Here is the introductory chapter of my next novel series titled "Blogger - Underground Controversy." This novel looks into the repercussions of the Internet Neutrality law that will limit all of us from saying what we wish to over the net. I think you will feel the stark reality of America with the inalienable right of FREEDOM OF SPEECH torn to shreds. This novel is of yet still in its infancy, but it will make you want to protest and stand up for your rights that only God gave you. Take a read and you might find 'Blogger' is a story that reads YOU!
(This is a work in progress)
IT'S GONNA BLOW
Chapter One
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig
The Mississippi Canyon Coast Block 252
40 miles South East of the Louisiana
April 20, 2010, 9:27 PM
“What is it?” Downy asked Daniels.
“Well, Mr. Downy, what you are looking at is the most profound and massive oil reserve ever found anywhere. It’s all crude mixed with a lot of frozen methane gas.”
“It’s huge, and how does it compare to let’s say, Saudi Arabian reserves?” Downy asked. His cameraman tapped him on the shoulder. “We go live in twenty-five seconds.”
“OK, take the Saudis’ reserve, add Iran and the North Sea British reserves and you could almost equal what we have found right here.” Supervisor Daniels had a genuine dumbfounded look stretched across his face. “Just some five miles below the gulf floor, that’s for sure the biggest pool of crude I’ve ever seen in the Mississippi Canyon. The test is getting it from down there to up here.”
“Five, four, three, two, one …” The cameraman said with his fingers to Matthew Downy.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig
The Mississippi Canyon Coast Block 252
40 miles South East of the Louisiana
April 20, 2010, 9:30 PM
“This is Matthew Downy aboard British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon, a massive semi-submersible oil rig where the crew of the Deepwater Horizon is celebrating a ten-year perfect safety record. They have been drilPeng in Block 252 for over a week and made it to eighteen thousand feet in the past two hours. But, they broke the massive drilPeng bore, when, just after the eighteen thousand mark, they smashed into something, some five miles below the ocean floor. I am speaking with Jeremy Daniels who is the control-room supervisor. Mr. Daniels, what could break such a massive drill bit as that? It must be at least a foot in diameter.”
“Well, sir, I‘ve never seen a break like that one before, myself. It didn’t get sheared off, like normally happens. It seems to have melted and twisted. It had nothing left to drill with. Don’t worry though. I’ve never seen an obstacle yet we couldn’t drill through.”
“Mr. Daniels, you told me, before we went on the air, that it’s a bit more dangerous actually when we get that far down below the gulf floor. Could you explain why that is in laymen’s terms to us?”
“Well, I mean that far down, the rocks contain a lot of frozen methane gas that the chemicals and the heat we generate could melt and cause quite a massive explosion, if we’re not careful. Just think about it, from the sea floor, the Deepwater Horizon rig has penetrated more than 18,000 feet, almost another five miles down into the earth's crust with pipe.”
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig
The Mississippi Canyon Coast Block 252
40 miles South East of the Louisiana
April 20, 2010, 9:42 PM
"Mr. Daniels, I hear those huge engines revving up.” The cameraman shifted the lens over to the huge motors that both twirled and pounded the seawater-laden mud that was forced to give way to the pipe that would be fitted deep into the Earth.
“Yeah, that’s right. See them lights glowing and hear them alarms waiPeng? It means they're at a constant state now, and that’s good. It's just, Beep, beep, beep, and it never stops inside my head. I’ve been doing this so long; I hear it every night as I fall asleep and every morning when I wake up. I’m told it will never leave me, even if I live thousands of miles away from any oil rig. We have hit the impediment now and we’re spinning but not getting anywhere.”
“So, what’s the procedure for such a blockage? It can’t be tree roots that far down.”
“Hell, no one knows what’s down that far. I’m not sure there’s been a submersible invented that can handle the pressure. We do have a device that we’ve decided to try. It’s a torque compressor that forces the bore to pound as it turns. It’s a lot like some hand drills everyone has. But there’s an incentive, which I have never used in my thirty odd years of doing this. It is a sudden thruster that is supposed to break through anything. Today, we’ll see. First we have to back it out twenty feet and then ram it forward.”
The Deepwater Horizon Supervisor, Jeremy Daniels looked at the FOX News cameraman. “Is this still being recorded?”
“Yes sir, as we speak.”
“OK, just before we do this, let me just say for the record, this is being done against my recommendation that we try other means. It’s just that this rig costs BP over five hundred thousand dollars to run a day. Here, time really is money. OK, let’s go for it.”
Daniels pushed the throttle forward and the motors started to scream out as they sucked in air and the hydraulic gathered pressure to pound the blockage open at five miles below the ocean floor.
The Fox News Journalist covering the site was forced to put the ear protectors on and scream out his words to Daniels.
“The beeping is starting to get drowned out by the sound of the engines.” Suddenly, the rig’s lights got so bright that they physically exploded. Computer monitors began shattering throughout the rig. “What was that?”
“Well, this is a day of firsts. So, I guess the answer to your question is, I don’t know.”
