Deepwater Horizon - Draft 1.

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I found a good key word phrase to search with - gas kick back - and I found half a dozen articles which helped me put together a picture of what may be going on - in part. I see likely natural and/or
intentional events at play - which are not normal.

I wish to have opinions:

is it worth the effort to continue?
Who may wish to add or modify anything;
and what about a possible end-result expressed at the bottom.
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I view the situation as a very big pressure cooker, or an under-water Mt. St. Helen type explosive event - sudden release of pressure causes an explosive change of state from liquid under pressure, to gas
free to expand very quickly - and the gas burns hot and fast - perhaps like an air fuel bomb.

The drilling process is somewhat a new discovery each time - but there are many similarities - however the depths are somewhat new and thus experience is not complete enough to understand the
consequences of an action, or of the performance of equipment. The view of what is going on is at best a guess.

The drilling process is "hit and Miss" all the way down, and entry into all subsurface reservoirs is always a surprise - nothing can be well estimated in advance so tolerances must be heavily stacked on
the containment side of the balance;

connecting the well head to the sea surface platform is a balancing act - matching very high pressures from below with the weight of the 'virtual' tower of material balanced to contain the reservoir
pressures,

and this changes from heavy drilling mud, to sea water, and oil; gas is an enemy as it can empty the tower and it removes the counter weight - the height of the pipe contents. Like a barometer - the
pressure above and below can change.

The variables are primarily two: pressures below vary with heat and vibrations - both directly changing the crystal structure of the 'gas', and the pressure holding the gas into solution. Also, it seems the
process has several cascading events that can run away to disaster:

reduce the pressure or increase the heat, or physically agitate the 'system' and this radically increases pressure at depth which can decrease the counter pressure pushing down, thus increasing the release
of gas out of solution; redundantly.

Further complicating the overall system is that the process of decompression of the reservoir is it self a chilling event which can cause the methane and water mix to freeze and block pipes, or fractures -
allowing non-linear pressure changes - which again snap and explode upwardly. This physical jarring causes frozen gas to explosively become a contributing variable, further cascading the systems.

These events are physically jarring, and erratic - so a water hammer effect is likely also. The sudden heating and freezing is difficult on equipment, and thermal expansion (contraction) is not likely well
understood.

All of this would be complex enough, but it is also possible that frequencies and heat are being manipulated intentionally using exotic technologies; HAARP, and other scalar intervention must be
considered as likely 'weapons' to destabilize a consistency grossly more complex and unpredictable than normal shallow oil well balancing act - mud or oil above vs. pressure from below.
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The rock is difficult to drill through, it jams; "Other problems arose. The rock was so brittle in places that drilling mud cracked it open and escaped. One person familiar with the matter estimates BP lost
at least $15 million worth of the fluid."

the rock is fractured and brittle; the fractures are sealed with
"methane hydrates—solid, ice-like lumps that form when molecules of methane are encased in a tasty candy shell of water molecules, kept at low temperatures and under high pressure. "

"These deposits are common in the Gulf of Mexico, and they're now playing a role in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The formation of methane hydrate crystals was responsible for dooming efforts to
cap the broken, bleeding well with a containment dome. "

"And there's some speculation that methane hydrates might have caused the blast that touched off the whole disaster. Remember, the hydrates are essentially compressed gas. And while they can sit,
stable and safe, at the bottom of the ocean, changes in temperature or pressure can quickly launch an explosive breakdown."

- this makes the BOMB idea a bad idea, No?

Pressures surge radically, belching. This can completely clear the entire vertical rise of all counter weights - cascading out of control. This may happen when pressure is reduced 'some' below to allow
gas to come out of solution, which can jam valves, block, or free blocks of fluid or gas passage; and this gas / oil both enters and exits the well pipe from the reservoir below and along the entire vertical
rise shaft - between the fractured, stratified rock face and the cracked pipe centered (hopefully) in the hole with cement forced into the spacing to form an imperfect isolation of the internal and external
system.

Spacers are used to center the pipe into the drilled hole; but the hole is not uniform, has gas frozen in fractures which is an unstable seal, and varying pressures moving between this internal and external
boundary assure an imperfect separation of the two 'systems'; which fluctuate pressure, and volume of gas/fluid ratios, as well as water/oil ratios; and ratios of dissolved gas, water, oil, and other
materials - most likely.

Natural and artificial changes in the reservoir also cause cascading changes: "suggesting that hot fluids from deep underground had released gas from hydrate crystals " - Like microwave frequencies,
LAVA, scalar perhaps? HAARP ??

Roo - is this what you found perhaps?

Most recently, there is a quickening of the rate of uncontrolled or unexpected events: "the third well control incident at Gullfaks C in the past six months ... battling to regain control ... also a gas kick ...
well had proved problematic ... using different drilling methods" - so a trial and error with a race against the clock, and cost of the variable expenses such as mud, labor, etc. Human error - But from
Whom?

