BP Questions Linger: A Tale Of Two Wells (VIDEO)
60 Minutes BP Video: A Tale of Two Wells
Guest post submitted by attorney Don Smith.
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“Where’s Fluffy?” – BP’s attempt to switch out America’s dead hamster.
I will admit to not following the spill as closely as some. I would see the live feed of the endless stream of oil, and laugh as the Daily Show mocked BP’s now-former CEO for his political tone-deafedness, and change the channel quickly when the parade of oil-soaked birds and turtles came on.
But all of that came to a screeching halt Friday night. I saw a short video (above) that has had me truly shocked. In “Tale of Two Wells,” the filmmaker shows that there are two wells; therefore, it’s very possible that the capping the world witnessed on July 15, 2010 was fake and the well that was leaking 100,000 barrels a day into the gulf is in fact still an uncontrolled torrent.
The video is not clearly edited and the soundtrack is a bit overly dramatic, but as I processed the twist at the end, I found myself staring blankly at my monitor. Having seen videos posted by truthers and birthers and various other conspiracy theorists, I am quick to dismiss radical claims. But the claim made in this video is that there is still an unchecked torrent of oil flowing into the gulf but we think it’s stopped because BP is showing us a capped well that is 314 feet away from the well that blew out.
Eager to vet the claims, I googled a few terms and found a few pieces of information. First was the drilling application and lease filed by BP with MMR. http://www.gomr.mms.gov/PI/PDFImages/PLANS/29/29977.pdf On page 3, the map of proposed exploration shows the coordinates of the two wells. Well A had an East coordinate ending in 803. These coordinates are feet. Well B is at 514 East. A little Pythagorean calculation shows that these proposed wellheads are 314 feet apart.
After that, I found a 4-part YouTube series by tvryb that starts here. Each part is 5-10 minutes long, and he lays out a painstakingly deliberate explanation of what he found. For a great overview, watch those.
I had watched the 60 Minutes interview a week or so ago and when I saw the clips in the “Tale” video, it came rushing back. 60 Minutes never referenced a second well head. And in fact, in March, BP was before the House Energy and Commerce Commission talking about the trouble they were having drilling the well. That well was capped off at that time. A search on the House website turns up many emails related to this issue. BP capped Well A on March 12, from the emails.
As I got to the end of his series, I decided to try to find some youtube videos of the live feeds from the ROVs back before July and then after BP said the wells were capped. That was easy, as there are tons. What I found verified the claims being made. You can see them here yourself.
From before Tropical Storm Bonnie –
This ROV feed was on May 30, 2010. Oil plumes into the Gulf and the coordinates are above – 512 – two feet from the drill site of Well B, the one that so violently blew out in April during drilling operations. Remember, Well A had been capped, and there were no drilling operations at the time. A blowout on that wellhead would have had no effect on the drilling rig, though it would have had the same devastating environmental impact that the blowout on Well B had.
After Bonnie –
This image is from July 11, and shows BP sliding the cap over the well head to seal it off. However, you’ll notice that the coordinates of this site are at 783. There are many feeds showing this capping process and all have coordinates from 770-820. All are within 30 feet of Well A. A quick youtube or google news search for feeds will provide more of these mismatched coordinates.
So the question is – which well is BP showing us? On BP’s homepage, they only reference “The MC252 Well”. Why is that? Why are they not specifying A or B?
So, here I am, just a guy with an internet connection, hoping that we can all bring enough pressure to bear on BP to have them first acknowledge the fact that there are two wells, second, train the cameras on Well B, and third, fix whatever else is going wrong down there. I would say call your congressman or write your paper, but also, forward it on to your friends. Post it on Facebook or Twitter. Or, someone show me why this glaringly obvious conflicting evidence is not at all out of the ordinary.
And if there isn’t a good explanation, then once again, sharpen your pitchforks, because it’s angry mob time.
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Aug 16, 2010 at 1:51 PM
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Next Major Toxic Hazard that Can Ruin You and Your Children’s Health
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/16/next-major-toxic-hazard-that-can-ruin-you-and-your-childrens-health.aspx
The big cover up is starting to come out, and what the goverment is realy doing to the gulf, and its people. Hang on, this winter everything is going to fly wide open.
You can only hide a lye just so long. And the goverment is not real good at covering up thier tracks. The goverments bull shit is leaking more than the oil well its self.
Funny video...at about 1:58 you start to hear a truck backing up...it is very symbolic.
You will like the video DB...she blames Bush...
Brian, don't take minor criticism so hard. I know I appreciate your efforts, and I think we all do.
