Word: wellheads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recover a portion of this spill and contain and dissolve the rest, Pemex, the Mexican State oil company, has put together a small army of 500 workers, 22 boats and twelve aircraft. But chances of halting the flow soon are dim because the undersea gauges and wellhead are blocked by debris from the shattered rig. Pemex is drilling two intercepting relief wells to tap the oil below its escape point and thus stop the leakage. But such a procedure can take at least two months...
...scheme among the big oil companies to hoard supplies and make a killing at the expense of the consumer, but there is no evidence of that. The basic cause of rising prices is OPEC price fixing, compounded by the intricacies of Government regulation all the way from the wellhead to the pump...
There was no gusher. Instead, pressure gauges simply showed that something-oil or gas-was trying to come up. Hours later, a mixture of mud, water and natural gas vented from the wellhead in a cloud that when ignited whooshed into a 30-ft. flare visible 20 miles away. A second test at 13,000 ft. yielded indications...
...while the Carter administration should be willing to compromise when absolutely necessary, it should not give up its leadership role at this crucial point in negotiations and settlement. Its evident willingness to push hard for a wellhead tax on domestic crude oil, increased taxes for businesses using gas and oil, and extension of price controls to intra-state supplies of natural gas is laudable and necessary...
While the search for gas in the Tuscaloosa Sand is being conducted mostly by private business, the U.S. Department of Energy is providing funds to assemble information on the Gulf Coast's geopressured zones. In theory, the water from these zones, emerging at a wellhead pressure of 6,000 lbs. per sq. in. and a temperature much above boiling, could spin turbines and yield heat for such purposes as oil refining, food processing and rice drying. The gas that is dissolved underground in the hot water fizzes out of solution at atmospheric pressure to be captured for fuel...