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El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Except; Methane hydrates have been found in the subsurface in permafrost regions, but most occur in oceanic sediments hundreds of meters below the sea floor where water depths are greater than about 500 meters Last Edited by El Quisqueyano on 10/31/2012 09:04 PM |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Holy smokes! I think I found the smoking gun!! This excerpt is from a USGS publication. It states as follows; Hazards Gas hydrates represent a hazard to conventional oil and gas production. In the Gulf of Mexico, oil and gas exploration is extending into water depths where gas hydrates occur at the sea floor. Pumping hot oil from great depths through drill pipes can cause warming of sediments and dissociation of hydrate, liberating large amounts of methane, weakening sediments, and perhaps generating pockets of highly pressured gas. The result might be gas blowouts, loss of support for pipelines, and sea-floor failure that could lead to underwater landslides and the release of methane from hydrates. |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Holy smokes! I think I found the smoking gun!! Quoting: El Quisqueyano This excerpt is from a USGS publication. It states as follows; Hazards Gas hydrates represent a hazard to conventional oil and gas production. In the Gulf of Mexico, oil and gas exploration is extending into water depths where gas hydrates occur at the sea floor. Pumping hot oil from great depths through drill pipes can cause warming of sediments and dissociation of hydrate, liberating large amounts of methane, weakening sediments, and perhaps generating pockets of highly pressured gas. The result might be gas blowouts, loss of support for pipelines, and sea-floor failure that could lead to underwater landslides and the release of methane from hydrates. Check it out in the above link, 2nd page. |
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El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. This is an excerpt from a PDF file I found; "U. S. Geological Survey Gas Hydrate Studies in the Northern Gulf Of Mexico Patrick E. Hart ([email protected], 650 329 5160) Alan K. Cooper ([email protected], 650 329 5157) Thomas D. Lorenson ([email protected], 650 329 4186) U. S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Road Mail Stop 999 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Gas hydrates in continental margin sediments are known or inferred worldwide, but are only well-studied and characterized in a few locations. In the Gulf of Mexico, gas hydrates have been identified as abundant surface mounds in much of the north-central Gulf(New Olreans,LA), but evidence is essentially lacking for their existence deeper in the uppermost few hundred meters of sediment where they are expected to be stable. Much of the current interest in the Gulf of Mexico comes from the economic reality that conventional hydrocarbon exploration is moving into frontier deep-water areas, i.e., in regions where drilling will in all likelihood encounter and penetrate potential gas hydrate accumulations. Federal, academic, and industry efforts are converging in the Gulf to make it one of the best studied and characterized sites of hydrate occurrence." |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. "The US Geological Survey (USGS) program in the Gulf of Mexico has dual purposes: (1) to understand the relationships among gas hydrate occurrence, geologic framework, and active geologic processes; and (2) to integrate project results with extensive research that is being conducted by academic institutions and the exploration industry to find the answers to these fundamental questions regarding natural gas hydrate occurrence in the Gulf of Mexico. The initial phase of the USGS project has focused on three areas of the north-central Gulf where gas hydrates and active gas venting are wellknown sea-floor features: the Mississippi Canyon, Green Canyon, and Garden Banks. These locations contain diverse geologic features (such as salt domes, deep faults, buried channels, and turbidite deposits) and evidence for active geologic processes (such as mass wasting, slumps, shallow-water flows, young faults, and fluid/gas venting). These settings offer a representative sampling of the complex environments in which to compare and understand gas hydrate occurrence." Last Edited by El Quisqueyano on 10/31/2012 09:20 PM |
