Caustic Burno":21zj44u1 said:
greybeard":21zj44u1 said:
When I was working the Austin Chalk play in the early 80s, there were generally 20+ rigs running within a 20 mile radius of both Caldwell and Giddings Tx.
Austin chalk runs all over he way over here. Currently have acreage leased to Pantheon.
Yep, so does the Woodbine. Both extend over in to La and maybe into Miss.
More recent is the Eaglebine play which isn't an actual formation, but a play where producers are hitting both the Eagle Ford and Woodbine in one drilling operation, and producing from both.
The way they are drilling & producing nowadays is light years beyond what they could do when I was working in it, both above and below surface...back when we had wooden derricks and iron men. (ok, I'm full of :bs: about the wooden derricks part..)
Brute is right about the spill. It's bad for the industry and bad for the landowner, not to mention bad for public relations. Things like that can only lead to more stringent regulation and enforcement.
I think it was Apache that took a big hit up in the Anadarka when a reserve pit levee broke and flooded a farmers little wheat field. Not a big spill and not much acerage or wheat involved, but landowner got the feds involved and now all cuttings in Okla drilling have to go into steel tanks as they are produced. That, is a big pita, tho I did make a good income in the mid 90s slurrying the cuttings and pumping it down the backside of the well.. sometimes, even while the well was being drilled. That's some deep stuff, high pressure, and big iron in Anadarko.
(we did the same thing with naturally occurring radioactive material in E Texas, S Texas, W Texas and La and Mississippi, till some big $$ got the regs changed and the states decided it was ok to dilute the stuff with soil and land farm it. Did 2 jobs at the Chevron dock in Morgan City and hauled it out in tanks on work boats to pump down an abandoned offshore well)
Did a remediation job near Rosenburg Tx, right next to a subdivision. Nothing gets the neighbors' attention faster than a bunch of yellow tape, Tyvek suits walking around with scintillation tubes (Geiger counters) and those gold/magenta "radioactive area" triangles.
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