Oil Well Cap May Fail Seep found near BP's blown out oil well

[KissMy]

Seep found near BP's blown out oil well

NEW ORLEANS – A federal official said Sunday that scientists are concerned about a seep and possible methane seen near BP's busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Both could be signs there are leaks in the well that's been capped off for three days.

The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday because an announcement about the next steps had not yet been made.

The official is familiar with the spill oversight but would not clarify what is seeping near the well. The official said BP is not complying with the government's demand for more monitoring. BP spokesman Mark Salt declined to comment on the allegation, but said "we continue to work very closely with all government scientists on this."

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen will make the final decisions on the next step. The official said Allen would issue a letter to BP shortly allowing testing to proceed in 24-hour increments, but also requiring more analysis of the seep and the possible observation of methane over the well.

If Allen doesn't get the response he wants, the testing could stop, the official said.

The custom-built cap that finally cut off the oil flowing from BP's broken well three days ago was holding steady Sunday.

 

[Truthmatters]

They may have cracked the ocean floor when they caused the explosion.

Sucks huh?

 

[KissMy]

BP, feds clash over reopening capped Gulf oil well

NEW ORLEANS – BP and the Obama administration offered significantly differing views Sunday on whether the capped Gulf of Mexico oil well will have to be reopened, a contradiction that may be an effort by the oil giant to avoid blame if crude starts spewing again.

Pilloried for nearly three months as it tried repeatedly to stop the leak, BP PLC capped the nearly mile-deep well Thursday and wants to keep it that way. The government's plan, however, is to eventually pipe oil to the surface, which would ease pressure on the fragile well but would require up to three more days of oil spilling into the Gulf.

"No one associated with this whole activity ... wants to see any more oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico," Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said Sunday. "Right now we don't have a target to return the well to flow."

 

[Truthmatters]

Do you know BP has to pay by the barrel for all teh oil they spill?

They want what is cheapesst for them like they did before they caused this by cheating on the process.

 

[KissMy]

Do you know BP has to pay by the barrel for all teh oil they spill?

They want what is cheapesst for them like they did before they caused this by cheating on the process.

They will really be paying if the ocean floor blows open & creates an unstoppable flow of oil. It will certainly bankrupt them. I think it is a PR stunt trying to blame the Obama admin for making them open the well.

They may have cracked the ocean floor when they caused the explosion.

Sucks huh?

BP demanded Haliburton not use centralizers, locking rings or do a bottoms up on the well before cementing. The well casing is likely not cemented correctly to the earth causing gas to leak under the ocean floor. This same bad cement job was likely the original cause of this disaster. This bad cement likely caused the lower part of the casing string to break loose & shoot up into the BOPs causing all 5 of them to fail at the same time. They must now open the well & cram it full of cement from the bottom up. They should be able to connect a new sea riser on the BOP. Then send down a drill pipe & connect to the broken well case string. Open the original BOPs & pull out the bad casing. Then lower the new drill pipe to the bottom of the well bore & fill it from the bottom up with mud. Then pump cement in from the bottom up.

 

[KissMy]

U.S. Tells BP to Prepare for Reopening Oil Well After Seep Found

Thad Allen, the U.S. official in charge of the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, ordered BP Plc to prepare for reopening the company’s Macondo well after a “seep” was detected.

Allen said a “seep” was found “a distance” from the well and anomalies had been observed at the well head, in a letter sent today to BP Chief Managing Director Bob Dudley that was posted on a government website about the spill.

“I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed,” Allen wrote.

Three days of tests on the capped well showed no signs that would prompt BP to reopen the well, Doug Suttles, chief operating officer for exploration and production for BP, said earlier today in a conference call from Houston.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

An unidentified seep by an unidentified Federal Official.

You guys are aware that the Government never intended the cap to remain? They want to draw oil out of the well head. THAT was their plan all along.

Just so ya know Kiss? Anytime Truth agrees with something, it is either not true or suspect. Her intelligence level is around 40.

 

[Old Rocks]

Don't misplace your little aluminum foil hat there, Retired.

 

[Mr. H.]

I'll just wait for the stock to tank at $27 again, and jump back in for some more shares.

 

[KissMy]

An unidentified seep by an unidentified Federal Official.

You guys are aware that the Government never intended the cap to remain? They want to draw oil out of the well head. THAT was their plan all along.