Tropicalgirl User ID: 1235443 United States 10/31/2012 09:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. El Q, you've read this thread right? Does this support your smoking gun discovery? Thread: ***TRIPLE THREAT***Jack Reeds Theory--Sink Hole, New Madrid, St. Lawrence Seaway |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. To further understand the nature of the subsurface distribution of hydrates, the USGS, with numerous collaborators, including the Department of Energy and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, plans to collect 22 giant piston cores up to 50 meters in length in July, 2002, using the French research vessel Marion Dufresne. The core sites are grouped in five transects that are located in each of the three locations (Mississippi Canyon, Green Canyon, and Garden Banks) and will sample targets defined using the seismic data. Geochemical and physical property measurements will help determine indicators for the presence of gas hydrate. With these results, it should be possible to begin to integrate the seismic and sampling results to gain a more complete understanding of the subsurface distributions and occurrences of gas hydrate in the north central Gulf of Mexico. |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. El Q, you've read this thread right? Does this support your smoking gun discovery? Quoting: Tropicalgirl Thread: ***TRIPLE THREAT***Jack Reeds Theory--Sink Hole, New Madrid, St. Lawrence Seaway They could be related. |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. See page 6 for the locations of the Methane Hydrate locations surveyed for both 1998 and 1999; [link to www.netl.doe.gov] Ring a bell? |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Page 8 is MCS Scan image of the middle north GOM, shows end of New Madrid Fault has formation of trapped Methane Hydrate; [link to www.netl.doe.gov] |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Location of Mississippi canyon; [link to www.awesomestories.com] Same exact location of BP Macondo well. Same exact location of this methane Hydrate site. |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. This article is the smoking gun and expalins what is occurring in Bayou Corne,LA and the sinkhole; [link to www.netl.doe.gov] |
Earth Cries User ID: 26748551 United States 10/31/2012 09:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Holy smokes! I think I found the smoking gun!! Quoting: El Quisqueyano This excerpt is from a USGS publication. It states as follows; Hazards Gas hydrates represent a hazard to conventional oil and gas production. In the Gulf of Mexico, oil and gas exploration is extending into water depths where gas hydrates occur at the sea floor. Pumping hot oil from great depths through drill pipes can cause warming of sediments and dissociation of hydrate, liberating large amounts of methane, weakening sediments, and perhaps generating pockets of highly pressured gas. The result might be gas blowouts, loss of support for pipelines, and sea-floor failure that could lead to underwater landslides and the release of methane from hydrates. That is scary, El Q! I believe this is what is causing the sinkhole floor to elevate. Pressure is pushing it upwards. It is elevated 50 feet since Sept. Also, in the Mississippi Canyon there are at least 3 "asphalt" volcanoes very near where the DWH went down. Asphalt volcanoes are ocean floor vents that erupt asphalt instead of lava. They were discovered in the Gulf of Mexico during an expedition of the research vessel SONNE, led by Gerhard Bohrmann of the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins. On these volcanoes a previously unknown highly diverse ecosystem at a water depth of 3,000 meters was discovered. The discovery was reported in Science.[2] The first asphalt volcanoes were discovered in 2003 by a research expedition to the Gulf of Mexico.[2] They are located on a seafloor hill named "Chapopote," Nahuatl for "tar." The site is located in a field of salt domes known as the Campeche Knolls, a series of steep hills formed from salt bodies that rise from underlying rock, a common feature in the gulf. The research team documented tar flows as wide as 20 m (66 ft) across. Also discovered alongside the asphalt were areas soaked with petroleum and methane hydrate, also spewed from the volcano. This kind of an environment proves attractive to chemical-loving bacteria and tubeworms, although the exact biogeochemical relationship is not yet known... [link to en.wikipedia.org] Mark 13:20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” Yeats |
Tropicalgirl User ID: 1235443 United States 10/31/2012 09:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. See page 6 for the locations of the Methane Hydrate locations surveyed for both 1998 and 1999; Quoting: El Quisqueyano [link to www.netl.doe.gov] Ring a bell? Yes! Wow, thanks for the research, would you like to link this thread on to a couple of the sinkhole threads? There are some great minds there that are so helpful in digging out new information, |
Earth Cries User ID: 26748551 United States 10/31/2012 09:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. 5 stars and a pin request, my friend! Mark 13:20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” Yeats |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Potential effects of gas hydrate on human welfare KEITH A. KVENVOLDEN* U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS999, Menlo Park, CA 94025 ABSTRACT For almost 30 years. serious interest has been directed toward natural gas hydrate, a crystalline solid composed of water and methane, as a potential (i) energy resource, (ii) factor in global climate change, and (iii) submarine geohazard. Although each of these issues can affect human welfare, only (iii) is considered to be of immediate importance. Assessments of gas hydrate as an energy resource have often been overly optimistic, based in part on its very high methane