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Indonesian Tsunami Probably Tripped by Exxon-Mobil Works
Posted on Thursday, January 27 2005 @ 14:37:41 PST by JWSmythe
crazedsiamese submitted: "One cubic mile of natural gas extracted every four
years at epicenter Aceh facility presents a smoking gun for man-made factor in
9.0 earthquake with accompanying tsunami that killed more than 225,000 people
Compiled by PESN from Paul Noel and JAH
ACEH, INDONESIA -- Exxon-Mobil has a 60-billion-standard-cubic-foot-per-day
facility near Aceh. In the span of four years the company extracts more than
one cubic mile of natural gas from the formations beneath what has turned out
to be the epicenter of the Aceh earthquake. The gas field there has been
producing for much longer than four years, and is one of the largest such
facilities in the world.
Scientists have known for some time that earthquakes in the order of 4.0 on the
Richtor scale have been caused by oil drilling and other earth intrusive
practices.
An analogous phenomena can be seen with earthquakes associated with large Hydro
Dams. For example, Fontana Dam (USTVA North Carolina) has been associated with
up to 4.0 earthquakes and routinely causes 2.5 quakes some fifty-plus years
after construction.
Due to its much greater scale, and the presence of six geological faults in the
area, the Three Gorges Dam in China will create very large earthquakes if its
reservoirs are ever filled completely. According to Chinese news reports,
tremors measuring 6.1 and 5.8 on the Richter scale hit the Zhangye region at
8:41 p.m. and 8:48 p.m. on Oct. 25, 2003.
Water was drained to safe levels over the next two days, and the China Daily
reported that the dams were structurally compromised: "Cracks five centimetres
wide had opened in the walls of the Shuangshuzhi reservoir, while the
Zhaizhaizi reservoir had developed a fissure one centimetre wide and 410 metres
long", the newspaper reported.
The weight of water overlying an unstable geological formation or fault exerts
incredible pressure to which the rock layers inevitably yield. Therefore it is
legitimate to ask, "What role did the extraction of oil and gas from the
immediate area play in the 9.0 Aceh earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004?"
World oil production alone (not including natural gas) is approximately 80 to
100 million barrels of oil per day. That is a tremendous volume of oil, too
large to even visualize in your mind's eye, which is being extracted EVERY DAY.
The world's oilfields are pressurized naturally by natural-gas within the oil.
We've all probably seen "oil gushers" on films involving oil discovery: oil
shoots high into the air as it is forced out of the ground by the natural-gas
pressure in the underground oilfield.
The oil is not only pressurized, but is also hot. As it is extracted, the
pressure gradually decreases until the oil well is no longer pressurized.
Comparable to an empty aerosol can that still has some liquid in it, but which
is no longer expelled by depressing the spout, the gas pressure decreases to
the point where the drilling company needs to burn energy for pumping. Thus it
becomes less profitable to extract the oil.
In some cases, in order to extract the remaining oil, cold water is
injected/pumped into the well, causing the oil to float on top of the injected
water. As the oil well fills with cold water, the last remaining oil which
floats up on top of it is forced up through the well head to the surface, until
the well is "dry" - i.e. "empty", but not literally "dry" since it is now
filled with water.
During these various stages of the oil-extraction process, the outer crust of
the globe is gradually being depressurized and cooled internally, causing
contraction for both of these reasons. When objects cool down they
automatically shrink/contract in size. If you let high-pressure air or gas out
of a cylinder ice forms around the outlet, and cools the entire cylinder. If
you let some of the air out of a football, or basketball, the ball shrinks and
goes badly out of shape.
Apply that to the Earth and you have earthquakes as the crustal layers shift in
response to the loss of pressure from below while the water pressure above
increases. This is simple common sense -- not rocket science. It is a fact so
simple that anyone who understands the oil-extraction process would understand
the effects. Or at least, they should understand.
Therefore, the people doing this oil extraction should know the risk of
triggering earthquakes, even if they ignore the consequences of rapidly
dropping the underground pressure -- as the financial gurus and oil executives
apparently regularly do.
Should these executives and decision-makers, who are also the profit-makers, be
required to accept liability for the consequences?
Another obvious fact that is never quoted in relation to global warming is that
internal combustion engines do not just give off greenhouse gases, they also
give off tremendous heat - every single one of them. If you try putting your
hand near the cooling-radiator or exhaust manifold of a running engine, you are
going to snatch it away again quickly to prevent burns. The professors never
factor this into the global-warming equations, and never mention it in the
news. They mention only the gas emissions.
Think about the millions of engines giving off tremendous heat every day, some
all day every day. Compound this on top of the greenhouse gases and you can see
why the scientists' and professors' prognostications have turned out to be
wrong. The ice caps are melting much faster than the "experts" first predicted,
and faster than they are still wrongly predicting now. What pressures does this
shift in weight from the poles place on the planet?
If oil is continually being created deep in the earth, as some
theorists argue, what happens when this new oil rises into a former oil
deposit that is now filled with water? Will this also result in further
earthquakes as pressure builds up with gas being forced into the same
space?
To connect the dots, therefore, we have to link the rapid "harvesting" of
subterranean and undersea oil, and the reason for doing so - the thirsty tanks
of obsolete gas-guzzling vehicles - with the consequence of earthquakes and
tsunamis. Not only in Asia, but also around the world, are many oilfields with
rapidly dropping pressure, into which water is being pumped to extract the last
expensive barrels. How many more disastrous quakes will humanity face as the
result of this artificially-maintained appetite for fuel?
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