when it does, the name of the game is containment. "
>
> The Gulf oil disaster was, from what I have read, caused by a huge
> unanticipated gas eruption into the system. They had just finished
> digging that well and were in the process of capping it with plans to
> uncap later and pump oil out. Supposedly, there was a conflict between
> an engineer and a work supervisor as to how that procedure should be
> carried out, flush the pipe with water first then grout and plug or go
> ahead and grout (cement) and plug without flushing first. The engineer
> overrode the supervisor and flushing began. The platform workers
> soon thereafter announced an emergency with an uncontollable flow of mud
> through the pipe. Then, within 60 seconds the gas erupted and exploded,
> killing platform workers; the rest of the crew was evacuated within 25
> minutes. The flush/grout/plug procedure occured 3000 feet below the
> ocean floor. Also from what I read the gas eruption would have happened
> anyway, even if the supervisors method has been carried out, in that
> case only delayed by a half hour or so as the gas would have erupted
> around the well casing. Gas erupting from that depth
> begins as bubbles which, as they rise consolidate into larger and larger
> bubbles, with gas pressure doubling every half distance, resulting in
> about 40000 psi when it reached the surface within the platform.
>
> The industry, as I have heard, is somewhat new at drilling and
> harvesting oil at great depth, i.e. 5000 feet in this case.
>
> It sounds to me like it was an unavoidable natural disaster.
> There are still key questions that one might want to ask about risk
> management with regard to the encountering of gas deposits when drilling
> for oil offshore.
>
> Anyone wanting to read the original posts containing the information I
> have referenced let me know and I'll point you to the relevant URLs.
> Its a public forum with open archives, Google searchable.
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