Massive leaks are an everyday occurrence in gas fields

Posted by on Jan 20, 2016 @ 8:52 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: January 19, 2016

After one of the many attempts to plug the methane-leaking well at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in the Los Angeles suburbs, the thing erupted like a geyser, spewing not only natural gas, but also the muddy slurry that company technicians had pumped into the well. Aliso Canyon is a bit like a gigantic, catastrophic version of the geyser gas well of yore....

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