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Washington Post: Persistent rumors on ‘blogs’ that BP’s oil continues to spew into Gulf — FSU Expert: May be freshly released from Macondo reservoir

http://enenews.com/washington-post-persistent-rumors-on-blogs-that-bps-oil-continues-to-spew-into-gulf-fsu-expert-may-be-freshly-released-from-macondo-reservoir

Published: October 12th, 2012 at 5:58 pm ET 
By ENENews

We’ve just seen Tepco indirectly blame the anti-nuclear movement for the Fukushima disaster— Now there’s the Washington Post claiming that ‘blogs’, rather than experts, are behind the allegations that BP’s Macondo reservoir “is not truly dead”:

[…] a BP internal slide presentation said the new oil sheen probably came from the riser […] “the size and persistence of this slick, the persistent location of the oil slick origin point, the chemistry of the samples taken from the slick … suggest that the likely source of the slick is a leak of Macondo … oil mixed with drilling mud that had been trapped in the riser of the Deepwater Horizon rig.”

But Ian MacDonald, a professor of oceanography at Florida State University and a spill expert, cautioned said [sic] that the origin of the new oil remains uncertain. “The jury is out here,” he said, adding that it was too early “to rule out that this is oil freshly released from the reservoir.”

[…] there have been persistent rumors and allegations on blogs that Macondo is not truly dead, and that it is continuing to spew oil into the gulf. […]

More from Professor MacDonald via Washington’s Blog, Oct. 12, 2012: “The key statement in the BP discussion was the fact that oil recovered on the ocean surface was not biodegraded. This is not consistent with a pool of oil supposedly trapped in the wreckage of the riser, which would have been exposed to ambient bacterial activity for over two years.”

The Washington Post reporters may want to consider a follow-up article using information provided by experts (not ‘blogs’) such as these:

• University of California Scientist: “It could be a persistent, significant, continuous oil spill again, and that would require BP to go back
• Stanford geophysicist suggests BP blowout could be traced to “cracks that formed in an underwater formation”
• Engineer who worked for BP: Geology around blow-out is “fractured” and “could keep leaking for years”

October 13, 2012 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized