BP Oil Disaster Could Hit Europe Via the Powerful Gulf Stream Current
By: F William Engdahl
Market Oracle
Jun 10, 2010
The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could continue for years unless decisive steps are undertaken, something that seems far from the present strategy.
In a recent discussion, Vladimir Kutcherov, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and the Russian State University of Oil and Gas, predicted that the present oil spill flooding the Gulf Coast shores of the United States “could go on for years and years … many years.”
According to Kutcherov, a leading specialist in the theory of abiogenic deep origin of petroleum, “What BP drilled into was what we call a ‘migration channel,’ a deep fault on which hydrocarbons generated in the depth of our planet migrate to the crust and are accumulated in rocks, something like Ghawar in Saudi Arabia.” Ghawar, the world’s most prolific oilfield has been producing millions of barrels daily for almost 70 years with no end in sight. According to the abiotic science, Ghawar like all elephant and giant oil and gas deposits all over the world, is located on a migration channel similar to that in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.
As I wrote at the time of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake disaster, Haiti had been identified as having potentially huge hydrocasrbon reserves, as has neighboring Cuba. Kutcherov estimates that the entire Gulf of Mexico is one of the planet’s most abundant accessible locations to extract oil and gas, at least before the Deepwater Horizon event this April.
“In my view the heads of BP reacted with panic at the scale of the oil spewing out of the well,” Kutcherov adds. “What is inexplicable at this point is why they are trying one thing, failing, then trying a second, failing, then a third. Given the scale of the disaster they should try every conceivable option, even if it is ten, all at once in hope one works. Otherwise, this oil source could spew oil for years given the volumes coming to the surface already.”
He stresses, “It is difficult to estimate how big this leakage is. There is no objective information available.” But taking into consideration information about the last BP ‘giant’ discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, the Tiber field, some six miles deep, Kutcherov agrees with Ira Leifer a researcher in the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara who says the oil may be gushing out at a rate of more than 100,000 barrels a day.
What the enormoity of the oil spill does is to also further discredit clearly the oil companies’ myth of “peak oil” which claims that the world is at or near the “peak” of economical oil extraction. That myth, which has been propagated in recent years by circles close to former oilman and Bush Vice President, Dick Cheney, has been effectively used by the giant oil majors to justify far higher oil prices than would be politically possible otherwise, by claiming a non-existent petroleum scarcity crisis.
Obama & BP Try to Hide
According to a report from Washington investigative journalist Wayne Madsen, “the Obama White House and British Petroleum are covering up the magnitude of the volcanic-level oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and working together to limit BP’s liability for damage caused by what can be called a ‘mega-disaster.’” Madsen cites sources within the US Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA, and Florida Department of Environmental Protection for his assertion.
Obama and his senior White House staff, as well as Interior Secretary Salazar, are working with BP’s chief executive officer Tony Hayward on legislation that would raise the cap on liability for damage claims from those affected by the oil disaster from $75 million to $10 billion. According to informed estimates cited by Madsen, however, the disaster has a real potential cost of at least $1,000 billion ($1 trillion). That estimate would support the pessimistic assessment of Kutcherov that the spill, if not rapidly controlled, “will destroy the entire coastline of the United States.”
According to the Washington report of Madsen, BP statements that one of the leaks has been contained, are “pure public relations disinformation designed to avoid panic and demands for greater action by the Obama administration., according to FEMA and Corps of Engineers sources.”
The White House has been resisting releasing any “damaging information” about the oil disaster. Coast Guard and Corps of Engineers experts estimate that if the ocean oil geyser is not stopped within 90 days, there will be irreversible damage to the marine eco-systems of the Gulf of Mexico, north Atlantic Ocean, and beyond. At best, some Corps of Engineers experts say it could take two years to cement the chasm on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.
Only after the magnitude of the disaster became evident did Obama order Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano to declare the oil disaster a “national security issue.” Although the Coast Guard and FEMA are part of her department, Napolitano’s actual reasoning for invoking national security, according to Madsen, was merely to block media coverage of the immensity of the disaster that is unfolding for the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean and their coastlines.
The Obama administration also conspired with BP to hide the extent of the oil leak, according to the cited federal and state sources. After the oil rig exploded and sank, the government stated that 42,000 gallons per day were gushing from the seabed chasm. Five days later, the federal government upped the leakage to 210,000 gallons a day. However, submersibles monitoring the escaping oil from the Gulf seabed are viewing television pictures of what they describe as a “volcanic-like” eruption of oil.
When the Army Corps of Engineers first attempted to obtain NASA imagery of the Gulf oil slick, which is larger than is being reported by the media, it was reportedly denied the access. By chance, National Geographic managed to obtain satellite imagery shots of the extent of the disaster and posted them on their web site. Other satellite imagery reportedly being withheld by the Obama administration, shows that what lies under the gaping chasm spewing oil at an ever-alarming rate is a cavern estimated to be the size of Mount Everest. This information has been given an almost national security-level classification to keep it from the public, according to Madsen’s sources.
The Corps of Engineers and FEMA are reported to be highly critical of the lack of support for quick action after the oil disaster by the Obama White House and the US Coast Guard. Only now has the Coast Guard understood the magnitude of the disaster, dispatching nearly 70 vessels to the affected area. Under the loose regulatory measures implemented by the Bush-Cheney Administration, the US Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service became a simple “rubber stamp,” approving whatever the oil companies wanted in terms of safety precautions that could have averted such a disaster. Madsen describes a state of “criminal collusion” between Cheney’s former firm, Halliburton, and the Interior Department’s MMS, and that the potential for similar disasters exists with the other 30,000 off-shore rigs that use the same shut-off valves.
Silence from Eco groups?… Follow the money
Without doubt at this point we are in the midst of what could be the greatest ecological catastrophe in history. The oil platform explosion took place almost within the current loop where the Gulf Stream originates. This has huge ecological and climatological consequences.
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Thank you for revealing, I stumbled upon this article whilst looking for infomation for my term report, fascinating comments and great points produced.
After close to two months, everything has failed…this oil will gush for years; all hope is gone and the gulf coast is trashed for future generations; millions of jobs lost. Check out latest interview with Alex Jones interviewing Lindsey Williams as it is a real eye opener. Laura
You’ve WON the Pulitzer and DESERVE it for this article!
EXCELLENT! We at Project Shining City salute you.
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The Polyglot Blame Game
Goes on in the Gulf of Mexico
by Paul Szemanczky
Read these quotes and reflect on the Obamian-Hitler Myth still being perpetuated and controlled by the Mass Media of the West. Remember: First and Always, a dictator lets himself be bound by the people to the policy which he wanted.
“Past as it is, the truth remains that the effective damage caused by the spill day after day is absolutely the fault of Barack Hussein Obama and his continuing campaign to use the power of the President and myriad bureaucracies to assure every variety of crisis can persist and, as we see with the Oil spill, thrive, solely for political purposes. This is Change, the transformation in American Government, We Can not only Believe In, but See in Vivid Detail as the Chicago Way Goes National” – Toddy Littman (from his essay: “An Observer’s Journal of Day 44″ (June 2nd), Project Shining City post: 6/8/10)
“The dynamic driving force of the Hitler myth allowed, in fact, no stabilization or ‘normalization’, but rather conditioned circumstances in which the traditional ‘ruling class’ (our present enfeebled Congress) became ever more subsumed in and dependent upon the ‘behemoth’ of the Nazi State which it was no longer able to control in its mad rush to destruction.” – Ian Kershaw (from his history: “The Hitler Myth”)
The oil spill may have between 20-30 years to unravel its geological pastiche of sheer destruction. But Obama and Tony Hayward of BP both, if they are honest men (and I believe neither qualifies for that natural wonder prize), wish for a branch of Alzheimer’s disease to share -anything to forget for a few days or for the rest of their lives the Gulf masque of black death they will be remembered by. The history of their habitat destruction is already written. Why should we believe in this pair of liars that by next August two fragile attempts to drill a pair of acute angled pipe and well casings into the DeepWater Horizon reservoir will stop or even reduce what might be 25+ more years of endless crude oil flowing into all our 7 Seas? Both are inveterate liars, perched on-high, and lacking all the summer colors of youth; leaders without hope or anything to follow but a ceaseless rhetoric of destructive change.. Men made of naked soul, who seek some refuge in the land of the dead, since they’ve abandoned the Gulf, and failed to keep their own counsel. This Wednesday, 6/16/10, the 58th day of the natural disaster in the Gulf, Tony Hayward and Obama will meet for the very first time, due to the latter’s total inconsistency to grapple the handle of leadership; Obama’s greatest fear it seems is to project a plan, a plan of attack, or of leadership- so we must await their cabal. Truly it will prove devastating to out nation’s health and seem, no doubt to be, another blind shot in the dark by these incredibly stupid (or sinister) men.
