Beeb and that is not a satellite bleeping USSR concerns.
By MikeHydroSoil | Thursday, November 11, 2010, 12:13
Beeb and that is not a satellite bleeping USSR
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Rig Scotland 2010 Inverness and onward
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Rig the Elder Scotland 2010 Inverness Station forward
concerns.
People want a long written item so this is that
I copied from an observation to the British Broadcasting Corporation at crisis
date prior to Waxman 2011 which is soon upon us and cannot be avoided. BP
worries for BP advance.
Preliminary reports and reviews
from Representative Henry A Waxman and associates would indicate that while BP
were not readied for the Transocean disaster they should have perhaps been more
cautious with the Geology and less with the rush, maybe leading to a gas
explosion, a type of yield common on light oil platform reservoir drills in
initial, pressurized, breakout. Such is an unknown for deep, marshland delta
sites new to seismology, the advent of near surface inclusions as well as a gas
head to the reservoir, which would have been known to an Oil Geologist,
makes a risk a possibility that perhaps offshore may have to review. If the gas
blew up the well side initially and then flared the top with the leaking
petroleum, if there was a metal shear, or equipment flare and gas was in the
area there is not much that could have been done, but the well seemed to burn
alike a Bunsen that melts its own stem until the rubber hose sets alight and
burns down the laboratory, a point made to us at school by chemistry not to
allow! Flare will act alike a welding torch and melt anything, concentrated
released oils in pressure from a broken head with high surcharge will form such
a burn, sea water, Caribbean atmosphere and combustibles on the platform as the
men were setting down the head having done their intended work, would if
assisted escape of gas by any disruption of the sea floor and any seismic
fractures that may have been present for months and then released trapped
materials, along the well tube and around the site. The fact that this was so
hard to quell as a flame and the diesel spread so rapidly indicates this
pattern and it worsens as the spill develops. Anchor and platform motions would
evidently be adequate to breach systems as the stresses moved the rig over
and it sank, leaving no pipeline to plug. A rig would snap a line easily by
shear mass and swell take down the structures. As to the mechanical, if there
is any left the investigators have made points and will conclude. Much offshore
progress advocated was shut down, some has resumed, but one has to question the
North Sea Bubble approach that seems to attach
to this. Once coal and oil were just work, nowadays they have become more than
one platform of observations and publicity, drill and supply preparation. A
geologist would know what he was doing, whether we can connect that to a
mechanical preliminary refinery, balanced on a set of legs in a swell and
storms and a gas control at that distance, in the midst of political
maelstrom may need to be reconsidered. Gas you can flare on land and
rock collapse around it, at sea it becomes part of the oceanic system, there is
nowhere to go, nor even to run and bring in equipment at speed. I thought
the small core well could have been plugged but that takes location and
precision and only specialists and submersibles work in those states, if even that
is safe and possible in such a leak and burn, with visibility problems. Perhaps
one thing we should learn, if available oils were carefully slowly harvested
when found and not "stockpiled" (even coal with ignite in a heap)
then the accumulated gradual work knowledge would assist a safer and
technologically improved programme. But hindsight is something we saw in the
1960s, easier to write than to enact prior to the date.
I would find seismic interpretation
of anything other than hard rock monstrously difficult, so Mississippi, China,
Mediterranean east, soggy silts yield very little certain mass layer data as to
exact gas forming layers, oil systems accumulate from gas, oil forming muds
into limestone and sandstone fissured reservoir stores over time, that makes
their identification feasible for a trial drill. Masses of moving delta have
none of these blessings for oil men.
Thank you for your Fry Carwardine marshland exposé [journalism version as the web
states], there is a lot more yet to come out of this than a pelican biting my
arm in Bristol
Zoo.
I am not sure I look forward to the
spill in the aftermath of the report January, investigations are never as nice
as resolving it,
I shall go hide in some cold
weather. Sad we could not have by combined effort stopped it sooner.
Biggest disaster ?
oil loss possibly after Iraq 2000
"environmental" ? bird
damage ? was Torrey
Canyon worse
is selling Tyntensfield a potential
bigger bird RSPB loss or farm event ?? than my cousins digging out people in
2007 off the edge of urban generated Warks' Avon
flows,
backwater Isbourne Crump weir and
fruit and farms of the Vale.
Political yes possibly
a Barack Obama welfare vote
a UK Cameron balanced Parliament
argument
a banking crisis
television drama
the loss of journalists TV people
in late 2010 and fishing fleets in a marshland inhospitable even to
alligators and cayman, offshore invasive species eating inshore dangerous
shellfish, definitely inhospitable to crocs,
although I suspect all of us old
crocs are more dangerous that Aussie ones
Stephen would know too.
