Comments on: Natural Gas Under Pressure Can Go Out of Control Within the Earth https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/02/10/natural-gas-under-pressure-can-become-out-of-control-within-the-earth/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jan Milburn https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/02/10/natural-gas-under-pressure-can-become-out-of-control-within-the-earth/#comment-254508 Jan Milburn Mon, 13 Jan 2020 01:39:43 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=27026#comment-254508 Another incident at Beaver Run Reservoir. This time Hutchinson gas site and the surfactant spilled was 2 BE which has been implicated in other frack incidents and is toxic, linked to rare cancers. —- Not to worry its just the drinking water for about 150, 000 people. Jan Milburn From: Laura Blood <LBlood@mawc.org> Fri, Jan 10, 12:22 PM "On Tuesday morning January 7th, gas recovery foam (a surfactant) overflowed from their brine tank and into the surrounding secondary containment. A sheen of foam was blown by wind to the surrounding gravel pad around the secondary containment area. CNX removed the affected gravel. MAWC staff conducted a follow-up inspection on January 9th. There were no receiving tributaries in the surrounding areas and no expected impacts to public drinking water.” (See attached for photos and Safety Data Sheet.) Laura Blood-Source Water Supervisor 724-727-2300 ext. 11 (O) 412-218-8479 (M) George R. Sweeney Water Treatment Plant 136 Geo Sweeney Water Rd Saltsburg PA 15681 X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. NOTE: From the safety data sheet Product Name ProSTREAM FO 2150 (contains 2 BE) OSHA Regulatory Status This chemical is considered hazardous by the 2012 OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.12 Causes serious eye irritation May cause cancer. 2 B E is 2-Butoxyethanol — Butoxyethanol is an organic compound with the chemical formula BuOC2H4OH This colorless liquid has a sweet, ether-like odor, as it derives from the family of glycol ethers, and is a butyl ether of ethylene glycol. Related ethers: 2-Methoxyethanol; 2-Ethoxyethanol CAS Number: 111-76-2 Chemical formula: C6H14O2 Flash point: 67 °C (153 °F; 340 K) Another incident at Beaver Run Reservoir.

This time Hutchinson gas site and the surfactant spilled was 2 BE which has been implicated in other frack incidents and is toxic, linked to rare cancers. —- Not to worry its just the drinking water for about 150, 000 people. Jan Milburn

From: Laura Blood
Fri, Jan 10, 12:22 PM
“On Tuesday morning January 7th, gas recovery foam (a surfactant) overflowed from their brine tank and into the surrounding secondary containment. A sheen of foam was blown by wind to the surrounding gravel pad around the secondary containment area. CNX removed the affected gravel. MAWC staff conducted a follow-up inspection on January 9th. There were no receiving tributaries in the surrounding areas and no expected impacts to public drinking water.”

(See attached for photos and Safety Data Sheet.)

Laura Blood-Source Water Supervisor
724-727-2300 ext. 11 (O) 412-218-8479 (M)
George R. Sweeney Water Treatment Plant
136 Geo Sweeney Water Rd
Saltsburg PA 15681

X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X. X.
NOTE: From the safety data sheet Product Name
ProSTREAM FO 2150 (contains 2 BE)
OSHA Regulatory Status
This chemical is considered hazardous by the 2012 OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.12
Causes serious eye irritation May cause cancer.

2 B E is 2-Butoxyethanol —

Butoxyethanol is an organic compound with the chemical formula BuOC2H4OH This colorless liquid has a sweet, ether-like odor, as it derives from the family of glycol ethers, and is a butyl ether of ethylene glycol.

Related ethers: 2-Methoxyethanol; 2-Ethoxyethanol
CAS Number: 111-76-2
Chemical formula: C6H14O2
Flash point: 67 °C (153 °F; 340 K)

]]> By: Tom Bond https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/02/10/natural-gas-under-pressure-can-become-out-of-control-within-the-earth/#comment-227353 Tom Bond Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:46:08 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=27026#comment-227353 CNX has released a statement carried in the following article: https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2019/02/09/CNX-suspected-cause-Utica-Shale-natural-gas-well-Beaver-Run-Reservoir/stories/201902090029 They are saying the problem was an unsatisfactory well casing job. That is consistent with the final paragraph above. The figures given in the Post-Gazette article are very favorable to the industry, however. This may not be an adequate explanation because CNX has not admitted that their casing lost gas containment permitting pressure release to a wide geographic area. This created an extremely dangerous situation for all the conventional wells affected. Anthony Ingraffea is perhaps the best-qualified person to comment on that. He is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University. A professional Petroleum Engineer, he has been involved in study related to fracking since 1974, financed by National Science Foundation (NSF) through Schlumberger, Gas Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, and many more even the general reader would recognize. See the following for more information on his research, findings, and advocacy: Meet Anthony Ingraffea—From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent - EcoWatch, January 2, 2013 https://www.ecowatch.com/meet-anthony-ingraffea-from-industry-insider-to-implacable-fracking-op-1881680606.html CNX has released a statement carried in the following article:

