Would you have guessed there was anything like this number of wells - abandoned or otherwise - in the Gulf? from Yahoo News
WASHINGTON – The federal government's oil spill chief said Tuesday that seepage two miles from BP's oil cap is coming from another well, tamping down fears that leaks mean the ruptured well is unstable.
There are two wells within two miles of BP's blowout, one that has been abandoned and another that is not in production. Around 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf aren't checked for leaks, an Associated Press investigation showed this month.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
There are a jaw-dropping 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico:
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Yeah, I read about that a while ago in the local papers. "Out of sight, out of mind," eh? *snort*
ReplyDeleteI was just amazed that there were so many. Over how long a period were they drilled, I wonder? And who drilled them? Which companies? When I saw the headline, I felt so uneducated about what was going on.
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