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Oil Spill question? Is there a way to cool the gases and neutralize the pressure?
"Geologists often refer to the temperature range in which oil forms as an "oil window"[16]—below the minimum temperature oil remains trapped in the form of kerogen, and above the maximum temperature the oil is converted to natural gas through the process of thermal cracking. Sometimes, oil which is formed at extreme depths may migrate and become trapped at much shallower depths than where it was formed. The Athabasca Oil Sands is one example of this." -Wikipedia
Scientists: Is there a way to cool the temperature at the leak and neutralize the pressure of the gases at the source so that the top fill method would have a chance to work?
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- Bad Moon RisingLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Natural Gas, can in essence "freeze" in the form of Natural Gas Hydrate (Gas with water entrained in a slushy Hydrate molecule). This is not a good thing since there is a high danger of this happening near the ocean floor already. It is a highly explosive mixture (rapid pressure expansion actually) when the hydrate is heated or broken up by pump pressure of the exothermic "drying" of cement.
Creation of a mixture of hydrates could actually cause a lot of the wellhead equipment and casing to expand and break. This would leave an even bigger mess!