"But one intense kick of natural gas caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to be shut down because of the fear of an explosion just weeks before a similar release succeeded in destroying and
sinking the platform and sent millions of gallons of oil on a collision course with Louisiana and the rest of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico."

"Shortly before the accident, engineers argued about whether to remove heavy drilling mud that acted as a last defense against such catastrophic kicks, and the decision to replace the mud with much
lighter seawater won out."
"The decision was then made to begin withdrawing the drilling mud, a cocktail of clay, water and minerals used to keep downward pressure on the powerful fountain of oil and gas trying to push its way
up out of the tapped reservoir"

"On the afternoon of April 20, workers on the Deepwater Horizon rig noticed bits of rubber gurgling up through the pipe that connects the rig to the well. Not a good sign, thought Mike Williams, the
chief electronics technician. But he says that his supervisor told him, in effect, no big deal. "

"That night, the diesel engines that power the rig’s electrical generators began to race and run wild. They were sucking in gas that was suddenly flowing up through the pipe to the well. “I’m hearing
hissing. Engines are over-revving. And then all of a sudden, all the lights in my shop just started getting brighter and brighter and brighter. "

[scalar change, plasma field, or purely mechanical]

"And then I knew, we were, something bad was getting ready to happen,” Williams told the CBS News show 60 Minutes. A three-inch-thick steel door blew off its hinges and flung him across the
room. “And I remember thinking to myself, this, this is it. I am going to die right here."

[I am not sure if the generator increased speed because the air intake was sucking a flammable gas, or because the system load was reduced because all pumping heavy from depth stopped and the
system was all very light gas pushing up to allow the pumps to spin freely - or HD/scalar intervention]

"That day, workers discovered that gas was seeping into the well, according to drilling reports from the rig reviewed by the Journal. Workers lowered a measuring device to determine what was
happening, but when they tried to pull it back up, it wouldn't budge. Engineers eventually told them to plug the last 2,000 feet of the then-13,000-foot hole with cement and continue the well by drilling
off in a different direction. "

"The episode took days to resolve, according to drilling reports, not counting time lost to backtracking and re-drilling. Each additional day cost BP $1 million in rig lease and contractor fees. "

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I wish to hear opinions of the possible (theorized) "slow speed" eruption event - because of the vastness and nature of the reservoir, and the massive volume of fluid, saturated with dissolved gasses,
under very high pressures

- essentially a Mt. St. Helen event, caused by a very slow - incremental - cascading - inevitable - glacier-like-slow land slide - to snap in an unimaginably large scale

- yielding a [waves, death at sea and sea side (dead zone), oxygen starvation, oil, gas, dispersant] soup - all able to erupt as a grease fire - and we are now watching the initial sizzling of water as it drips
into the hot-oil deep-fryer; about to flash over.

Francisco Meana You always have to try.

May 30 at 9:16am ·

Vincent Cataldi Francisco: the little things that count,

and sum too, won't add up? U2 ... :)
May 30 at 3:50pm ·

Storm Thor VINCENT yes bomb terrible idea unless your intention is to make things worse ... its already been admitted that sealing it off could cause more damage by building up pressure that could
blow out a larger hole and then what? there is no data for how much oil is down there to be released if that were to happen out of an even larger hole would ... See More
May 30 at 3:54pm ·

Vincent Cataldi any stormy link to line #2-3 ... :)

May 30 at 3:59pm ·

Vincent Cataldi methane hydrate frequency - dissociation

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=391923496491

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Seismic wave attenuation in a methane hydrate reservoir
http://www.rocksolidimages.com/pdf/ICDvorkin08.pdf

Methane clathrate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate

High-pressure Raman study of methane hydrate "filled ice"

http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/215/1/012058/pdf/1742-6596_215_1_012058.pdf

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Methane Hydrate Using Polarizable Force Fields

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp068505k

Decreased stability of methane hydrates in marine sediments owing to phase-boundary roughness

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v420/n6916/full/nature01263.html

Promotion of Methane Hydrate Dissociation by Underwater Ultrasonic Wave

http://jjap.ipap.jp/link?JJAP%2F45%2F4816%2F
May 30 at 8:56pm ·

Vincent Cataldi Vincent Cataldi -> Richard C. Hoagland: methane hydrate frequency - dissociation

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=213984790088&share_id=121508717889272&comments=1#s121508717889272
Monday at 3:57am ·

Vincent Cataldi Vincent Cataldi Deepwater Horizon - Draft 1.A

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=391702826491
8 hours ago ·

Vincent Cataldi Vincent Cataldi -> Richard C. Hoagland: methane hydrate frequency - dissociation

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=213984790088&share_id=121508717889272&comments=1#s121508717889272
2 hours ago ·

