Southern California Gas Corporation have said that current efforts to plug the enormous methane gas leak in Porter Ranch, California are destabilizing the situation and risking a bigger “blowout” at the facility. A blowout would increase the already dangerous levels of methane in the air that millions of Californian’s breathe in, in a way that “could be catastrophic,” the Public Utility Commission say. Enenews.com reports: Los Angeles Times: Efforts to plug Porter Ranch-area gas leak worsened blowout risk, regulators say — Southern California Gas Co… is trying to avoid a blowout, which state regulators said is now a significant concern after a seventh attempt to plug the well created more precarious conditions at the site. If a blowout occurs, highly flammable gas would vent directly up through the well… rather than dissipating as it does now… State officials said a blowout would increase the amount of leaked gas… That natural gas also creates the risk of a massive fire… The risk of fire already is so high that cellphones and watches are banned from the site… [The gas company’s attempts to stop the leak] expanded a crater around the wellhead, state and gas company officials said. Thecrater is now 25 feet deep, 80 feet [...]