Bubbling Bayous, Tremors and “Slurry Area” Signs Of Failing Natural Gas Salt Storage Caverns?

Bubbling Bayous, Tremors and “Slurry Area” Signs Of Failing Natural Gas Salt Storage Caverns? by leanweb, August 03 2012
Assumption Parish officials are ordering an immediate evacuation of the Bayou Corne area, effective immediately, parish Police Jury President Marty Triche said Friday evening. The “potential failiure” of an inactive and plugged Texas Brine Co. LLC salt-mining cavern is likely the cause of the “slurry area” and Gov. Jindal has declared a state of emergency. In late June, officials in Assumption Parish began discovering more than a dozen areas near Belle Rose, LA in and around Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou where the water is roiling from escaping methane, ethane and propane. At the same time local residents said that they have been experiencing tremors. … Overnight Thursday August 3, 2012 an area just southeast of Belle Rose that was previously forested swamp turned into a slurry of mud into which the trees have sunk. The area, which was originally around 200 feet in diameter, is growing and has prompted the mandatory evacuation of local residents. … It appears that Texas Brine Company LLC of Houston, TX, Bridgeline Holdings LP of Bellaire, TX, Acadian Gas LLC of Houston TX, and Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP of Houston, TX have storage caverns in the area. With Texas Brine Company LLC being the closest facility to the growing “slurry area.”

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