Vincent Cataldi
All the Seismograms around the planet went crazy - UPDATED

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=391178956491
about an hour ago ·

Vincent Cataldi
All the Seismograms around the planet went crazy - GRAPHS

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15351&id=100000360291470&l=82839344a3
a few seconds ago ·
Monday at 6:19am ·

Chris Burch The sudden eruption of the contents of the reservoir of gas and oil is the horrible conclusion, the nightmare scenario we never envisioned, until now.So in effect there is no way to close the
lid on this...there never was. The dispersing agent that BP used in abundance creates another dimension heretofore unseen; oil encased in globs of gel that ... See More
Yesterday at 9:53am ·

Vincent Cataldi Chris: Never stop trying or praying;

the goal of my effort of exposure is simple; a dumb fool with no intel can figure it out, we are not going to Buy it as an accident - we (entire world) will not accept the lie they planned to use - so abort
mission;

we know the names and some will survive. I plastered this data world wide and it moves fast ... See More
Yesterday at 10:11am ·

Vincent Cataldi Debra Caruthers

For what it's worth, this article at RexResearch.com suggests using a Tesla Mechanical Oscillator to destroy the BP oil volcano. "Insert a TMO in or near the vent, and other TMOs @ distance ( in old
wells ) to dampen distant waves."

http://www.rexresearch.com/1index.htm... See More

2 hours ago ·

Vincent Cataldi not so radical an idea;

better than what our "'"Nice little N-BOMB'"" crowds cry for.
Yesterday at 8:33am ·
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Francisco Meana You always have to try.

May 30 at 9:16am ·

Vincent Cataldi Francisco: the little things that count,

and sum too, won't add up? U2 ... :)
May 30 at 3:50pm ·

Storm Thor VINCENT yes bomb terrible idea unless your intention is to make things worse ... its already been admitted that sealing it off could cause more damage by building up pressure that could
blow out a larger hole and then what? there is no data for how much oil is down there to be released if that were to happen out of an even larger hole would ... See More
May 30 at 3:54pm ·

Vincent Cataldi any stormy link to line #2-3 ... :)

May 30 at 3:59pm ·

Vincent Cataldi methane hydrate frequency - dissociation

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=391923496491

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Seismic wave attenuation in a methane hydrate reservoir
http://www.rocksolidimages.com/pdf/ICDvorkin08.pdf

Methane clathrate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate

High-pressure Raman study of methane hydrate "filled ice"

http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/215/1/012058/pdf/1742-6596_215_1_012058.pdf

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Methane Hydrate Using Polarizable Force Fields

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp068505k

Decreased stability of methane hydrates in marine sediments owing to phase-boundary roughness

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v420/n6916/full/nature01263.html
Promotion of Methane Hydrate Dissociation by Underwater Ultrasonic Wave
http://jjap.ipap.jp/link?JJAP%2F45%2F4816%2F
May 30 at 8:56pm ·

Vincent Cataldi Vincent Cataldi -> Richard C. Hoagland: methane hydrate frequency - dissociation

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=213984790088&share_id=121508717889272&comments=1#s121508717889272
Monday at 3:57am ·

Vincent Cataldi Vincent Cataldi Deepwater Horizon - Draft 1.A

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=391702826491
8 hours ago ·

Vincent Cataldi Vincent Cataldi -> Richard C. Hoagland: methane hydrate frequency - dissociation

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=213984790088&share_id=121508717889272&comments=1#s121508717889272
2 hours ago ·

Vincent Cataldi
All the Seismograms around the planet went crazy - UPDATED

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=391178956491
about an hour ago ·

Vincent Cataldi
All the Seismograms around the planet went crazy - GRAPHS

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15351&id=100000360291470&l=82839344a3
a few seconds ago ·
Monday at 6:19am ·

Chris Burch The sudden eruption of the contents of the reservoir of gas and oil is the horrible conclusion, the nightmare scenario we never envisioned, until now.So in effect there is no way to close the
lid on this...there never was. The dispersing agent that BP used in abundance creates another dimension heretofore unseen; oil encased in globs of gel that ... See More
Yesterday at 9:53am ·

Vincent Cataldi Chris: Never stop trying or praying;

the goal of my effort of exposure is simple; a dumb fool with no intel can figure it out, we are not going to Buy it as an accident - we (entire world) will not accept the lie they planned to use - so abort
mission;

we know the names and some will survive. I plastered this data world wide and it moves fast ... See More
Yesterday at 10:11am ·

Vincent Cataldi Debra Caruthers

For what it's worth, this article at RexResearch.com suggests using a Tesla Mechanical Oscillator to destroy the BP oil volcano. "Insert a TMO in or near the vent, and other TMOs @ distance ( in old
wells ) to dampen distant waves."

http://www.rexresearch.com/1index.htm... See More

2 hours ago ·