Extraordinary!

This is coolbert:

The Russian connection?

From the previous blog entry:

"Simmons went on to say 'Such techniques have been used by the Russians on several different occasions'."

And here with - - thanks to the Russian Times from three weeks ago now. The full story of how a nuclear munition charge was used to extinguish a gas well leak and fire in the old Soviet Union. A fire that had been burning undiminished for THREE YEARS! Unstoppable until some big time nuke was applied.

"Soviet nuclear solution could be part of tactics to halt oil spill off US coast"

"Russian experts think Soviet history may offer a radical solution."

According to the wiki, such technology, the use of a nuclear weapon to "plug" a leaking gas well, was tried and was successful on several occasions:

"one 30 kiloton explosion was used to close the Uzbekistan Urtabulak gas well in 1966 that had been blowing since 1963, and a few months later a 47 kiloton explosive was used to seal a higher pressure blowout at the nearby Pamuk gas field."

Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures.

coolbert.