I've been looking at some of your other videos. In "strange object on skandi ROV 2",the coordinates seem to read E: 1202721 N:10431565. In BOA ROV HIT BY ERUPTION FROM SEA FLOOR the coordinates are E: 1202844 N:10431764. Were the ROVs in transit?
Very interesting story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbWYl9GvT6o&p=93188243F6D0495F&playnext=1
video from "somewhere else"
http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/search/5/O-rJH9xB7fk
FYI Russi Today seems to have a lot of feed video, if anyone wants to pursure this further.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVPcqICJpmw
@ 3:21 coordinates change from
E: 1202115 N: 10432031 to:
E:1202764 N: 10432231
WTF?
I am trying to get people to see your video. I showed it to a couple of people and they didn't "see" the crucial elements of the docs as they scan by. The "Well A" and "Well B" are not highlighted in any way, so a viewer seeing this for the first time misses that critical piece of information. That's what I meant by not edited clearly. But your video got me to sit up and take note, and that's to your great credit. I actually didn't mind the music, but I wanted to prepare viewers for it so they focus on the information and not the presentation.
All I can say to you is well done. I don't care about post-production. I care about the content. I care about getting enough eyeballs on your video so that pressure can be brought to bear to get eyeballs on Well B. I've sent emails to any blog or news outlet I can, including commenting on blog posts.
How can we all work together to get this info out there?
Don
where is the oil...are the dispersants getting rid of it...
This is why all the Corexet is still being pumped into the water by the BOP. Its only use is to break up the iol so it will stay below the surface.
50% of the gulf water is now full of droplets. Reamber the piece I posted how our goverment and BP wants to turn it into a dead zone to farm Algae.
Well, they should have it done by next summer. I wouldent eat a thing from the gulf. Sorry, but it gets into the living cells of all living things that inguest the water.
I think this guy more than did his home work. Is he right, Maby.......Is he wrong, dosent look like it, Ha ? It all gos back to that post I tryed to put up Sat. night.
Whats Wrong with America. A much deeper Darker Secert is going on with just about everything the goverment has its fingers on.
Every night the MSM, asks the question with out saying much...........where has all the "Oil Gone" ? I think they are setting up the people for the big anouncement next June. It would take that long for everything to die off.
From Dr. Mercola web site.....................
"It is estimated that burning, skimming and direct recovery from the wellhead removed one quarter (25%) of the oil released from the wellhead. One quarter (25%) of the total oil naturally evaporated or dissolved, and just less than one quarter (24%) was dispersed (either naturally or as a result of operations) as microscopic droplets into Gulf waters.
The residual amount — just over one quarter (26%) — is either on or just below the surface as light sheen and weathered tar balls, has washed ashore or been collected from the shore, or is buried in sand and sediments."
The remaining "residual" oil, along with the oil that has been chemically and naturally dispersed are "currently being degraded naturally," according to the government report.
With a glowing report like this one, it makes you wonder if the U.S. government is in collusion with BP. Already the report is drawing criticism that it is deliberately trying to play down the real impacts of the spill.
As Samantha Joye, a marine scientist at the University of Georgia who has conducted important research regarding the spill, told the New York Times:
"A lot of this is based on modeling and extrapolation and very generous assumptions. If an academic scientist put something like this out there, it would get torpedoed into a billion pieces."
You can also listen to this shocking interview with top EPA official Hugh Kaufman, which reveals that the NOAA and the EPA are covering up the lethal effects of dispersants and lying about Gulf Oil Spill water samples to save BP billions of dollars in fines.
At the very least, it appears the government has completely overlooked the toxic effects of the dispersants used to "remove" much of the oil. "Massive oil slicks don't just "disappear" from the ocean" . Instead, many were treated with harsh chemical solvents that simply transferred the oil from the ocean's surface to the delicate waters below.
BP and US government representatives had hoped to complete a "bottom kill" procedure and officially pronounce the well dead by mid-August, but the US pointman on the oil spill response said Monday the bid was on hold.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100817/ts_alt_afp/usoilenvironmentpollutiondeadline
MSU senior charged in case also arrested last year at a protest
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100817/POLITICS02/8170368/1022/Levin-hit-with-pie-at-Big-Rapids-event#ixzz0wt6toQFr
If anyone finds this clip, please send it my way...or post it here...
Ron Paul still leads in kentucky,,,
Here Are The Details Behind Today's Ugly Housing Starts Number
The Pony-Show of stall & restall, just to stall & restall again is to keep the hope up with the gulf people. Why are they stalling again with the deep bore down deep, maby they dont have enought oil in the water yeat.
