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Lawmakers rush to stop 'catastrophic-level event' at Texas oil fields
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:07 pm
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There is increasing alarm about West Texas oil fields that continue to produce toxic water leaks.
The latest event was detected in Crane County in early December, when brine water poured out of the earth and over ranchland, Marfa Public Radio reported. The well wasn't plugged until Jan. 29, and the remediation project cost $2.5 million.
The water contained 154,000 chloride parts per million and at times flowed at 330 barrels, or 13,860 gallons, per hour, "creating a marsh-like scene," Mitch Borden reported. It was not always clear where it was coming from.
It took nine days to identify two wells and multiple other sources of the water. The Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the oil and gas industry in the Lone Star State, dug and lined 20 containment pits and had vacuum trucks remove the water.
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"[TRC and Bureau of Economic Geology researchers] have what you call a war room to try to figure out what's going on in this area. It has unusual geology and unusual water flows," RRC deputy executive director Danny Sorrells said. "We want to get to the bottom of this and stop it."
Crane County is in the middle of the Permian Basin, which covers 75,000 square miles in Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. The county is hundreds of miles from El Paso and San Antonio. Fourteen miles to the north in neighboring Ector County is Odessa, of "Friday Night Lights" fame.
"If we don't stop this now we are going to have complete and utter ecological devastation anywhere we've had historic oil and gas wells," Stogner said.
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Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:10 pm to Street Hawk
Get Gordon about to move to Texas.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:10 pm to Street Hawk
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If we don't stop this now we are going to have complete and utter ecological devastation anywhere we've had historic oil and gas wells," Stogner said.
Doubt it.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:11 pm to Street Hawk
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154,000 chloride parts per million
15.4% chloride?
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:11 pm to Street Hawk
Sounds like hyperbole with an agenda
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:25 pm to Street Hawk
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Sarah Stogner
This is the one that ran for a seat on the RRC and ran a campaign ad sitting naked on top of a pump jack.
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Posted on 3/30/24 at 11:11 pm to Street Hawk
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"creating a marsh-like scene,"
Stock it with redfish amirite?
Posted on 3/31/24 at 7:54 am to Street Hawk
Hmmmm
Yeah somewhere below the surface somebody’s plug failed. Or they did a shitty job on location of the injection zone.
Yeah somewhere below the surface somebody’s plug failed. Or they did a shitty job on location of the injection zone.
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:12 am to Street Hawk
I have never met an environmentalist who does not use some product produced from oil.
They are either extremely ignorant or hypocrites.
Every process has its downfalls. You have to weigh your options and choose the one that makes sense. Do you think that they are paying this much attention to environmental concerns in China?
They are either extremely ignorant or hypocrites.
Every process has its downfalls. You have to weigh your options and choose the one that makes sense. Do you think that they are paying this much attention to environmental concerns in China?
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:44 am to Street Hawk
Whoever the operator is of that well gonna have to fork up millions of dollars. Watch it be a small mom and pop operator. They're gonna have to sell the house for it.
Posted on 3/31/24 at 8:57 am to Street Hawk
As part of my Masters, I collected plants in North La. While driving down a road west of Homer, my professor slammed on the brakes and said, "what the heck is that?" It was a 10 acre low lying edge of a field covered in a marsh "grass" from south louisiana. We drudge through it collecting specimens and getting cut up by the grass (sedge) edges. We identified it as a sedge that only grew in the along the coast in swamps.
There were a lot of oil and gas drilling in the area. Apparently, there was a salt water intrusion, and some ducks from south Louisiana flew in with some seeds. It was pretty cool, but I had to explain it to numerous botanists later because it really looked odd on distribution maps.
Point being, salt water intrusion has a long history, lawmakers and lawyers looking to make money is the problem
There were a lot of oil and gas drilling in the area. Apparently, there was a salt water intrusion, and some ducks from south Louisiana flew in with some seeds. It was pretty cool, but I had to explain it to numerous botanists later because it really looked odd on distribution maps.
Point being, salt water intrusion has a long history, lawmakers and lawyers looking to make money is the problem
This post was edited on 3/31/24 at 8:59 am
Posted on 3/31/24 at 12:58 pm to Street Hawk
Sounds like someone wants to make some money quick.
Posted on 3/31/24 at 1:01 pm to Street Hawk
don't be shocked when Obiden uses the EPA to shut down oil production in Texas in furtherance of their war on "fossil fuels"
Posted on 4/1/24 at 6:44 am to Street Hawk
Water production is standard during oil & gas production. But I have 2 questions for you oil baws.
1. Aside from organic material/pollutants/etc deposited during climatic events(ex: peat accumulation in bottomlands after percolation/evaporation post-flood events), isn't virtually everything dissolved in brine, and oil for that matter, derived from the local minerals/soils? Take calcium for instance. Limestone is Calcium carbonate. If you have excess water in that soil horizon/formation(due to an aquifer for instance), some of the limestone would dissolve and the resultant solution would contain calcium ions, no? And the amount would increase with volume of water, temperature/heat, and/or appearance of catalysts(CO2) that could aid in increasing solubility
2. If 1 is true, then mineral extraction is essentially just removing large amounts of sub-surface soil using drilling fluid and other chemicals to aid in dissolving whatever soil(mineral found in it) is the target. I would assume the only reason this doesn't cause major ecological issues(land slides, sinkholes, earthquakes) is due to cementing at each end of the well bore and replacing what was extracted with an equivalent volume of water. But if evaporites, salt formations, were to be drilled into/extracted, wouldn't it cause those 3 ecological issues? Replacing the volume removed would be almost impossible due to salts high solubility in water
Seems to me that if enough salt were removed, it would cause a cataclysmic land slide/migration and the end result would be a surface that looks something like grand canyon
1. Aside from organic material/pollutants/etc deposited during climatic events(ex: peat accumulation in bottomlands after percolation/evaporation post-flood events), isn't virtually everything dissolved in brine, and oil for that matter, derived from the local minerals/soils? Take calcium for instance. Limestone is Calcium carbonate. If you have excess water in that soil horizon/formation(due to an aquifer for instance), some of the limestone would dissolve and the resultant solution would contain calcium ions, no? And the amount would increase with volume of water, temperature/heat, and/or appearance of catalysts(CO2) that could aid in increasing solubility
2. If 1 is true, then mineral extraction is essentially just removing large amounts of sub-surface soil using drilling fluid and other chemicals to aid in dissolving whatever soil(mineral found in it) is the target. I would assume the only reason this doesn't cause major ecological issues(land slides, sinkholes, earthquakes) is due to cementing at each end of the well bore and replacing what was extracted with an equivalent volume of water. But if evaporites, salt formations, were to be drilled into/extracted, wouldn't it cause those 3 ecological issues? Replacing the volume removed would be almost impossible due to salts high solubility in water
Seems to me that if enough salt were removed, it would cause a cataclysmic land slide/migration and the end result would be a surface that looks something like grand canyon
This post was edited on 4/1/24 at 6:48 am
Posted on 4/1/24 at 6:52 am to Street Hawk
Stop the drilling like biden wants.
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