Indonesian Tsunami Probably Tripped by Exxon-Mobile Works

PESN | January 26, 2005

ACEH -- Exxon-Mobile has a 60 bscf/day facility near Aceh. In the span of 4 years it extracts more than one cubic mile of natural gas from the formations directly at what ended up being the epicenter of the Aceh earthquake. The gas field there has been producing for much longer than four years, and is one of the largest such facilities in the world.

Scientists have known for some time that Earthquakes in the order 4.0 have been caused by oil drilling and other earth intrusive practices.

There have been earthquakes associated with large Hydro Dams. For example, Fontana Dam (USTVA North Carolina) has been associated with up to 4.0 earthquakes and routinely causes 2.5 quakes some 50+ years after construction.

We can expect the 3 Gorges Dam in China to create a very large earthquake.

What role did the extraction of oil and gas from the immediate area around Aceh play in the 9.0 earthquake there Dec. 26, 2004?

World oil-production alone (not including natural-gas) is approximately 80 – 100 million barrels of oil per day. That is a tremendous volume of oil, too large to even visualize in your mind’s eye, and it is being extracted EVERY DAY.

The world’s oil-fields are pressurized naturally by natural-gas within the oil. We've all probably seen "oil-gushers" on films about oil-strikes, and how the oil shoots high into the air as it is forced out of the ground by the natural-gas-pressure in the under-ground oil-field.

The oil is not only pressurized, but is also hot. As it is extracted, the pressure gradually decreases until the oil well is no longer pressurized (like an empty aerosol can that still has some liquid in it). As a result, it becomes less profitable to produce oil from, as the pressure decreases to the point where the oil needs the use of external-energy to be pumped out.

In some cases, in order to extract the remaining oil, cold water is injected/pumped into the well and the oil floats on top of the injected water. As the oil well fills with cold water, the last remaining oil floats up on top of it, through the well-head-riser to the surface, until the well is empty, but not "dry".

During these various stages the globe of the earth is gradually being depressurized and cooled internally, causing contraction for both of these reasons. When objects cool-down they automatically shrink/contract in size. If you let high-pressure air or gas out of a cylinder it forms ice around the outlet, and cools the entire cylinder. If you let some of the air out of a football, or basket-ball, the ball shrinks and goes badly out of shape.

Apply that to the Earth and you have earthquakes. This is simple common-sense –- not rocket-science. A fact so simple that anyone who understands the oil-extraction process would understand.

Another obvious fact that is never quoted in relation to global warming is that internal combustion engines do not just give off greenhouse gases, they also give off tremendous heat -– every single one of them. Try putting your hand near the cooling-radiator or exhaust manifold of a hot engine. The professors never factor this into the equation, and never mention it in the news. They only mention the gas-emissions. Think about the millions of engines giving off tremendous heat every day, some all day every day. Compound this on top of the the greenhouse gases and you can see why why the scientists/professors prognostications are usually wrong. The ice caps are melting much faster than they first predicted, and faster than they are still predicting wrongly now.