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By MikeHydroSoil | Thursday, November 11, 2010, 12:13

Beeb and that is not a satellite bleeping USSR

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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