Concentrations of hydrocarbons and inorganic parameters in a network of groundwater wells impaired by an underground blowout
On December 1, 1965, an underground blowout during an exploratory drill with a catastrophic outcome occurred near Sleen, The Netherlands. During approximately 2.5 months, near-continuous leakage of large amounts of natural gas was released into the subsurface. After the blowout, the local drinking water production company installed a network of groundwater monitoring wells to monitor for possible adverse effects on groundwater quality at the blowout site. Today, more than 50 years after the blowout, the groundwater is still impaired. Data has been correlated with previously published data by Schout et al. (2018) covering description of geology and well depths. During October 2019 we sampled from 12 groundwater wells covering: - Inorganic parameters (hydrocarbons, anions, cations, DOC, alkalinity, nitrate and ammonium) - DNA (quantification of total bacteria by qPCR 16S, aerobic methane oxidation by qPCR pmoA, and anaerobic methane oxidation by qPCR mcrA) The dataset was created within SECURe project (Subsurface Evaluation of CCS and Unconventional Risks) - https://www.securegeoenergy.eu/. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 764531
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Hydrocarbons
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NETHERLANDS [id=202000], NL, NLD
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2018-09-25
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2018-09-30
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Lineage details available here; Schout, G., N. Hartog, S.M. Hassanizadeh, and J. Griffioen. 2018. Impact of an historic underground gas well blowout on the current methane chemistry in a shallow groundwater system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 115(2): 296–301. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1711472115.
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