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First The Gulf, Now The Marcellus Shale: Gas Well Rupture Forces Mile-Wide Evacuation In PA
The Pittsburgh Channel reports that an explosion at a gas well in the Marcellus Shale, has forced a mile-wide evacuation in Clearfield County, PA. The irony of this event occurring even as CNBC shows some guy mopping up oil with hay from a bucket is beyond sublime. Also, so much for clear energy. There are no details as yet which company's well was responsible for the explosion, although there are is one junk-bond laden firm which comes to mind. Update: the gas well operator is EOG. Update 2: Elizabeth Ivers, a spokeswoman for driller EOG Resources, said the well has been brought under control, just about 16 hours after it started spewing gas. Spadoni said no one was injured and there are no homes within a mile of the well.
From the source:
Natural gas and drilling fluids are spewing from an out-of-control well in Clearfield County.
Emergency officials said a mile-wide area has been evacuated after an operation drilling into the Marcellus Shale ruptured on Friday.The FAA has issued a flight restriction in the immediate area.
According to a news release from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, a well which was in the frack process ruptured in Clearfield, spilling frack water and unignited wet gas.
Frack water is water mixed with other substances used during drilling.According to PEMA, the well is six miles from State Route 153 in the area of Interstate 80 exit 111.
Pretty soon Obama will need a doppelganger for the daily teleprompter updates from both Louisiana and Pennsylvania, in which he disburses daily doses of ineffectual harsh language.
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"Pretty soon Obama will need a doppelganger for the daily teleprompter updates from both Louisiana and Pennsylvania, in which he disburses daily doses of ineffectual harsh language."
Tyler, I have said this before, I will say it again...you winning "quote of the day" would defeat the purpose of "quote of the day", but once again, you raise the bar!
What's next... Plague of locusts or the four horsemen of the Apocalypse?...
Yeah, guys, could this be the straw that finally brings us down?
Let's just calm down a second. The well is under control, a lot easier to do on land rather than 5,000' under the ocean. The article doesn't give a clear picture of what occurred and was written by someone who appears to have little knowledge of how wells are drilled/produced. They refer to 'Frack' water being used during drilling which is blatantly false. This sounds more like they communicated with an offset well during the frac job, sending gas and water out another well. This sort of stuff happens a lot more than you think, and to try to compare it to the BP fiasco is an immense stretch. I'm not trying to downplay the risks of oil/gas production but to highlight every mistake in the industry due to BP's recent failure is just nit picking. Would this have been a story sans Deep Water Horizon? No.
Well, good reporting derp. I was not trying to make this event anywhere near the equal of the GoM disaster. But, it is a problem that may plague the unconventional gas business in the years to come.
I used to be in the oil biz (decades ago), so my heart aches watching the Gulf disaster.
And we really do have all those other problems...
One of the main problems is a lack of proper booming. Is this proper booming?
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/oil...
I thought they were supposed to keep it AWAY from the land...
We're gonna need more plastic bags!!
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/oil...
+100000000
ZerO,
You sir, are far closer than most imagine...all the cards are falling in line for the ONE.
Who no doubt will continue skullfucking us until the SECOND arrives on the scene! :)
Stupid Azteks. If they were so smart they should have known it was going to be 2010 and not 2012. Dumbasses.
I think it was the Nez Pierce.
For some reason I can't edit the post but should say Mayans.
FYI - You can't edit your comment after someone replies.
Sorry, MFM.
Wow this might have been the nicest most cordial thread of the day.
Oh noes! That's the signal for, "Release the trolls!"
(two minutes later)
"Yip yip yip" "Goled, b-snitches!11" "Tea-cuppers and Ayn Rand never read any books!" "Yip yip yip" "That's what I said and I wouldn't have said it if I didn't mean it, you shriveled mole."
+100
Once someone responds to your post, you forever lose the right to edit that post. You're words become part of the permanent record and will be used at your trial to convict and hang you. :>)
Sincerely,
Obama/Bush/Clinton and all those other lovable Nazi Americans
LOL. Only if your trial can be used to show the Supremacy of the State. Otherwise, you wake up dead:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR201006...
+++ !!!!
Homeland Security processing your info now. You will be on the "no fly" list within 24 to 36 months.
Hilarious
Another item added to the bill of particulars to be presented when the special tribunal convenes.
Ha! If they were so smart, how come they couldn't predict the demise of their own civilization and fix that shit?
maybe the TMPTB (The Mayan Powers That Be) refused to listen to thewarnings because they didn't understand why the Spanish would want their Gold. They just didn't understand why people would go through so much trouble conquering them over something you can't even eat.
