All because an oil rig dug too deep.
But it didn't go
too deep. That implies that it should have been stopped earlier. Like going past the initial blue stuff and into the HFS shaft. It was plain old aiming downwards into a zone it should never have started to dig down past in the first place. Someone essentially appears to have messed up w.r.t. the lateral extent of mineral rights (or possibly unannounced exploiltation) and who could work throughout the whole rock column at that location at
all depths.
(Only half watched the YouTube item, because I'm currently recording sound on this 'puter and can't yet let myself use the clip's audio, but I think I have the story straight.)
OTOH, it makes me wonder what would have happened had the drill-hole for the oil (often to be found underneath a 'salt cap', geologically-speaking) had been the first 'excavator' to pass that spot, and then the salt-mine had impinged upon a working well, mid-extraction. (That would also be dwarfy. Although I would have prepped a shaft with a "floodgate to nowhere" or dug out the mineral and relined with constructed walls, if I knew of the problem in advance and still wanted a connection/every scrap of stone around the shaft.
These days, of course, they (i.e. the Earthly humans) might have tried angle-drilling from the side, if they were determined to get at oil that could be found beneath a salt mine. (I know there's perfectly good reasons not to dig out extra volume in part of the salt mine in order to install a drilling rig, even though one such set-up starts out with the advantage of depth and not having to drill all that way down from the surface and could have been set up at the lowest level to boot!)
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