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig
The Mississippi Canyon Coast Block 252
40 miles South East of the Louisiana
April 20, 2010, 9:54 PM
Daniels checked all the buttons and switches and read the meter. Daniels screamed out his words to the reporter. “We have full pressure and dig capacity now. I am going to engage to rotors and let it dig a little bigger pathway. Daniels tilted the bore to the left and right to make the initial wound into the belly of the Earth a bit bigger and wider to have more leverage as he prepared to ram the obstacle that was stopping them from achieving their goal of striking black gold or Louisiana Tea. After Daniels felt the impediment, he retracted the bore fifty feet when he was only supposed to retract it twenty.
“I’m applying the hammer now and watch us break open this bastard in … I told them a fifty feet ram was too much and dangerous, but investors need results, so, let’s give them some…” Daniels raised the bore fifty feet and watched his meters. He made sure the pressure and the thrust was right and began to lower the bore again. When he had reached five feet from the bottom of the shaft, he revved the motors to fifty percent and engaged the Hammer and the bore raced down the shaft to the bottom and rammed into the floor of the shaft, the hammer erupted and pummeled the underwater surface and the ocean surface literally began to sway slightly and then with a sound like a large firecracker resounded. Everyone on the deepwater Horizon heard what sounded like a shattering sound and red goo began to float up to the surface of the gulf.
“Oh my, that’s not good!” Daniels yelled out. “That’s gonna fill the tube with methane and the whole damn thing’s gonna blow!”
Daniels tried to reverse the bore but it would not do anything. Then he felt it in the controls. “It’s sinking … the bore is going deeper!” Daniels looked at the screens and there was nothing but haze, which was getting thicker and thicker.
“The bore five miles below us is too deep now!” The Deepwater Horizon seemed to be off balance.
“I feel like I just latched onto a huge fish or whale or something and it’s pulPeng me down with it!” Then it happened.
Daniels looked at the screen with the camera’s image cleared saw the red-hot bore tumbPeng downward into the center of the Earth. Suddenly, Daniels and the Fox News men saw the same thing. The underwater floor suddenly opened up and the gulf bed seemed to collapse within itself.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig
The Mississippi Canyon Coast Block 252
40 miles South East of the Louisiana
April 20, 2010, 9:55 PM
The sharp blades on the end of the bore were red hot. It fell deeper and deeper into the fissure that had opened up, tumbPeng downward like a flaming lance. The depth display read forty-four thousand feet and descending. Suddenly, Daniels gave up as he and the Fox News crew saw the tip of the bore reach some massive deep stones that were covered with white crystals. The hot blades on the tip of the bore struck the rocks and the frozen methane crystals suddenly broke off the rocks, liquefied and ignited. The supervisor broke the glass covering over the evacuation button and pressed down on it and he and the two Fox News people ran out of the control room and outside, to the edge of the rig.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig
The Mississippi Canyon Coast Block 252
40 miles South East of the Louisiana
April 20, 2010, 9:56 PM
A geyser of seawater erupted onto the rig, shooting as high as 240 feet into the air. It was followed by the eruption of a mushy blend of mud, gas and water. The workers heard the waiPeng cry of the evacuation horns and a loud rumbPeng sound from below. They all knew they were about to all be incinerated and started running in every direction to get on the life boats and jumping into the slimy water below them.
“Oh that’s not good at all!” Daniels said as he peered out over the edge of the Deepwater Horizon. “Because, that’s mud and it could only have come from about fifty thousand feet down.” Daniels said. He looked up and down the rig and then at what had started churning up on the top of the gulf.
“That’s a deadly gas that was frozen deep below but melted when the super heated bore came into contact with the rocks. That slushy material you see starting to foam up onto the surface is the result of an explosion of the released methane gas that came into contact with the bore.”
Daniels saw it bubbPeng and then quickly dissolving into a fully gaseous state. Then it all ignited into a series of explosions and then a firestorm erupted. Workers immediately attempted to activate the blowout preventer, but it failed.
Daniels knew what was coming next. He saw it coming too. He quickly jumped into the gulf waters that were running increasingly red with crude that was rising up from the deep while screaming.
“It’s gonna blow!”
The Deepwater Horizon was on the leading edge of the world's oil exploration strategy. The vast deepwater methane hydrate deposits of the Gulf of Mexico were not a secret in big energy circles. They represented the most lucrative untapped new frontier of unconventional energy and a potential source of hydrocarbon fuel thought to be twice as large as all the petroleum deposits ever known.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig
The Mississippi Canyon Coast Block 252
40 miles South East of the Louisiana
April 20, 2010, 10:22 PM
The 400 feet by 250 feet Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig was roughly twice the size of a football field, according to Transocean, who were the owners of the massive rig and who had leased it to British Petroleum. A column of boiPeng black smoke rose hundreds of feet over the Gulf of Mexico.
The office of the Attorney General
Washington DC
April 20, 2010, 11:22 PM
“Sally, I need to talk to the President right now. Have you been looking at the TV?”
“No, been pretty busy here. He’s in the basement at the driving range, General Bolder.
“Connect me to his blackberry now, if you could?”
“Please hold, sir.” The President’s secretary found President Thomas Arthur.
“Harold, you can wake me up, tell me we’ve been invaded, but it better be important to interrupt me on when I’m practicing my swing.”
“Sorry, Mr. President, but if I didn’t interrupt you today, you’d be forced to fire me and deservedly so. I have just streamed a video to your blackberry.”
“Yes, I have it. One moment please, Harold.” President Arthur watched the oil rig go up in flames.” Those poor people! He thought. “Harold, the Oval in fifteen!...”
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