Gulf Oil Spill

[Mimi]

This news story is weeks old and has impacting tendrils beyond economic difficulties for the drillers and environmental disasters for the Gulf and surrounding states. Congress had those involved in the hot seat and each contractor pointed to the other guy as the one at fault. A few days ago CNN reported gasoline prices had peaked for this season and we should, in fact, see a further reduction at the pump. All of this, while they are trying to seal the "leak." Underwater cameras show this is no leak - it is a gusher. We cannot even get an accurate daily measure of the oil spewing forth. Early on, some officials said it was 5,000 barrels a day while others said 50,000 was more accurate. Learned oil industry guests on The Weather Channel have given their estimates saying it is at least 15 times more than that according to the growing oil slick seen by satellite.

Lies, greed and blame. That is an accurate picture of most large businesses when something goes terribly wrong and the people begin to inquire, "Why?"

[Mimi]

60 Minutes on this disaster. Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster

[Richard Myers]

The account of this employee was quite revealing if true.  The accident did not just happen, but was caused by neglect. Very sad, but it is the state of society. We shall see more and more such disasters, soon. Jesus is coming.

[Richard Myers]

"Top Kill" effort fails to stem oil gusher in the gulf. "After three full days, we have been unable to overcome the flow," said the company's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, at a news conference in Robert, La. "... This scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing, or the fact that we haven't succeeded so far." source

[Mimi]

There are no appropriate words to describe this catastrophe. May God help us!

Do we know how to pray about this situation? I am not at all sure I do. His will, of course, and He will certainly use man's gigantic blunder to help bring about His purposes. The consequences have been and will continue to be enormous. We need grace for endurance for what will surely be a hard economic and environmental hit. 

[Richard Myers]

I believe it is appropriate to pray that the damage be stopped. God did not create the problem, Satan did. The damage to the ocean and the  shoreline will be extensive. The economy will be hard hit, much worse than a hurricane that is over and done in a day. And, the Democrats will use this to increase the price of fossil fuels which is their desire. I imagine that they may be changing their minds before long when they find out how unhappy the poor will be when they can't afford to heat their homes or drive to work.

Disaster after disaster is coming. The world leaders are trying very hard to place things on a solid foundation, but they will not be able to do so because God does not figure into their plans, the God of the Bible.

[colporteur]

I don't know that this will factor in but last week's Sabbathschool lesson stated that 90% of the earths oxygen is produced by algae in the ocean.

[Richard Myers]

There are some who prophecy that this will kill the earth. I don't think so. It will cause much hardship. It is catastrophic. By God's grace,they will stop the oil from flowing. Man is defiling the earth, but nature is much larger than man. The end is coming, but not because "top kill" failed. As with any other disaster, it gives us opportunity to pray for the relieving of the suffering. Sister Sybil placed this topic in the Economic Times Forum. It is going to create an economic hardship for many more than we have thought. It is the straw that will help to break the camel's back that is already laboring under a heavy load.

[Mimi]

It has been capped (for now)! From CNN:

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- For the first time in nearly three months, oil has stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico as BP proceeds with a highly anticipated test designed to measure pressure within its ruptured oil well.

The move is being lauded as a positive step, accompanied by a strong note of caution that the cutoff is simply part of the test, as BP and government experts assess how the well is holding up.

The test got under way Thursday after two days of delays, first as government scientists scrutinized testing procedures and then as BP replaced a leaking piece of equipment known as a choke line.

The oil stopped flowing early Thursday afternoon, according to BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells. And a series of cameras below the surface clearly showed the halt -- a far different scene from the images day after day of a relentless flow.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/16/gulf.oil.disaster/index.html?hpt=T1

BBC's coverage:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10658519

[Mimi]

The cap is still holding and rising pressure "is giving us more and more confidence". Tests, however, could be extended beyond Saturday. BBC

Praise the Lord!

[Mimi]

Despite seeping oil, BP allowed to keep cap on well - for now

by Colleen Long and Harry R. Weber / Associated Press

wwltv.com

Posted on July 19, 2010 at 8:08 AM

Updated today at 8:08 AM

The federal government Monday allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its busted Gulf of Mexico oil well for another day despite a seep in the sea floor after the company promised to watch closely for signs of new leaks underground, settling for the moment a rift between BP and the government.

