Louisiana deep oil drilling disaster

[Peter Lemkin]

Good Question you ask...and the only people who would know {BP} ain't talkin'!They've been showing us photos of the least of all the leak plumes, while certainly knowing about all the others. The pipe from the bottom of the Gulf [where the water meets the mud] was 21" around and 20" interior diameter and about a mile long. It crumpled to the sea floor when the rig collapsed. I can't answer your question - only can make guesses. Perhaps they had more than one well hole [with the technology now available one can drill at angles and even sideways once in the rock or sediment]. Perhaps what we have seen is a mile long, 20" pipe emptying itself and what it used to connect to is going like a geyser somewhere a few miles away. There are other possibilities of the falling rig punching a new hole if the oil reservoir is not deep below the surface. We don't know. BP knows - but is keeping its mouth shut and the info 'proprietary'. So, we have seen how a [in BP's words] 60-70% chance of success came to zero [I'd given it 5% or less - but that was before I know of the second source - or third and fourth]. I'm sure they'll kick-around placing a bomb [even an atomic one] near the well-head. You ain't seen nothin' yet....it is going to get a whole lot worse....as things always do in a corporatocracy.