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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on July 10, 2010 at 3:30

Sesport, I read about this story and it is likely the "salty" taste is related to issues with the salt water disposal operation. Bowie is located in Montague County and is outside of the Barnett Shale gas drilling area. It is located within an area that has had shallow gas drilling in the past with no fracing. So the gas could be either naturally occuring or related to the salt water disposal or previous gas drilling in the area. There are a few vertical gas wells in the area producing from the Park Springs formation at 6000 ft.

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Permalink Reply by sesport on July 10, 2010 at 8:06

Les - I'm not trying to pick on the industry here, just posted what seems a relevant report. Again, it's the TRRC's determination of "insufficient casing" according to this report, although where this casing is insufficient isn't mentioned.

Also stated is that TRRC has taken second samples of water for further testing. I heard nothing about any determination of the source of the gas and/or the salt. I'd rather talk about the "elephant" than wait for those who want to speculate about inconclusive evidence at this point.

IMO, this kind of "reporting" and/or concern could be dealt with simply by gathering pre-drilling baseline data. It seems Exco is taking just such steps ...

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100706/NEWS01/7060337/1060


"The Dallas-based company also may make it a standard practice to test the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer prior to additional drilling operations. The information from the water analysis will allow Exco to gauge whether the freshwater source is impacted by the drilling and hydraulic fracturing."

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on July 10, 2010 at 9:41

Sesport, I did not see it as you picking on the industry but rather a reporting of a valid story. I believe it is likely someone bears some blame here - either the company operating the salt water disposal well or operators of the oil & gas wells in the immediate area (or both).

The industry is not completely blameless with what has occurred in spots across the country. Both inappropriate handling/disposal of chemicals/fluids and bad cement jobs for surface casing appear to be the primary culprits. What I don't like are individuals or groups that say such occurrences are common or widespread or related only to frac'ing of shale gas wells. Such statements are pure fabrications and malarkey.

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Permalink Reply by TXsharon on July 10, 2010 at 11:26

Bowie is not outside the Barnett Shale drilling area. It's considered a "non-core" area. EOG is active in that area and they have figured out how to get oil out of the Barnett Shale. And, of course there is plenty of fracking going on in that area. I don't live far from there.

I see you're still making stuff up.

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on July 10, 2010 at 11:43

TXS, I wish you would take some reading lessons. Maybe I should pay for them. Wait, you should have made enough $$$ from that sham "Gasland" to pay for some lessons.

"outside of the Barnett Shale gas drilling area"

Montague County is in the oily part of the Barnett Shale.

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Permalink Reply by sesport on July 10, 2010 at 17:29

LOL!!!! I believe someone around here once said it well ... "YEE-HAW!!!"

TX Sharon - We could have done WITHOUT that last statement. Most of us here are intelligent enough to realize that personal attacks don't earn any points to winning folks over.

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Permalink Reply by S.H.M. on July 12, 2010 at 7:20

"Most of us here are intelligent enough to realize that personal attacks don't earn any points to winning folks over."

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Points? Points? I must have missed something. Can I get miles? Or greenstamps instead??

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Permalink Reply by sesport on July 12, 2010 at 10:33

LMDO!!! Last I heard, we're only giving out gold stars for correctly guessing spud dates. And that's not about a girl potato and a boy potato going out for a night on the town, either.

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Permalink Reply by S.H.M. on July 13, 2010 at 2:27

Seriously though, our well water is horrible. And I wonder if sometime in the past if the oil and gas drilling had invaded our watertable. It is undrinkable and we "haul" water from tastier sources. The water and well has been unusable for consumption since we bought the farm. Speaking of "bought the farm" drink a glass of this stuff and one will kick the bucket. It is a shallow well and have heard there is no deep water in our immediate area.

So, we haulz teh waterz till deathz.

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Permalink Reply by sesport on July 13, 2010 at 3:47

Oh, S E R I O U S L Y??? ... didn't see that in your post. lol

Well, then I'd say you're situation adds weight to the argume ... err, debate that perhaps O&G should gather baseline data on the quality of water before spudding. That would, at the very least, put an end to the speculative rumors & reporting, locally and at the federal level.

As for me, doan no nuttin 'bout no gaz & earl migratin' inta da wells. Elwood didn't leave me any notes about that, and I am wholly uneducated in that area. Only thing left to say is "hauuuullllll away!"

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Permalink Reply by TXsharon on July 13, 2010 at 8:15

I just spoke with the guy and there are active gas wells all around him and lots of ongoing fracking. That is the oily part of the shale but they get both gas and condensate.

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on July 13, 2010 at 8:28

TXS, just because there are active gas wells doesn't make them Barnett Shale. As I said in my earlier post there has been plenty of natural gas production in the area in the past from shallower (unfraced) natural gas formations.

Oh and yes when you produce oil and drop the pressure in the separator at surface some of the oil vaporizes as "casinghead" gas.

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