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Hello all,
It's my first post. I'm french Canadian so I may make grammar mistakes in English :-)
This is a question I'm asking me since yesterday. It's about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil and gases are less dense than the salted water. The breach is at about 1500 meters deep. So, by rounding, about 150 atm of pressure.
It's sure the pressure in the underground oil cavity is much more than that. It even blew up the valves and put the rig on fire.
My question is: Does the water pressure at that depth make a difference in the release of the oil ? The quantity ?
If that same oil reserve was discovered at 150m depth and the same accident happened, would it mean the oil would spill ~10 times more since there's less water pressure ?
My instinct would tell me "yes" but I'm wondering about the difference the buoyancy makes.
Thank you,
Olivier Gagnon
It's my first post. I'm french Canadian so I may make grammar mistakes in English :-)
This is a question I'm asking me since yesterday. It's about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil and gases are less dense than the salted water. The breach is at about 1500 meters deep. So, by rounding, about 150 atm of pressure.
It's sure the pressure in the underground oil cavity is much more than that. It even blew up the valves and put the rig on fire.
My question is: Does the water pressure at that depth make a difference in the release of the oil ? The quantity ?
If that same oil reserve was discovered at 150m depth and the same accident happened, would it mean the oil would spill ~10 times more since there's less water pressure ?
My instinct would tell me "yes" but I'm wondering about the difference the buoyancy makes.
Thank you,
Olivier Gagnon