Former Shell CEO John Hoffmeister is interviewed on MSNBC, July 14, 2010.
He says that there are many in the oil industry who believe that the casing of the busted BP oil well “must have been damaged because of the power of that well, the pressure of that reservoir.” That is why BP should and is delaying stress tests of the new oil cap until relief wells can be drilled. Doing the stress tests now would put so much pressure on the casing that the integrity of the steel is insufficient to hold the pressure of the well:
“If you lose the casing and oil starts coming up on the outside of the casing you can’t stop it. And if you lose the casing it’s game over. It’s like having a volcano on the bottom of the sea. There’s nothing you can do that would stop it…other than implode the well.”
~Eowyn
As I wrote in my May 20th article at rense.com on this, for me it is comparable to Krakatoa’s eruption, an event that was well-recorded and the very first recorded equivalent of a ‘nuclear Winter’, as attested by the records.
Yet we’ve already forgotten that epic undoing of our plans and wills, and here we are: it’s déjà vu all over again, and we’re still surprised!