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Crude Oil Bubbles Up Into Woman's Home
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| 02/03/2004
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Posted on 02/04/2004 3:06:27 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Dog Gone
You could very well be right, Dog.
I don't know it any waterflooding is taking place around Longview, but considering the age of the field, it's probable.
We didn't plug wells forty years ago like we do today, and I might have roughnecked on that very well that is flowing into her living room.
Either scenario would fit.
The neighbors wouldn't necessarily have oil in their house if the flow from a ruptured casing was following a subsurface fracture that came to the surface under her house.
Which brings another point into play:
The house evidently is not built on a pier and beam foundation, but how is the oil coming through the concrete slab?
I hear "Twilight Zone" music playing........
To: reagan_fanatic
Well, the next thing you know old Leila's a millionaire...If she's one of THE LeTourneaus, she is already a millionaire.
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:31:14 PM PST
by
lonestar
(Don't mess with Texans)
To: VRWCmember
If there are any unusual plants or animals around her place, she better kill them now.
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:32:51 PM PST
by
gitmo
(Who is John Galt?)
To: VRWCmember
She's gonna need boxes 'n boxes of those Swiffer thingies.
Bet she wishes she'd a'put the house up on them thar concrete blocks, instead of the car.
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:35:17 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you. Done. Ok, 'Rats - who's next? Step up.)
To: TexasCowboy
I betcha that as weird as this story is (and I'm sure it will get worldwide coverage as "bizarre news", if nothing else), we're going to eventually learn the answers to these questions.
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:35:21 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
LETU Alumnus named to Bush Administration (01/22/2004)
LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS NAMED TO BUSH ADMINISTRATION
(LONGVIEW, Texas)- LeTourneau University alumnus Robert McFarland was nominated by President George W. Bush and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs on Thursday, January 22, 2004. McFarland graduated with a degree in business management and is a former vice president and general manager of the government sector at Dell Computer Corporation in Austin, Texas.
Before his resignation in May, he managed the military, federal, state and local government business for the computer company. During McFarland's tenure with Dell, which began 1996, Dell became the top supplier of computers to the federal government, expanding its presence in the Defense Department. McFarland is a Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Army where he served two years' active duty and two more years on reserve.
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:41:49 PM PST
by
lonestar
(Don't mess with Texans)
To: fso301
Even if you don't own the mineral rights, it can be a boon in some cases. If the oil company can't recover the oil through other means (and the zoning restrictions don't preclude it) she can lease her land to an oil company and they can setup a "grasshopper" to pump it out. A great deal of "oil" money is made through land leases. While the land owner may not have mineral rights and subsequently benefit from an oil royalty, the oil company can't just force themselves on to the land.
To: lonestar
I only half pay attention to radio commercials, but I would have guessed that LeTourneau University was a correspondence school or internet university before this thread was posted.
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:48:44 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Koblenz
Wasn't there an episode of Beavis and Butthead where they thought they struck oil but really hit the sewer line? Eeewyu! Ugh! Once I had stuff bubbling up in my laundry sink downstairs. Complete with floater stools and rag-paper. That weren't oil! Used the wet-dry vac, then jammed a rolled-up wad of newspaper in the drain. Then my neighbor's got a flood. Bad underground sewer line. Yuck!
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:50:31 PM PST
by
roadcat
To: DeltaZulu
While the land owner may not have mineral rights and subsequently benefit from an oil royalty, the oil company can't just force themselves on to the land. I have to correct you on that. In Texas, the mineral estate is definitely superior to the surface estate, and an oil company definitely can force themselves onto the land. The Sheriff will help, if necessary.
That's not customary practice, and oil companies definitely want to maintain good relations with surface owners, so financial arrangements are almost always reached.
But if you only own surface rights and are dead set against allowing the owner of the mineral rights to get what is lawfully his, you're going to lose. That's the law.
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:53:29 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: TexasNative2000
The meek shall inherit the earth, the strong...get the mineral rights
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:56:03 PM PST
by
hedgie
To: Dog Gone; DeltaZulu
Thank you, Dog.
I'm glad I checked back before I posted.
DZ, this is just like an easement.
The oil company has the legal right to go in, no matter what the surface owner says.
They try to negotiate damages first, but, if necessary, they'll go in and talk later.
To: Dog Gone
"we're going to eventually learn the answers to these questions." I don't know; I really doubt it.
The people who report this stuff don't have the foggiest what they're talking about.
Reminds me of a guy named Richardson........
To: TexasCowboy
Now COB sweetie, why am I not surprised to find you on a Texas crude thread? :-)
Are you coming to the birthday part on Sat?
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:37:39 PM PST
by
RikaStrom
(Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.)
To: RightOnline
Black gold...............Texas tea.................
Too bad she had to settle for second best. Not everyone is lucky enough
to get Oklahoma Crude!
(just joshin'...grandparents had a tiny bit of the Three Sands oilfield in Oklahoma...
and wasted every cent they got from it!)
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:42:20 PM PST
by
VOA
To: TexasCowboy
LOL.
But the cause of this will eventually be made public; I'm sure of it. Perhaps it will only be published in the Longview newspaper, but the Railroad Commission will investigate.
Of course, if this can somehow be blamed on Halliburton, we'll all hear of it.
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:43:43 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: RikaStrom
"Are you coming to the birthday part on Sat?" Why, sweetie pie! If you're gonna be there, of course!
I haven't seen your new hair do in person!
(I ain't ridin' no Metro Rail thingie!)
To: Dog Gone
I went to LTU for a short time period. Had a major issue with the study group concept. :-)
Could be that I just don't play well with others.
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:53:11 PM PST
by
RikaStrom
(Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.)
To: Dog Gone
"Of course, if this can somehow be blamed on Halliburton, we'll all hear of it." Well, let's see if we can make the connection:
LeTourneau builds offshore jackup rigs.
Halliburton has equipment on most offshore jackup rigs.
YEP! There it is!
I'll bet this is a plot by the LeTourneau family and Halliburton to scam millions off the American taxpayer as a superfund clean-up site with Halliburton doing the work!
To: TexasCowboy
Yep, I am there, barring anticipated family problem, but that issue is hanging in limbo.
:-)
You'll like the new do. hehe
The death train... oh good grief!
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:54:29 PM PST
by
RikaStrom
(Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.)
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