The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:32 pm**

Derrek drill on a lake taps into a salt mine, you have to watch what happens next to believe it. :O

Lake Peigneur Salt Mine drilling accident

Posted: **Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:57 pm**

what were they drilling for?
LLL

Posted: **Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:07 pm**

It's in the link tony lol salt:D

Posted: **Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:04 pm**

lutonlagerlout wrote:what were they drilling for?
LLL

Not sure.
The lake was fresh water, so it couldn't be that (now salt water ,by all accounts)
I like the way they give a diagram of a drill penetrating the mine, then at the end say 'its still not clear who is to blame' :laugh:
It just amazed me as I thought it would just be a daft whirlpool film, then 65 acres disappear! :O :O

Posted: **Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:53 pm**

lutonlagerlout wrote:what were they drilling for?
LLL

They were drilling for oil but hit the underground salt mine

On November 20, 1980, when the disaster took place, the Diamond Crystal Salt Company operated the Jefferson Island salt mine under the lake, while a Texaco oil rig drilled down from the surface of the lake searching for petroleum. Due to a miscalculation, the 14-inch (36 cm) drill bit entered the mine, starting a chain of events which turned what was at the time an almost 10-foot (3.0 m) deep freshwater lake into a salt water lake with a deep hole.

Lake Peigneur wiki

Posted: **Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:49 pm**

darrenba wrote:
lutonlagerlout wrote:what were they drilling for?
LLL

They were drilling for oil but hit the underground salt mine

On November 20, 1980, when the disaster took place, the Diamond Crystal Salt Company operated the Jefferson Island salt mine under the lake, while a Texaco oil rig drilled down from the surface of the lake searching for petroleum. Due to a miscalculation, the 14-inch (36 cm) drill bit entered the mine, starting a chain of events which turned what was at the time an almost 10-foot (3.0 m) deep freshwater lake into a salt water lake with a deep hole.

Lake Peigneur wiki

Remarkably short sighted to drill over a salt miner. Even more cack handed to be so far out with your calculations. :O

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Drilling disaster - How engineering can go seriously wrong.