Hey [MENTION=2259]Kmal[/MENTION]
Is this sinkhole anywhere near you?
Louisianna officials are getting heated up over a massive sinkhole that formed after natural gas bubbled up in an area of Bayou Corne for 2 months. It is located right next to an abandoned Salt Dome and well owned by Texas Brine.
http://theadvocate.com/home/3599778-125/officials-seeking-well-at-sinkhole
You know we have salt domes being used as strategic reserves for the US containing crude oil and LNG.
I probably live on top of one - perhaps 1000ft below - as they are riddled all along the gulf coast. There is a little town about 100 miles from me called High Island because it's a prominent point along an otherwise totally flat coastal area of TX between Port Arthur and Houston. The little town sits right on top of a salt dome that squeezed up to the surface. All around it in a huge circle are oil wells that were pulling up the oil that is often associated with the salt domes.
They are mined for the pure salt - ie BRINE - and then used as huge storage caverns. When I worked for an oil well services company we often purchased brine water from TX Brine in the various fracking and well reworking services we provided.
If Butane is being stored in a nearby well.... I can only imagine what might happen if it fails. Butane vapor by itself won't cause an explosion - especially since it will be so dense there won't be the right Oxygen/Butane ratio for it to burn. But what about on the fringes of the vapor cloud as it mixes with the air further away?
Is this sinkhole anywhere near you?
Louisianna officials are getting heated up over a massive sinkhole that formed after natural gas bubbled up in an area of Bayou Corne for 2 months. It is located right next to an abandoned Salt Dome and well owned by Texas Brine.
http://theadvocate.com/home/3599778-125/officials-seeking-well-at-sinkhole
You know we have salt domes being used as strategic reserves for the US containing crude oil and LNG.
I probably live on top of one - perhaps 1000ft below - as they are riddled all along the gulf coast. There is a little town about 100 miles from me called High Island because it's a prominent point along an otherwise totally flat coastal area of TX between Port Arthur and Houston. The little town sits right on top of a salt dome that squeezed up to the surface. All around it in a huge circle are oil wells that were pulling up the oil that is often associated with the salt domes.
They are mined for the pure salt - ie BRINE - and then used as huge storage caverns. When I worked for an oil well services company we often purchased brine water from TX Brine in the various fracking and well reworking services we provided.
If Butane is being stored in a nearby well.... I can only imagine what might happen if it fails. Butane vapor by itself won't cause an explosion - especially since it will be so dense there won't be the right Oxygen/Butane ratio for it to burn. But what about on the fringes of the vapor cloud as it mixes with the air further away?
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