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Current – Gas Oil plume next to Well A.

Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:03 PM EDT
environment, congress, government, oil, florida, mexico, federal-government, investigation, bp, oil-spill, explosion, gulf, fed, louisiana, epa, mississippi, gulf-oil-spill, gulf-of-mexico, gulf-coast, leak, noaa, coast-guard, bp-oil-spill, gov, oil-leak, deepwater, blowout, leaking, bop, gulf-oil-spill-horizon
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The pictures from the air tell a different story (2010/10/oil_slick_in_gulf_of_mexiso) from the hollow victory speech given on 15 Sept 2010 that the “dragon from the deep” had been slain. It reminds us of the typical folklore fairy tale where the Pretender-Hero claimed to have slain the dragon terrorizing the kingdom in order to claim the throne and marry the princess. But like all lies, the truth will come back to roost one day, sooner or later.

~~~quote from Florida Oil Spill law~~~

It’s Back: “Orange oil” for miles, “a signature image of the spill” returns — BP, Coast Guard not responding say captains (PHOTOS) - OCTOBER 23, 2010 at 08:21 Am.

Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf of Mexico, The Times-Picayune, October 22, 2010 at 11:30 p.m. EDT:

… Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta. …

Boat captains working the BP clean-up effort said they have been reporting large areas of surface oil off the delta for more than a week but have seen little response from BP or the Coast Guard…

Read more at … www.floridaoilspilllaw.com website.

~~~end of quote ~~~~~~~~

So is the “dragon from the deep” really dead? Judge for yourself the reported oil and gas (separated) plumes next to Well A, 42 days after BP had declared the well to be killed, sealed and delivered (top and bottom). See the new gas-oil leak beside well A seen on 22 Oct 2010.

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BK Lim

42 days after the well was supposedly sealed from top to bottom, we still have new leaks?

Makes you wonder whether all the millions spent on grouting could have been better spent elsewhere?

  • 8 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:16 PM EDT
k3d59

What is the definition of "weathered" as used in the below context? Is there a way to quantify the "weathering" process in order to determine how long the oil has been out of the reservoir? If the oil is underwater, is "weathering" delayed until the material rises to the surface of the water or does "weathering" begin when the oil leaves the reservoir environment? If Lehman is correct, then appearances of previously unobserved/undocumented oil would be prima facie cases for a leak unless the period of time the oil has been in the environment above the reservoir can be established.

"...Lehmann pointed to extensive tests conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that included taking samples of water from various depths, as well as collections of bottom sediments both far offshore and close to the coast..."

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/10/massive_stretches_of_weathered.html

  • 6 votes
Reply#2 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:26 PM EDT
Jaybao

Does oil chemically breakdown or just physical breakdown and amalgamation?

  • 6 votes
#2.1 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:31 PM EDT
BK Lim

k3d59 & Jaybao

I am no chemist to say what constitute the weathering of the oil. But I remember reading on the coast guard log, of orange "dye" on the sea surface a couple of days into the spill. I mean who would want to dye the sea orange. It is probably the same orange sheen that we are seeing now at the surface.

  • 5 votes
#2.2 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:49 PM EDT
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etva

Yikes! BK, these photos make an impact. That first one is just scary! Thanks for posting.

  • 5 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:19 PM EDT
BK Lim

etva, sorry to scare you. But that one came from NOLA.

But the time the oil gets to the surface, there must have been a lot more underneath.

Trouble is most people cannot relate what is going on at the seabed. So I chose a photo on the surface to relate the two.

  • 5 votes
#3.1 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:43 PM EDT
etva

And it worked! It's what we need to see and be aware of. Thanks BK!

  • 5 votes
#3.2 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:47 PM EDT
BK Lim

etva, any time.

  • 5 votes
#3.3 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:50 PM EDT
Briwnys

Excellent visual, BK. As usual, good job!

  • 5 votes
#3.4 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:54 PM EDT
BK Lim

thanks Briwnys

  • 5 votes
#3.5 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:20 AM EDT
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Steve-2203459

Bk Lim....just unbelievable. I have not been posting in here as I have been doing my own research on the falling EROI collapse of the USA. I have been reading your posts and have to say, you have been spot on since your inception.

The post on the Gas Hydrates boiling up from the sea floor shows what a mess the geology has become. I have 3 questions if you don't mind.

1) The huge oil slicks now showing on the surface of the Gulf....are they coming just from the leaks from WELL A as you have shown on this post are they also coming from S20BC?

2) Did S20BC ever get PLUGGED? Or is it still an open hole?

3) What is the best and worst case scenario in the future with the now ruptured geology below?

thanks,

steve

  • 4 votes
Reply#4 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:00 PM EDT
BK Lim

Hi Steve, nice to have you back. Would love to read your research sometimes.

2) Did S20BC ever get PLUGGED? Or is it still an open hole?

Remember in early Sept, they were saying the "bottom kill - permanent cement" had to be postponed to mid oct. Then suddenly it was all over and done with. The adverse situation could not have reversed just overnight. Obviously the 15 Sept declaration of success was politically motivated and ill-advised.

I wouldn't think such rash decision and reversal could be due to improving ground conditions. Why was the relief well waiting for more than a month just 5 feet from the rouge well? It doesn't make sense that any "success" could achieved with permanency. Maybe to buy some time for the election.