The Obama administration's point man for the spill, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said early Monday that government scientists had gotten the answers they wanted about how BP is monitoring the seabed around the mile-deep well, which has stopped gushing oil into the water since the experimental cap was closed Thursday.

Late Sunday, Allen said a seep had been detected a distance from the busted oil well and demanded in a sharply worded letter that BP step up monitoring of the ocean floor. Allen didn't say what was coming from the seep. White House energy adviser Carol Browner told the CBS "Early Show" the seep was found less than two miles from the well site.

The concern all along -- since pressure readings on the cap weren't as high as expected -- was a leak elsewhere in the well bore, meaning the cap may have to be reopened to prevent the environmental disaster from becoming even worse and harder to fix. An underground leak could let oil and gas escape uncontrolled through bedrock and mud.

More on this story:here

[colporteur]

 It is too early to speculate but if this is true it makes one wonder why caping a well would create a leak that was not there before.

[Mimi]

Yeah ... sea floor integrity, cracks here and there, or from the well casing. Gas is seeping as well. Some say it's related but others do not think so.

From Yahoo News:

Small amounts of oil and gas started coming from the cap late Sunday, but "we do not believe it is consequential at this time," retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said.

Also, seepage from the seafloor was detected over the weekend less than two miles away, but Allen said it probably has nothing to do with the well. Oil and gas are known to ooze naturally from fissures in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

[Larry Lyons]

The government and BP have very tight control over any information that is released to the public. BP is allowed to hire their own security firm to prevent "unauthorized access" to sensitive areas and will not allow pictures to be taken. In other words, American citizens are prevented from having free access to public beaches by a private security guards who work for a foreign company.

[Mimi]

There are websites that state that very thing.

Today I read of underwater capped wells that are never again visited for inspection along with a video recorded on June 11 showing oil leaking from fissures on the ocean floor. It was stated "this is not what those in charge want you to see."

I suppose if we knew the whole of it, sleep would not come so easily. God will allow this to go only so far, then He will act and this event will appear as nothing in comparison.

[colporteur]

It is though we live in Russia or China.

[Ed Sutton]

An earth quake on the bottom of the sea floor in the gulf creates fissures - water well drilling sometimes uses explosives to fracture a well bottom to create pockets to fill with water for pumping, if a similiar practice is used in oil gas well drilling, you would have frequent smaller man made earthquakes cracking lots of crust letting thousands of seemingly small cracks add up and merge and join hands. 

If in the future such cracks all over the sea floor around the globe open signifigantly - suppose it would help the oceans become as the rotting blood spoken of here.

Revelation 16:3  And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

As the supernatural curse descends out of the angel's container into the oceans, hydrogen sulfide, methyl chlorides, benzenes, crude oil sludge, and much more rise from the deep.


As blood sits at room temp, it seperates into solids and seperate liquid, the proteins clump together, the PH becomes lethal, it stinks, it looks nasty, it stains all it touches - and so on.   Salt breaks the red blood cells and helps reliquify them - good to get blood off of scrubs and white lab coats, but an ocean full all around the globe.

Every living creature dies rapidly, no more algae / plankton making oxygen, eating carbon dioxide - soon the air changes and progresses.  Only the presence of God - the Person symbolized by the Holy Oil will guard the life of the redeemed.

[LindaRS]

Did you see the news about another leaking well in the Gulf? Actually is has been a geyser. It's a capped well in shallow water and a ship hit it, starting a geyser shooting oil and gas a hundred feet into the air. And did you read about the oil spill on a river in MI? Oil, oil everywhere.

[Mimi]

Yes, I did. 

[Larry Lyons]

Did you see the news about another leaking well in the Gulf? Actually is has been a geyser. It's a capped well in shallow water and a ship hit it, starting a geyser shooting oil and gas a hundred feet into the air. And did you read about the oil spill on a river in MI? Oil, oil everywhere.

   "And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." (Revelation 11:18)