content and on its worldwide occurrence in continental margins. Although these attributes are attractive, geologic settings, reservoir properties, and phase-equilibria considerations diminish the energy resource potential of natural gas hydrate. The possible role of gas hydrate in global climate change has been often overstated. Although methane is a ‘‘greenhouse’’ gas in the atmosphere, much methane from dissociated gas hydrate may never reach the atmosphere, but rather may be converted to carbon dioxide and sequestered by the hydrosphere/biosphere before reaching the atmosphere. Thus, methane from gas hydrate may have little opportunity to affect global climate change. However, submarine geohazards (such as sediment instabilities and slope failures on local and regional scales, leading to debris flows, slumps, slides, and possible tsunamis) caused by gas-hydrate dissociation are of immediate and increasing importance as humankind moves to exploit seabed resources in ever-deepening waters of coastal oceans. The vulnerability of gas hydrate to temperature and sea level changes enhances the instability of deep-water oceanic sediments, and thus human activities and installations in this setting can be affected. [link to www.pnas.org] Last Edited by El Quisqueyano on 10/31/2012 09:41 PM |
remjr1 User ID: 1862659 United States 10/31/2012 09:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Wow ElQ, I had NO idea this wasn't being discussed here. I've been talking to my Father in Law & a few Friends on FB about this for the last moth or so but the information you have found will sure help bolster my arguement! Thank You for this Thread & all of this additional information! Love, Light & Blessings to You & to all who read this! |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Holy smokes! I think I found the smoking gun!! Quoting: El Quisqueyano This excerpt is from a USGS publication. It states as follows; Hazards Gas hydrates represent a hazard to conventional oil and gas production. In the Gulf of Mexico, oil and gas exploration is extending into water depths where gas hydrates occur at the sea floor. Pumping hot oil from great depths through drill pipes can cause warming of sediments and dissociation of hydrate, liberating large amounts of methane, weakening sediments, and perhaps generating pockets of highly pressured gas. The result might be gas blowouts, loss of support for pipelines, and sea-floor failure that could lead to underwater landslides and the release of methane from hydrates. That is scary, El Q! I believe this is what is causing the sinkhole floor to elevate. Pressure is pushing it upwards. It is elevated 50 feet since Sept. Also, in the Mississippi Canyon there are at least 3 "asphalt" volcanoes very near where the DWH went down. Asphalt volcanoes are ocean floor vents that erupt asphalt instead of lava. They were discovered in the Gulf of Mexico during an expedition of the research vessel SONNE, led by Gerhard Bohrmann of the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins. On these volcanoes a previously unknown highly diverse ecosystem at a water depth of 3,000 meters was discovered. The discovery was reported in Science.[2] The first asphalt volcanoes were discovered in 2003 by a research expedition to the Gulf of Mexico.[2] They are located on a seafloor hill named "Chapopote," Nahuatl for "tar." The site is located in a field of salt domes known as the Campeche Knolls, a series of steep hills formed from salt bodies that rise from underlying rock, a common feature in the gulf. The research team documented tar flows as wide as 20 m (66 ft) across. Also discovered alongside the asphalt were areas soaked with petroleum and methane hydrate, also spewed from the volcano. This kind of an environment proves attractive to chemical-loving bacteria and tubeworms, although the exact biogeochemical relationship is not yet known... [link to en.wikipedia.org] The pressure is flowing from the Methane Hydrate pocket to the Napoleon salt dome area. I think it is whats destabilizing that dome. |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. See page 6 for the locations of the Methane Hydrate locations surveyed for both 1998 and 1999; Quoting: El Quisqueyano [link to www.netl.doe.gov] Ring a bell? Yes! Wow, thanks for the research, would you like to link this thread on to a couple of the sinkhole threads? There are some great minds there that are so helpful in digging out new information, Yes please do, I linked to a few others. This needs to get out and go viral. This is either by plan or coincidence? |
El Quisqueyano (OP) User ID: 26640025 United States 10/31/2012 09:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun. Wow ElQ, I had NO idea this wasn't being discussed here. I've been talking to my Father in Law & a few Friends on FB about this for the last moth or so but the information you have found will sure help bolster my arguement! Thank You for this Thread & all of this additional information! Love, Light & Blessings to You & to all who read this! Quoting: remjr1 1862659 I've been putting some hours trying to crack this one, I think with this proof that I have. |
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