The Bayou bubbles may be due to oil-- a study last month may have missed a gas well

Earth Informer has been paying close attention to news from Louisiana. For weeks now, residents in northern Assumption Parish have reported strange rumbles, homes shaking, and the bayou bubbling up. Officials from state and federal governments have been studying the reasons for the bubbles. Ruled out at first was a natural gas line. Now according to the ADVOCATE, a well may have been overlooked last month when the study was done on what was making the bubbling in the Bayou.

The ADVOCATE reports that a so called 'orphan' well is in a wooded swamp 1,000 feet from the main bubbling. Officials don't know who owns the well. No clue at this point as to the type of gas in the well. According to some further information in the ADVOCATE dispatch:

Air tests around the well show the gas has reached 35 percent of what is called the lower explosive limit, he said.

The lower explosive limit, called the LEL, is the point at which an ignition risk exists in the immediate area around the well.

There have been numerous rumors generated by the bubbling bayou. Theories ranging from natural gas all the way to earthquakes.. A report last week spoke about officials' contemplation that small earthquakes were to blame for some type of rupture of gas along with making homes move, as residents have been reporting since June.

As promised, Earth Informer will continue to watch this developing story.