Breaking News: Reports Say Huge Explosions Cause Seafloor Collapse Beneath Gulf Oil Spill (Update 9)
Posted by Alexander Higgins - May 24, 2010 at 9:51 am - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog
UPDATE: Wondering How Legit this is
The reputable Dr Stephen A Rinehart with a degree from Georgia Tech and years of government work reports witnessing the explosions as well.
You should also read the update on this article where Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, discusses this issue with the main stream media.
UPDATE: Photos Of Gulf Oil Spill Seafloor Explosion and Collapse Below
UPDATE: Videos Below appear to now confirm the seafloor collapse and explosion
UPDATE: US Senator Nelson of Florida Now Says Reports Confirm Multiple Leaks From Sea Floor Surrounding Oil Well (Below)
UPDATE: Explosions continue and caused topkill to fail
BP Gulf oil spill junk shot explosions continue, BP officially announces topkill fails. (Updated)
UPDATE: Over 2 weeks later US Senator Nelson confirms Multiple Leaks from the Sea Floor Surrounding the Oil Rig 06/07/1020
To date we have yet to here a single report from the Main Stream Media about these explosions or the additional leaks that have been reported as a result of these explosions, until now.
FireDogLake Reports US Senator Nelson From Florida has confirmed these reports today on MSNBC:
Oil and gas are leaking from the seabed surrounding the BP Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida told Andrea Mitchell today on MSNBC. Nelson, one of the most informed and diligent Congressmen on the BP gulf oil spill issue, has received reports of leaks in the well, located in the Mississippi Canyon sector. This is potentially huge and devastating news.
If Nelson is correct in that assertion, and he is smart enough to not make such assertions lightly, so I think they must be taken at face value, it means the well casing and well bore are compromised and the gig is up on containment pending a completely effective attempt to seal the well from the bottom via successful “relief wells”. In fact, I have confirmed with Senator Nelson’s office that they are fully aware of the breaking news and significance of what the Senator said to Andrea Mitchell.
Furthermore, contrary to the happy talk propounded by BP, the Obama Administration and the press, the likely success of the “relief well” effort on the first try in August is nowhere near a certainty; and certainly nowhere near the certainty it is being painted as.
The firedoglake blog is reporting
A series of explosions appears to have collapsed the seafloor and blown up the BOP at the well head. Oil and gas are billowing out of a depression in the seafloor where the BOP used to be at an exponentially greater rate than anything seen before.
I was to busy writing Live BP Gulf Oil Spill Webcam Video Reveals 5 Leaks and took my eye off of the BP Live Video Webcam of Gulf Oil Spill so I can’t confirm this.
While the live feed still shows the leak is intact people watching the feed are suggesting the cameras are now looping old video feed.
Could This Be The Start Of The Following Extinction Event Posted to Slashdot?
From Slashdot:
Here’s a listing of several scientific and economic guides for estimating the volume of flow of the leak in the Gulf of Mexico erupting at a rate of somewhere around 1 million barrels per day. A new video released shows the largest hole spewing oil and natural gas from an aperture 5 feet in diameter at a rate of approximately 4 barrels per second. The oil coming up through 5,000 feet of pressurized salt water acts like a fractionating column. What you see on the surface is just around 20% of what is actually underneath the approximate 9,000 square miles of slick on the surface. The natural gas doesn’t bubble to the top but gets suspended in the water, depleting the oxygen from the water. BP would not have been celebrating with execs on the rig just prior to the explosion if it had not been capable producing at least 500,000 barrels per day — under control. If the rock gave way due to the out-of-control gushing (or due to a nuke being detonated to contain the leak), it could become a Yellowstone Caldera type event, except from below a mile of sea, with a 1/4-mile opening, with up to 150,000 psi of oil and natural gas behind it, from a reserve nearly as large as the Gulf of Mexico containing trillions of barrels of oil. That would be an Earth extinction event.
Images and Photos Of Gulf Oil Spill Seafloor Explosion and Collapse By People Who Claim To Have Been Watching the Explosions and Collapse on the Live BP Oil Spill Webcam.
The First Noted Venting Hole (TNVH)
Here are some photos of another blog that has reported the same thing (more photos and live updates on the blog here).
