Exxon-Mobil Gas Drilling causes Tsunami

Interesting, also fairly plausible and if people can prove this is what caused the earthquake the oil companies will be up for one heck of a bill.

Might I also add re-pressurising oil wells is also an option to squeeze out oil that has been trapped/ socked up by the rock. Have you ever heard of the plan to pump carbon dioxide and other gas emissions down empty oil wells to “help the environment” well if you have, getting more oil out of the old well is the real resin for it, as much as 10% of the original capacity of the well in fact.

Maybe then they can refund my hundred bucks that i sent over for relief.

Hi All,
I’m involved In a Project For Woodside at the moment called Gas Lift Doing pretty much that Re-injection of gas back into the Wel to Extract the Good Stuff – Oil that Is!

This story is rubbish. Also tertiary recovery of oil by CO2 injection is common practice and has nothing to do with geosequestration of waste CO2 which is a completely different thing. Please don't believe everything you read and stick to what you know.

Agreed, this story is rubbish.

Gas and oil wells are typically less than 2km deep (the ones we can reach) and the earths crust is like 15 km thick. Saying that depressuring and cooling 1 reservoir causes earthquakes is like saying a fly farting causes tsunami.

And when they talk about depressuring, there are physical and economic limits. A "depressured" well is one that has too low a pressure to make a profit on, not it has zero or low pressure. One of the wells I have worked on had a life of 19 Mpa to 8 Mpa.

Also when people talk about volumes in gas, they are measured at STP (Standard Temp and Pressure - 15°C and atmospheric pressure), which is massively different to actual volumes. But yes they still are big.

dj