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To: ChanceIs who wrote (134992)	6/15/2010 10:38:31 AM
From: kollmhn	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 206209

Chancels- Gulf floor collapse? Won't say it can't happen but, stop to think about it. Estimates are that the reservoir could hold 2 BILLION barrels. At 5.5 cu feet/barrel that reservoir is 11 billion cubic feet. The reservoir is 3.5 MILES below the sea floor. Assume (a) the reservoir thickness is just 50 feet (I just picked a number). That would give you an area of 2.9 miles x 2.9 miles. At 100 feet, the area would be 2 miles square. Adjust your estimates accordingly. Presumably this cavern would not tend toward collapse until it has been appreciably drained. But, considering this isn't the first reservoir to have been drained but not collapse, why would one expect this one to do so? A lot of gnashing of teeth for naught, imo.