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California's Worst Gas Leak In 40 Years (And Crews Can't Stop It)
While world leaders signed the 'historic' agreement signed in Paris to fix the world's "greatest threat," a natural gas storage site in southern California is belching 145,000 pounds per hour of Methane - a greenhouse gas 70 times more potent than carbon dioxide. What is worse, while official proclaim this a "top priority" a fix won't arrive until spring as emergency crews recognize "the leak was far from routine, and the problem was deeper underground."
As Wired reports, in just the first month, that’s added up to 80,000 tons, or about a quarter of the state’s ordinary methane emissions over the same period.
The Federal Aviation Administration recently banned low-flying planes from flying over the site, since engines plus combustible gas equals kaboom.
Steve Bohlen, who until recently was state oil and gas supervisor, can’t remember the last time California had to deal with a gas leak this big. “I asked this question of our staff of 30 years,” says Bohlen. “This is unique in the last three or four decades. This is an unusual event, period.”
Families living downwind of the site have also noticed the leak—boy, have they noticed. Methane itself is odorless, but the mercaptan added to natural gas gives it a characteristic sulfurous smell. Over 700 households have at least temporarily relocated, and one family has filed a lawsuit against the Southern California Gas Company alleging health problems from the gas. The gas levels are too low for long-term health effects, according to health officials, but the odor is hard to ignore.
Given both the local and global effects of the gas leak, why is it taking so long to stop? The answer has to do with the site at Aliso Canyon, an abandoned oil field. Yes, that’s right, natural gas is stored underground in old oil fields. It’s common practice in the US, but largely unique to this country. The idea goes that geological sites that were good at keeping in oil for millions of years would also be good at keeping in gas.
Across the US, over 300 depleted oil fields, of which a dozen are in California, are now natural gas storage sites. “We have the largest natural gas storage system in the world,” says Chris McGill, a vice president of the American Gas Association. And the site at Aliso Canyon is one of the largest in the country, with a capacity of 86 billion cubic feet. Aliso became a natural gas storage site in the 1970s. Each summer, SoCalGas pumps natural gas into the field, and each winter, it pumps it out. The sites are basically giant underground reserves for winter heating.
On October 23, workers noticed the leak at a 40-year-old well in Aliso Canyon. Small leaks are routine, says Bohlen, and SoCalGas did what it routinely does: put fluid down the well to stop the leak and tinker with the well head. It didn’t work. The company tried it five more times, and the gas kept leaking. At this point, it was clear the leak was far from routine, and the problem was deeper underground.
Here’s the new plan:
SoCalGas began drilling a relief well on December 4. The relief well will intercept the steel pipe of the original well—all of seven inches in diameter—thousands of feet below ground. Then crews will pour in cement to seal the wells off permanently. “Relief wells are a proven approach to shutting down oil and gas wells,” said SoCalGas in a statement.
As if finding a skinny pipe hundreds of feet below ground weren’t hard enough, the presence of all that explosive natural gas adds an extra layer of complication. A tiny spark and everything can go boom. So at the leaking well site, work is restricted to daylight, says Bohlen, as lighting equipment could produce stray sparks. (The relief well is far enough away that drilling there can proceed 24/7.) Back in 1975, a well at Aliso Canyon caught fire because of sparks from sand flying up the well.
And crews can’t set a deliberate fire, also known as flaring, which they often do at other remote areas with excess gas. The leak is so big and the flare would be so hot that it could make the mess even harder to contain.
“There is no stone being left unturned to get this well closed. It’s our top priority,” says Bohlen. But even that is slow, with months of drilling to come as methane continues to billow into the air.
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As Wired reports, in just the first month, that’s added up to 80,000 tons, or about a quarter of the state’s ordinary methane emissions over the same period.
Let me guess...the other 3/4's comes from Diane Feinstein, and Hollyweird.
This well set alight will be next big news story when something bigger requires distraction from.
