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jelyfish:
VIA ATS (abovetopsecret.com) _http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread567266/pg1

_http://pesn.com/2010/05/02/9501643_Mother_of_all_gushers_could_kill_Earths_oceans/

I think the meat of this article was the response by Paul Noel.  Most of this is above my head.

Part of Paul Noel's comments:


--- Quote ---Controls That Should Have Been In Place

By the way, I am not against drilling it, I am just against doing so without proper controls.

   1. The rig that was drilling was not a US Flagged rig. That means US Inspectors were not allowed on board the rig to inspect it. As a matter of National Security under the GATT the USA has a right to demand US Only in various technology. The USA should never allow a foreign flag vessel to drill for oil in the US Economic Zone (200 mile limit).
   2. Acoustic automated shut of devices should be required.
   3. I think US Federal Inspectors should have to be resident on and inspecting rigs like this 24/7.
   4. I think that the drilling should be required to do some smaller holes that deliberately miss the main deposit that test the structure before main drilling operations happen.
   5. Careful procedures should be in place to set up wells before they hit the main deposit. The well casing should have to be inserted well before the drill hits the deposit and it should have to be cemented in at least 2 weeks prior to finishing the hole down to the oil or gas. This is to give the cement time to set. The casing should have ridging to make this cement have a tight wedged grip on the miles of rock around it. This is required because the lift pressure on a pipe in this case could easily reach 20 million pounds of lift. This is an insane amount of up pressure. Even at 70,000 psi it would lift about 140 million pounds. (almost 64,000 long tons!)

--- End quote ---

Scary stuff to me.  They don't have the technology for dealing with pressures this high.


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Windmill knight:
Hi jelyfish. About ATS, this is most likely a disinfo website. You may wish to spend some time reading this thread.

And welcome to the forum!  :)

jelyfish:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=49.0
bad link for me ...

Windmill knight:
My apologies jelyfish. I forgot to mention that you need to have at least ten posts in the forum to access that section. You will be able to see it once you reach the mark.

BK:
Here in the Land Of Plenty (the U.S.), I turned on the morning news shows(Good Morning America, Today) and discovered that the morning show drones at ABC and NBC were clearly avoiding the story unfolding in the Gulf.
For whatever reason, they did about 30 seconds on the main news updates, and then shifted gears completely, talking about anything other than the on-going oil spill.
It seems pretty clear they received marching orders not to dwell on this story, at least for today.
Things got so bad on NBC that the cast of the Today show was treated to a special guest appearance by "Elmo" the talking puppet.
"Elmo" engaged in childish and mindless chatter with the Today show clown Al Roker, and then with the queen of fake emotions, Ann Curry.
The idiocy with "Elmo" was follwed by a segment on plus size models and women's self esteem.

This is the type of manure that's shoveled out to people as relevant information.
Considering that this spill does affect the lives of many Americans in a serious way, I found it interesting that so little time would be spent updating people on this event.
NBC spent weeks covering every aspect of hurricane Katrina, yet suddenly clams up and offers "Elmo" and stories about "plus size models" as relevant news.

Addendum:
The nightly news on ABC and NBC had much more coverage of the oil spill.
Perhaps the silly antics of the morning shows were filler until a more coordinated story could be delivered to the public.

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