The deepest oil & gas well I knew about, having been drilled in OK...was 5 or so miles northwest of Elk City, back in 1982. A Parker rig drilled to 23,800 feet. They plugged it back to about 19,000 feet and were producing from zones at around 18,600. That was a long time ago. Relatively speaking.

If you go to Tulsa World, you can see that 18,500 is about the deepest they are going right now in OK. But they are all across the depth chart.

Out in the Deep Water GOM, if you take into account the water depth, they are drilling to 26,000 feet or so....that's including 5,000- 6,000 feet of water.

 

Here you go WW. I'm SURE you have heard about this one already, happened yesterday, (13th):

"Quake in Western China Kills 589, Buries More"

Haven't been any around here lately but I WILL keep you posted.

 

No, I had not heard about that one yet. What was the magnitude on it?

 

The initial quake, measured at magnitude-6.9 by the U.S. Geological Survey and 7.1 by the China Earthquake Networks Center, hit Yushu at 7:49 a.m. (7:49 p.m. EDT, 2349 GMT). It was followed by five more tremors within three hours, all but one registering 5.0 or higher.

There's a big ol article on the FOX news website if you want to read more about it.

 

When I heard that story on the news, it was stated like this: "In what is becoming a frighteningly common headlines, yet another major earthquake has been reported."

It's becoming a weekly occurance.

 

LONDON -- Ash clouds from Iceland's spewing volcano disrupted air traffic across Europe on Thursday as authorities closed air space over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries. Tens of thousands of passengers were stranded as flights were canceled and it was not clear when it would be safe enough to fly again.

What's next? LOCUSTS!!!

 

It's on the schedule.

 

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – A volcanic eruption in Iceland, which has thrown up a 6-km (3.7 mile) high plume of ash and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, has grown more intense, an expert said on Thursday.

The eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier continued to spew large amounts of ash and smoke into the air and showed no signs of abating after 40 hours of activity, said Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland.

"The seismographs are showing that since this morning the intensity of the eruption seems to be growing," he said.

 

They've had eruptions in the past. Some years ago, they were on international news as being the only location around the world to use sea water to cool and stop a wall of lava from covering one of their cities. This one is certainly not their first. But, at this point, there is no indication just how intense it will get before it starts to taper off.

Somebody want to connect this to all the earthquakes?

 

Would it make that "somebody" a tin foil hat, conspiracy theory, black helicopter kind of person?

How long do fault lines run? It would be interesting to see if any of the fault lines and volcanoes that are making the news, or even others, run across each other anywhere.

This was on our local news last night:

OKLAHOMA CITY -- There's a new seismometer in town. A new one was just put in near Oklahoma City Thursday. It's part of the EarthScope project which is placing seismometers all over the country. They plan to put in 400 of them in the next 10 years.

Austin Hollan with EarthScope tells us, "These seismic stations act like cat scans and as seismic waves from around the world and locally, pass through the earth we get an image of what's inside the earth."

Gathering information from around the world will allow scientists to create high-resolution images of the earth's interior.

They will also allow Oklahoma Geologists better understanding of why we've been having so many earthquakes.