WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE SEABED LOOKS LIKE WHERE THEY ARE DRILLING HERE IS THE LINK

OP you forgot the link

steep eh?

will it trigger a massive landslide like the storegga slide, i wonder?

A nuke could be utilized to blow the wall on the canyon and stop this flow. They are letting it go for political gain.

A nuke could be utilized to blow the wall on the canyon and stop this flow. They are letting it go for political gain.

A nuke could be utilized to blow the wall on the canyon and stop this flow. They are letting it go for political gain.

Zero hedge has a great pictorial layout on what the seabed surface is like; from the contours to the make up of the floor. Lots of good stuff here; I had no idea of these huge escarpments.

It looks like a lot of the oil may form a large pocket between the escarpments. I keep hearing about large down deep deposits of oil in the sea water in depths below one thousand feet. Had no idea there was a deep canyon out there covering half the gulf.

Is the oil just going to sit there for a time killing all of the life in the deeper zones the slowly rise and move out to the gulf stream?

Anyway lots to see at the link; helped me picture the gulf and I hope it helps others.

Very nice looking relief map of gulf floor from the OP's link

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A nuke could be utilized to blow the wall on the canyon and stop this flow. They are letting it go for political gain.

A nuke could be utilized to blow the wall on the canyon and stop this flow. They are letting it go for political gain.

But if they expose the salt dome then you can have large scale coastal erosion.

A nuke could be utilized to blow the wall on the canyon and stop this flow. They are letting it go for political gain.

But if they expose the salt dome then you can have large scale coastal erosion.


I think that with drilling through a salt diapir and the weight of the slope above the well; we could have significant erosion and a slow salt dome seepage down to the GOM floor.

We know that the drill string has been fractured; the Top Kill failed miserably shows us that and the cracks in the floor seem to show Methane in greater pressure and abundance than previously thought.

Need to have SHR or someone else far more knowledgable than me pipe in. But with the weight of the slope above the well head and increase in fracturing of the surrounding area sure seems to lead credence to the thought of a massive slow landside to the GOM floor.

That is a huge amount of mass over the BOP and from what i have read if the fracturing continues the whole mountainous mass will come sliding down.

A nuke could be utilized to blow the wall on the canyon and stop this flow. They are letting it go for political gain.

A nuke could be utilized to blow the wall on the canyon and stop this flow. They are letting it go for political gain.




stupid. the resulting heat or ground shake could dislodge all those methane beds in a chain reaction

they are letting it go for the methane to build up. you'll see directly..

they are letting it go for the methane to build up. you'll see directly..


What does that mean? What is the purpose of letting the methane build up?