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 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 hydrocarbon 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.

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There are unconfirmed reports of "fissuring" on the floor of the Gulf near the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster -- if the seabed is compromised, then BP can drill all the 'relief wells' it wants and they won't have any effect on the blown-out drilling site.

The worst-case scenario would be an immense volume of hydrocarbons, presently trapped beneath the surface and under terrific pressure, displacing the waters of the Gulf, which the hydrocarbons dwarf in volume -- consider what this would mean. The WHOLE of the Gulf of Mexico is displaced. Where does the water go?

Stay tuned. Could be interesting.

that's the report.
I heard a commentary which I thought was significant, that oil is not just a "fossil fuel" it is the lubricant for the earth's tectonic plates, removing it can interfere with those processes. Given that there has already been major earthquakes in Haiti, it makes you wonder what damage is really being done that we are not being told about.

you've heard it all, have you, muso?
heard any solutions to this disaster while you're at it?
I haven't.

Annie Anthrax wrote on Jun 25^th, 2010 at 4:38pm:


Only in a Hollywood movie   It reminds me of "2012" I don't think I've ever seen so many absurdities in one paragraph.

I am hearing that the massive amounts of benzene are going to create a ground zero of health programs affecting millions of people, not just in America.