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PaulusP on March 7, 2008 - 8:50am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

Anyone remember that Indonesian mud volcano that started flowing in May 2006, after drilling for gas? I was curious so went to look for it. It is still gushing, actually continuing to force people to move.

http://www.pgknet.nl/
http://www.aceh-eye.org/a-eye_news_files/a-eye_news_english/news_item.as...

Video : http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,494817592.aspx

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paal myrtvedt on March 7, 2008 - 11:14am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

thx Paul for this reminder. I did not read the entire text.
Where do all those volumes (180000 m3/d or some 1,3 mb/d) come from ? I mean water is uncompressable so I must "stream" from somewhere!

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elwoodelmore on March 7, 2008 - 2:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

the compressibility of water is on the order of 4 x 10^-6 vol/vol/psi. the pore volume it occupies has a similar compressibility. that is the basis for a water driven oil reservoir.

that doesn't explain 1.3 million bpd though.

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SacredCowTipper on March 7, 2008 - 4:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

They drilled down through mudstone and hit hot, pressurized water. I thought the flow was 660kbbl/day of mud, not 1.3mbbl.

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plucky underdog on March 7, 2008 - 11:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Ground is subsiding

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