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Sinkhole: “Declaration of Emergency” to ensure public safety after shallow gas pockets found near edge of Napoleonville Salt Dome
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[quote:Strictlyhonest.com:MV8xOTkwMjkzXzMzNDMxMDc0XzIzOTM0RTM4] "Massive Louisiana Sinkhole Up Close September 11-14, 2012 - Gas Located While Drilling" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyFHNEhxSY[/youtube] [/quote]
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BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Commissioner of Conservation James Welsh announced today that he has
ordered all companies operating on the Napoleonville Salt Dome
to
immediately begin
work to
assess the presence of natural gas
in both the ground water aquifer and the salt dome cap rock beneath their operations; capture, vent or flare any natural gas that is encountered; and analyze any potential impacts to ground water in the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer.
Welsh said he issued the order to dome operators as part of a
formal Declaration of Emergency and Directive to ensure public safety following the Office of Conservation’s discovery of two shallow pockets of natural gas in an area between the western edge of the Napoleonville Salt Dome and the Bayou Corne community
. A contractor hired by the Office of Conservation drilled monitoring wells to sample for natural gas, and encountered the natural gas pockets at a depth of less than 50 feet from surface on Thursday.
This discovery comes as Conservation staff analyzed
new data from Texas Brine
LLC’s report to the Office of Conservation. The
data indicated pockets of natural gas within the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer and the cap rock above the salt dome
. That data came after DNR ordered Texas Brine to evaluate belowground conditions. Part of Texas Brine’s effort to comply with that order included the drilling of a shallow well to house seismic equipment in addition to the deeper well intended to enter the abandoned salt cavern.
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