Posted on 10/04/2024 6:02:06 PM PDT by Libloather
A mysterious geyser erupted in a West Texas oilfield on Wednesday, sending salty water contaminated with oil 100 feet into the air.
Responders reported a smell of oil and rotten eggs coming from the geyser, which is a sign of hydrogen sulfide gas.
The fumes are poisonous and are typically present in natural gas deposits and at high levels, exposure can cause shock, convulsions, coma and death.
The geyser was located off of Interstate 20 near Toyah in Reeves County, an area that is known for hydraulic fracturing sites that inject wastewater into the ground.
This comes amid a series of earthquakes that have plagued the region, which experts have suggested are due to fracking.
Reeves County Emergency Management responded to the geyser and reported that the toxic fumes coming from the eruption measured 250 parts per million.
The measurement is considered to be a moderately high level and can lead to symptoms like nausea, throat burning, dizziness and headaches.
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Ping.
A Texan Jed Clampet seeking a varmint?
“...amid...”
Trying to instill fear and/or suspicion.
What’s the first thing you know ?
rotten eggs coming from the geyser,
Earth Farts ........??
“salty water contaminated with oil”
Make that “oil contaminated with salty water.”
Oil is the good stuff. If there was a contaminant in the admixture, it must be the salty water.
erf pharts
Rotten egg smell = hydrogen sulfide gas.
Also, my dog.
Salt Dome that was breached.
Using nitrogen to lessen the amount of cement (lighter weight) for the cementing job?
*Nitrogen can cause channeling in the cement.
About 30 years ago, I accompanied a friend who was looking for a small farm to buy in Ohio.
One such possibility . . . as we looked over the primary field - there was a slight depression of the ground - where oil came bubbling up to the surface: a black pond.
This was loss of containment of a SWD well. That’s salt water disposal well. You take all the flowback water and produced water and inject it into a SWD well for disposal. So correctly this is salt water contaminated with hydrocarbons not a producing well at all. As for the earthquakes I did my third master’s in hydraulically induced seismisity you absolutely can induce fracture and movement. We set off a 3 pointer by injecting within 1/4 mile of an existing fault line. The Texas UIC partially used my research to increase the setback distance to at least 1/2 mile from any known existing fault system in the Midland basin as well as setting a 500 foot floor above the basement strata in the Cambrian granite basement or the lower Ellenburger
Assuredly a SWD site. They lost containment in one of their casing strings. It happens not all that often but shotty cement jobs will let the 10000 psi fluids find a path of least resistance that’s almost always up bore. A plugged well could also lose its cement cap and you then get all the fluids rushing back up bore it would flow until the gradient is equal to the geopressure at TD meaning it could flow for days or weeks. H2S is not to be messed with it is as toxic as nerve gas in similar ppm levels.
The number 250 is an odd number for a 'measurement'. 247.3, or something like that would be more realistic. 250 sounds more like an estimate (guess). I suspect they were guessing the level right at the escape point, while making a measurement hundreds of feet away where the mixture would have time to disburse. It likely disbursed to safe levels quickly.
Apparently Wil Smith too.
H2S is no joke. You can drop dead fast on it. When a well blows out like that they usually set a fire.
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