ANOTHER oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico

Started by Monster Dave, September 02, 2010, 07:43:50 AM

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muskrat

Can we thin the gene pool? 

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Monsterlover

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Shifty

Thank God it doesn't sound anything like the Deep Water Horizon incident.
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zooom

okay...anyone want to start the betting pool on how long it will take to button this one up?
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Monsterlover

I think we need more info. .

namely if it's blarging oil or other bad stuff into the gulf.

If it's just a burning platform..

well I can't see how that would take more than a few months to get under control ;D
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erkishhorde

What is "condensate?"

QuoteDuring the last week of August 2010, production from this facility averaged approximately 9.2 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and 1,400 barrels of oil and condensate."
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zooom

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Monsterlover

It's probably brine.

If you look at a land based natural gas well there normally is/are a tank or two with the metering equipment and they're to collect the brine that comes up out of the ground with the natural gas.
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CairnsDuc

Thanks to Wikipedia:

Natural gas condensate is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields.

It condenses out of the raw gas if the temperature is reduced to below the hydrocarbon dew point temperature of the raw gas.

The natural gas condensate is also referred to as simply condensate, or gas condensate, or sometimes natural gasoline because it contains hydrocarbons within the gasoline boiling range. Raw natural gas may come from any one of three types of gas wells:[1][2]

    * Crude oil wells â€" Raw natural gas that comes from crude oil wells is called associated gas. This gas can exist separate from the crude oil in the underground formation, or dissolved in the crude oil.

    * Dry gas wells â€" These wells typically produce only raw natural gas that does not contain any hydrocarbon liquids. Such gas is called non-associated gas.

    * Condensate wells â€" These wells produce raw natural gas along with natural gas liquid. Such gas is also non-associated gas and often referred to as wet gas.

Link to the Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_condensate