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Water around wellhead is 16% methane!!!!!!!!! PANIC!!!!!!!! | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1045342  Italy07/22/2010 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dori Smith: …to what the percentage of oil versus methane is in any of the leaks that have been identified, either on the cap area of the well or in any plumes nearby within the radius that you’ve been looking at, concerned, of course, about the pressure? Thad Allen: We believe, especially around the current blowout preventer the capping stack that it is a mixture of the hydrocarbon column itself, which would be some mixture of oil, some natural gas, and some water. The existence of hydrates on the blowout preventer and the capping stack is indeed that there is gas there because the gas combined with the cold water and pressure is what produces hydrates. So there is some amount of methane gas in that. The exact percentages, we have taken samples and they’re being analyzed ashore. Some samples done on scene based on the samples that were taken in around the wellhead indicated there was about 16 percent methane, but that needs to be validated by a shore test. [link to talknationradioblog.blogspot.com]  |
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Resister  User ID: 920760 United States07/22/2010 08:17 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's odd. Before it was 40% methane gas that comes out of that well. If it's down to 16%, where is the remainder being held? Under the seabed, ballooning upwardly? In the well? In the blowout preventer? Over the Gulf? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1039687Strange... I think they mean that 16% is what is disolved under pressure in the surrounding water in the general area, not what was coming out of the top of the BOP. This is very very bad. Last Edited by Resister on 07/22/2010 08:18 PM "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty... Let them take arms... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. " - Thomas Jefferson in 1787 |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1045405 United States07/22/2010 08:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's odd. Before it was 40% methane gas that comes out of that well. If it's down to 16%, where is the remainder being held? Under the seabed, ballooning upwardly? In the well? In the blowout preventer? Over the Gulf? Quoting: ResisterStrange... I think they mean that 16% is what is disolved under pressure in the surrounding water in the general area, not what was coming out of the top of the BOP. This is very very bad. reaching critical mass. 4% to go. then kaboom. |
