California energy [RE-wrenches]

[Drake Chamberlin - Electrical Energy]

<x-flowed>Hi Wrenches,

I find it hard to believe that California is running out of natural 
gas.  Before becoming an electrician, I was a geologist, and worked a 
couple of years in the California oil fields.

Often we had to weight up the drilling mud to prevent blowouts, due to the 
intense gas pressure.  But  if we didn't find oil, the well would be 
plugged and called a dry hole.

I don't claim to know what is going on here.  Talking with people at the 
time who seemed to be in the know, it was claimed that the petroleum 
companies were waiting for oil to run out before selling the gas.   Good 
theory.

Drake

At 11:15 AM 02/18/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi wrenches: I ran across this interesting statement in someones
>posting to another group, dont know how true it is . Carl
>
>California's electricity problem is caused by a shortage of natural
>gas, as gas
>runs low there is not enough pressure in the pipelined to allow its
>generating
>plants to run, we are being told that the plants are down for
>maintenance-where
>they are down for lack of gas.
>That is being kept from the people so as not to cause a panic.
>Natural gas can be liquefied and imported from overseas but there are
>no ships
>available that do not already have long-term leases.
>Natural gas generally can only be shipped thru pipelines over land.
>
>California's problem is predicted to become much worse peaking in mid
>summer and
>lasting for two years.
>That shock should cause California to over-react to energy so that
>when the
>global energy shortage hits in about 4 years, California will be the
>least
>affected.
>
>
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