Many religions are not about salvation, appeasing the Gods or saving civilization...
They are about raping virgins... the rest is a scam to.... rape more virgins...
You mean there are religions that are NOT, de facto, about raping virgins?
I thought that was the whole point. I feel like I was totally lied to.
The locusts. I just hope they land on Bernanke's house first and suck the fluid and life out of him.
We should start a pool. Which city/region is gonna start having the biggest riots first?
Natural gas boom?
or bust?
Ka-boom!
They're already using their faucet spouts as soldering torches, now they will have to use gas masks!
Karma is a bitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ophK2i76Wg
Gotta hustle baby!
What are you doing here CD, get back to your room and finish chapter two.
Please.
Look up. Chapter 2 is posted above your head.
Many thanks CD, It has been a psychotic day here in the insane asylum.
Hey CD, do you know what has happened to Deadhead?
I checked in on him about three weeks ago. At that time, he was newly employed and just settling in. He said once he was feeling rested he would check in on ZH. I think he peeks but just doesn't post.
I think he's still looking for a better position because the job he now has wasn't of the same calibure as what he had before. Being unemployed for a great deal of time takes a terrible emotional toll on our souls and I suspect Deadhead is resting. But he sounded good and was happy I checked in.
Thanks, I miss his outlook.
Well, hopefully nobody there decides to light a cigarette....
unless it is Rahm
DISASTERS, bitchez
trav, stop, I can't laugh anymore, my cheeks hurt! (both sets)
WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF GOLDMAN SHORTED THESE GUYS..NOTHING WOULD SHOCK ME..
With their computers so fast, they see into the future.
I'm familiar with this location.
There aren't particularly very many people around to evacuate.
Ya but it's pennsylvania. Full of mountain men. They better fix it quick or they'll dig them a tunnel to hell.
Point taken. Never let the gas company frack your survival retreat.
What the frack?
Someone had to.
However this might be going to far:
I hope none of the Frackles got hurt down in Frackle Rock.
This indicates that Obama is about to go on vacation.
Works everytime
Just let me know when he goes on vacation BEFORE something bad happens.
I want to see al.gore, Sheryl Crow and Ralph Nader stop using oil products, gasoline etc in protest of these oil catastrophies
short shale - I did
All these energy disasters must be good for Leo's solars.
Want to be careful digging holes in the earth when it's changing.
http://www.crystalinks.com/chippewa.html
I don't think we've seen 1/10th of the disasters gas and oil has to offer.
Or 1/10 of the lies and secret dealings that goldman and the corporate cronies have to offer.
well the good news is there isn't any
and my geothermals
If Obama kept with the 'Democrat summer two step' and vacationed in Martha's Vineyard, we'd have our Labor Day photo op of him picking up a tar ball... "never let a crisis...", oh never mind
Will Obama drop an 'F'-bomb in frustration, eh?
10:45am shorts became abundant...what was the time of the official release?
I'll bet the next incident will be on a wind farm (broken wing brings a plane down) or solar panel producing facility (due to fire caused by Archimedes Heat ray). What else are the alternatives to oil, as the powerful 'oil machine' runs through the competition.....
The earth is sentient along with SkyNet now?
Side topic (sorry): Whatever happened to the guy selling t-shirts, mugs, etc. with the proceeds going to ZH? Why did he stop selling them?
You mean the 24.99 euro shirt with 9.99 euro shipping fee guy?
More affordable now since the Great Euro Crapper of 2010...
But I am waiting for a state side vendor... Marla? Anyone?
Market has no buyers. Could drop another 200 points if 119.36 is broken on the FXE.
The dam has too many leaks and the FED does not have enough fingers.
Mark it zero.
"All right, it's fucking zero."
"Are you happy, you crazy fuck?"
Crazy is the new sane. Until we have too many crazy's
That North Sea rig popped last week due to unexplained increased pressure, too. One could argue that deep pressure changes could now be occurring across the planet with implications wider than just what we've seen so far.
Some unusual 3.0ish quakes around PA lately as well.
Homemade,
You ave brought up a subject that for a LONG time I thought would be a worldwide trigger, for massive earthquakes.
How many UMPTEEN trillions of crude has been pumped out of the gound, most leaving voids.
My musings have long been we would/could see epic scale quakes in large part to this............
Lets not forget all the reservoirs we have created in the world within the last 100 years.
doszap, thanks. I too have made statements and questions about oil and gas coming out, what the heck goes in? No answers so far but i recall in shool about nature abhores a vacuum.
Now i hear we may have volcanic activity under the gulf. Aha.So thats why the oil is hot! Who woulda known?
