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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Trinidad Drill's Chesapeake's Horned Frog Units in Tarrant County
Sunday, April 18, 2010
More Gas Drilling Woes in Dish, TX
More gas well woes coming from Dish, TX. Click on the following link to read the article on this problem. CLICK HERE
Friday, April 16, 2010
Joblin 1H Drill in Hill County
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| Cornerstone's Joblin 1H Unit |
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| Union Drilling spuds the Barnett - Joblin |
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| Glorious Sunset over Hill County |
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| Pretty as a Picture! |
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
No Elevated Cancer Rates From Gas Drilling in Flower Mound
Click on above title of this post to open the link to this video article from NBCDFW.com news.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
OPINION POLL CLOSED - THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT!
THANKS to those who participated in the OPINION POLL ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING...
By a better than a 2 to 1 margin, poll participants felt that hydraulic fracturing was/is environmentally safe. However, the heated debate continues on this controversial method of releasing trapped natural gas from shale rock. The controversy is over the contents of the frac fluids, and the possible damage they could cause when not disposed of properly. The results of the month long poll are are shown below. This site will continue to follow ongoing updates in this matter as they become available. Once again - Thanks for your participation!
20 (27%) |
44 (59%) |
8 (10%) |
2 (2%) |
0 (0%) |
1 (1%) |
Total Votes: 74
Poll closed
Poll closed
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Air Quality Study Committee Passed by FTW City Council
The resolution that appointed members to the air quality study was passed tonight despite heated objection by the NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE.
Urban drilling in many north Texas communities has been met with opposition by some, but everyone with comments have been allowed to voice their opinions in venues such as this.
FTW City Council Meeting REBROADCAST
A Resolution Appointing Members to the Air Quality Study Committee and Identifying the Charge of the Committee was discussed Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
If you missed the discussion please watch a REBROADCAST at this link:
Barnett Monster - Day Kimball Hill A1H
A view from Google Earth, the Day Kimball Hill A1H Unit is the biggest producing gas well in the Barnett Shale. After coming online at 12.97 MMCFD in October, it's the only well currently averaging more than 10 million cubic feet daily. Read the Star-Telegram article by jzsmith here: Day Kimball Hill Monster. 
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Recent Air Quality Testing by TCEQ
Air Quality in the Barnett Shale
Chesapeake Energy works to be a good environmental steward and to employ best practices in order to protect our community. As you may have heard, recent privately-funded studies suggest there are unregulated air emissions occurring in the Barnett Shale area which are allegedly leading to diminished air quality. The following information has been compiled to help place perspective on this important issue.
Current Air Quality
In 1991, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared the greater Dallas/Fort Worth region to be an “ozone nonattainment area.” This designation means that the air quality in the North Texas area is poor and that it has not met the standards to reduce emissions set by the EPA and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The area received the status long before natural gas drilling became active in the Barnett Shale.
According to the TCEQ and the EPA, car and truck emissions are by far the largest sources and contributors to ozone formation in the nine-county DFW nonattainment area at 43%.
Recent Emissions Studies
Texas Commission on Evirionmental Quality Studies
On January 12, 2010, the TCEQ released its results of air samples taken in Fort Worth during December. The study evaluated more than 100 natural gas production facilities within the city limits of Fort Worth and utilized Forward Looking Infrared Cameras and toxic vapor analyzers to provide real time detection and estimation of total volatile organic compound (VOC) concentrations.
No detectable amounts of VOCs were found during testing, and according to the TCEQ results indicated no cause for concern.
Within two weeks after releasing the Fort Worth results, the TCEQ shared the same positive results with the City of Flower Mound where similar tests were performed. Testing there also found little or no benzene.
On January 27, 2010, the TCEQ issued its much anticipated survey results from data collected last fall. The results reinforced initial findings in the region and the natural gas industry’s assertion that production of natural gas in Tarrant County does not negatively impact ambient air quality. “There’s no need for widespread alarm,” said Toxicology Division Director Dr. Michael Honeycutt during a press conference at the TCEQ’s regional office in Fort Worth.
- TCEQ's most recent study monitored 94 sites across five counties and found only two locations in Wise County (non-Chesapeake) that would trigger immediate actions to reduce emissions. Both sites have since been corrected.
- TCEQ’s Fort Worth study reviewed 126 locations and found no sites with high levels of benzene.
- Existing monitoring stations near oil and gas production have shown a decrease in benzene levels for the past decade.
- TCEQ will install two more long-term monitoring locations at Eagle Mountain Lake and the community of DISH.
- TCEQ expects to resume similar air quality testing in the spring of 2010.
