Hydrocarbons could have breached bottom of cavern — Oil detected on top of giant sinkhole (VIDEOS)

Published: October 1st, 2012 at 3:10 pm ET
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September 29, 2012 Resident Briefing in Assumption Parish:

Part 4 at 4:20 in (Watch Here)

Shaw Group: There is gas in there, as well as a hydrocarbon interface. That’s all we know right now, we haven’t been able to sample that.

Part 5 at 3:15 in (Watch Here)

Shaw Group: It could be naturally occurring hydrocarbons that have breached in from the bottom [...] There’s hydrocarbons of some sort over in the sinkhole.

Part 6 at 0:15 in (Watch Here)

DEQ Official: The hydrocarbon on top of the slurry hole is [...] about lets say 75% diesel range, and another 25% oil range organics.

Part 16 at 1:00 in (Watch Here)

Parish President: We knew when they got into the cavern that the bottom had been compromised [...] the bottom obviously had infiltration from somewhere that originally wasn’t there, originally it was brine.

Watch the entire 23-part briefing here

Published: October 1st, 2012 at 3:10 pm ET
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