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To: IYAS9YAS
, but shouldn't a saltwater line be bubbling up with used saltwater and not oil? What's the oil from and where exactly is it being disposed?


The salt water is coming for a seperation unit use to seperate the oil from the salt water when the crude is extracted from the earth. The salt water is then pumped back into a salt water disposal well, sometimes an old abandoned well that has quit producing.... Apparently there was a malfunction at the seperation unit and oil was included in the salt water line.... just guessing on the malfunction part...
47 posted on 02/06/2004 3:24:24 PM PST by deport (VA EL ARBUSTO VA)
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To: deport
Thanks. Didn't know the process.
49 posted on 02/09/2004 6:59:12 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Go Fast, Turn Left!)
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