Videos Appear to confirm
Video of ROV working on top of crater over collapsed seafloor
Here a ROV Works on the Gulf oil spill BOP during the topkill operation. This video appears to confirm widespread reports tat the seafloor collapsed Saturday as we watch massive amounts of oil shot from 5 new leaks found on the BOP.
Video of beginning of explosion that caused seafloor to collapse
Something the Media has failed to reveal
The Gulf oil spill is on top of a major tectonic plate that is prone to Earthquakes. A 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit the area of the Gulf oil spill in 2006
The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A strong earthquake occurred about 250 miles (405 km) south-southwest of Apalachicola, Florida at 8:56 AM MDT, Sep 10, 2006 (10:56 AM EDT in Florida). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. This earthquake was felt in parts of Florida, Georgia and Alabama. No reports of damage or casualties have been received at this time.
Felt ReportsItems were knocked from shelves and seiches were observed in swimming pools in parts of Florida. Felt (IV) at Brooksville, Crystal River, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Osteen, Palm Coast, Panama City, Port Saint Joe, Santa Rosa Beach, Titusville and Wimauma, Florida. Felt in much of Florida including (III) at Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee and Tampa. Felt in parts of Georgia including (III) at Atlanta. Also felt in parts of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Also felt at Freeport, The Bahamas and at Cancun and Merida, Mexico.
Tectonic SummaryThis earthquake was centered beneath the Gulf of Mexico, well distant from the nearest active plate boundary. Such “midplate” earthquakes are much less common than earthquakes occurring on faults near plate boundaries, and most probably represent the release of long-term tectonic stresses that ultimately originate from forces applied at the plate boundary. This is the largest of more than a dozen shocks that have been instrumentally recorded from the eastern Gulf of Mexico in the past three decades, and it is the most widely felt. The most recent significant earthquake in the region occurred on February 10th, 2006 and had a magnitude of 5.2. We have not associated this earthquake with a specific causative fault.
And if the situation wasn’t scary enough…
Given the horrific news about this oil volcano, here is a link to a geological study did on the gulf in 2005. It is deeply disturbing in it’s implications. Besides oil deposit pockets, there are huge pockets of methane gas, hurricanes, earthquakes…. and (DRUM ROLL) … NOW Volcanoes
That’s right the floor of the Gulf of Mexico is full of volcanoes.
And To Make Matters Worse
The largest mass extinction event in the history of the earth, the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a massive release of the crystallized methane hydrates being released from Gulf oil spill. Certainly the collapse of the Gulf seafloor beneath the Gulf oil spill could cause a huge fissure that would release an equivalent amount of methane gas.
UPDATE: Does Senator Claims Confirm These Reports 06/07/1020
To date we have yet to here a single report from the Main Stream Media about these explosions or the additional leaks that have been reported as a result of these explosions, until now. FireDogLake Reports US Senator Nelson From Florida has confirmed these reports today on MSNBC:
Oil and gas are leaking from the seabed surrounding the BP Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida told Andrea Mitchell today on MSNBC. Nelson, one of the most informed and diligent Congressmen on the BP gulf oil spill issue, has received reports of leaks in the well, located in the Mississippi Canyon sector. This is potentially huge and devastating news. If Nelson is correct in that assertion, and he is smart enough to not make such assertions lightly, so I think they must be taken at face value, it means the well casing and well bore are compromised and the gig is up on containment pending a completely effective attempt to seal the well from the bottom via successful “relief wells”. In fact, I have confirmed with Senator Nelson’s office that they are fully aware of the breaking news and significance of what the Senator said to Andrea Mitchell.Furthermore, contrary to the happy talk propounded by BP, the Obama Administration and the press, the likely success of the “relief well” effort on the first try in August is nowhere near a certainty; and certainly nowhere near the certainty it is being painted as.
From Washington’ Blog
Senator Nelson: The BP Well May Have Lost Structural Integrity Beneath the Sea Floor
On June 2nd, Bloomberg pointed out:
Plugging the well is another challenge even after BP successfully intersects it, Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor, said. BP has said it believes the well bore to be damaged, which could hamper efforts to fill it with mud and set a concrete plug, Bea said.