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2019/02/09/CNX-suspected-cause-Utica-Shale-natural-gas-well-Beaver-Run-Reservoir/stories/201902090029

They are saying the problem was an unsatisfactory well casing job. That is consistent with the final paragraph above. The figures given in the Post-Gazette article are very favorable to the industry, however.

This may not be an adequate explanation because CNX has not admitted that their casing lost gas containment permitting pressure release to a wide geographic area. This created an extremely dangerous situation for all the conventional wells affected.

Anthony Ingraffea is perhaps the best-qualified person to comment on that. He is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University. A professional Petroleum Engineer, he has been involved in study related to fracking since 1974, financed by National Science Foundation (NSF) through Schlumberger, Gas Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, and many more even the general reader would recognize.

See the following for more information on his research, findings, and advocacy:

Meet Anthony Ingraffea—From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent – EcoWatch, January 2, 2013

https://www.ecowatch.com/meet-anthony-ingraffea-from-industry-insider-to-implacable-fracking-op-1881680606.html

]]> By: George Neall https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/02/10/natural-gas-under-pressure-can-become-out-of-control-within-the-earth/#comment-227350 George Neall Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:45:17 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=27026#comment-227350 To Tom Bond, Excellent commentary. As a retired mining engineer, I have seen a number of instances where things that "should not have happened" in mines, did, indeed, happen because of geologic variances, nonconformities, fracture zones, subsidence areas, ancient stream channels, etc., that were not accounted for. In practice, such factors are extremely difficult accurately predict and account for. All one has to do is drive along any big road cut through rock and it is evident how quickly the geology/stratigraphy can change. The USGS had a symposium in 1994 (Link 2 to 1994 USGS Report) that discussed many of these issues. The O&G industry is aware of this publication and another 1954 USGS publication on deep well injection and earthquakes (Link 1 to 1951 USGS Report). Even though these reports demonstrated what could happen with deep well injection and fracking (a type of deep well injection), the O&G industry, like the cigarette industry did, is denying the cause and effect. Not only can/does natural gas migrate great distances, but fluids can, too. The Hutchinson, KS gas explosion in 2001 is but one example. There are many links/hits on this explosion (LINK). George Neall, Mathias, WV LINK: An Unseen Leak, Then Boom — ProPublica, June 21, 2013 https://www.propublica.org/article/an-unseen-leak-then-boom LINK 1: Earthquake Hazard Associated With Deep Well Injection, US-EPA, 1951 https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1951/report.pdf LINK 2: The Mechanical Involvement of Fluids in Faulting, USGS, June 1993 https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1994/0228/report.pdf To Tom Bond,

Excellent commentary. As a retired mining engineer, I have seen a number of instances where things that “should not have happened” in mines, did, indeed, happen because of geologic variances, nonconformities, fracture zones, subsidence areas, ancient stream channels, etc., that were not accounted for. In practice, such factors are extremely difficult accurately predict and account for.

All one has to do is drive along any big road cut through rock and it is evident how quickly the geology/stratigraphy can change. The USGS had a symposium in 1994 (Link 2 to 1994 USGS Report) that discussed many of these issues. The O&G industry is aware of this publication and another 1954 USGS publication on deep well injection and earthquakes (Link 1 to 1951 USGS Report).

Even though these reports demonstrated what could happen with deep well injection and fracking (a type of deep well injection), the O&G industry, like the cigarette industry did, is denying the cause and effect.

Not only can/does natural gas migrate great distances, but fluids can, too. The Hutchinson, KS gas explosion in 2001 is but one example. There are many links/hits on this explosion (LINK).

George Neall, Mathias, WV

LINK: An Unseen Leak, Then Boom — ProPublica, June 21, 2013
https://www.propublica.org/article/an-unseen-leak-then-boom

LINK 1: Earthquake Hazard Associated With Deep Well Injection, US-EPA, 1951
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1951/report.pdf

LINK 2: The Mechanical Involvement of Fluids in Faulting, USGS, June 1993
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1994/0228/report.pdf

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