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Gasbuggy tests continueFARMINGTON, N.M. FI Gas samples taken at thePaso Natural Gas Company and wellhead will be analyzed andthe U.S. Atomic Energy Com although no detectable effectsmission announced today that are expected the* Environmentlt;i scheduled second long-term al Protection Agency will againtest of t h e Project Gasbuggy perform off site environmentalwell will begin May 15. sampling before, during andThe test will be a repeat of after the gas production tost.the one that was conducted .,, tor the upcoming test, gas between March and November ,will initially be flowed at highrates until the bottom hole1969.Impose of the tcvt is to detei - pre.sure drops from the pre m.ne whether any changes have sem 75l) |)()Un(|s |M |. s(|Uare inch (iccurred m the producing char t() alK)ut m poun(|s p(T squarc aetcnsties of the nuclear stim jnch Thc ,,.st W.,M t,R.n |x,ul.did gas irseivoii since the produced continuously for about end of the last production test. six monlhs vvith ratt.s (jf fiasIn the May test, gas from flow being adjusted to main the well will be flared (burned) tain the selected bottomhole at the site. Radioactivity relcas pressure. Higher flow rates will ed will be only about five per then be used to further reduce cent of that in the previous te t bottomhole pressure before the because most of the radioactive well is shut in.Project Gasbuggy was thematerial in the natural gas was flushed from the chimney dur in* the earlier production test work!'s rirst |cint 'fovcrnnrenl ing. industry experiment m the useThe highest off site radio nuclear explosive energy to activity measurement during stimulate natural ga produc that previous test was less than tion from an underground gas two pe rcent of the AECs stand bearing rock formation of very ards for radiation protection low permeability. The nuclear for air concentration in un device was detonated December controlled areas and was made 10, 19(57, at a site in northwest w ithin one third mile of the ern New Mexico about, 55 air site. miles east of Farmington.
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Dulce Jicarilla Chieftain
Dulce, New Mexico, US
Mon, May 28, 1973
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