Bea is an expert in offshore drilling and a high-level governmental adviser concerning disasters.
On the same day, the Wall Street Journal noted that there might be a leak in BP’s well casing 1,000 feet beneath the sea floor:
BP PLC has concluded that its “top-kill” attempt last week to seal its broken well in the Gulf of Mexico may have failed due to a malfunctioning disk inside the well about 1,000 feet below the ocean floor.
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The broken disk may have prevented the heavy drilling mud injected into the well last week from getting far enough down the well to overcome the pressure from the escaping oil and gas, people familiar with BP’s findings said. They said much of the drilling mud may also have escaped from the well into the rock formation outside the wellbore.
Yesterday, Senator Ben Nelson told MSNBC that he’s investigating reports of oil seeping up from additional leak points on the seafloor:
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL): Andrea we’re looking into something new right now, that there’s reports of oil that’s seeping up from the seabed… which would indicate, if that’s true, that the well casing itself is actually pierced… underneath the seabed. So, you know, the problems could be just enormous with what we’re facing.
Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC: Now let me understand better what you’re saying. If that is true that it is coming up form that seabed, even the relief well won’t be the final solution to cap this thing. That means that we’ve got oil gushing up at disparate places along the ocean floor.
Sen. Nelson: That is possible, unless you get the plug down low enough, below where the pipe would be breached.
Indeed, loss of integrity in the well itself may explain why BP is drilling its relief wells more than ten thousand feet beneath the leaking pipes on the seafloor (and see this).
And prominent oil industry insider Matt Simmons believes that the well casing may have been destroyed when the oil rig exploded.
On May 27th, Simmons addressed this issue on MSNBC:
On May 26th, Simmons referred to this again on a second appearance on MSNBC:
And he referred to it again on Bloomberg on May 28th:
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Thank you for posting this. You and some guy listening to the Grateful Dead on archive.org are the only ones i have seen currently seen reporting seabed collapse. My MY. Pain. Thank you. Prayers, everyone. Everyone, start saying prayers and DO NOT stop. Blessings.
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[...] Not sure how reliable this is as I can't find anything in the newspapers yet, but it looks as if the seabed at the BP oil-spill has collapsed following a series of explosions, resulting in massive escape of oil.Found the video screen-grab above at Harmony Central where there's an interesting debate. Speed Ball Blues writes : "Update: Here's a screen grab showing the new hole in the seabed. That's not the riser end from a new angle. This was grabbed while the ROV on the riser end was panning around. The BOP is over 600 feet away, so it is not that, either."Does this mean an entire oil reserve is being released into the sea? The BP live webcam has gone offline.God help this planet if it's true.Previously: BP incompetence, criticism of BP oil spill "UnAmercian", and volcano of oil unstoppable.More pictures of seabed collapse [...]
Why is it there is no news on this and now some of the links like the one above http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/05/24/breaking-news-reports-huge-explosions-seafloor-collapse-.. are 404 NOT FOUND?!!!
Because the link is http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/05/24/breaking-news-reports-huge-explosions-seafloor-collapse-beneath-gulf-oil-spill/
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I thought the consensus was that the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact on the Yucatan Peninsula.
That's what I always thought myself. This article does indicate that an asteroid may have caused the release of the methane which fossil records show is the culprit.
And with that in mind, how far is the Gulf oil spill from the Yucatan Peninsula?
Exactly!!
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Actually, there doesn’t need to be an explosive event, or, a gas event, to cause a mass-extiction. Merely having an entire sea dead from top to bottom would be enough. This dead body of water would expand ameoba-like as the weather created a feedback-loop of destruction. The microbes that would normally break down the oil are dead because they’ve depleted all the oxygen… the centre of the maelstrom will remain chewy with hydrocarbons.
Eventually the air in the lower atmosphere will deplete and the result will be filled with co2, co1, benzene and hydrogen sulphide; localised gassings will then occur miles inland from the nearest waterway. Of course the world would die over the following few years it took for the ameoba to consume the whole globe. There’ll be some wild parties as everyone gets what they want. The deviates can go out laughing watching the faithful waste the last days of our specie asking an imaginary god to save them after the party-goers have got their comeuppances, certain that this is the big pay-off. What a deliciously cosmic joke to go out on!