'problem deeper underground'...
hmmm I wonder if fracking has any bearing on this??
Do you realize that fracking first began in the 1940's? It's been commonly used on oil wells around the world for half a centruy.
That gas reservoir is 8,000 feet down, that's over 1-1/2 miles.
The contriversy with fracking (there have been almost zero problems) is when it's used in shallow shales of only a few hundred feet, not thousands of feet.
I think contrivirsy has two "i" - fixed it s/
I forgot to spell check and you posted before I could fix it... Thanks.
There have been only a couple isolated problems with fracking, out of the million plus wells that have been fracked. The problems have only occurred in shallow, shale wells.
Occasionally, even water wells are fracked to increase capacity.
I actually thought you made a new word for "contrived controversy." Considering that's what all the noise about fracking is. BTW my water well is fracked also.
"The gas itself is odorless, but the mercaptan added to natural gas gives it a characteristic sulfurous smell."
Solution: take the mercaptan out. Then nobody will know it's leaking. You know, until somebody dowwind steps outside for a smoke. But by then they'll find somebody else to blame it on. Maybe "terrists".
So, Kalifornica is now just one big fart.
You mean - it wasn't before?
(full disclosure - I'm from NJ, so I shouldn't throw stones.)
Pull it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Guess this means a whole lot of hearings, fines and.... wait for it .....
Campaign contributions from PG&E to Politicians in Sacramento
70x GWP of CO2.. Pfft... That's nothing. They ought to look at the SF6 being emitted by PGE's electric grid. That stuff has a GPW of 23,000 - and survives for 3200 years.
Methane in melting permafrost is a much more serious concern
http://www.planetextinction.com/planet_extinction_permafrost.htm
I believe that they have hired the Tepco team to try and control this raging disaster. They have the experience.
Futures are up 4.5% already
The real mo'fo' is that I have to shell out $50 tomorrow to get my truck smogged here is SoCal. Now ain't that some shit?
This is a big deal...literally 1000's of residents are having to relocate, schools are being closed and authorities have no idea when this will be fixed. A Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) has been established (http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_5_3842.html) below 2K feet AGL that doesn't expire until March 2016. John and Ken on KFI AM 640 have been all over this story.
Hey, what’s 70 tons of methane per day for 3 or 4 months between friends?
The AGW whacko crowd will all agree this will have no effect on their understanding about how delicate and fragile the environment is and that the exhalations of an Etruscan shrew can still upset the gossamer interactions between terrestrial life and the atmosphere.
And.. according to renowned environmental science expert and biologist, Ted Turner, If we don’t reduce the earth’s population by 5 billion people, we are all goners.
Assholes like Ted should lead the way by suicide if he really believes it. Fucking left wing super rich arrogant hypocritical Cadillac Fascist Communist ...
http://vhemt.org/
If we did off those 5 billion, then Ted would be 5/7ths right.
Exactly, you first, Ted, you hypocritical punk..have a party and invite all of your friends and do it together...we'll all send flowers and shed a tear, I'm sure.
Strangely enough unodourised natural gas isn't odourless and can be detected by seasoned O&G personnel.
"Contriversy". That would be absolutely everything out of the mouths of any and every "Californian" whereas "Conspiracy" is 50% of whatever is written here on Zero Hedge. Neither bears thinking about. Really, neither.
The spelling nazis have small penis syndrome.
No problems?
Yeah tell that to the people who can light their well water on fire.
Walking to school over 40 yrs ago, I used to light Nat. Gas that would bubble up out of the ground after the rains.
Yes, I carried a lighter, a knife, rode bikes w/out a helmet, shot BB guns and firearms, played with mercury, and a list of other things.
I'm still here, with all of my body parts...
yeah, if'n dey is evehn one o' dem, da leffists ca find 'em bruthah...
The problem was caused by pumping natural gas in an old oil empty oil well. The technology of fracking might actually allow them to cap it.
