Published: January 22nd, 2013 at 5:00 pm ET
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Follow-up to: WAFB: Officials find "mother of all bubbles" near giant sinkhole -- "The biggest pool they have seen yet" (PHOTO)
Title: 2:45 p.m. Updated Bubbling Sites
Source: Assumption Parish Police Jury
Date: Jan. 22, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip
Site #29 is very significant and can be viewed at the YouTube link below.
Watch the video here
Published: January 22nd, 2013 at 5:00 pm ET
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This clearly shows that the structures underground have made a major shift and opened up easier pathways for the gas to migrate to the surface, and these are not that dangerous because they are getting a pretty good scrubbing by the water medium they run through. What is disturbing to me is all of the other sites that aren't underwater.
This should be showing up on detectors, even if not a threat level. Hmmmm.
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FREEDOMROX
gas to migrate to the surface, and these are not that dangerous because they are getting a pretty good scrubbing by the water medium
Negative Methane can come up from thousands of feet below the surface and are as flammable and dangerous. It can flip and sink boats displacement.The gas can travel thousands of miles and still be flammable.
Markww
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I know Markww, but I was speaking of health only, and according to Shaw, and LDHS they cannot be detected for LDL…(Yeah right).
Actually, you do have to have a very concentrated area in the atmosphere for methane to be flammable. I would not have wanted to be on the center of the stinkhole holding a lighter during the 'Belch', but other than that, methane is quickly dispersed into the atmosphere, so explosion is not the concern. If it was lightning would have done so worldwide by now.
That's why I was pointing out the scrubbing effects of methane in water before vented to the atmosphere, and that is an Air Quality issue only.
It's the mathane, total dissoved solids, total dissolved chlorides and methane bearing waters with hydrocarbons that are being tranmitted all over the area, and all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico, that makes this a National Emergency, and a tragedy, ecologically, environmentally, as well as the human toll upon people West, East, and South, that are being poisoned even as we speak.
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Can anyone explain why seismographs of this area all went silent today at about 3:50pm for about 20 min.?
Union machines and that was their scheduled smoker-break?
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/heli_temp/LA10_EHN_GS_10.2013012212.gif
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They are working in all of that area. Could be a number of things, such as it was disrupted, power off, or had to be moved? Also could have been caliberating it. Nothing sinister. A total flat or no line means offline.
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OH look, a disaster with no data. sounds familiar.
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Breaking News Report
6:05 p.m. DNR Field Update
by assumptionla
Office of Conservation
Bayou Corne Field Update
Jan. 22, 2013 Activities
Texas Brine Operations
Oxy 3-A Cavern Well –
Shut in, monitoring pressure
Texas Brine Facility Vent Well to Top of Aquifer (RW 1 on Oxy 2 well pad) –
Flaring gas at 20.3 mcf in AM — Shut in during ongoing seismic work in PM
Texas Brine Facility Vent Well to Top of Cap Rock (RW 2 on Oxy 2 well pad) –
Shut in pending plug and abandon
Texas Brine Facility Geophone Well (Between Oxy 2 & original Oxy 3 well pads) –
Ongoing monitoring for seismic activity, data available at http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/heli_temp/
Texas Brine Facility Shallow Pressure Monitoring (TBC 1-3)
TBC 1 (Original Oxy 3 well pad)
Tubing Pressure: 39 psig
Casing Pressure: 17 psig
TBC 2 (Original Oxy 3 well pad)
Tubing Pressure: 56 psig
Casing Pressure: 12 psig
TBC 3 (Oxy 1 well pad)
Tubing Pressure: 0 psig
Casing Pressure: 0 psig
Sinkhole Site –
Monitoring status of sinkhole area
Conservation/Shaw Operations
ORW 1 Vent Well (North of Hwy 70)–
Flaring gas at 4.57 mcf/day
ORW 2 Vent Well (North of Hwy 70)
Flaring gas at 7.64 mcf/day
ORW 3 Vent Well (West of Bayou Corne) –
Remains in monitoring status, set up to vent/flare natural gas if concentrations are observed around wellbore
ORW 4 Vent Well (South of Hwy 70) –
Flaring gas at 2 mcf/day
Bayou Corne Community
Bayou Corne Community Aquifer…
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Aquifer Monitoring Wells (BC 1-2)
BC 1
Texas Brine reports awaiting landowner access to reach proposed site
BC 2
Tubing Pressure : 53 psig
Casing Pressure: 13 psig
Other Actions in Near-Term on Office of Conservation Directives
In status updates to Office of Conservation, Texas Brine reports:
Work ongoing to improve rig road west of sinkhole to allow for installation of vent well (ORW 5) and geophone well (G 03) and provide sinkhole containment
Began geotechnical borings on Texas Brine facility in preparation for installation of permanent sinkhole containment system
10 indoor air monitors (LEL and H2S monitors) installed in Bayou Corne community structures to date; 10 more currently scheduled
Field surveying for 3-D seismic continuing
Vibroseismic truck-mounted vibration generator continued work in conjunction with surface seismic stations, Texas Brine facility geophone well and USGS monitoring stations
assumptionla | January 22, 2013 at 6:04 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2Ed3J-jT
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MarkWW… after reading the field updates, my initial reaction is this: It's sink or swim time…
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