Are you sure there are methane hydrates there? They require
temperatures below freezing, and we are talking about the Gulf. Although
ocean temperatures drop as you go deeper, crust temperatures increase,
normally at a nominal 1 degree per 100 feet as you go down. That is 52
degrees per mile increase in temperature. I don't see how it could be
possible to have hydrate with that deep hole.
Marshall
Garrick wrote:
/ OMG... what a disaster this is. God be with all of us... to think
it could have been prevented with a $500,000 shut off valve is beyond
the pale./
I don't think that extra shut off valve would have stopped this
blowout. The oil and gas down there is so high pressure that it has to
be tapped in safer ways altogether. Such as narrower thicker pipes at
the ocean floor and going down 100ft say. The last 100-200 ft before
the bottom of the ocean. This would function as a flow restrictor,
lessening the pressure so that a blowout preventer can do its job. .
Oil would have to be taken at a slower rate
That's the devil's crude down there full of gobs of frozen methane
hydrates
MEANING----the gas bubble being blamed would have blown past that shut
off valve same as all the others.
g
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