The problem was caused by pumping natural gas in an old oil empty oil well. The technology of fracking might actually allow them to cap it.
Moonbeam Jerry Brown, who claims to be saving the world from climate change has been oddly silent about this leak of greenhouse gasses.
Oh! Wait a minute. Would it have anything to do with his sister Kathleen Brown being on the board at Sempra Energy, the owner of the gas storage facility.
The corruption never ends.
Super. Realistic property values in the area.
If it wasn't for Silicon Valley.... california would look like Detroit.
California could secede from the Union of Parasitic States and be self sustaining.
Of course many in Los Angeles and San Diego would perish due to the lack of water from the Colorado River....a pity and a small price to pay. That will happen anyway due to the oncoming Financial Collapse and is unavoidable.
It will secede as the United States of Parasites fragments.
And many in the desolate unproductive "flyover states" will go without as a result.
Now when we can reinstitue a small Government in California, which will happen post collapse, there will be no better place to be. Of course the dead zones of oceans off of the coasts will grow exponentially due to the ELE at Fukushima.
Even Texas Oil Wells are depleted while California has large untapped offshore firlds in reserve. But the Gulf of Mexico is already a vast dead zone of oxygen depleted waters..
The storyline of Soylent Green is manifesting.
"California could secede from the Union of Parasitic States and be self sustaining."
No, it couldn't. No more than Texas can. It's a cute idea but it's ultimately just masturbatory nonsense for people like you.
I just love wearing my State of Jefferson hat in the bars. You'll make instant friends.
Where's Lex Luther when you need him to make some beach-front property in the central valley?
Long live the Great State of Jefferson!
http://www.soj51.net/
Governor Brown, demanding offsets to the Global Warming gas leak, mandated closures of all Del Taco and Taco Bell restaurants.
The resulting offset pushed pushed climate changing gases to a new, historic, minimum.
(A bowl of my chili brings panic to environmentalists.)
As a resident of those "flyover states" that you so swiftly wrote off, may I remind you that the only reason you can have a major city, is that those "flyover states are providing you with food and water. The FS is neither desolate, nor unproductive, especially when it comes to survival. And most of us know how to use a weapon as well as grow food.
Plus, we also have oil wells and natural gas and salt. We can be a pretty self sufficent bunch and understand the rules of barter.
If it wasn't for Silicon Valley.... california would look like Mexico.
This sounds a flock of black swan circling for a freshly scorched spot to land. Maybe the next big earthquake will spark a huge new housing boom in LA.
accelerating climate change
Only if you burn it.
Unlike the Methane that is used in heating and power production, natural methane in pockets has no smell. If it creeps up on a person, they will simply get sleepy and die. Additionally building materials like lumber and concrete will absorb it. What's fascinating about methane is it is one of the only gasses that can turn any volume of concrete into a large flammable bomb. Just by how the concrete is porous and will absorb the methane at a steady rate until a structure is saturated then all it takes is s single spark or a back firing car or whatever. BOOM! The only other thing that can also be absorbed with Methane is it's horribly destructive counterpart, Hydrogen sulfide which ALWAYS accompanies Methane deposits when they are extracted carelessly. Hydrogen sulfide tends to 'spark' and set fires, it is also very corrosive and hihgly poisonious. The climate issues when handling methane and hydregen sulfide are meaningless, the challenge is the volatile explosive nature of the gas.
With the scale of which it is pluming from the ground. Some quick math. 145,000 pounds per hour turns into around 18 kg/s...to put it in perspective, that is about a BBQ tank of gas per second emptying into the surrounding area. It's enough to kill anything in a single story house without much difficulty. To give an idea of the destructive power of only 30,000 pounds of NG, there was a disaster in Illinois in 1983. It is gauged to be one of the largest non nuclear explosions on record not involving a rocket or poorly managed munitions. It took days to get near the fire it started and turned the box cars and train into molten steel slag in an instant.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/368680/
Again, the climate change angle is so inconsequential in comparison to what Methane does in terms of it's ability to destroy.
