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Originally posted by JIMC5499
This isn't anywhere near where they are storing natural gas by pumping it underground is it? Might be one of those systems has sprung a leak. Or as it has been said something might have shifted underground and released a pocket of gas that is seeping to the surface.
Originally posted by alphabetaone
Kingfisher Geyser Video
AB1
Originally posted by St Udio
enough info to inform my laymans mind...that there is no need for underground pressures or magma domes way down deep....
as the gas releases are most likly from natural fractures of the strata which trapped the gas, and its just venting upward-> along the weakest points.
Originally posted by frayed1
Val's geyser 'primer' mentions heat as one of the factors for having a geyser.......but there was no mention of heat in the video clips....I didn't see any steam, and there were even icicles shown hanging in the brush where the water was splashing.
If the gas is venting to the surface due to gas pressure, or just due to being lighter than water ( and air?) would it still correctly be called a geyser? Just wondering...
And the distance from Kingfisher was 1 1/2 miles to the nearest geyser, I think OK city is about 50 more miles from Kingfisher.
Originally posted by alphabetaone
Kingfisher Geyser Video
See the above link for those interested in a Newsclip Video from NewsOK on what the geysers look like.
According to their local officials, there are no Gas Line cracks, or other geoscientific abnormalities.
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KINGFISHER, Okla. (AP) _ Experts were analyzing the composition of natural gas shooting to the surface along a creek in a rural area of central Oklahoma in hopes of discovering its origin and determining what can be done to prevent the explosive vapors from reaching the surface.
Gas geysers continued to occur Tuesday along a five-mile section of Winter Camp Creek and were within about a mile of the town of Kingfisher, authorities said.
Originally posted by Valhall
Muaddib,
Knowing that you are well acquainted with drilling activities, don't you find it simply ludicrous for an "expert" to insinuate that a drilling rig could drill through a high-pressure gas zone and create a large-enough flow UP a wellbore to a permeable zone of lower fracture gradient and then cause this volume of gas (and water) to spew out of multiple points over a 13 mile stretch?
First of all, that kind of gas production up the wellbore would have blown the drillstring (hell, forget the drillstring, the whole rig!) to Kansas and I haven't heard any news of a rig being trashed due to a severe (and severe is an understatement in this case) kick-back.
That's just crazy talk if you ask me.
Originally posted by Valhall
Also, I would be curious to hear what feedback you get when you tell them this stuff smells like Benzene and Toluene. That's kind of flooring me as well.
Originally posted by Valhall
This is really interesting for me. Springer has surgery on Friday, so I probably won't be able to take a road-trip, but I bet a sawbuck will get my son up there! Maybe he'll get us some pics and ask some questions for us.
[edit on 12-13-2005 by Valhall]
Originally posted by Muaddib
Humm, I didn't know that they could smell Benzene and Toluene, that would rule out the possibility of this being a natural event. The most probable explanation for this is that it was caused by a producing well, since Benzene and Toluene are not natural occurring gases but are aromatic hydrocarbon compounds.
Originally posted by Valhall
Correct, but they ARE the dominant organic gases in volcanic gases. (I have a link on that in one of the dualing threads on this...I keep popping back and forth.)
Originally posted by thermopolis
Salt Dome changes
Most OIL in Oklahoma is found on top of large salt domes. Oil geysers happen when the pressure between the surrounding rock and the salt dome is expressed in the OIL.