ENERGY RELATED – BASIC INFO
How to Find Info in PDF Documents Here
METHANE
- News: NOAA Covering Up Big Cracks in Sea Floor Made By BP?
- Gas hydrates: past and future geohazard?
- N. Gulf of Mexico Hydrocarbon Migration Pathways
- Largest methane seep in the world found off the eastern coast of U.S.
- Assumption Parish Methane-in-water-wells MAP – Sept. 2012
- Assumption Parish bubble sites MAP – Oct. 3, 2012
- Methane Fact Sheet < all about Methane
- Bayou Corne BASE OF CLAY Map < P.6
- Was Bayou Corne Area Ever Used for “Geopressured Production Wells”? + More on Methane
- Hydrocarbon Systems Analysis of the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Delineation of Hydrocarbon Migration Pathways Using Seeps and Seismic Imaging < p. 28
A lot on subsurface methane on Idahopicker’s video < shows how it interacts with water
and Methane Gas Explosion From Ocean History
Uncontainable Methane at 100,000 PSI in the Gulf. Related to Bayou Bubbles???
Are methane hydrates dissolving?
The average temperatures of the atmosphere are rising; the average temperatures of the oceans, too. Not only living organisms react sensititvely to these changes. The transitional zones between shallow shelf seas and the deep sea at continental slopes store a huge amount of methane hydrates in the sea bed
Real Worst-Case Scenario For Gulf Of Mexico: Double Exploding Methane
Coalbed Methane Map (US, 48 states)
- Wis. Dept. of Health Services – What is Methane? fact sheet
- The Methane Monster Grows New Teeth
- On Methane in the Seabed (off California)
- Methane – Everything you Didn’t Want to Know
Archives Here — Posts About Methane and the Sinkhole
METHANE TRACKING
Copernicus – EU tracking system
MAP – Global methane forecast
More tools are on the website for tracking methane and other gases and getting historical data.
HYDROGEN SULFIDE
BUTANE
- Exact Location of the Butane Cavern (Map) and Extra Info
- Almost a MILLION Barrels of Liquid Propane Stored at Sinkhole!
- Butane Data Sheet < all about butane
HYDROCARBONS
Science Abstracts:
Use of chemical fingerprinting to establish the presence of spilled crude oil in a residential area following Hurricane Katrina, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.
Fingerprinting of crude oil spills
OIL INDUSTRY
- Fractionator? Cracker? What are They?
- Some Dope on the Shaw Group
- Subsurface Injection of Oilfield Brines, 1987 document
- The Prize Beneath the Salt, 2008 article about Deep water drilling in the Gulf
- Louisiana Oil Spill Regulations
- History of Offshore Oil & Gas Industry in S. Louisiana
- SPE Internat’l – How to get the most out of your Oil Rim Reservoirs?
Reservoir management and hydrocarbon recovery enhancement initiatives - Oil and Gas Traps < easy explanation of oil exploration
- Patent: Apparatus for hot water sulfur mining
Jim Lee’s interactive oil rig map:
BAYOU CORNE SINKHOLE 3 PART VIDEO SERIES:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1JTr0cuRTU
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqD-24Knk68 << has strategic oil reserves
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fquns-ZdMS4 << old Lake Peigneur disaster
ClimateViewer 3D:
http://climateviewer.com/
- Texas Brine oil wells in Napoleonville
- Info on Injection Wells
- Types of Injection Wells – EPA
- Injection Well Info – many documents
- [US] Petrolium Industry 2011 Statistics Report – ( PDF )
Oil Rig Location Maps are at the bottom of our MAP PAGE.
PIPELINES
- On pipeline danger-at-work, Alaska oil pipeline video
- Rules on Marking Pipelines
- US Coast Guard List of Lights Marking Pipelines
- LOUISIANA INTRASTATE NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANIES
- Louisiana – Search a MAP for pipelines by address
MORE – see MAPS page
NATURAL GAS
- Processing Natural Gas
- Natural Gas Distribution Info
- article with links on fracking/pollution info
- Fracking: See Sidebar, Blogroll for Blue Daze. They cover fracking.
- 1997 Report: Texaco Expanding Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Market Across Louisiana Gulf Coast With Onique Pipeline Infrastructure Called “TENDS”.
UK and Europe – Underground Gas Storage < capacity chart 
LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS
The Cold Facts About a Hot Commodity: LNG
HEALTH ISSUES
- BP Oil Spill/Sinkhole Health Alert
- Gulf Oil Spill Health Hazards
- Sinkhole Area Health Monitoring Failure
- Chronic Toxic Potential of Selected Hydrocarbons in Crude Oil
- Pollution & Health mapping project
- (Australia) 60 Minutes documentary
FRACKING
- Frac Focus Well Data
- Blue Daze Fracking News Blog
- Fracking Chemical Database from SkyTruth
NEW MADRID FAULT
New Madrid Fault < with MAP
“According to scientists, a New Madrid earthquake measuring over 7.5 on the Richter scale could generally be expected to take place every 200 to 300 years. Such a quake now would trigger destruction in up to twenty states and cause billions of dollars in damage at population centers.”