There is a reason it was never looked at as a fuel source until there was no option left. The fact is roughly 1.5 kilotonnes of explosive power is streaming out of that poorly engineered project. Per hour. The fact that they do any natural gas drilling on an unstable fault line is dumb enough, the shame is they knew that it was a bad idea and did it anyways. They are very, very, very dumb.
What will mostly likely happen is the air quality will just get very poor as Methane is a heavy gas and tends to 'pool and flow'. The path of least resistance looking at the placement of the leak and the topography of the area....right through Los Angeles to the coastal waters where the ocean will absorb it, or not. If not it'll just pool as a toxic fog that rolls along the west coast and kills everything along the coast line while more than likely burning most of Los Angeles to the ground eventually.
Unburned methane is a greenhouse gas. After it's burned, it's no longer methane.... CO2 and H2O
CO2 is the green house gas. Carbon Dioxide is the 'problem', methane is not a 'problem'. It is a transactable commodity people buy and sell Carbon credits for to flag the potential creation of CO2 gasses based on what they are burning for energy. It does not matter what is burned btw. A Cord of wood or methane, both create CO2 and both are carbon taxed because they create the green house gas C02. Because it is only a greenhouse gas if it rises in to the troposphere and creates a blanket gas to hold heat in. Again, methane doesn't do that, CO2 does.
Methane, like all gasses, fill the area it can occupy and 'flows' where there is space to 'pool'. In this case, Los Angeles which is down the hill from the well.
Methane is a greenhouse gas that by weight contributes as much as 72 times as CO2 to global warming.
All gases in the atmosphere is a greenhouse gas to some degree. so why don't we just eliminate the atmosphere?
Problem solved.
PS: My degree in Jazz at Oberlin helped me solve this problem. Now, where's my safe place?
Get rid of people that make the lion's share of it and that solves a couple of issues pretty fast doesn't it? It's not a pretty solution, but it works just fine long term. In this case, problem takes care of itself from bad engineering and no solutions to stop it. Just like the nuclear industry.
CPL: Methane is a very light gas (density = 0.716 kg/m3). The density of air is 1.225 kg/m3. It rises extremely fast so that a leak is not usually very hazardous. In some cases it will mix with air in a cloud in a nasty fuel/air mixture and go off with a very big bang with building crushing overpressures.
Yes. Note in this case the gas has already been odorized with mercaptan. I assume that it increases the density. Another factor is that due to the geography and weather, inversions in the LA basin are common, so the gas may not merely float into the upper atmosphere as it would in free space.
Even odorized, it is lighter than air and disperses quickly. A temperature inversion will not change those two facts.
Correct. That's because methane is concentrated CO2 as a carbon fuel source when it's burned. It's pretty awful how the industry spun the whole affair, as a marketing gimmick they spun that it was clean, which is sort of true. It is very effienct. But like anything that gets burned there is always a cost in it. Like you mentioned, the by product of methane is CO2. However that is neither here nor there. As a gas; it is poisonious and highly flamable, and in nature it is always accompanied by Hydrogen sulfide which is super dangerous.
But again, methane has to actually be burned to release the CO2 to 'go up' into the atmosphere and create the blanket of CO2 to lock in heat from the sun to create the atmospheric conditions to make global warming happen. Otherwise it just kills people, corrodes structures and stuff catches on fire.
Now by the location of the well. The well is topographically situated at the top of a hill that is formed like a 'river' mouth that empties into Los Angeles before it hits the ocean. Methane does not 'float'. It's not Helium or Hydrogen...it is Methane. It's why pipelines are built to transport it under pressure and slightly cooled. Methane 'flows' like water and pools to low lying areas, hence the reason of pressurized pipelines to transport it. By June - July next year it'll become a problem no one will be able to overlook. Because at 18 kg/s starting in Oct this year, either the well runs out...or all of Los Angeles burns to the ground in the summer based on the volume of gas being released.
