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Message Subject NBC: New fault on seafloor may have opened up from BP disaster in Gulf
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OP, another term used a lot, and quite flippantly, is the term 'reserve'.

The industry doesnt really expand upon it much, oyther than to say we have 'x' amount of reserves.

With Assumption Parish, they were forced to admit that within the Napoleon dome, quite a few reserves had been built, including the massive butane reserve, most likely to be effected by the detabilisation of the salt strata.

[Remember these salt domes are miles wide and miles deep, connected to hundreds of miles long pillows and veins.]

The holy trinity for oil is 1/. Strata type, 2/. aquifer and 3/. salt dome/deposit/vein. These elements have existed in geologic equilibrium for millions of years, until we come along and attempt to rearrange things.

Test wells indicate the likelihood of oil, and what type(s) are available.

For efficiencies sake, if located near a dome, the dome itself becomes the reservoir to hold the oil. After drilling and fracking the salt strata, water from the aquifer is fed into the dome's loosened pocket, and the process of erosion and runneling out the cavern begins.

When the oil is diverted in to the newltyformed cavern, the amount of saline water that pours/is pumped out is accurately measured. When no more water exits, and oil does, you now have calculated the volume of the cavern.

Now you can say you have a reserve of x million barrels.

That diagram on page two, shows a small reserve of a few billion gallons, and up top, the sink hole at 600m wide. What isnt shown is about 10 times the depth of salt dome, and 5 times the width of the salt dome. They be big.

And there are many of them, all with reserves of oil(s), kerosine, butane and in aquifers, even gas reserves.

That's a lot of boom.

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Mtt Simmons was laughed at when he said the only way to stop the flow of oil at Macondo was to use small tactical nukes to fuse the sea bed.

This isnt without precedent. The Russians did exactly that with their first attempt of an extremely deep oil well. Theirs only took two years to get under control after they let off two nukes. And theirs was on dry land....

Matt Simmon's ideas were so silly - he died for them.

RIP Matt. History should show this guy to be a hero eventually.
 
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