Published: October 4th, 2012 at 12:43 pm ET
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October 3, 2012 Update from Texas Brine
Gas pressure at the Observation Well head remains steady in the 950-980 psi range. Efforts are underway to design a system to possibly allow additional hydrocarbon material to be extracted from the well and to conduct additional testing that may be needed. These plans will be reviewed with LDNR.
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View Texas Brine’s September 23, 2012 report that gas pressure was in the range of 800-900 psi at the wellhead here
Published: October 4th, 2012 at 12:43 pm ET
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With pressure approaching 1000 psi and rising, I expect the "hydrocarbon material" will extract itself.
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And then what BOOM?
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It's complicated…but maybe yeah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB303VT9WZg
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I can't believe the Louisiana DNR is waiting on the sonic log and cavern liquids/gas analysis. That's only going to tell them if something outside the cavern WAS leaking into it. The only people this could possibly help is Texas Brine's lawyers, who would be especially eager to 'prove' if the cavern *isn't* the source of the problem.
Why don't they start filling the cavern with bentonite or cement or whatever right now? That may not necessarily solve the problem, but they're eventually going to have to do it to eliminate that cavern as a problem and stabilize the rest of the salt dome.
Texas Brine is eventually going to shift the repair costs to taxpayers one way or the other. That's the way the system works. Nobody from Texas Brine is ever going to be held responsible no matter what they find.
The psychopaths in the Louisiana DNR and Texas Brine can have their stare-down contest on their own time. The sinkhole and salt dome are not going to wait for either one of them.
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Because that would be illegal and people would be taken to court. Texas Brine would obviously love to do that but if they do that and fail they will be put in jail for negligence.
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"…Texas Brine would obviously love to do that but if they do that and fail they will be put in jail for negligence…"
Fascinating. This would absolutely NEVER happen in my country, the United States. Where do you come from?
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Happening right now with BP, Government supposedly wanting $25bn in settlement, criminal charges could also be applied. The USA is one of the biggest places for charges of Civil Engineering negligence.
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