Methane Bubbles News Today

hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all over the world. youre watching cnn newsroom. im kristie lu stout. it is now 2 am on the u.s. east coast. almost the entire state of florida is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian, a monster storm stretching 700 miles across and getting stronger. causing a nationwide blackout in cuba, ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained winds just shy of a category four. and alon...

almost the entire state of florida, think about that, is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian., a monster storm is expected, several hundred miles across, and getting stronger by the minute. that is after causing a nationwide blackout in cuba. ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained wind of just shy of a category for. now, along with life- threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and powerful wind. conditions will det...

Nord stream gas pipelines. methane bubbles were seen rising to the surface of the baltics sea near the pipelines. seismologists say that there were explosions in the area on monday. its not clear if that caused the leaks or who is behind it. russia cut off the flow of natural gas of one pipeline to europe -- over the warren ukraine, and the other was not operating commercial yet. clare sebastian joins me from. europe clare, europe is investigating ghastlys and suspicion is falling on russia? >> ...

Pounds per square inch, climbing slightly. thats a little lower than they expected. they wonder, well, are there leaks anywhere? they did find some anomalies, some seepage in spots. they also found some methane bubbles but they dont think those are a concern or particularly from the leak in the well either. they think the reservoir has been depleted somewhat with oil the oil thats been leak into the gulf. thats certainly an option. theyre continuing these tests. when or if theyre going to pull t...

Leaks but the cap stays because the pressure underneath the cap is steadily rising. its not rising as fast as a lot of scientists had expected it would be, but ever since thursday it has been rising. they dont think the pressure is pushing oil or methane gas at high srofls downward and act. there have been four site locations where methane bubbles and oil have been coming out. another seepage of bubbles is one or 200 feet away from the well. there is one near the blowout prevent tere, the fourth...

Bore. someone could. the pressure could break it and then that would be a real problem. they dont want that to happen. they want to see the pressures stay where they are and they dont want to see oil leaking from someplace else. they did see some methane leaking from two mile ace way, but admiral allen says we do not think this has anything to do with breakage anywhere along the well bore. we do know some bubbles are coming up from around the top up here, from where the old blowout preventer was...

>> rob marciano is in orange beach, alabama this morning. rob, tell us about this static kill. how does it work and when might they undertake it? >> reporter: well, the reason that theyre considering it now is because the pressure that theyve been measuring this past few days, now were day five where weve had this well actually capped and weve been doing these tests. pressure is slightly lower than they anticipated. they were hoping to get it up to 8,000 to 9,000 psi. it is about 6,800 psi. they...