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Porter Ranch Gas Leak

Late Majority

"Conservatives"

Solution

  • one solution that was tried was to plug the well with mud water and other chemicals. it didnt work because about 435 feet down they met an ice plug due to the water molecules and methane bonding.
  • one this upcoming spring is too drill relief wells that are less susceptible to blockage but this could take months to do.

The problems

  • Some problems it is causing with the environment or more so the community is that is cause health problems for the people right next to the leak.(nose bleeds and nausea)
  • Also it is cotributiong to the global warming of the earth since methane traps in more heat than carbon dioxide.
  • The community had to evacuate with atleast 1,200 residents put in temporary housing.
  • the government and the socalgas are responsible for the leak cleanup/ stopage.

Laggards

"Skeptics"

Disaster:

the people to blame are the govern jerry brown and SoCalGas because the gov. didn't issue a state of emergency for the people living in the area until two months after they knew the leak was there. also the company that owns the well because they have yet to close the well but also made it worse by making the pipes collapse and making a creator that allowed more gas to be released.

The source of the leak is a metal pipe in a breached 7-inch casing of injection well that lies 8,750 feet deep. SoCalGas’s hypothesis was that the leak was no more than 500 feet down in the column used to move gas in and out of the well. Well SS 25 had been drilled in 1953 and initially had a safety valve, which was removed in 1979 as it was old and leaking. Because the well was not considered "critical, that is, one within 100 feet of a road or a park, or within 300 feet of a home", the valve was merely removed and not replaced. since the pipe and the well head its self was so old and there were no safety caps the gas pipes eventually collapsed in on itself and is now surfacing and causing the leak.

History:

  • The location of the leak is in Aliso Canyon Oil Field, Porter Ranch, Los Angeles, California.
  • the resource that is mined here is natural gas.(methane) and with this natural gas they store it to use it as energy for the community surrounding it.
  • after drilling a hole, energy companies line the hole with materials meant to keep the gas in. Next, they send electric charges down the well, which affect the rock around it. After the charges are set off, a highly-pressurized liquid fracking solution is sent down the well. This solution breaks up the rocks, releasing the natural gas. Since the gas is lighter than the fracking solution, it rises to the top of the well for capture.
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