If you don’t smoke, now’s the time to light one up. If you don’t drink, I think a toast is in order. If you’ve never been sexually adventurous, now is certainly no time to be timid.
I dunno about the king of kings, but if we’re going out we’re sure going to see an orgy of orgies.
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This article is what happens when people who don’t know what they’re looking at and who don’t understand what’s going on start to speculate. There was no “explosion”.
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Wahah explosion and sea floor collapse. I wonder how long some of you sucked on your thumb to come up with that. Never seen more fearmongering on any blog before than this one. The CAP is now in place and BP are on target.
Where is the explosion in the video? All I see is the same views that have been on the air for weeks of the oil and gas coming out. Is this what you are calling an explosion?
BP is on “target” although their target is months away whenever all of the needed relief drills are in place and working.
You don’t need to talk about explosions and earthquakes to hype the page. Just show some data. For instance, how about western bluefin migration patterns. Guess where the spawning grounds are for a $20K/each fish?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/3027953.html
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Hahahah…."collapsed sea floor". If you're trying to impress low IQ people…you just might.
But you're making an ass of yourself to anyone with an IQ over 20!
The sea floor cannot collapse. What would make it collapse?…All the oil coming out is leaving a big cave you think?
Learn something here…..
The oil and gas is in permeable rock…sandstones to be precise. You can take all the oil and gas out and you will still have rock.
You a fucking idiot!
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Any new updates here?
The Geological structure of the Gulf floor may indeed be very similar to that of Florida and the other states that are on the edge of that tectonic plate which is very pourous. Florida is notorious for having sinkholes and other major structural weaknesses which have been likened to "swiss cheese". If that's the case in the Gulf then this is not so far fetched.
Here are some relevant blog posts/updates
Confidential BP Document Confirms Open Hole In Well Casing and Shale Collapse
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/23/confidential-bp-document-confirms-open-hole-casing-shale-collapse/
Mainstream Media Confirms BP and Feds Knew About Cracks In Gulf Seafloor Since February
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/19/mainstream-media-confirms-bp-feds-cracks-gulf-seafloor-february/
BP Ordered To Release Information on Well Bore Damage and Sea Floor Leaks From BP Gulf Oil Spill
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/07/02/bp-ordered-release-informatoin-bore-damage-sea-floor-leaks-bp-gulf-oil-spill/
Increase In Leaning BOP By Up To 1.5 Degress Appears To Confirm BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP Is Falling Over (Update 5)
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/28/increase-leaning-bop-15-degress-confirms-bp-gulf-oil-spill-bop-falling/
NOAA Finds Several Leaks In Cracks On Gulf Seafloor; Leaks Where Also Caused By IXTOC Blowout
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/28/ixtoc-oil-spill-undeground-blowout-caused-oil-leak-cracks-seafloor/
Drilling Expert Says Leaning Gulf Oil Spill BOP May Fall
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/23/drilling-expert-robert-cavnar-tells-olbermann-agrees-dougr-assessment-bop-fall/
Government Explores Plans For Pipeline Among Growing Concerns Relief Wells Will Fail To Stop Leaking Well
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/23/bp-and-the-government-slowly-admitting-to-horrible-condition-of-the-leaking-bp-well/
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Alexander Higgins, you are either very easily convinced of worst-case scenarios, or else you are just a fearmonger. Please do everyone a favour and review your research before stating your opinions as facts. Otherwise, your credibility is in question.
A few things:
1) The BOP is still there, as anyone with a brain and a computer can see by visiting the live ROV feeds.
2) All the “links” you’re citing are internal links on YOUR OWN SITE! How credible is that??
3) The oil formation is 18,000 feet BELOW the sea floor. That’s 3.4 miles. 3.4 miles of solid rock DO NOT collapse. Collapse into what, anyway??
And Fred Murray, there are both consolidated and non-consolidated formations. The sandstone formation you describe is a consolidated one. Others contain marine mud, sand, brine or rock salt. These are unconsolidated formations, and they do in fact send their non-oil components up the wellbore..
Keep the Internet’s signal to noise ratio manageable.
-W5i2
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