The well continues into the sea floor for 23,000 feet which is over and above the 5000 foot depth of the water.

Do the pressure calculation on that.


Anyway the density of the surrounding rock has nothing to do with the pressure of the oil and gas coming out of the well or the actual internal pressure of the well which many have estimated to be in the 50,000 psi range.



I'm an oil field engineer, I work with calculations like this on a frequent basis.

The average pressure in a formation is fundamentally related to the geologic overburden, a positive differential would lift the formation and find equilibrium.

At a seafloor depth of 18,000 feet the differential is around 9000 psi at the seafloor, considering the liquids within the pipe, if shut in. The depth of the water is irrelevant at the top of the BOP. If nothing but gas was inside the pipe from the bottom up, shut in pressure would be in the 20,000 psi range, but this is obviously not the case. Even if the well had a shut in pressure of 9000 psi at the seafloor, the oil and gas can not escape at 9000 psi due to friction within the the drill pipe. It's estimated that the exit pressure is less than 1000 psi.

I respect your position based on you qualifications.

However, I beg to differ with you on the pressure. The lying cocksuckers aka BP said there is a oil/methane ratio of 60/40

If that well is indeed pushing out 40 percent gas, wouldn't that have a bearing on the psi?

Look at the methane formation as seen on this live cam:
[link to www.bp.com]

I also have to believe the psi is MUCH greater than 1,000 psi. If I'm wrong, then I would have to believe the well pressure is low because a hell of alot of oil is gushing out elsewhere.

What do you think of that?