Gas well deliquification is needed to keep production up.
Here is a job description for a Chesapeake lift plunger maintenance worker…
I was hoping they don’t use these “Plunger Lifts” as a report on methane losses concluded that “wells with plunger lifts were estimated to account for 70% of emissions from unloadings nationally”.
Then there are the Nitro Lifts…one created a visible emission event in Pantego on 3/4/2011 ref TCEQ investigation #914402. The TVA (toxic vapor analyzer) recorded 1,140,000 ppb of VOC’s (NEAR MY SONS SCHOOL) and well…no violations were found.
TCEQ investigator, Jessica Minley, went on to work for the City of Arlington as a gas well inspector. As a city employee she investigated the Truman Entertainment District stank event (1/31/13) . Open records revealed five fire trucks, one medic, and an odor complaint two miles away yet NO VIOLATIONS were FOUND – even though her field notes say otherwise. Click here to see the video of those who witnessed the stank event, and read here about more fracking “incestuous” job hoppers.
Now about those lift jobs…..AOGR says “With at least 15 methods of artificial lift now being used to deliquify gas wells, and several more combinations and permutations, operators are often in a quandary concerning exactly what method or system to use. To this end, the Artificial Lift Research & Development Council, a nonprofit organization that promotes the development and sharing of recommended practices…”
There are even LIFT conventions…..http://www.eagle-ford-production-2014.com/ “….the biggest points of contention surrounding Eagle Ford wells are not how to get them producing large volumes of oil but more critically, how to keep them producing. A recent Wood Mckenzie study shows that most Eagle Ford wells typically drop off between 70 – 80 % in the first year. “
Who were those BIG men that helped train folks to “get it up and keep it up” (production that is tee hee)…
Brian Alfaro President Primera Energy,
Juan Carlos Carratu Vice President Engineering & Technology Austin Exploration,
Paul Lundy Subsurface Manager Statoil,
Scott McCarthy Vice President Production Lewis Energy,
David Jamieson Reservoir Performance Supervisor ConocoPhillips,
Subash Kannan Optimization Engineer Anadarko Petroleum,
Matthew Fleharty SCADA/Automation Lead US Onshore Statoil,
Kennedy Nwabuoku Completions Manager Penn Virginia,
Tom Krawietz Production Engineer Murphy Oil,
Ross Magee Facilities Engineer Marathon Oil,
Gus Vegas Production Engineer Carrizo Oil & Gas,
Jake Klein Production Engineer Texas American Resources,
Cliff Davis Production Engineer Primera Energy, and
Jason Churchill Operations Engineer Venado Oil & Gas
In keeping with the database of letters I post to my blog along with the sexual undertone content of this post -here ya go and read the industry guy’s letter about a worker losing his life and the tone gets very serious and then the following video is…well not upLIFTing.
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From: kim feil <kimfeil@sbcglobal.net>
To: “jfelton@billbarrettcorp.com” <jfelton@billbarrettcorp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:27 PM
Subject: sexual harrassment in the work place/twitter gas risk debate turned ugly
“Working outside in Wyoming winters was cold for this Florida native so i had a beard then. On one job, I drove as far as I could in my tandem axle C60 truck and then a Cat had to drag my truck the last few miles in the snow to the rig. We were stopped at a guard house 1/2 mile from the rig where I was handed a gas mask and a razor and was told “The gas mask won’t seal on a beard and the well produced hydrogen sulfide (seriously bad stuff)”. Everyone on the job wore masks and they were supplied from a central air supply. The guy up on the platform 90′ over the rig floor who helped move drill pipe kept complaining about his air. I looked up just in time to see him try to come down the ladder and then pass out and fall. Safety line caught him and Oxygen brought him around and he went back to work.I was a drill stem tester who went from rig to rig measuring bottom hole pressure and I did everything the roughnecks did. I was on the floor of a rig when they were pulling pipe after a test. The pipe was filled with natural gas saturated drilling mud and this was illegal and every 90′ section would produce a cascade of warm mud and then the pipe in the hole would bubble evilly and every now and then shoot a geyser of mud to the crown of the rig. You could see the gas saturated with water vapor settling on the rig floor as a thin fog and I was terrified. I was so scared I complained to the “company hand” about ti and went into the doghouse and got my instamatic camera and took pictures thru the window. The company hand got pissed and told me to “fucking get the hell off the rig site”. When I got back to town, my boss who was out of town was so pissed at me that he said he would fire me when he got back. That night, the rig called our competition to test the well making my boss even angrier. During the night,it was cold so they had the rig floor heaters on, the gas breaking out of the mud hit a pilot light on a heater and blew the rig down.Killed one roughneck, burned two others, the tower hand said he saw the fireball coming up and dove over the side and rode the Geronimo line to safety. I did not get fired. This was the same sort of accident that happened to the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico.I could go on and on with stuff like this.”
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https://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/TEX LG. CODE ANN. A§ 253.005 : Texas Statutes – Section 253.005: LEASE OF OIL, GAS, OR MINERAL LAND
“(c) A well may not be drilled in the thickly settled part of the municipality..”Texas Administrative Code, Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 101, Subchapter A,
Rule 101.4, Environmental Quality, NuisanceNo person shall discharge from any source whatsoever one or more
air contaminants or combinations thereof, in such concentration and
of such duration as are or may tend to be injurious to or to adversely
affect human health or welfare, animal life, vegetation, or property, or
as to interfere with the normal use and enjoyment of animal life, vegetation,
or property.
