How Much Oil was BP Estimating was in Deepwater Horizon Well? Or is that a Corporate SECRET, too?

[ShamelessHussy]

I have been looking for that info for days, but I can't find that seemingly obvious question (to my mind, anyways) asked an answered by an official source.

Has anyone seen that data out there, preferably provided by someone with direct knowledge of BP's own estimates?

TIA :toast:

[NYC_SKP]

1. 200,000,000 to 500,000,000 barrels for the Kaskida Prospect.

Estimates, of course.

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5760831/Kaskida-find-gives-needed-boost.html

more:

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=35730

I think you're right, to a certain degree some data is kept confidential but estimates for a given field aren't top secret.

:patriot:

[ShamelessHussy]

3. WOW yet very old guesstimes - why doesn't anyone ask the CEO that question? Are they not allowed to?

thanks for those links but my 2 questions still stand...

1. How much Oil did BP think was in there just before the explosion?
2. Why doesn't anyone in the M$M ask BP that question?

I would think that the public has a right to know that information, and that it would supersede any corporation's competitive secrecy argument, especially now when their project is behaving like a WMD.

To not ask such an obvious question in the middle of this ongoing crisis, or to even cite those old estimates, seems bizarre to me.

:shakes-head:

[Stardust]

2. Mike Malloy read a letter from an engineer who had heard speculation

that the deposit is possibly the second largest in the world, if not the largest. No hard data was quoted, though. The letter was fascinating but Malloy didn't give his or her name, which irked me.

[Barackbaby]

4. Wouldn't the Minerals Management Services...

have those numbers from the environmental impact studies they did? I think this drilling was approved in April 2009, wasn't it?

[Kablooie]

5. I heard tha details like that ARE corporate secrets. They don't have to reveal it.

[Kalun D]

6. WIKI Sez

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber_oilfield

600 to 900 Million barrels recoverable reserves

It's the deepest well ever drilled at 35,000 feet from the ocean surface.

Some of the speculation is that's the problem. The concrete cap that Halliburton poured that may have caused the blowout was only for a depth of 18,000 feet which is the maximum allowed by the permit. Greater depth, more pressure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon

BP is a crooked company and the MMS which supposedly regulates the gulf drilling is full of bush cronies

In addition the Obama admin failed to do an environmental impact study on this rig

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/sex-lies-and-oil-spills_b_564163.html

[TransitJohn]

8. You don't do an EIS on a rig

You do it on a drilling project. Any one of hundreds of rigs could've gotten the contract.

[Kalun D]

9. Correct

It was on their Gulf operation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050404118.html?hpid=topnews

[ShamelessHussy]

10. "600 to 900 Million barrels recoverable reserves" - yikes maybe that's why they don't discuss it

but still i wish they would and ask the owners directly.

thanks for the links.

t

[TransitJohn]

7. That's kind of asking like how much water is in the Ogalala Aquifer.

Answer: a lot.