Once it all burns to the ground...then people can talk about carbon credits.
Q: What is the effect of inhaling Fuki radiated methane gas?
A: New types of cancer and autism.
Naw, like anything else they'll just die. Then think of all those carbon credits that will be auctionable on the commodities market again after it happens. It'll only cost them a whole state to get the economy moving again because that's how this economic paradigm works at the end of the game they've made. Grab some popcorn and keep watching, gets way more fucked up during the summer time.
Methane is lighter than air.
It doesn't run downhill and pool at the bottom.
It doesn't "flow like water". It moves through the pipelines under pressure due to pressure differentials from one section of pipe to the next.
You would think as global warming crazy everyone is, one would think they would burn it till the well gets plugged.
They didn't put in a cut off valve or they would have. Again they got sloppy, missed some steps and if they light it, the well of GAS, not fuel, GAS. It will blow the reserves sitting under Los Angeles. As an engineer I'm just shaking my head wondering if they were accredited by a match book cover diploma school because they painted themselves into a corner and it will get messy. Remember no one is here to fix stupid, just learn from the stupidity of others on how to never manage a planet.
CPL, if you truly are an engineer I wouldn't want you within 100 miles of my plant. You clearly have no idea of the difference between methane (lighter than air) and propane (heavier than air). You referred to the gas being poisonous and therefore fatal. Methane is not poisonous. It is not toxic in any way. It kills by asphyxiation by the localised displacement of oxygen. I don't even want to start on your GWP diatribe because there's not one bit of it makes any sense. As for exploding or even burning you fail to take into account the fire triangle - Fuel, ignition, oxygen. You need all three corners for an explosion or a fire. There will be little or no oxygen in the well and hence no fire is sustainable even if you do have a source of iginition.
I have never worked out from your posts if you're serious or not or just a disinformation shill.
Sounds to me like this leak is a non issue. Carbon tax the shit out of it until it stops.......
Methane IS A PROBLEM
Do yourself a favour and edumicate yourself. Look up methane from melting permafrost. Also look up nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases.
methane is also a greenhouse gas.
Hmmmm, so you are saying I should buy cases of Canadian Air canisters to add to my preps? Man, shit in this life never seems to end.
Miffed
If it makes you feel any better once it starts that will be the end of the Skynet Monitoring Facility in Los Angeles along with all the employees there. It's the only part of the map of Los Angeles that's blacked out on Google maps. It'll burn to slag like that train did with far less fuel on the fire. Methane and Hydrogen Sulfide is so random as well. Could happen anytime and since they can't stop it from leaking, it's going to happen sooner or later. Again the only constants in the universe are Finagles law, Murphy's law and Sod's law.
Your scaring the qurap out of me with all your info so now I have to go hunting?
Finagles law, Murphy's law and Sod's law.
If you are on the East coast you should be sort of okay. If anywhere south of Los Angeles I'd move. (HA! And you all thought it was going to be an earthquake didn't you? Fuck no. Did it to themselves. Don't have to lift a finger on this one. It just happens by lousy planning and poor economic decision making.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MlwT1lBk0
Now this has got to be getting the terrrrrists thinking hard. How difficult can it be to follow the smell upwind/uphill and light a match?
Clearly it's time to ban matches ;-)
Hell, they could start an entirely new bureaucratic maze to be funded! They could have Match Waiting Periods and Match Background Checks, even a Match Czar!!!
Silly Nmewn! Matches don't kill people - fire kills people!
We need Fire Waiting Periods and Fire Background Checks, a Fire Czar...
On the contrary, it seems this life will end in shit. For that reason, I prefer nitrous oxide canisters.
I know where you can get a breath of fresh canadian air. Post some pics!!