You will notice that I have been commenting a lot on grouting on the rov evidence. Now why would BP spend millions on grouting the faults beneath the seabed? The answer is very clear. They are trying to suppress any leakage in the vicinity of the macondo wells.

1) The huge oil slicks now showing on the surface of the Gulf....are they coming just from the leaks from WELL A as you have shown on this post are they also coming from S20BC?

Notice the new research papers funded by BP saying that natural oil and gas seeps are more prevalent than previous thought. They are hoping to argue that the new oil seen after the 15 July Capping (no new oil seen as reported by MM) are all due to natural seeps. So this new seep/leak near to well A was a god-sent evidence to totally prove BP wrong. It might be a small leak but the significance is overbearing. Will be writing on this on a more detailed article. Just putting this out to alert the public.

Oil is still leaking out and it is worse because it is spreading through the broken geology instead of the open conduit at S20BC. They had done something to S20BC thought I cannot tell publicly for the moment. If you send me an email, I could send you the info.

3) What is the best and worst case scenario in the future with the now ruptured geology below?

The geological scenario is given at #21.10

http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/10/5268509-more-rov-evidences-of-shallow-faults-drilling-problems-part-iib-of-root-causes

In the best case, the rate of erosion along the pathways is slow and takes much longer to manifest the true effect. (what BP is hoping). Remember what I said about being a "living disaster with an urgency". Well A is only 5000 ft deep and they could not even seal it from leaking (which I think they can never do). So what does that tell about the real gushing well 18000ft deep that had punched into the real reservoir? If they cannot seal a well which is only leaking due to an intersection with a leaking faulted pathway (feeder fault) 13000ft above the reservoir level, I do not think they can with the real gusher at S20BC. All the pathways will get bigger and bigger, and the rising temp at the sea bed level will evaporate more hydrates into methane. This is already happening as evident in the recent rov video in recent days.

As Dr Tom says, "why is the world rushing headlong into an environmental armageddon?". Sadly the world is still asleep, blissfully... Sigh!

http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/19/5317203-why-is-the-world-rushing-headlong-into-environmental-armageddon-world-awash-in-environmental-armageddon

  • 4 votes
Reply#5 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:22 PM EDT
BK Lim

More Oil found on oysters 20 Oct 2010

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/florida-woman-oil-found-in-batch-of-oysters-while-eating

As she ate them she noticed what she believed to be crude oil all over them. ..

Department of Agriculture and Florida Fish and Wildlife are testing samples of the store where the oysters were purchased.

Previous 21 June 2010

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/tar-found-in-oyster-at-seafood-restaurant-manager-admits-appeared-to-be-oil-video

A man says he found oil inside his oysters while eating at a restaurant located north of Charlotte this weekend. …

He was so surprised at what he found, he kept one of the oysters to show our cameras.

WBTV reporter Sarah Batista noticed there was ablack substance stuck to the inside of the oyster.

“That is definitely tar, that is not on oysters, “said Robertson. …

  • 3 votes
Reply#6 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:13 PM EDT
Thomas Mastroianni

Thank you so much for all you do in posting this important information. If possible could you please send the info. on S20BC that you can't publicly say yet. (when will you be able to talk openly about it)...... Your in my prayers Tom tom.m@comcast.net

  • 3 votes
Reply#7 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:59 PM EDT
BK Lim

email sent. Yr feedback much appreciated. TIA

  • 3 votes
#7.1 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:34 PM EDT
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Thomas Mastroianni

Could you please send the info. on S20BC that you can't publicly post yet, and when will you be able to write openly about it. Thanks Tom

  • 3 votes
Reply#8 - Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:16 PM EDT
eth-2299740

BK

Me too :)

TIA

  • 3 votes
#8.1 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:07 AM EDT
BK Lim

eth - chk yr mail.

  • 3 votes
#8.2 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:34 PM EDT
eth-2299740

Got it BK - Thank you

  • 3 votes
#8.3 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:58 PM EDT
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yknotpot

It didn't take as long as I thought it would for the oil to show itself... now the question is how long is this going to be ignored by the mainstream media? What fools they are to even think for a second that all that oil would stay hidden, that the truth would not prevail in such a monstrous and egregious lie.

  • 4 votes
Reply#9 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:16 AM EDT
BK Lim

yknotpot

It may be sooner than what we think. Rov video on 20 - 23 Oct don't look too good.

  • 5 votes
#9.1 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:33 PM EDT
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Steve-2203459

Can you believe it...in the comment section of that Times-Picayune article about the new OIL PLUMES, because the Coast Guard said it was ALGAE and NOT OIL...you got MORONS in there posting that its ALGAE. Oh my gosh....if the people are told OIL is ALGAE...well BK LIM...you got more HEADWINDS than just the US GOVT goon squads.

Folks....the United States is on the verge of a complete disintegration. The coverup of the BP SPILL is part of that policy of supplying CONFIDENCE to the AMERICAN PUBLIC. The US DOLLAR is nothing but confidence....as it is totally worthless....the masses just don't know it yet.

  • 3 votes
Reply#10 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:54 PM EDT
BK Lim

Steve, Govt everywhere is the same. Their explanations and analyses always defy the laws of nature. Theirs is the law of Wilful Ignorance.

  • 2 votes
#10.1 - Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:01 PM EDT
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