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Another fracking blowout in Oklahoma

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The information is still sketchy, which is par. Here’s what we know so far:

We are receiving reports that Logan Eldorado #7 took a kick and burned down near Stillwater Oklahoma last night with 3 workers sustaining burns.

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UPDATE: Four workers where hurt. Kirkpatrick Oil Co. would not allow first responders on the scene.

The incident occurred on a Kirkpatrick Oil Co. rig about three miles east and two miles north of the intersection of Oklahoma 51 and Oklahoma 74.

Enid and Garfield County Emergency Man-agement Director Mike Honigsberg said emergency responders weren’t allowed on the scene, and Kirkpatrick had a team coming in to take care of the incident: “The situation had gotten a little bit beyond what the drillers could handle. There was an explosion and a couple of injuries.”
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This blowout came very close after this blowout: Chesapeake Energy executive tells conflicting stories about Oklahoma gas well blowout

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Comments

  1. Deb Lambert says

    Is this another one, or the same one that happened on January 5th? You’d think they would learn. There isn’t enough money to be a rig worker for Chesapeake.

  2. Nick says

    I hope it wasn’t a result of a faulty/non-existent BOP, some other safety equipment malfunction or inexperience. Actually those are all basically the same thing anyway, aren’t they?

    Not to climb on too high of a soap box OR knowing if this is the reason for the blowout: One of the real problems with the industry today is the fact that they are in the middle of an explosion of work. Experience is at such a premium, some companies are forced to use inexperienced workers. If they don’t drill continuously to develop a specific number of wells, in a specific amount of time, as required to satisfy the terms of the mineral owners lease the company stands to lose the right to drill on the remaining acres. And as you know, those drilling rights are short-term and not cheap.

    OK, why did the company commit itself to such an aggressive drilling program? Good question! An answer could be that if they have the money designated to be spent on the business of drilling & completing, oil & gas wells, they are going to do their best to get it committed in the time period required by the money. Is that greed or building a business, possibly too fast? Not much difference there either, I suppose.

    Should we also consider that ANY “business for profit” that finds that other people want to throw money at them to do what they do, are going to try to make a go of it for the almighty American dream?