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The Back Story The photo above is from video of the March 09, 2004 kick which occurred while drilling the Arbaney well. The driller, later interviewed by Blackcloud, confessed that the sudden eruption of gas and debris nearly took his head off when he approached the bore hole to examine the situation. The kick shook one neighbor's home askew of its foundation and nearly knocked my mother to her knees as she stood at the kitchen sink in our home approximately a mile away. Other neighbor's interviewed noted the rattling of walls, cracking of sheetrock and knocking of dishes off the wall. After the jolt, one neighbor complained about her dishwasher door not shutting and another neighbor complained that the doors in his home would no longer shut properly. Another neighbor recently added his observations that the hillock between this well location and our home settled so that he could see another neighbor's entire home where - prior to the kick - he could only see the rooftop. Remarkably, a phone call to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado revealed no seismic activity for that day. The COGCC field inspector, unaware that we possessed this footage denied the event noting that it would have been impossible. Nonetheless, I filed a report which I sent to the COGCC some time later when the report had mysteriously disappeared. Again and again, this event was repeatedly down-played, though its significance, we believe, may well have played a part in the Divide Creek seep which occurred in 2004 in association with the Schwartz well. Fortunately, however, shortly after this event which occurred while using "underbalance" technology, the technique was disallowed in this region. It's a good thing the COGCC was at least responsive in that regard. I will never forget the inspector's off-hand remark about his presumed consequences of such an event when I first reported it, and I suspect after he realized it had in fact happened, he considered himself and all of us extraordinarily lucky to this day. View a clip of the full video on You Tube: |
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