Hey, do you know what happens with suddenly unmanned fossil fuel production facilities?
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Hey, do you know what happens with suddenly unmanned fossil fuel production facilities?
I know coal pits simply keep on giving. Methane.
But what about oil wells, onshore, offshore? And gas wells?
How long will they burn or seep into surrounding area?
Which radius is affected in 10 years, in 50 years, in 100 years?And will unmanned gas wells forever spew methane into the atmosphere? How much will that be?
#RCPcollapse research should cover this topic. To inform collapse survivors: which toxic regions to avoid – and which additional warming = additional extreme weather impacts to expect, despite civilisation collapse.
And to maybe, maybe inform decision-makers.
Because closing such suddenly unmanned production sites is probably technically feasible. It has to be invented and then also installed tho. Within the next 10 to 15 years. -
Hey, do you know what happens with suddenly unmanned fossil fuel production facilities?
I know coal pits simply keep on giving. Methane.
But what about oil wells, onshore, offshore? And gas wells?
How long will they burn or seep into surrounding area?
Which radius is affected in 10 years, in 50 years, in 100 years?And will unmanned gas wells forever spew methane into the atmosphere? How much will that be?
#RCPcollapse research should cover this topic. To inform collapse survivors: which toxic regions to avoid – and which additional warming = additional extreme weather impacts to expect, despite civilisation collapse.
And to maybe, maybe inform decision-makers.
Because closing such suddenly unmanned production sites is probably technically feasible. It has to be invented and then also installed tho. Within the next 10 to 15 years.If you mean war as a cause of "suddenly unmanned" I'd bet there are numbers or even studies out there about the burning oil wells in Kuwait 1991 which took several months to extinguish and could be seen as a kind of worst case scenario.
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Hey, do you know what happens with suddenly unmanned fossil fuel production facilities?
I know coal pits simply keep on giving. Methane.
But what about oil wells, onshore, offshore? And gas wells?
How long will they burn or seep into surrounding area?
Which radius is affected in 10 years, in 50 years, in 100 years?And will unmanned gas wells forever spew methane into the atmosphere? How much will that be?
#RCPcollapse research should cover this topic. To inform collapse survivors: which toxic regions to avoid – and which additional warming = additional extreme weather impacts to expect, despite civilisation collapse.
And to maybe, maybe inform decision-makers.
Because closing such suddenly unmanned production sites is probably technically feasible. It has to be invented and then also installed tho. Within the next 10 to 15 years.@anlomedad Abandoned wells have been a huge issue for a while, especially in Southern Turtle Island. I vaguely recall a paper calculating the cost for the Texas EPA, but it's been looong time ago.
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If you mean war as a cause of "suddenly unmanned" I'd bet there are numbers or even studies out there about the burning oil wells in Kuwait 1991 which took several months to extinguish and could be seen as a kind of worst case scenario.
Good idea for a paper search, merci!
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Good idea for a paper search, merci!
But no, my question wasn't confined to war.
It's all about RCPCollapse, my demand for research into an emission scenario that explicitly lets all supply chains break around 2040 and informs collapse survivors beforehand how biomes, climate and everything else will evolve in that case in their region. -
@anlomedad Abandoned wells have been a huge issue for a while, especially in Southern Turtle Island. I vaguely recall a paper calculating the cost for the Texas EPA, but it's been looong time ago.
A few years back, researchers sounded the alarm regarding abandoned open gas wells in the North Sea, too. The continental shelf is rather shallow so the methane seeping out of the holes "not only" disrupts the ecosystem but in some places manages to reach the surface.
And I dimly recall a follow-up that companies indeed started or were made to start plugging the holes. -
@anlomedad Abandoned wells have been a huge issue for a while, especially in Southern Turtle Island. I vaguely recall a paper calculating the cost for the Texas EPA, but it's been looong time ago.
A fossil gas deposit in Turkmenistan has been ignited deliberately by engineers after a drilling accident in the 1960s, and is still burning.
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/0806/1527158-turkmenistan/So yeah. Everything that isn't properly plugged will just keep on giving in gaseous form and as liquid. If wells stay unplugged after the collapse, they'll poison the environment and raise °C for generations.
Someone needs to invent and install dead-man-switches.
Can't do anything against methane from open coal pits but underground coal mines can be closed wrt their gas leaks too.
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A fossil gas deposit in Turkmenistan has been ignited deliberately by engineers after a drilling accident in the 1960s, and is still burning.
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/0806/1527158-turkmenistan/So yeah. Everything that isn't properly plugged will just keep on giving in gaseous form and as liquid. If wells stay unplugged after the collapse, they'll poison the environment and raise °C for generations.
Someone needs to invent and install dead-man-switches.
Can't do anything against methane from open coal pits but underground coal mines can be closed wrt their gas leaks too.
#RCPcollapse #ClimateChange@anlomedad We wrote a short story draft we developed at some point about bounty hunters finding and closing methane leaks at a OECD Foresight event:
https://climategains.community/t/that-story-we-co-wrote-at-the-oecd-workshp/308 -
A fossil gas deposit in Turkmenistan has been ignited deliberately by engineers after a drilling accident in the 1960s, and is still burning.
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/0806/1527158-turkmenistan/So yeah. Everything that isn't properly plugged will just keep on giving in gaseous form and as liquid. If wells stay unplugged after the collapse, they'll poison the environment and raise °C for generations.
Someone needs to invent and install dead-man-switches.
Can't do anything against methane from open coal pits but underground coal mines can be closed wrt their gas leaks too.
#RCPcollapse #ClimateChange@anlomedad @KarlHeinzHasliP Unless they're going to properly cap the well and stop all the methane leaks, we'd have been better off with it burning. At least then it's CO2 and not CH4 being vented.
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@anlomedad @KarlHeinzHasliP Unless they're going to properly cap the well and stop all the methane leaks, we'd have been better off with it burning. At least then it's CO2 and not CH4 being vented.
@brad @anlomedad ... We know for a fact that the Northstream bombing wasn't climate terrorism - because climate terrorists would have flared the gas.
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