Ladera Ranch CA Poets Park Playground Built Over 65-Year-Old Exxon Mobil Oil Well Short Plugged July 2001 During DMB Ladera Re-Abandonment, They Knew.

Ladera Ranch CA Poets Park Playground Built Over 65-Year-Old Exxon Mobil Oil Well That Was Short Plugged in July 2001 During DMB Ladera Re-Abandonment, They Knew. Oil wells really never die, though, Poets Park Ladera Ranch CA is a hell of a place to build a kids playground next to a 65 year old oil well. The Exxon Mobiloil well under Poets Park in Ladera Ranch CA was drilled down 8,365 feet in 1961 and capped in 1962, but during the July 2001 re-abandonment by DMB Ladera LLC only 351 feet was filled with mud and re-capped, WTH? Under California regulations (managed by CalGEM), a well undergoing official plugging and abandonment is legally required to be filled with stable, heavy drilling mud to prevent structural collapse and fluid migration. At a standard mud weight of 10 pounds per gallon (ppg), the bottom pressure would be 4,350 psi. Under California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) regulations, plugging a deep well at only 351 feet leaving over 8,000 feet of unsealed borehole is generally not accepted as a permanent or safe abandonment to isolate fluid migration. 

Under California Code of Regulations Title 14, Section 1723, an operator must place distinct cement barriers at intervals to prevent the migration of fluids and gases from the bottom of the well to the surface, in this case 8,365 feet. A single surface-level plug at 351 feet leaves the bottom 8,000+ feet completely open, allowing deep hydrocarbons, pressurized gases, and toxic brine to travel upward and escape laterally into shallow drinking aquifers. State guidelines specify that when an obstruction is encountered, it must be cleared, clean-drilled, or "fished out" so the underlying intervals can be isolated. If it cannot be cleared, the state requires specialized remedial measures (like "squeezing" cement under high pressure around the obstruction) rather than simply giving up and pouring a shallow plug. 

While Ewing sarcoma is fundamentally driven by a specific chromosomal rearrangement (the EWS-FLI1 gene fusion), emerging cepidemiological research is investigating whether environmental clastogens—such as benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons found in crude oil and petroleum development—induce the DNA damage and oxidative stress necessary to trigger these oncogenic mutations. Crude oil from a well plugged & capped contains varying amounts of aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) including benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene, hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) gas, and xylene. PAHs can enter the body (drinking water) and cause changes to cells and chromosomes which then can cause Ewing Sarcoma cancer researchers have reported. There are 100 year old and 65 year old Oil Wells short plugged & capped under Ladera Ranch CA.


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