Watch out for the Low Spark of High Heeled Boys...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyNr0pY6ak
Lighting the fires while the city sleeps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTSbnQzl1LE
"What will mostly likely happen is the air quality will just get very poor as Methane is a heavy gas and tends to 'pool and flow'."
Are you thinking of Propane?
Methane is much less dense than air, rises up into the atmosphere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighter_than_air#Methane
If one does not become more self reliant on energy, that one is fucked (IE wood, and solar)! Right now the TPTB are putting all of our energy eggs into one basket with NG. Stupid, no plan, the only plan is go with whomever lines the pockets best. Coal and Nukes going byebye, dams being destroyed purposely. Don't get caught with your pants down. Have your own plan,
"while more than likely burning most of Los Angeles to the ground eventually."
So there's actual benefits to it, then?
I'm sure that somehow I'm responsible for wanting to drive a car and heat my home.
Ton after ton of methane bubbles from the sea floor and not a damn thing we can do about it.
This, however, is a screw up - no doubt due to not spending on infrastructure, safety, or using common sense.
You know how the climate changers wail and moan about cows and methane?
What about the millions of Bison that roamed the great plains?
Never mind; eating beef is evil, and so are S.U.V.'s
@ ebworthen:
"What about the millions of Bison that roamed the great plains?" - The answer is just another example of failed central planning:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/05/09/genocide-other-mean...
Eb- I wouldn't worry about it too much. Nothing a few billion Goldman Sachs-brokered carbon credits can't offset.
And don't forget about those billions of forest creatures! Between the damned raccoons, opossums, hogs, deer, elk and bear it's a wonder the planet hasn't fried to a crisp by now!!! ;-)
CA is a useless State. Get the Silicon Valley Gays to fix the problem, o wait they are too busy with skinny jeans and sucking each others balls.
Go long global warming.
Short Gore!
With Nat Gas at $2, it is not a priority.
Now that's a man with his head screwed on straight. I like how you think.
Free gas, we are rich!
Sounds like aftermath of burrito night.
Fuck ya, gimme some more gas
who farted?
Gaia.
As messed up as this man-made leak is, she herself been dutch ovening us for millions of years.
Global dutch ovening, haha
Global dutch ovening, haha
And since this is CA, there is no tern being left unstoned either
More wars is needed. It's for the Children . Long on Caskets and Yello Ribbons.
When in doubt, light a match?
"Some stupid with a flare gun, burned the state to the ground"
When in doubt, wipe.
Most places in the world .... buy their gas in cylinders .... ingenious how they use old wells .... as storage for winter demand .... you have no idea .... American comforts are pure genius .... and hard work .... being happy is learning to count your blessings ?
More ingenuity. Salt mines and salt caverns are used to store crude oil.
The US Strategic Petroleum reserves are stored in former salt mines and underground salt domes.
So are 1.5 billion gallons of butane...near that giant sink hole in Bayou Corn I believe I read...awesome.
greenhouse gas, lulz
We could have a lot of fun with this article...
funny how natty hits a new low and all of a sudden, poof, a shitload just evaporates.
investing.com shows nat gas up 4.7%
That's not surprising...
I fully expect that assclown from Jeffries [ WTI $60 bbl] to pimp WTI on CNBS, while drinking Becky Quick, breast milk on the blowhorn with Joe Korntooth tomorrow.
See, it's working. Making money by leaking gas. Hillary's sitting on the mother-load.
OH GREAT! Advertise the threat of starting a fire there. 3...2...1, ISIS cell activated.
Suicide bombers need only to fly a plane into the space!
You could have a whole bunch of them lined up ready to fly in.
If Hendrix was alive, we could get him to play the Star Spangled Banner while the whole shit show was banging on...
On the Fourth of July, no less...
Standard Disclaimer: What, not a single joke about another shovel ready job?
