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Originally posted by jtma508
Most likely unrelated but there was a breach at a Missouri hydroelectric dam CNN Story. Story says they have no idea why it happened. Rain wasn't a factor. Reflecting on Valhall's comment about the train derailment could this indicate some subtle shifts in that region??
"We have drilled thousands of wells in Oklahoma and have never had an occurrence like this before," said Tom Price, Chesapeake's executive vice president of corporate development. "We cannot rule it out as the cause, but we certainly are not prepared to say that manifestations of gas located as near as one and a half miles away or as far as 12 miles away have come from that well in Kingfisher County."
"We have ruled out all the probably scenarios and are moving down the list into the improbables," commission spokesman Matt Skinner said. "Our people are saying they have never seen anything quite like this before."
Originally posted by Valhall
And that's exactly what I think as well. I don't think you can reconcile the Benzene/Toluene smell with this being natural gas.
Originally posted by alphabetaone
According to geologists tests on the scene, the gases are:
93% Methane, with the remaining 7% being a combination of Ethane, Propane, and Nitrogen.
Originally posted by alphabetaone
I have yet to be able to find anyone who's said anything about either benzene or toluene...where can i read about that?
I have read, though, about the studies of the composition of the gas arising being a majority Methane, which would be natural gas.
Originally posted by Valhall
Methane doesn't smell like "modeling glue". Benzene and Toluene do.
[edit on 12-14-2005 by Valhall]
Originally posted by alphabetaone
Gas Analysis
The word released on the gas analysis is that it is 93% methane, the other seven per cent being ethane, propane, and nitrogen.
newsok.com...
And although unlikely they are checking into a gas well approixmately 12 miles from the geyser outbreak.
I don't know how they are going to reconcile this chemical compostion with the smell of "modeling glue". But I also don't know when the sample was taken - it could have been in the past couple of days. And I don't know if the gases no longer smell like modeling glue.
[edit on 12-15-2005 by Valhall]
Originally posted by Valhall
Originally posted by alphabetaone
Originally posted by Valhall
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I don't know how they are going to reconcile this chemical compostion with the smell of "modeling glue". But I also don't know when the sample was taken - it could have been in the past couple of days. And I don't know if the gases no longer smell like modeling glue.
or pretty near
...Authorities have asked those who smell the gas near their homes to
voluntarily evacuate.
Although county officials are telling residents to check well sites for gas, which smells like modeling glue or rubber cement, Kingfisher's water supply is safe.
..Capture and sell more of it
December 15, 2005 Update - Today, more methane gas bubbling has spread south toward Okarche. Yesterday, four more gas eruptions in a wheat field were discovered about two miles from the city limits of Kingfisher, Oklahoma. The unprecedented - and so far, uncontrolled - eruptions of methane, water and mud on a 12-mile-long stretch of Winter Camp Creek and surrounding fields continues to frustrate authorities. Chesapeake Energy Corp., an independent oil and gas exploration company, was drilling on December 9, about eight miles from where the first gas and mud eruptions were reported in Section 2 of Kingfisher County. Today, Chesapeake said it would start flaring off some of the escaping gas and try to capture and sell more of it. What no one knows is whether this will reduce the underground pressure of the gas enough to slow down, or stop, the continuing gas eruptions that have occurred since the morning of December 9. Geologists are trying to figure out what has happened and what can be done to control the potentially explosive situation.
State experts believe a well drilled by Chesapeake Energy Corp. 12 miles west of Okarche hit a major flow of natural gas Dec. 9 and that the gas then escaped out the side of the hole and traveled, possibly through an underground fissure or fault line, several miles before surfacing along Winter Camp Creek.
Originally posted by Simon_Boudreaux
Duh nevermind
KOTV
State experts believe a well drilled by Chesapeake Energy Corp. 12 miles west of Okarche hit a major flow of natural gas Dec. 9 and that the gas then escaped out the side of the hole and traveled, possibly through an underground fissure or fault line, several miles before surfacing along Winter Camp Creek.
Originally posted by thermopolis
With all due respect..........high pressure hazardous waste injection wells in the general area "may" have ruptured...............hence the "Ben and Tol" smell of "superglue".................