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Officials Puzzled by Okla. Gas Geysers
Newsday Inc. ^ | December 11, 2005, 7:47 PM EST | By Associated Press

Posted on 12/12/2005 9:36:50 PM PST by PureSolace

KINGFISHER, Okla. -- An outbreak of geysers spewing mud and gas into the air in rural Kingfisher County is puzzling state and local officials.

Kingfisher Fire Chief John Crawford says initial reports of the geysers came in Friday morning, and that firefighters and Oklahoma Corporation Commission officials were on the scene yesterday.

The geysers have appeared throughout the countryside of rural Kingfisher, with stretches of up to 12 miles between spots, and some as short as a quarter of a mile.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: artbell; gas; geyser; geysers; oklahoma
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Hmmm...
1 posted on 12/12/2005 9:36:51 PM PST by PureSolace
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To: PureSolace

Once a sewage line leak was mistaken for a mineral water spring. Same here?


2 posted on 12/12/2005 9:39:26 PM PST by GSlob
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To: PureSolace

We're doomed! We're all doomed!


3 posted on 12/12/2005 9:42:24 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: PureSolace
Oklahoma has some of the most complex geology on earth.
4 posted on 12/12/2005 9:42:46 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Giving power and money to Congress is like giving liquor and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rour)
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To: PureSolace

Is this the same place where, back in the 60's, people started losing all their mail, when the town trash cans were re-labled "PLACE LITTER HERE"?


5 posted on 12/12/2005 9:43:09 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: PureSolace

Kinda reminds me of the oil scene on the coast of California. Oil seeps up from the bottom of the ocean and washes ashore. There's also at least one place where oil seeps out a cliff by the shore. Still the enviro whack-jobs don't want drilling, because it will ruin the coastline.

Sounds like some natural gas reserves in Oklahoma need to be tapped. The land owners could make some handsome income off those it would seem.


6 posted on 12/12/2005 9:44:07 PM PST by DoughtyOne (MSM: Public support for war waining. 403/3 House vote against pullout vaporizes another lie.)
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To: GSlob

The bitter loser of the Kingfisher Chilli cook off said, " You haven`t heard the last of me!"


7 posted on 12/12/2005 9:47:28 PM PST by bybybill (GOD help us if the Rats win)
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To: PureSolace

We've been talking about it over here, too:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538664/posts


8 posted on 12/12/2005 10:00:43 PM PST by Rte66
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

you could never tell it from the topside....


9 posted on 12/12/2005 10:01:57 PM PST by wigswest
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To: PureSolace

So that's where Congress has built the new underground bunker. Sounds like Teddy Kennedy has already taken up residence.


10 posted on 12/12/2005 10:06:45 PM PST by MilesVeritatis (War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things...." - John Stuart Mill)
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To: MilesVeritatis

Edgar Casey...check him out...


11 posted on 12/12/2005 10:28:47 PM PST by Crim (I may be a Mr "know it all"....but I'm also a Mr "forgot most of it"...)
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Edgar Casey...check him out...

Earth changes?

12 posted on 12/12/2005 10:34:24 PM PST by Screaming_Gerbil (Let's Roll...)
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To: Crim

Edgar whozawhatzit? Doesn't ring a bell. A little help, please.


13 posted on 12/12/2005 10:43:59 PM PST by MilesVeritatis (War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things...." - John Stuart Mill)
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To: writer33
It's obvious. The Rattlesnakes are getting a hold of the leftover pinto beans from the illegals. See what happens when you don't protect the borders.
14 posted on 12/12/2005 10:49:30 PM PST by MPJackal ("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
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To: PureSolace

That's a tough problem. I guess all of the producing wells in the area will have to be checked for casing leaks. If they get lucky, they'll find one and Halliburton (or somebody like 'em) will fix it in a jiffy.

If they don't find a casing leak anywhere, then there's always a chance that the gas is migrating from a deeper zone below into a shallow freshwater sand in an old, plugged well. If so, then I don't know how you'd find the problem well and I don't know the procedure for fixin' it.... short of drilling it out and plugging it again.

It may have to blow a while.


15 posted on 12/12/2005 11:17:32 PM PST by OkiMusashi (Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
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To: Screaming_Gerbil

Shifting magenetic north pole...stark climate changes in the EU...and long dormant activity resurfacing in the midwest...

I'm not saying it is...just saying..."gee...alot of stuff he said will happen is starting to happen..."

Worth keeping an eye on...


16 posted on 12/12/2005 11:27:32 PM PST by Crim (I may be a Mr "know it all"....but I'm also a Mr "forgot most of it"...)
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To: MilesVeritatis

Ah...sorry

Edgar Casey was a 20th century Christian scientist and some say...a profit...

He didnt predict the "end" of the world....only the end "as we know it"....


17 posted on 12/12/2005 11:30:07 PM PST by Crim (I may be a Mr "know it all"....but I'm also a Mr "forgot most of it"...)
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To: PureSolace

Well, hayl, if I was drivin' thru there I sure wouldn't stop...might get a geyser under your butt!


18 posted on 12/12/2005 11:37:55 PM PST by ATCNavyRetiree (I can most times spot a liberal...they look weak, cowardly and undisciplined.)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

The MEERS Fault


19 posted on 12/12/2005 11:43:52 PM PST by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: Crim
Edgar Casey was a 20th century Christian scientist and some say...a profit...

heh heh..

20 posted on 12/13/2005 3:55:45 AM PST by bkepley
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