» Sat May 28, 2011 9:01 am Well usually when a Oil Rig goes down (which, isn't very common at all, it's usually Oil Tankers that sink or crash, or something that makes the news. Like the Exxon Valdez oil spill in '89. But the thing is, that this Oil Rig was a Super Oil Rig, and they're a lot more massive and consume a lot more, and they go down deeper than other Oil Rigs.
Anyway, in the early years of the Oil-era's, yes oil just seeped up from the ground, but usually not on its own.. unless yes, some sort of deep erosion or crack happened. But that was when the Oil was closer to the top of the ground. When we didn't need all this heavy duty equipment to drill miles down into the ground just to get some 12Million Barrels of oil. That's one of the reasons we have offshore drilling, is because there's still oil out in the oceans that are like what we used to have, the problem though is that it's so far down we have a hard time reaching it (not necessarily through the ground, but all that water on top of it.) And I hardly think there'd ever be something so massive like this BP Spill, that would happen naturally, and unnoticed. All major countries, that have their hands in the Oil Business, are always having surveyors and people like that searching for new oil finds... like in Utah, they have a large Oil Shale deposit, but from what I've read and heard, most Utahn's are against the drilling of the Oil Shale because it's in a national park or some where around there. Plus, most of that from what I've read wouldn't help much anyway like some say it would.
Anyway, in the early years of the Oil-era's, yes oil just seeped up from the ground, but usually not on its own.. unless yes, some sort of deep erosion or crack happened. But that was when the Oil was closer to the top of the ground. When we didn't need all this heavy duty equipment to drill miles down into the ground just to get some 12Million Barrels of oil. That's one of the reasons we have offshore drilling, is because there's still oil out in the oceans that are like what we used to have, the problem though is that it's so far down we have a hard time reaching it (not necessarily through the ground, but all that water on top of it.) And I hardly think there'd ever be something so massive like this BP Spill, that would happen naturally, and unnoticed. All major countries, that have their hands in the Oil Business, are always having surveyors and people like that searching for new oil finds... like in Utah, they have a large Oil Shale deposit, but from what I've read and heard, most Utahn's are against the drilling of the Oil Shale because it's in a national park or some where around there. Plus, most of that from what I've read wouldn't help much anyway like some say it would.
half the oil in the oceans is natural seepage. its not a story cause its a slower rate of release and up to a point the ocean absorb i by dissolving it, microorganisms eat it and natural dissipation or it settles in the sediment.
as i posted earlier, there is one famous spot off california that releases 2,000 to 3,000 gallons a day. its several exxon valdez a year. and that just one spot. compared to all oil released annually this is a pittance, however since it happened so quickly and right next to a shoreline it is an ecological disaster. but even this man made disaster pails in comparison to the red tides that sometimes destroy entire coastlines and river systems and thats been occurring forever. im really interested in why the deadman switch didnt work........heads are going to roll.
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