How Much? A Little Math

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Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

I know school is out. This will help you remember math.



How Much Oil Has BP
Drilled Into? Try THIS On...
From Richard Wilcox
7-4-10


Mount Everest has a volume of approximately 365 cubic miles from sea level to the summit.

A cubic mile would hold 1.101117147 10 to the 12th gallons of liquid.

Thus: 11,011,171,470,000 gallons x 365 = 4,019,077,586,550,000

http://wiki.answers.com/

That is, according to a report from Wayne Madsen that the oil cavern that the BP rig tapped into is the size of Mt. Everest, we are looking at a whooping: FOUR QUADRILLION gallons of friggin' oil that could be released into the ocean.

According to a geophysicist we know, "average annual spillage from natural seeps and normal human activities is 380 million gallons annually." Not sure the how much of that is natural seepage and how much from human pollution, but it is small compared to four quadrillion, or even four hundred billion gallons, released in a fairly short period.

Please check my math and let me know if I have made some gigantic mistake, thank you.

And have a nice day.

BP Sludge, working to make the world a better place. In association with MonSatan, genetically modified food for your non future.

Rw

http://www.rense.com/general91/howmuch.htm
 
arzafar

arzafar

Junior Member
that's an old indian trick.

1) thing is oil is measured in us bbls not in gallons.
1bbl = 42 gals

2) even if they left the leak as it, it is impossible that all the oil in the subsurface will come up to the sea floor. normally only 25-30% of the original oil in place is produced by conventional means (i.e. the energy from the reservoir) without any artificial recovery (i.e using pumps or gas lift) or secondary or tertiary recovery methods.

3) Conventional oil is produced at the surface and hence gives higher flow rates and faster pressure depletion. since water is denser then oil, the pressure at the sea bed (where the leak is) is considerably lower than at the sea surface. hence, far less than the conventional 25-30% of the original oil will be leaked into the sea even if it is left as it is.

4) it takes several years (sometimes decades - depends upon the number of producing wells) for the natural oil field pressure to deplete enough so that oil stops flowing in the well. Atm there is only 1 well which is leaking so it's going to take decades or even centuries before all that oil comes up to the surface. keep in mind that all that oil will be only a small percentage of the original oil in place because of 2and 3 above.

there are off course other factors that will affect the flow of oil but just factoring in 1 - 4, takes all the juice out of the fine piece of professional journalism. And like a true news story, the real issue is not addressed. for every barrel of oil that is leaked some thousands of cubic foot of natural gas is released from the oil (gas-oil ratio depends on the quality of oil). things have a potential to get very ugly.

edit:

doh the pressure at the level of the leak is far higher than the pressure normally used to produce e oil at the surface.
 
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Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

I am so glad that I posted this. What is a bbl? I watched an interview and it seemed that there is a proposal to nuke the site. If they are able to implode a device and it may act as a shield and truncate the opening.


Oil is not the only thing that is dense...can you give as an example that is simple to visualize. Thus far I understand that:

there is big hole
there is a lot of oil going into the ocean
there is a whole lot of gas going into the atmosphere
this will go on and on

What can BP do...can they fill the hole? This morning I read the federal government is taking over..which means the taxpayer will end up footing the bill.
 
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