When they do, they'll plug it. Why did a bardge run over a BOP, and they let it leak many days. Maby its still squriting oil today. They need to kill everything on shore, and this one will do the job.
@ mark mchugh
You are right, BP & Goverment is in No Hurry to stop the leak. You need to look at it from thier point of view, and what we have found out from the "Snoop Dogs" on the internet, if it wasent for them, we'ed be in the dark. MSM is on thier side.
Or better put, think like the "Bad Guy" with intent to harm, then the picture is much more clearly as to what & why thier doing thier dirty work. ( I Hope Im Wrong" ) but thinking like the goverment dose, im right on.........!
Steve, per the link you just posted..................... Final Gulf oil well 'kill' plan on hold amid pressure fears................
Wait, they told us the well is caped at the top. No oil is leaking into the gulf water, right. Then "What Pressure" are they talking about.
Oh Wait, thats right. The top cap is on the other well, you know, the one that was caped a year ago. So if they are going to cap the real leaking well, and the pressure dose build up, Ka-Bam..............the whole sea floor blowes apart, as some are saying.
The title wave at 100' will hit the cost and flood the state of Fl. They say there is a 1/4 mi. crack in the sea bed floor at the well site. Its spewing oil all a long the crack. Thats why they need to go so deep to try and shut er down.
Since the first of August, Mississippi fishermen have found oil in the marshes of their barrier islands, seen massive fish kills and scooped up submerged oil in Pass Christian. Nonetheless, Bill Walker, director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, declared on August 9, "there should be no new threats" and issued an order for all local coastal governments to halt oil disaster work being funded by BP money that was granted to the state.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-17/bp-oil-spill-cover-up/2/
"That's a bunch of bull," says Mark Stewart in telephone interview with The Daily Beast. "There is oil all through the water column. We've proved it and they do nothing about it."
Stewart even has a video on YouTube showing his crew dipping an absorbent cloth into the Gulf water three-quarters of a mile off the Mississippi beaches. When it's pulled out of the water after less than two minutes, the cloth is covered with oil. There is so much oil on the surface that it reflects sunlight like a mirror. There, too, the commercial fishermen are concerned about the dispersants.
Fishermen find oil and dispersants on Mississippi shrimping and oyster grounds Aug. 13 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxAUGiIXMwU&feature=player_embedded#!
Seems to me that were being lyed to here.....? What do you guys think, maby its just me ?
The existence of oil is irrefutable, Miller said. Oil has reappeared on beaches in Alabama, Petit Bois and Horn islands and continues to wash ashore in Louisiana, he said.
Miller said there also is evidence of submerged oil.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/gulf-shrimpers-find-oil-reopened-fishing-areas-governnment-says-shut-sierra-club-alleges-are
Something "Fishy" is going on here............
This whole concept of submerged oil and the application of dispersants in the subsurface and what are the impacts that it could have, have changed the paradigm of what an oil spill is from a.............. 2-dimensional surface disaster to a 3-dimensional catastrophe,"............... said David Hollander, a chemical oceanographer and one of the lead scientists on the recent USF mission.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/17/scientists-toxic-oil-settling-on-gulf-floor/
Researchers describe 'a constellation' of oil droplets mixed with sediment. Phytoplankton, the base of the marine food web, is found to be in poor health nearby.
Looks like the only thing that is "Good" in the gulf, is that its almost ready for the goverments Algai Farming to begin...........
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-fish-20100818,0,7774739.story?om_rid=NQ-S6t&om_mid=_BMa9n9B8SwQIfO&
Here is a piece I posted 6 weeks ago. This is why im saying the gulf spill was on pourpous. Wheather the NK Mini Sub started it in the begining we may neaver know. I posted than on Steves site 5 weeks before this one.
Maby BP thought that one up to cover thier tracks. I've always said im hoping im wrong, but it keeps adding up to I may not be. Many now know 911 was pulled off by our goverment, so this may be just one more stunt to try and distract us. But this time its for thier $$$$$$ gain.
What do you think of this info, "If Its True".........................................
When I first started looking into this situation I received this email from someone:
In the course of our investigation into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we have uncovered some startling information.
What I am about to tell you will knock you out of your seats.
There is a lot more going on in the Gulf of Mexico than the oils spill.
This administration and many other entities like BP, Citi, Nalco, GM, GE, Goldman Sachs, University of Chicago, holding companies along with Dept of Defense, Billionaires and Politicians are all vested in biofuels.
What is going on in the Gulf is directly related to this new industry.
There is an Algae these companies are interested in.
