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Critical Deep Sea Research Areas from BP Oil Spill Modeling

Dive into crucial deep-sea research areas derived from failure modeling of the BP Oil Spill. Explore insights into seabed events, gas hydrates, bubble behavior, oil outgassing, and more. Unravel mysteries and complexities of deep-sea ecosystems impacted by oil spills through scientific analysis and data interpretation.

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Critical Deep Sea Research Areas from BP Oil Spill Modeling

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  1. Critical Deep Sea Research Areas Derived from Failure Modeling of the Great BP Oil Spill

  2. Critical Deep Sea Research Areas Derived from Failure Modeling of the Great BP Oil Spill Ira Leifer University of California, Santa Barbara Hydrate Consortium Meeting, Oct. 27 2010

  3. And then life changed . .

  4. What was happening at the seabed? Egads!!

  5. Lets pretend it’s a seep!!

  6. Ira, are you serious?

  7. Yes! Note: joke about the spherical cow!

  8. A non-uniform flow

  9. Model Schematic If you care… see Rehder et al. 2009

  10. Does the model work (above HSF)? Rehder et al. 2009

  11. Does the model work (inside HSF)?

  12. Short Notice: Hydrate Solubility

  13. COP Seep Field Blowout - 0.4 m3/s Pre-ejection t = 0.6 s t = 1.2 s Vup ~ 2 - 3 m/s Leifer et al. 2006 Leifer et al. 2010

  14. Hydrate-free Deep Bubbles Vup = 30 cm/s

  15. Depth effects enhance bubble longevity

  16. Bubble Outgassing Trend

  17. Data… Camilli et al. 2010 Methane (and oil) in a 1100 m layer C2+ in surface layer C5+ in atmosphere in a plume structure in reservoir ratios (NOAA, P3, Ryerson) C3-C5 (isomers, etc) proportional to solubility (NOAA, P3, Ryerson)

  18. Remote Sensing Detour

  19. Remote Sensing Detour(2)(Physics-based quantitative oil thickness)

  20. Remote Sensing Detour(3)

  21. Remote Sensing Detour(4) Fig. 14b. Mapping results for oil-to-water ratio for a portion of AVIRIS run 11. The width of the scene is ~5.5 km; north is ~4 o'clock. Black areas on the right are where no thick oil was detected. The center of this image is about 12 km WSW of the incident site.

  22. Remote Sensing Detour(5) Fig. 14b. Mapping results for oil-to-water ratio for a portion of AVIRIS run 11. The width of the scene is ~5.5 km; north is ~4 o'clock. Black areas on the right are where no thick oil was detected. The center of this image is about 12 km WSW of the incident site. Key pt: Fresh Oil reaches surface in coherent patches

  23. Summary… C1 (and oil) in a 1100 m layer C2+ in surface layer peaked at about the thermocline Oil surfaces in a plume C5+ in atmosphere in a plume structure in reservoir ratios (NOAA, P3, Ryerson) C3-C5 (isomers, etc) proportional to solubility (NOAA, P3, Ryerson) Vertical distribution not a decreasing exponential No evidence of bubbles reaching the sea surface HyFlux - Methane reaches the sea surface, bubbles to 150 m

  24. Summary… C1 (and oil) in a 1100 m layer C2+ in surface layer peaked at about the thermocline Oil surfaces in a plume C5+ in atmosphere in a plume structure in reservoir ratios (NOAA, P3, Ryerson) C3-C5 (isomers, etc) proportional to solubility (NOAA, P3, Ryerson) Vertical distribution not a decreasing exponential No evidence of bubbles reaching the sea surface HyFlux - Methane reaches the sea surface, bubbles to 150 m Data Inconsistent with Bubbles Wait... talk not over….

  25. Bubble Plume Schematic

  26. Field Plume Behavior (COP) Slows at thermocline intrusion

  27. Field Plume Behavior (GOM) Solomon et al 2009

  28. Deep Spill 1 (Norway) No bubble detrainment, large (2 mm) bubbles

  29. A hypothesis model Oil Outgassing Oil OutGases Oil Driven Plume Bubble Driven Plume

  30. Areas for research >what happened at 1100 m? >What is the behavior of an oil driven plume? >How does oil outgas in the mid-water column?

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