Engineering Disaster: Lake Peigneur

"See what happens when an oil rig accidentally drilled down into a salt mine underneat the lake"

"Read the whole article" -- takes you to the video.

There was NO article nor information as to when this occurred and where in LA.

Stirling Stan-

When you click on the link below the video is a link to the story on Wiki.

Looks like this: Lake Peigneur [wiki]

~stilljester

stilljester:

Thanks for correction, missed it completely.

Still quite a story a quarter of a century later.

Proves again the Law of Unintended Consequences, and Murphy's Law!

Shows what happens when you don't do your homework!

Funny you mentioned that. I have a client who's sheetpile subcontractor has 50% of his steel above grade. Seems he wasn't made aware of limestone at 10'. Somebody is gonna need to talk to the dewatering sub.

OK - so I'm guessing the salt mine was there first, and not being particularly small, most people knew it was there. So who'd have thought it? Salt mine, lake, drilling rig: what could possibly go wrong???

D'OH!

The drilling company management should have been shot over this!

It appears that drilling operations don't learn from previous mistakes. Last May while drilling for gas in Indonesia an they managed to create a mud_volcano. So far it has destroyed the homes, farms, plantations and factories of some 10,000 people and there is still no end to the disaster in sight. Considering that they have now resorted to animal sacrifice in an attempt to stop the mud flow, things do not bode well for the locals. Somehow I think they got of cheaply with a $450 million or so fine. Imagine the law suits if this had happened in the USA, the heads of the liability lawyers would spinning with glee and it would have kept them in employment for generations.

Thanks for posting that story...pretty crazy!!

I may misunderstand the principles involved, as my training isn't in this area; but I'm pretty sure that the animal sacrifice thing won't work.

You could WELL¹ be correct!!!

Note 1 Pun intended.

You really drilled that pun home. Way to dig deep

You guys have gone a bit low, don't you think?

Holy Crap !

That's the biggest OOPPSsss I've ever seen. Next to UPS delivery, damaged and stolen goods.

Laserlover