Nothing like Deepwater Horizon at all...nope...move along...nothing out of control to see here...no one will be harmed by this...the environment will be fine...really, move along...no consequences...we are not fucking with things too big for us to handle...no, really, move along...we are not in the habit of pushing our damn luck, no...move along...
Wonder the HAARP effect?
Blue states can pollute.
It's in the Paris agreement.
If it's been churning away since October and nothing much has happened, this could be yet another failed catastrophe.
Of course not, I mean you can only sue and invent false damages claims for foreign companies, doing it to yourself would be anti-American and unpatriotic
Cock sucking hypocrites
Hypocrites guide to the galaxy:
# 1-10) back any liberal hypocrite into an corner, and they turn into "beef jerky"...
#2) they turn into "beef jerky"...
Is everyone catching the theme?
Beef Jerky was Jethro Bodine's stage name.
Sorry Mr.Cross, I don't grok your reference.
WTF? You need to lay off the Beverly Libtard re-runs...
Turkey Jerky- in your case...
It's their way to get away with excess pollution and still within the CO2 agreement.
If you can't sell the glut, let it leak and bill the insurance companies.
It's the new growth formula.
We don't see no stinkin' deflation!!!
Pump some drums of Industrial Beano down the old mine shaft. That'll fix 'er!
Light a match.....
Breathe the methane air, luxuriate in the Fukushima oceans.
Welcome to California.
One after another as the NWO planned. Kill off California, no more food, goodbye USA. This is so fucking disgusting its hard to read how evil these MF's are.
An earthquake will make this thing right. Wouldn't want to live in the vacinity.
When I first saw the headline, I thought it might be Obama opening his big mouth again.
Its only California, home for millions of illegals. Hope the fucker blows sky high.
And yet VW gets the bad rap. Perhaps BP will put those special Oil eating bacteria down that well or the least another newly discovered species of methane consuming bacteria. Fuck it. Probably the weather anyway.
I wonder how Russia would handle it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iB9QYaSVEo
As you can see, in order to accept methane as worse poluter than CO2? You need to believe about global warming. If you don't? Then you wouldn't reacts to this kind of news.
I am a believer of global warming. So, i REFOCUS my life, and MAKING AN EFFORTS, trying to secures my futures.
Now normally (on other socnet), i shared what i LEARNT & DO, in essence? Altough success isn't guarantee (nothing that depends on future occurance have certainty), and least, I HAVE PUT EFFORTS ON MY FUTURES. Isn't praying not enough? You need to ACTS in the direction of your prays?
But, iN this case? It would be useless to discuss global warming effect, and what you can do as individual, family, and citizen. As looks like most of comments try to kills anybody eho raised this issues.
So, i stop just here..
While this is running it corresponds to a 'greenhouse gas' release increase equivalent to 3% more cars in the US only. Sort of big, yet sort of small. Any more warming we can get is a plus though, so, awesome.
This did not make the news localy until now. Thanks msm.
I guess I get a front row seat after all. From my front porch at about 10 miles or so.
The pooled methane .... will prevent the sky from falling .... another doomsday hoax .... blown to bits by moi ?
So will CA get extra carbon credits since they're spending forward 10 years every few months now?
Curiously, who are the stupid fucks that get to work on this project?
good time for an earthquake
Set it on fire during a Santana wind .... you'd have a real blow torch .... out to Catalina island ?
Can't they throw a big tent over it and recapture it? LOL. Just run it over some coils -257F, no problemo.
Fortunately this is just a few miles from the Simi Valley property of Rocketdyne still radioactive 60 years later from the Nerva rocket experiments, so the population is already mutants who can tolerate just about anything.
Simple solution... flare it. CH4 > CO2 and H2O
Problem solved
If this is true, then when it does blow, and it will, it will be totally awesome.
