Methane Gas Leak 3000 Times Worse Than Oil Leak in BP Gulf Oil Spill

  Posted by - May 20, 2010 at 3:22 am - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog
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Via Above Top Secret citing this NPR Article among other sources which say:

Last week, a BP spokesman told NPR the company didn’t know that ratio. Then on Sunday, another company official told NPR the gas-oil ratio is 3,000:1 -– that is, 3,000 cubic feet of gas per barrel of oil. That’s at sea level. At the seafloor, where the pressure is high, the gas compresses a lot, but the oil doesn’t. So scientists tell NPR, given BP’s ratio, that would mean there’s three times as much gas coming out of the leaking pipe as there is oil.

There is 3000 times more natural gas coming out of the leak than oil. The damage of the massive amounts of Gas being released into the gulf is worse than the oil.

Oxygen levels in some areas have dropped 30 percent, and should continue to drop, Joye said.
“It could take years, possibly decades, for the system to recover from an infusion of this quantity of oil and gas,” Joye said. “We’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s impossible to fathom the impact.”

The Federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) contracted a study to see how badly a deep water drilling oil spill would deplete the gulf of oxygen. this study underestimated the current leak by a factor of 26. It was NOT peer reviewed and did not consider that the damage would occur at depth greater than 700 meters. In other words, the determination of the potential impact of deep water drilling on the ecosystem by the federal agency that regulates these activities was a TOTAL SHAM.

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A BP executive stated that they were removing 3000:1 gas to oil at the well before the explosion.

Thats 3000 cubic feet of gas for every barrel of oil.

The amount of oil leaking into the gulf is 25,000 to 70,000 barrels.

A 3000:1 ratio would mean 75 – 210 million cubic feet of gas per day being released.

There is 5.64 cubic feet of gas per barrel.

That would mean there is 13.3 to 37.2 million “barrels” of gas being released each day.

Note that this is at standard atmospheric temp and pressure.

At the ocean floor and 2,400 pounds per square inch, this gas is compressed by a factor of of over 1000 and will expand as it rises.

So, in the video coming out of the pipe it looks like 75,000 to 210,000 barrels of gas per day.

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