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To: FJB who wrote (21400)6/22/2010 11:50:22 AM
From: Road Walker  Respond to of 86355
 
The leak is coming from the hole(wellbore) BP drilled. There is no other leak.

Your chart shows the relief wells intersecting above where the wellbore meets the reservoir. So far at least the "common knowledge" is that the leak is much higher, above the seabed of the Gulf.



To: FJB who wrote (21400)6/22/2010 11:54:19 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 86355
 
You're right. There's 13,000 feet of sediments between the reservoir and the seabed ... any leaking from something other than the wellbore, that would be a natural seep. There are of course natural seeps close by .... the NOAA recently found some. But they've been seeping for thousands of years and we don't really know what their source is.


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