"Common Sense officially suspended until further notice."
Yeah, you can only play "Jenga" for so long if all you do is pull pieces from the bottom of the stack..
A fair amount of water goes into many reservoirs during "secondary production" (where they inject water into the reservoir once the natural pressure is not enough to get the crude to the surface). They also inject CO2 in many cases.
My hunch, guys & gals, is that the net weight of all the oil removed vs. the weight of formations above is insignificant. We would have heard about this if it were a real problem.
Fair enough, except that on a geologic scale, most things aren't a problem...until they are. Using the same above comparison, I can pull pieces from that Jenga tower all day and it will still be just as tall...until I pull one too many. At that point, the tower doesn't slowly come cascading down, it crashes all at once.
Tectonic movement is often the same. The plates hold the building pressure, until they can't. While sometimes that bleeds of slowly in a series of quakes, when they do finally slip, sometimes we also get things like Haiti and Chile.
I don't think it's just the net weight that's the issue, it's the makeup. If I drain the oil out of my engine and replace it with water, they might have a comparable weight, but the piston dynamics are certainly going to change. Maybe not right away...until the engine siezes all at once.
We'll have to wait and see!
Lots of moving parts everywhere you turn.
Like I have said in days past: 2010 is going to be a tough year, I'm going to need a lot to drink.
Well,
Wait for the Next Rose Garden Photo OP, shutting down all Natural Gas Production, distribution, use.
Pretty soon, the moron will have us pissing in our tanks, and using ehtanol alcohol to run the country.
Ground water after it's been fracked!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01EK76Sy4A
a la Jaws, key in the crescendo:
"We're gonna need some bigger boots."
Ref: Ken @ CNN May 2: "Our job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum."
If they can't get cap and trade passed with this shit, they'll never get it done...
After the failures at Copenhagen and the whole "Climategate" mess, if anyone needs a new bogeyman it's these guys. The fact that they're not all running around screaming about the methane that's been released shows you just how bad the Gulf situation is. Nobody wants any more attention paid to it than is absolutely necessary.
Climategate is not a mess! Carbon securities issuance firms are doing brisk business soaking up tax credits!
And, uh, saving the environment! Yeah. That's financial innovation, baby.
Ironically, one of my relatives recently quit his job at BP because the carbon credit trading firm he'd started on the side was doing so well.... ;-)
Carbon Credits. I'm saving the environment.
What are you saving it for?
For my helicopters and tanks and massive warships.
Man, it's a great thing that so many Americans are functionally illiterate. Otherwise, we'd have some real problems!
I have a start up company... The product is:
Obummer Wall Street Puppet Action Figure with Kung Fu Grip
Pull the chord and the Obummer action figure goes:
"I'm OUTRAGED!"
He's just "maning up" trying to show a strong image. Before we know it, National Enquirer will break pictures of Obama shirtless.
"He's just "maning up" trying to show a strong image."
You mean with the Kung Fu grip CD?
The "I'm OUTRAGED!" stopped working after the first 6 or 8 times...
Now it is just like Roseanne cackling...
"Now it is just like Roseanne cackling..."
All I had to do was read your words and I could hear that cackle in my head. If I can't get rid of that cackle in the next hour, I'm hunting you down and I'll sic my dogs on your ass. :>)
I'm leaning toward Obamatron the Decepticrat:
"I am Obamatron!"
What does he transform into, an illegal immigrant? err, wait, into a citizen?
I think, that in short time to get really (?) clean power we will be forced to connect ourselves to the network of tubings supplying gas to local area distribution center. All those cans of beans (accumulated for bad times) will be very handy to increase productivity, don't forget to include in your diet some cabbage and other gas producing veggies, you'll be green and energy self sufficient at the same time. You can use solar power (put it outside) to warm up your cans, for other stuff buy aluminium foil and build solar stove, new models are currently on test in Africa, all info about the newest models and specs are available on Internet. Good luck!
BOOM then dust
Clean Energy...clean energy.
Channel all your funds into these ETFs :)
Clean Energy...clean energy.
Channel all your funds into these ETFs :)
It's a bummer that Kudlow is on vacation. I would pay money to see the dispair on this face tonight if he was on the show. Instead we get that Cabrera lady who in my opinoin knows nothing.
Did anyone see that guy on Squawk this morning who every month is talking about how jobs are coming back and the household survey is the one to watch. He gets real aggressive. I thought he was going to cry when the numbers were announced. The three amigos looked like someone had just farted. It was priceless. Even Leisman couldn't put a shine on that sneaker.