Wow. Looks like someone really wants people to leave California; wildfires, drought, radiation from Fukishima, and now uncontrollable methane. I know it may sound weird but I believe something is up. California had what, the third largest economy in the world? I've read old history textbooks that talk about how California when first settled was practically desert and water was rerouted into the state. But what happened in the 1990s I believe? Environmentalists were able to push for legislation that would reroute all the waterways back to the ocean to save the endangered smelt fish. So we have terrible drought again but I'm not saying that's why. But I remember thinking they were going to have problems again because the smelt fish won. I don't know as much about Fukishima but from what I understand, the worst of the radiation fell not too long after the meltdown. One of the reactors complete disintegrated into the atmosphere, not the water. I'm not sure about the other. This govt knew all about this a long time ago. Obama immediately raised the radiation safety rate in the U.S. right after the disaster. You can't tell me the govt didn't know. And now we have uncontrollable methane leak? I had also found information but don't know a whole lot about it but when President Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971, he made a promise to countries loaning us money (without American knowledge) that our resources would be held as collateral to repay them if the dollar ever collapsed. Sounds like the chickens are coming home to roost. But they never told the American people about it? It almost looks like a sick game to take over resources. Destroy Middle Eastern nations and force the people out of their countries so someone else can control their oil. Run Americans out of the most resource-rich areas of this country so the govt can give the resources to other countries? I also saw that Nixon may have set aside some of American property as public lands, not for us, but as collateral for foreign govts. Again, I don't know if this is true or not but it could very well be seeing what all is going on right now.
the temporary flight restrictions were because first a news helicopter made low passes over the well site then a jet made very low unsafe passes over the well site and startled the workers, not becuase the aircraft engines could ignite the methane.
The leak will be brought under control and boots and coots is on it.
The field is not abandoned. It is used by the gas company a few other operators.
field capacity is about 160 bcf, about 80 bcf usable.
It is possible to redirect some of the gas and flare it, it is just that the crews are workiing on the well so I am sure they would prefer not to have the flare in their face, but is just me.
The "skinny pipe" is a 7" casing and inside is the tubing and packer. The plan is to intercept the well at about 8600'. The "salt water" is water mixed with KCL "mud" to increase the density and is injected after the pills.
You know ZH used to do research and post information.
Pure click bait doom. Ha! Got me. Methane dissipates in the atmosphere fairly quick. Next doom article please.
God!!! This is worse than farting cows!
What if some reckless kids tipped over the farting cows at night as some type of sick prank. oh the horror.
This is a joke, right? I just watched a really hokey Sci-Fi movie of the week CCC flik on Netflix not too long ago which had this same scenario. Out of control methane leaks caused rapid cataclysmic climate change and some merry band of otherwise losers used tactical nukes to close off the leaks so that humanity could live another day. Yep, it was a really, really, really bad movie.
My answer to everything is "nuke it".
Looks like they want to awaken the
San Andreas
When it does
Cabal&CronyA$$LickerLiarAddictObamma will give a statement:
'Wee haav confirmed reports fram de
shituashun room dat dere iz NO connexion
between fracking & earthquakus
earthquakus can happen anytime...
<& somebody plz stap dese gealagists & enviranmentalists fram geeving statemnts otherwize>'
Teachings from the slant eyed school of business. Chapter 1, how to pull off a massive inventory reduction on a commodity that is upside down and demand is low. Section 5, create a big leak from an underground storage unit, you can blame it on natural causes because nobody will believe that the man in charge is such a greedy fucktard that he would have ever put his bonus before the safety of a project.
I'm a hop, skip, and a jump away from this area.
Worst in 40 years and they still can't stop it?? You'd think this would be top news every day around here, but I haven't heard shit about it in the news for about a month now. I seriously thought this was stopped and fixed a while back. Teh fuck!?!?
The FAA closed the airspace to support the trial lawyers, suing people is big business in CA, Congress loves lawyers, they're a huge donor class.
Enter a spark/lightning/fire event that sets off the leaking Methane.
Sounds like a lot of available gas.
Why was nuclear power ever needed in the first place?