Click here to read the TCEQ press release entitled, Oil and Gas Air Test in Ft. Worth Find "No Cause for Concern."
Click here to read Railroad Commission Chairman Victor Carrillo's statement on Barnett Shale Air emissions issues.
Prviately Funded Studies
The TCEQ’s Fort Worth results contradict a privately-funded air emission study conducted at a Westworth Village farm. The study represented data incorrectly and exaggerated the potential hazards based on laboratory results from samples collected over a 24-hour period. Industrial Hygiene and Safety Technology, Inc. (IHST), an outside consultant retained by Fort Worth to review the study indicated the results from the Westworth Village study were “rudimentary and inaccurate” in nature. After technical review it is apparent that the same approach was used in the Town of DISH.
Click on the icon to download or read the IHST study review.
Benzene
The TCEQ has found the production of natural gas in Tarrant, western Dallas and eastern Johnson counties generates little to no benzene air emissions. Most of the natural gas produced by Chesapeake in the Barnett Shale has 0.001% or 1/1,000th of 1% benzene in the gas stream, as compared to approximately 0.5 – 1% in vehicle gasoline.
Benzene is:
- Colorless chemical produced from a variety of natural and industrial sources.
- Not unique to the natural gas industry.
- Ranked in the top 20 chemicals used for the production of industrial products measured by volume.
- Found in tobacco smoke, gas stations emissions, motor vehicle exhaust, building materials, fireplaces and industrial emissions
For more information on benzene, click here.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Warning Sign at Tarrant Well Site
Warning sign displays the hazards that can be found at this southwest Ft. Worth storage facility.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Unperfed Cornerstone Unit in Hill County
Gathering lines have been strung all around this unit. This area, near Covington, has numerous producing wells, yet this unit has yet to be fractured. The drill was completed exactly one year ago tomorrow, on 3/3/09.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Allenco Units in Johnson County
Chesapeake's Allenco leases are near Burleson, TX just north of Hwy 174. 
The 1H, 2H and 3H units have been drilled and completed. The 4-H unit (shown here) is currently being drilled.Chesapeake's Edgecliff Drilling
Site of numerous Edgecliff permitted gas drills; including the D 1-H, 3-H and 5-H units, and the completed B 1-H unit. 
Mountain Drilling Company continues the D 5-H drill. As mentioned in another post this type of rig employs an automated pipe handling system
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These transfer lines are being used to fracture an adjacent unit. This highly controversial method of releasing the gas from the shale has been both applauded and criticized. The controversy is over the contents of the frac fluids raising environmental concerns. Some say safe - others say danger. Your opinion is welcomed in the poll found on the home page.
. These transfer lines are being used to fracture an adjacent unit. This highly controversial method of releasing the gas from the shale has been both applauded and criticized. The controversy is over the contents of the frac fluids raising environmental concerns. Some say safe - others say danger. Your opinion is welcomed in the poll found on the home page.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Range Production's Fred Davis #1 Unit
This vertical well drilled by Range in the Denton County Barnett was completed in January 2007. The drillbit penetrated to a depth of 10,000 feet, beneath this rolling pasture land.
HEP Oil, XTO and Range Units in Wise
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| Entrances to several Barnett Shale Units drilled by independents in Wise County, TX. |
Ferguson B-2 Unit in Wise County
One of many Wise county Barnett wells, this vertical drill was completed over 5 1/2 years ago. This entrance to the unit is on Hwy 51, about 3 miles SW of Slidell, TX. Dallas Production has been an active driller in this area since 1979, according to TX/RRC records.Monday, February 15, 2010
Barnett Industrial Park - Cleburne, TX.
About 5 miles south of Cleburne, TX this facility is home to numerous oil field service companies.
Quicksilver's LD/Dutch Gray Unit
Friday, February 12, 2010
Record Snowfall Doesn't Slow Drilling
For Mountain Drilling it's business as usual at Chesapeake's Edgecliff D-1H unit in Fort Worth, TX.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Gas Wells/Pipelines Hill County, TX
Quicksilver's Norris
1-H unit south of Blum, TX.
The sun shines and then sets on Cowtown Pipeline's gathering lines just west of the Norris unit in Hill county.Chesapeake's Edgecliff D -1H Unit
Sound barriers engulf Mountain Drilling's hydraulic drilling rig #4 in south Fort Worth, TX. This rig has a fully automated pipe handling system, which significantly reduces hazardous operations on the rig floor.
Friday, February 05, 2010
Loophole lets gas drillers inject chemical; Texas official says water untainted | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Texas Regional News
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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