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25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface

 
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A better picture here. Not great, but better.
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10/12/2012 03:10 AM
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These people need to stop calling it a sinkhole.. sinkholes are naturally occurring geo-anomolies considerably larger then a pothole, yet easily rectified with a small construction crew and a few round mouth shovels.

The Bayou Corne hole <- lolz the irony :) ..is a man made clusterfuck thousands of feet wide & hundreds of feet deep capable of setting the entire northern hemisphere on fire.

Acadian Gas - Texas Brine have opened the gates to the abyss & they need to be held accountable.. if we keep allowing them to call it a sinkhole, they'll get away with it just like BP.

Assumption Parish just about past the point of no return & just like the BP clusterfuck they will write this up as an act of god.

It's time to storm the buildings.. bring rope & ask the receptionist which executive should be dangled over the hole.

Then you'll start hearing some truth..
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well said
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10/12/2012 03:31 AM
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Have the stupid authorities not shut the gas off yet ?? Just in case , bent pipes and all .
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10/12/2012 05:11 AM
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Have the stupid authorities not shut the gas off yet ?? Just in case , bent pipes and all .
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Yes they have ages ago. Thank goodness, otherwise when that pipe got draged into the sink hole, there wouldn't have been no picture. Just a big boom.
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10/12/2012 05:28 AM
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Time to go off grid and boycott fossil fuels if you have even the smallest back garden you can set up your own methane gas production and it will only take up a few meters of space.

No point bitching about power companies unless you are an off gridder, all you need is 2 old plastic drums some shit and some bits of pipes it will pay for itself in a month.

Humanity is so dumb we will wait till the planet is dead or power companies are taking 100% of our incomes before we do it.
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10/12/2012 05:43 AM
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The pipes been dated to 35 BC. What the hell!
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This makes sense because of the dead horses and sharks now found in the hole?

deadhorse shark
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10/12/2012 05:55 AM
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Giant Sinkhole ????

You people are seriously demented if this is giant.

It's not bigger than the pond in my backyard.

Jeez.. some of you think half of the state or even the friggin' country can be sucked in or something.

Get a life..
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10/12/2012 06:03 AM
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Giant Sinkhole ????

You people are seriously demented if this is giant.

It's not bigger than the pond in my backyard.

Jeez.. some of you think half of the state or even the friggin' country can be sucked in or something.

Get a life..
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just a symptom... maybe paying more attention on your part is in order.
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10/12/2012 06:09 AM

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Re: 25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface
These people need to stop calling it a sinkhole.. sinkholes are naturally occurring geo-anomolies considerably larger then a pothole, yet easily rectified with a small construction crew and a few round mouth shovels.

The Bayou Corne hole <- lolz the irony :) ..is a man made clusterfuck thousands of feet wide & hundreds of feet deep capable of setting the entire northern hemisphere on fire.

Acadian Gas - Texas Brine have opened the gates to the abyss & they need to be held accountable.. if we keep allowing them to call it a sinkhole, they'll get away with it just like BP.

Assumption Parish just about past the point of no return & just like the BP clusterfuck they will write this up as an act of god.

It's time to storm the buildings.. bring rope & ask the receptionist which executive should be dangled over the hole.

Then you'll start hearing some truth..
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I like the way you think.

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10/12/2012 06:20 AM
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Re: 25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface
Giant Sinkhole ????

You people are seriously demented if this is giant.

It's not bigger than the pond in my backyard.

Jeez.. some of you think half of the state or even the friggin' country can be sucked in or something.

Get a life..
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1450512



The "pond" in your back yard is 400 ft deep? It's not what is going in that worries these people. It's all the oil and gas coming OUT that worries them, jackwagon.

Think more than 1 step ahead.
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10/12/2012 06:29 AM
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Re: 25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface
Seems the larger concern is buried in the story with an active pipeline...

"Two days after the sinkhole emerged, officials reported that a powerful force causing it had also caused a 36-inch natural gas pipeline that ran under Louisiana Highway 70 near the sinkhole to bend. ...
Dupré had reported: "The pipleine (sic) has bent 16 feet downward and 15 feet to the east after the sinkhole in the Louisiana swampland developed Thursday, according to Boudreaux."
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10/12/2012 06:35 AM
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I think a bigger thing about the story is that they've basically admitted that the sink hole has hit a "natural occurring oil and gas formations."

[link to assumptionla.wordpress.com]

"Welsh noted that, based on “fingerprint” analysis and other data, the source of the crude oil and natural gas that have been observed at the surface in the Bayou Corne area appears to be one or more naturally occurring oil and natural gas formations, and that the preponderance of scientific evidence indicates that the failure of the sidewall of the Texas Brine cavern provided a pathway up to the aquifer and the surface for oil and natural gas that had previously been confined thousands of feet below."