We of Project Shining City staff share the feelings of the 5 survivors interviewed by Anderson Cooper, CNN reporter, 6/8/10, when one of the men (Doug Brown) who was rescued from the burning oil rig recalled: “It’s not a dream (my life, alive and living, today) but through the day the nightmare continues.” Like Mr. Brown we too are full of subdued angst and try to report accurately the details of the fools who’ve led us into this ecological nightmare which will haunt us for years. Bill O’Reilly, FOX anchor, sees it as a masterpiece in-the-making of anger: “The US is an angry nation now, and the fuse has been lit… Americans sense they are losing control over their own destiny, and that message seems written in the sky.” Only O’Reilly wants most of us, like himself, to bridle that debilitating anger, that flushed reaction we ALL have (all parties and ideologues), so as not to strike at what’s wrong, not to lash out, not to GET TOO ANGRY with each other. He and Chris Wallace, anchor of FOX News ‘Sunday’ both agreed (6/11/10) that Obama’s anger “TO KICK SOME ASS” seemed highly contrived. To me it seemed to be a phony sadistic craving for anger. To others it was an artificial posture. Regardless, it had a hidden purpose that fashioned whatever has to happen in order to appease the critics and the pollsters, the Obama style. But unlike Hitler, little Obama was as committed to it as a child is to a dripping sun-drenched ice cream cone. Maybe Obama will send a letter “firing” Hayward before he steps inside the White House on Wednesday -that’s more his style of decision-making, a cowardly one of flapping arms. Both stupid men have been floating beneath the oil in the Gulf for 55 days like two enemy submarine commanders waiting for a chance to fire a torpedo at each other. In this duel of reckless ‘Murmurings’ neither one seems able to face the cold steel required to say: “I, Tony Hayward… I Barack Obama… haven’t any damn idea how to solve this g-d mess I’ve made.” That requires an honesty other than serving oneself. Not a single blade of grass turning brown with oil can move either one out of his lair beneath the oil sheen of their sunken brains, their lying eyes, Obama’s nonsensical walks on the Louisiana beach, Hayward’s impassive promise on the BP commercial to right all wrongs. They walk the path of the ignoble while pretending to all but each other that they know ‘a patient solution’ out of this mess.
Why don’t these two jerks do an autopsy of an adult turtle that washed up on a barrier island shore and smell the cloying guts which swallowed the jellyfish that was drenched in oil which killed the turtle? Throw that turtle degutted on the mahogany table next to their club sandwiches sent from the White House kitchen on Wednesday and reflectively ask: ‘What struggle preceded this death?’ But they won’t share that thought! I imagine there’s a sign over Obama’s desk, similar to one found in Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”: “Force is the first law. Force, however, is more than the decisive fact in any situation; it is force which also creates right. Always before God and the world, the stronger has the right to carry thorough what he wills.” So let us, you and I, and especially the sad residents along the Gulf be drenched in the light of their combined Promethean will, the Hayward-Obama combination that brings (oil) ‘fire to the world, and lights the way’…but not into the middle of the marshes, those unseen, forbidden zones, CNN reporter Rob Marciano reminds us (6/8/10). There the boats involved in the recovery of the dying marine mammals and sea birds do not enter in, do not enter through where the death and dying of countless animals carries no weight on the conscience in any dialogue into the Obamian-Hayward will of force and suppression.
Remember it took until 6/8/10 for independent scientists to receive high resolution footage of the gulf bottom leak, raging like a blinded god, proclaiming 40,000 barrels are certainly gushing from this bleeding eye everyday. That new resolution’s accuracy and the failure of the Cut and Cap method have GREATLY INCREASED the flow discharge by all reasonable estimates of the flow engineer experts. Let me rewrite my mathematical calculation from last week to reflect this change to Day 130, late August 2010, when the two relief (acute-angled) wells will (hopefully) rescue BP and cease the outrageous flow poisoning the Gulf States. Day 130 minus Day 55 = 75 days till that momentous end of perdition, till the end of the flow itself. If you unwisely and faithfully believe in the magical séance of the Promethean will of Obama-Hayward, then I’m afraid you have to do the following calculation as well: 75 days X 40,000* barrels (* the ‘logical estimate’ made by CEO Doug Suttles of BP re-calculated after the failed Cut and Cap attempt made (6/6/10)) equals = 3,000,000 more barrels to enter the Gulf over the next 75 days. That is exactly 126,000,000 gallons above the 73,920,000 gallons already in the gulf by this date, 6/13/10. The cutting of the Cap created a leak as wide as a normal 44 gallon garbage can in diameter, according to Ira Lifer, flow engineer, interviewed by Anderson Cooper on 6/8/10. The oil raging out on the live video to my eye appears much more than 20%, BP’s estimate, and may be far greater according to Lifer.
Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) claimed on CNN (6/8/10): “There has been a pattern of misconduct to deceive us to the amount of oil because the level of fines is based on the amount of oil (in barrel counts) escaping from the leaks.” The high resolution film destroys the BP subterfuge to hide the truth; the high resolution encompasses the full magnitude of the Obama-Salazar-Hayward-Coast Guard lies in all their 51 days of conceived deception with their low-resolution video. Here was a game to salvage nothing over a company’s market value in the eyes of its shareholders and pensioners. Now, because of this red tape fix, and because of Congressman Markey’s insistence on the truth of flow revealed, a martial attitude exists between England and the US over the dividend payments due 18,000,000 share holders of BP preferred and common stocks. War footing vibrates the floorboards in BP’s national headquarters: will bankruptcy be their only option? I see it now: Obama will tax 1 $trillion in an emergency fund to strip the loincloth off a broken capitalism twisted US-GDP, and BP slides beneath the waves of dissolution into international courtroom brawls that last 40 years.
Meanwhile, never ignore the good in a terrible crisis (in the words of Rahm Emanuel), Senate Democrats are calling for (5/12/10) a 512% oil tax hike for a spill liability fund to cover the phenomenal clean-up. $3 billion already exists from taxes in an oil slush fund, but they appear loathe to use it to ease the pain of the Gulf coast businesses that are presently about to fail. First, tax the citizens at the pump, then crush the shareholders of BP, in what appears to be a confirmed attempt to use Congress to treat a major non-national company like a tool to be broken. Seize the $10 billion annual dividend paid out by BP to the 18,000,000 shareholders, even though such action is internationally unacceptable and a severe violation of law. And it is here Obama remains sternly silent, ever searching for a way to gain a constant psychological mobilization that might bind the masses to him in a Hitlerian fashion in his 50-odd days of oily despair. All he really needs is for the continuation of a media frenzied love of him to override the weakness of the Tea Party and Conservative Republican resistance to his regime. The media are the firecrackers he has lined up on the picnic table to fire at will, at his command. They are the torpedo’s he can fire at TO KICK ASS and to muster a “massive capitalistic State implosion,” in the words of Glen Beck (6/9/10). Neither CNN nor the major networks will ever allow Carvell or anyone else again in both national parties to attack him on his public image, or his own mythological preservation. They mend and re-mend his ‘protective shield’ through November, count on it! He has been their greatest propaganda triumph for European Socialism: for their own secret desire to level economic jobless disparity in the middle class through an executive power re-built by a media directed to “find a way to the people,” via a Hitlerian idolization. He may never fear the loss of personal popularity unless he utterly fails -like Pelosi found out this week- the core base of the Progressive Left, the core Chicago neo-Nazi-Socialist elites who sent him to us. Never LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE, and in the end, the Gulf Crisis, like the burning of the Reichstag in Nazi Germany, may be the vehicle to create the American Black Fuhrer.
“…I have led back into the homeland the millions of deeply unhappy Germans who had been torn away from us. I have re-created the 1,000 year historic unity of the German living-space, and I have attempted to do all this without spilling blood and without inflicting on my people or on others the suffering of war. I have managed this from my own strength, as one who twenty-one years ago was an unknown worker and soldier of my people.” – Adolf Hitler, in a speech given to the Reichstag, 28 April 1939. **** It is so easy to be triumphant and lie before the world, to cast aspersions, to denigrate even England, a true ally, when Obama’s loyalty remains only his progressive social-fascist agenda, and his hand-picked team of commensurables. A crisis builds success and many crises build recurring successes, think both Hitler and Obama. We must be grateful, I suppose, their statesmanship never co-existed. And yet the millions of dead sea marine life in the end will mean less to the latter than the bloody grout of lives destroyed in a world war did to the former. As Hitler surmised in May of ’39, 4 months before the start of war: “The hope that we can win cheaply is a dangerous hope.” Just ask the people around the gulf, or the benzene and hydrogen sulphide smelling shorelines (and the fishermen turned BP oil-gatherers), what ‘cheap’ is?
It took the Mexican government 10 months to cap the leaking Ixtoc I. 3 months into the Deepwater Horizon and its beginning to look as bleak.
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