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Jackie
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Hey man, you can't take that much oil out of the ground and not expect the area to cave!
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A E Berman
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The salt dome collapse was not related to petroleum withdrawal as the article implies. The salt dome was used for injection of non-hazardous oilfield waste from areas removed from the dome itself--salt water, mud, etc--and not withdrawal from the salt dome itself, as the article implies.
It is impossible to determine without investigation what caused the collapse, but it was probably related to 1) overpressuring of the dome interior by injecting too much fluid (like over-inflating a balloon) that caused part of the support to fail; 2) injection of fresh water that dissolved part of the salt the supported the top of the dome; or 3) some as yet undetermined cause either related to injection activities or some as yet unknown action.
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Ivan
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Jackie wrote: Hey man, you can't take that much oil out of the ground and not expect the area to cave! Someday the whole Gulf of Mexico is going to fall into the ocean.
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Bill Lever
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Blame it on the Democrats, everything else is.
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Ivan
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Bill Lever wrote: Blame it on the Democrats, everything else is. If you can't offer anything more insightful than the same old clichés, then tuck a 6pac under your arm and get back down in the basement.
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Another John
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This happens every so often. Someone is not monitoring the operation as closely as they should. These folks were not taking anything out, but were injecting oilfield waste into salt dome cavities. I suspect they drilled into a cavity without monitoring the amount of groundwater that might run into it. Either that or they were using water pressure to jet out a storage cavity in the salt dome and made a boo-boo or failed to see a fault crack in the dome.
It happened a few years ago in Louisiana. Lake Peignoir near Delcombre, LA, disappeared within an hour or so when an oil rig drilled into a salt mine.
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Another John
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Ivan wrote: <quoted text>
Someday the whole Gulf of Mexico is going to fall into the ocean. We would not have such an energy crisis if tree-huggers and "don't want it in my backyard" idiots shutup and let drilling take place off the Atlantic seaboard, Florida, California coast, and Northern Alaska. Believe it or not, we have a lot of oil that we have not even touched. Louisiana and Texas have furnished the lion's share of the oil consumed by the Northeast for years. But, these people don't want it off their own coast. Look at the stink Ted Kennedy stirred up when someone wanted to put up a windfarm near his home. It's alright with them if it is in someone else's backyard as long as they can benefit from it. In my book they are self-centered, egotistical idiots. They depend upon the rest of us to provide them with everything they need to live and, at the same time, oppose anything that requires their own labor or sacrifice.
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who cares
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get the hell outta dodge people. your gonna cave in . wonder if they are gonna sue someone for this, after all if a woman can file suit against her daughter stepping in crap, whats next?
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Judge it!