The people that said it's connected to the BP disaster don't sound quite so crazy anymore do they? lol...
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10/12/2012 08:48 AM
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I think a bigger thing about the story is that they've basically admitted that the sink hole has hit a "natural occurring oil and gas formations."

[link to assumptionla.wordpress.com]

"Welsh noted that, based on “fingerprint” analysis and other data, the source of the crude oil and natural gas that have been observed at the surface in the Bayou Corne area appears to be one or more naturally occurring oil and natural gas formations, and that the preponderance of scientific evidence indicates that the failure of the sidewall of the Texas Brine cavern provided a pathway up to the aquifer and the surface for oil and natural gas that had previously been confined thousands of feet below."


The people that said it's connected to the BP disaster don't sound quite so crazy anymore do they? lol...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19672960


the Earth's crust is full of pockets of oil and gas (under pressure); and, it only takes cracks and fissures for
it to flow its way to the surface.

so, evidently, we have a gargantuan natural gas deposit
deep down in the earth's crust that is leaking gas to
the surface so much that this gas is now *saturating* all
of the land in Assumption Parish. this is a completely
natural phenomenon, and a completely natural disaster.
and, once it becomes apparent that this natural gas is
going to make all of southern louisiana (including New Orleans) uninhabitable, for a long time, then the
situation will be upgraded to a "Catastrophe". this is
just the beginning, folks.
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10/12/2012 08:50 AM
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It is all connected


Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead

[link to enenews.com]

abduct
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10/12/2012 08:53 AM
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It is all connected


Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead

[link to enenews.com]

abduct
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well, blame whomever you want -- it doesn't alter
the fact that all of this is happening on a catastrophic scale.
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10/12/2012 08:59 AM
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It is all connected


Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead

[link to enenews.com]

abduct
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???? how the hell can this be right? during the oil spill was there corexit being injected into the well... which was blasting out oil at 40 to 100 k psi? Doesn't make sence to me.
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10/12/2012 09:04 AM
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Re: 25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface
That pipe got STICKY TAPE around it.


Is it just me?
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10/12/2012 09:07 AM
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It is all connected


Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead

[link to enenews.com]

abduct
 Quoting: Goofy for God


???? how the hell can this be right? during the oil spill was there corexit being injected into the well... which was blasting out oil at 40 to 100 k psi? Doesn't make sence to me.
 Quoting: BULLDOZER


If you plug a hole in an over-pressured vessel it's just going to leak out more cracks, and if you're unlucky enough that vessel will explode.
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It is all connected


Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead

[link to enenews.com]

abduct
 Quoting: Goofy for God


???? how the hell can this be right? during the oil spill was there corexit being injected into the well... which was blasting out oil at 40 to 100 k psi? Doesn't make sence to me.
 Quoting: BULLDOZER


If you plug a hole in an over-pressured vessel it's just going to leak out more cracks, and if you're unlucky enough that vessel will explode.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19672960


Well lets hope that does not happen.
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10/12/2012 09:15 AM
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Re: 25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface
That pipe got STICKY TAPE around it.


Is it just me?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22898624


No, It's not just you. That is what's known as a shrink sleeve. It's (a pretty old afaik) way to protect the places where you have to weld the pipe together from corrosion. You basically wrap it around the pipe and then heat it up, and it shrinks and adheres to the pipe. They also can be used when an inspection of the pipeline finds a corrosion anomaly in lieu of cutting out the section and welding a new piece into the line. Cheaper obviously, but more of a band-aid than a fix.

I'm in the industry and it's been at least 10 years since we've used them, but we primarily build natural gas lines. If this is a products pipeline, it may still be common practice to use them, or this could be a section of an older pipeline.
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Re: 25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface
I think a bigger thing about the story is that they've basically admitted that the sink hole has hit a "natural occurring oil and gas formations."

[link to assumptionla.wordpress.com]

"Welsh noted that, based on “fingerprint” analysis and other data, the source of the crude oil and natural gas that have been observed at the surface in the Bayou Corne area appears to be one or more naturally occurring oil and natural gas formations, and that the preponderance of scientific evidence indicates that the failure of the sidewall of the Texas Brine cavern provided a pathway up to the aquifer and the surface for oil and natural gas that had previously been confined thousands of feet below."


The people that said it's connected to the BP disaster don't sound quite so crazy anymore do they? lol...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19672960




True...True

I thought this all along.
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10/12/2012 11:09 AM
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The Matt Simmons Syndrome
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10/12/2012 11:24 AM
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This may be a dumb question, but how does a 25 foot pipeline section float? Is it made of plastic?





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