From the mouth of the Mississippi river, all along the Gulf coast and spreading down to the Everglades is prime area for growing this Algae. Crist is aware of this. He's funding it.There is a couple of other prime spots too. Chesapeake is one area and the Great Lakes is another. (Funny, we already had a Great Lakes Czar and a Chesapeake Czar.) (Now we have a Gulf Czar too!)
As you know, the oil continues to flow in the Gulf.
It looks incompetent when assessing the response to the crisis. It is not incompetence. It is intentional and willfull destruction.
They are spraying dispersants that are toxic to sea life. The dispersants hold the oil below the surface. Ask yourselves why you would want that. Wouldn't it be easier to vacuum the oil if it were floating?
They are not letting foreign tankers in to help. Even the few barges Jindal got his hands on were stalled, citing they need to be inspected to see if they carried enough life vests. They did.
They even pass the buck as to who is in charge. BP says they were in charge. O says he's in charge. The Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen says he's in charge. They run us in circles to divert the real questions.
If you have noticed, most of their news conferences have very little to do with action response, instead focusing on claims processing.
This is not incompetence. It is an intentional strategy. They don't want to clean it up or even try to contain it.
What they are doing is in three steps.
First get rid of oil industry in Gulf.
Then turn Gulf into a dead zone. A dead zone is free of life or ability to sustain it. The oil, dispersants and fertilizers deplete oxygen. It kills animals and fish, also turning their remains into fertilizer.
Finally, use Gulf as a giant Algae farm. Algae grows on water surface, getting oxygen from air, not water. Fertilizers like Urea supply much needed nitrogen. The Mississippi and the other rivers that empty into Gulf also pick up fertilizers from the many farms along the way. This feeds the Algae at the mouths of these rivers.
The oil in the water won't hurt the Algae. It will only promote it's growth and burn factor.
Algae costs about $2. a Barrel to refine. This is potentially very profitable.
The down side is , there isn't enough Algae to sustain the demand. It takes a lot of Algae to produce a single barrel. That means they need a huge place to grow and multiply the supply of this Algae. Right now they don't have this enormous Algae farm location. They have the desire, the technology, the investments and companies all set up.They have even taken the steps to map out the plan.
That plan involves projects in the Great Lakes., Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
This oil spill whether sabotage, negligence, accident or design is the perfect way to eliminate fossil fuels such as oil and to advance his biofuel agenda..
They will sacrifice the Gulf and all who live in or around it for this multi Trillion Dollar industry.
This also ties in with Carbon capture and exchange. You all know about the Chicago Carbon Exchange, Cap & Trade and even O's support of Kyoto, so I won't bore you with history.
All the signs are there. Oil in the gulf, then bardge runs over a well site, and oil is spewing for a week now............ in La, ...............18" pipe cut in Mich. & 1 million Gal. is headding for lake Mich. read this.........
Kalamazoo River Oil Spill (PHOTOS): Cleanup Efforts Underway In Michigan
The Kalamazoo River oil spill has resulted in more than 800,000 gallons of spilled oil in southern Michigan since Monday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/28/kalamazoo-river-oil-spill_n_662829.html
Golly-Gee-Wize, and all the Kings Horses & all the Kings men, couldent put America back to geather again.....? I keep saying I hope not right for the sake of the people and animals on this planet. The Clock is Ticking...................Tick.........Tick........Tick !
BP accused of withholding 'critical' spill data
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1310&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20100819%2F5627.htm&sc=1310&floc=NI-ne2
No wonder the anti-growth, anti-development, anti-jobs zealots are cheering. The National Ocean Council is co-chaired by wackadoodle science czar John Holdren (notorious for his cheerful musings about eugenics, mass sterilization and forced abortions to protect Mother Earth and for hyping weather catastrophes and demographic disasters in the 1970s with his population control freak pals Paul and Anne Ehrlich) and White House Council on Environmental Quality head Nancy Sutley (best known as the immediate boss of disgraced green jobs czar/self-avowed communist Van Jones).
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/08/20/and_now_the_stealth_obama_ocean_grab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNvKShmG3Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UPX4RI-7_A
Some of it is funny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZwrteFNic4
Not Natural Born -- TRUTH MATTERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded#
Obama admits he was born in Kenya. A Muslim, not a Christian. His wife backs him up too. I wonder if someone should tell the MSM about this so they get thAre story stright.
http://www.youtube.com/user/tvryb#p/a/u/1/M5UmbIHZUhQ
Always drill the little guy, and the criminals go free, get elected, or bailed out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIF57Fphj2E
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0821/fishermen-held-responsible-toxic-seafood/