Just so ya know Kiss? Anytime Truth agrees with something, it is either not true or suspect. Her intelligence level is around 40.

Ya-know it is starting to look like this administration was wanting to unnecessarily dump more oil into the gulf. You could be right.

 

[KissMy]

China surpasses U.S. as the worlds top energy consumer

Study says drilling ban will be costly

The Obama administration’s deepwater-drilling ban will cost more than $2.1 billion in economic activity and more than 8,000 jobs along the Gulf Coast, an LSU study done for an oil-industry trade group shows. The U.S. stands to lose $2.7 billion and more than 12,000 jobs during a six-month ban, according to the analysis, released Monday. If extended up to 18 months, the job losses would escalate, the study predicts, with 14,156 gone in Louisiana, 24,532 on the Gulf Coast and 36,137 nationally. Conducted by LSU finance professor Joseph Mason, the study was commissioned by the American Energy Alliance, an oil-and-gas trade group. Mason called his study a conservative estimate that focuses mostly on the moratorium’s impact over six months.

“Even under that scenario, there are some very large economic losses we need to reckon with,” he said.

If we don't deep water drill, other nations will. It is that simple. China is now the worlds largest consumer of energy. We can supply energy or someone else will & it will be far more environmentally destructive. Since this ban has been in place Canada oil sands production has boomed. Do you know how awfully destructive that is to the environment with its low EROEI ratio?

Against backdrop of gulf spill, other nations move forward with deep-water drilling

Canada’s Oil-Sands Companies Get Boost From BP’s Gulf Gusher

Before rig explosion, BP pumped chemical mixture into well, contractor says

 

[topspin]

Seaping confirmed not from bp well.

 

[KissMy]

BP floats new static kill bid to seal oil well

The US government has allowed BP to keep in place a cap stemming the flow from the ruptured wellhead for another 24 hours, as engineers float a new plan to kill the well. BP said the aim would be to send down heavy drilling mud through the blowout preventer valve system that sits on top of the well and then inject cement into the wellhead to seal it.

"We're still very much in the design and planning phase," said senior BP vice president for exploration and production Kent Wells. "We've got some real experienced teams working on this over the next couple of days."

The latest plan is similar to a "top kill" bid at the end of May, weeks after the April explosion which tore through a BP-leased rig off Louisiana, when engineers spent days pumping drilling fluid into the leaking well. That effort failed to smother the gushing crude, but officials believe the outcome could be different this time with the oil flow already contained.

 

[KissMy]

CNBC - Breaking News: The USCG has put BP on notice that the oil is seeping from near the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Site.

US Coast Guard has recently received many reports of new oil sheen near BP's Macondo oil well disaster site in Gulf of Mexico. The USCG is currently investigating the source of the oil.

BP Busted, Again: LSU Scientist Proves Fresh Oil Surfacing at Deepwater Horizon Site is from Macondo Reservoir

The debate is over, and both BP and our federal government have some serious explaining to do. Upending repeated denials from the British oil giant and ongoing obfuscation from NOAA officials, a Louisiana State University scientist has confirmed through rigorous testing that oil surfacing in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon site – the epicenter of last year’s catastrophic Gulf spill – is indeed coming from BP’s Macondo Prospect.

 

[Mr. H.]

Must be the ol' hydrocarbon DNA test.

 

[KissMy]

USCG now says BP's Macondo well is not suspected as a source of the sheen but says it is coming from sunken rig riser.

U.S. Coast Guard: Gulf sheen may be from Deepwater incident Sept 27 (Reuters)

The U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday that several recent sightings of a sheen in the vicinity of the capped BP Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico indicate the possibility of a release from a riser pipe or other debris leftover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident.
The USGC has put rig operator Transocean on notice that it may be financially accountable for debris removal and costs.

BP's Macondo well is not suspected as a source of the sheen.

 

[Mr. H.]

"If a volume of oil has remained in the riser, there is no question that it is oil from BP's Macondo well," said Transocean's spokesman Brian Kennedy. "As owner and operator, BP is the responsible party for all fluids that emanated from the Macondo well head, and BP has repeatedly acknowledged that responsibility."

A BP spokesman said the Macondo well isn't leaking oil and isn't the source of the sheens. "We will continue to cooperate with the Coast Guard to investigate other possible sources, including Transocean's riser," the company said in a statement.

RIGZONE - US Coast Guard Contacts Transocean over Gulf Oil Sheens