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Gold/Mining/Energy : KOB.TO - East Lost Hills & GSJB joint venture -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Flea who wrote (152)	11/24/1998 11:42:00 AM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15703

Gee, why can't anything be normal. Even when I finally get lucky something has to go wrong. This kind of thing isn't supposed to happen with modern equipment and procedures. Bob

To: Flea who wrote (152)	11/24/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: robert landy	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 15703

From the bakersfield news: Filed: November 24, 1998 An oilfield mishap near Lost Hills is creating smoke and flames that can be seen 20 miles away. No one was injured in the blowout, which occurred about 8 p.m. Monday on a Chevron oil and gas lease. The lease is located on a 3,000-acre cotton farm near Highway 46 and General Petroleum Road. Nabors Drilling USA had 10 to 12 workers operating the rig but all safely escaped thanks to a monitoring device which warned of the impending danger. Flames from the blowout, which is caused by an escape of natural gas from the well casing, are shooting some 200 feet into the air and are estimated at 30 to 40 feet in diameter. The site operator is Bellevue Resources, a subsidiary of Elk Point Resources of Calgary, Canada. A Bellevue spokesman said it could take one to two weeks just to gain access to the well to begin to extinguish the fire. Flames have engulfed the drilling rig, which may hamper efforts to reach the well head to shut off the flow of gas and oil. The gas rig had reached a depth of 17,600 feet and was completely destroyed in the blowout, causing damage estimated at several million dollars. A crew from Boots & Coots International Well Control in Houston arrived early this morning to battle the flames, but the firm's specialized fire fighting equipment is not expected to leave the company's Texas-based headquarters before noon today Central Standard Time. (10 a.m. local time). Blowouts are sometimes extinguished by drilling an adjacent companion well that allows the escaping natural gas to be redirected and contained outside the original well casing.