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Below Sinkhole: 500 billion cubic feet of gas, 200 million gallons of oil estimate in Napoleonville Salt Dome.
CP note: Sounds like the situation may be getting out of hand...
Sinkhole Meeting: We don't know how we're going to stop crude oil form coming to surface--Turning to international experts for help:
Question: If crude is coming from the natural source from one of these three layers, how can you possibly stop, eventually it would get...?
Official: The question is, is the crude oil that's possibly coming from one of these individual layers from the outside area of the salt dome, how to stop it from entering the salt cavern I'm assuming, and as well as how to stop it from coming to the surface and through the water aquifer?
Gary Hecox, Geologist with Shaw Environmental: I can't tell you how we're going to stop it, right now, I can tell you what we're doing to get to that end. And that is we're talking to experts all over the country and some of them are overseas, who are experts in seismology, rock mechanics and related features. And we're talking to those folks to get their input to help us address that very question you asked. Right now, I don't have any ind of answer. But we are working on, that's on of the things DNR has tasked Shaw to do is be able to look at that as to what created the problem in the first place. And then a second part, what are we going to do about it.