- Maps of New Madrid Fault and Recent Earthquakes
- Seismic Hazards in the Midwest
- New Madrid and Wabash Valley Seismic Study
- Sand Blows and the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812
- 15 Nuke Plants are on the New Madrid fault line < has video
- USGS: New Madrid Seismic Zone Remains a Concern < links to a report
- The Little Known New Madrid Pipeline Bomb
- A Fault Line Next to Lake Peigneur
- A BLOG about New Madrid fault zone re-awakening
- Video – The Earth Expansion Theory in the Gulf of Mexico
VOLCANOES
- Door Point: A Buried Volcano in Southeast Louisiana
- Area Geology & Volcanoes (Miss. MO and Texas volcanoes)
- Water Pathways from the Deep Sea to Volcanoes
- Tar or asphalt volcano in the Gulf of Mexico? < More
- The Biloxi Dome, undersea volcano
- On Mud Volcanoes
FAULTS, QUAKES ETC.
- Faulting, Subsidence and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana (1999)
- Neo-Tectonic Framework of S.E. Louisiana and Applications to Coastal Restoration < 2003 fault maps
- Subsurface Controls on Historical Subsidence Rates and Associated Wetland Loss in Southcentral Louisiana
- Effects of Earthquakes, Fault Movements, and Subsidence on the South Louisiana Landscape (2005) < Maps
- Several papers on faults
- DNR – Bayou Corne Data Sampling (Oct. 2012)
- Thesis – Movement Along the Baton Rouge Fault
- Basement Controls on Subsurface Geologic Patterns and Near-Surface Geology across the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Deeper Perspective on Coastal Louisiana < great charts of faults in the Gulf
- A Geohazard Perspective of Recent Seismic Activity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
- LGS – Earthquakes in Louisiana < has fault maps
- In 1930 Napoleonville was the site of Louisiana’s deadliest quake
- How dust inside faults may contribute to earthquakes
- Cratons: stress melting during the Shock Dynamics event
- The Gulf of Mexico and the southern margin of Laurentia
- Gulf of Mexico tectonic History: Hotspot Tracks, Crustal Boundaries, and Early Salt Distribution
- Tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and northern South America in the mantle reference frame: an update
- Earth’s Crust Thickness MAP – at BP Macondo site it was only 1 mile thick – More
- On Mud Lumps on the Miss. Delta
AQUIFERS – – – see SALT DOME page:
The Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle 
FlyingCuttleFish, don’t beat around the bush…tell us how you really feel? LOL!
I have been following La. Sinkhole Bugle for over a year now,have read every article about the sinkhole ,videos of it,oil spills,the poor people of the bayou{so many prayers go up for them,and us all as the human race},volcanoes,which are certainly a possibility,radiation,methane,mega storms,Haarp,so much of this is nature related. The thing is Man has done so much to ruin what we have been given. At this time in our history I believe all things considered we are looking at our last days on Earth as we have known it. My prayers go out to all you good folks who strive to keep us up to date on just how these times are playing out. We are and have always been in God’s Almighty hands.
We have a lot of dark humor here because we’d run down the road screaming if we didn’t.
The emergency at Bayou Corne is so, so sad and the treatment of the community so shabby it is hard to think it is happening in the USA.
There is NO reason for mere humans to trash this beautiful planet the way they do!
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CNN just had a report saying there have been 10 close to shore stark attacks in NC/SC so far this year… well above normal for an entire year…
and this year is only half over.
Since there are large pockets of methane hydrates off shore NC/SC … I too wonder if there is a connection.
Unstable methane hydrates can cause undersea landslides and tsunamis… the biggest landslide and tsunami in history was caused by unstable methane hydrates.
” Recent mapping conducted by the USGS off North Carolina and South Carolina shows large accumulations of methane hydrates.
A pair of relatively small areas, each about the size of the State of Rhode Island, shows intense concentrations of gas hydrates. ”
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” USGS investigations indicate that gas hydrates may cause landslides on the continental slope.
Seafloor slopes of 5 degrees and less should be stable on the Atlantic continental margin, yet many landslide scars are present. The depth of the top of these scars is near the top of the hydrate zone, and seismic profiles indicate less hydrate in the sediment beneath slide scars. Evidence available suggests a link between hydrate instability and occurrence of landslides on the continental margin. ”
http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html
The Risky Business of Mining Methane Hydrate
Moving Mountains
” One of the largest landslides in history didn’t occur on land, but underwater, just off the coast of Norway. It also didn’t occur in recent history, but in the Holocene epoch, about 8,000 years ago. Known as the Storegga Submarine Landslide, the event caused massive amounts of sediments to slide about 497 miles (800 kilometers) down the continental slope. This in turn triggered a mega-tsunami, perhaps 82 feet (25 meters) high, that struck Norway and Scotland.
In 1998, Russian researchers discovered an unstable hydrate field near the site of the Storegga slide. Now scientists believe that a rapid decomposition of hydrates, related to temperature and pressure changes coming at the end of the last ice age, destabilized the sediments and caused the landslide. ”
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/energy-production/frozen-fuel4.htm
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that’s a great connection….
I also read the sea temps are very high on both coasts.
Plus sharks come into shallow water (at night?) to breed. Plus these fishing boats throw out bloody live bait near where everybody swims.
But methane bubbling up could make a lot of sharks leave their usual place (head for the beach) …. or make ’em crazy man-eaters!
See also Jumping Jack Flash blog on the sidebar.
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