Just possibly more sea sick from
watching Asian boats skim inlets on high powered oil waves chasing speeding
diesel ??
what was he doing? as Stephen
observed during the event.
Why are we here ??
when we could have done this is a
hospitable environment, I asked myself that many times!
Why do I stand at the edge of
Carron on the side of a bent gabion wire and falling cobbles with a less than
well functioning foot, when I could be drinking a decent coffee indoors? or
watching the sea waves from a good cafe with egg and bacon roll? Get soaked on
a beach for a walk enjoyment.
It must be instructional for
somebody as the garden expert explained the geese to us at Loch
Fleet.
Moving oil and marsh silt and
vegetal mass around at high speed off a boat wash consuming oil, just as
"environmentalists" chase pelican ?
Prudhoe Bay may yet still turn out
to be the USA
fast track BP's biggest problem but they sold that,
is Hinckley Point Part Deux the
real impending environmental difficulty or just Chesapeake Bay China delta drying or the Severn
flood drainage.
or Cher***yl I still rate as the worst yet,
The 1972 flood was bad and the
1977 and 2007.
It depends where you live and how
deep your waders are in a tidal rise or tsunami when fishing for recreation or
the licence officers catch you in a Game controlled zone if you fish and forget
your licence to carry that is?
There are a lot of waders in
Dornoch estuary zone and an awful lot of collapsed engineering works of old and
ripped up modern gabions that are a threat to
the sanity of life.That is a Fry style observation I
have heard him refer oft'.
Anyway back to the barracking in
the Germanic edge as this is 11th November which would seem to be the less
happy end of an Austrian trip 1974 from gravels to forests and floods Elbe
which would seem to be the
Cameron Clegg silver dagger at present
I just wish we and Germany could
move on from 1978 in the forward direction or that rusted train in Alaskan
marsh will be the end of all resource quietly done.
Still a very good diesel VW 1978,
best car I ever drove.
In a subsurface drill cut, or
sedimentary mass under pressure, such as Louisiana
oil delta Mississippi,
you will have intrusion of mud and sand into the rock and layers of sediment
forming the sliding mass. That not only relates to gas motion it also forms in
relation to surface lateral flows and any pressure exerted by the vertical
imposed stress, such as a rig, drill, rock and earthquake mass fracture. The
zone is then active and obviously a detail that will result in drill
differences, but not apparent on seismic information, especially at a distance
in deep water detachment from source of seismic investigation with all the
crowds of plots of other features. These may be used in engineering geology to
seal sites and the physical process exploited to form pile bases to ensure the
structure on the piers is anchored. Not good in an oil site where fluids are
expected and even in London
under all the High Rise the pier pile bases in clays may interact with each
other. For engineering plan this has become a severe problem in city works,
thankfully not an area I work in, it is mostly waste on top compressed dried
clays and tangled elements of years of construction and motion. However there
are similar features, such as dewatering or oil removal which change the nature
of the sediment and complex of layers; hence we all take interest in events
that are similar in kind.
Actually the biggest environmental
disaster was Eddie Watson's daughter off Snowdon toward a precipice on her
kagool as the Geology Lecturer and another student rushed to catch her and
the ice crunched solid under foot on the ridge, but that was because the
Snowdon col is very steep when you look over the side and I decided caution was
the better part and went back and did not realize she was following and
would turn and sit down rather than ram in a Geological hammer and ease slowly
down. I was taught to observe carefully and I read climbing and used it,
having survived Portishead Beds Permian soaked marl covered landscapes and
City of Bath Technical School, ATC and listened carefully to UCW theory as
well as reading which is a great asset. Nothing quite like Hemingway to teach
one montane skills ... but then that also was Mr. "Killer" Keating
with the polio leg, Arithmetic teaching, his Catholic adherence to scripture to
encourage small boys to calm down, his stick Jimmy that governed Math's
homework and English lessons on Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan. Now that is
teaching as they say in Crocodile Dundee
films.
On the basis that Falling off mountains puts people off their work
choice, so she left, I carried on and fell off North Weston Woods
twice, and she did something else according to Maggie, which was a pity as
female Geology Geomorphology with a parent as good as Eddie Watson UCW are
few and far between and we never have enough girls teaching girls in University
College, only ever had a short term one in Cheltenham which gave Gordon
problems on tutor allocations and yet Landscape is a good outdoor and design occupation
for a lady; so biology does suffer professionally, unless medical. It is no use
asking a physical systems Geology all boys school to enact biology work,
Napoleon may have been able to generalize but he might not have been a good
English noble military officer due to the policy here, very good at conquering
Europe, not so good in Russian Prussian colonial interest snows. We are
generally biology inert. Hopefully with the vaccines about we are completely,
but I doubt it. I had a school mate biology geology, no doubt he was never
short of research either.
Mike
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