01.28.09
My old posts are here.
I use this site to host PDFs — if you want to read my old posts, just skim down past these PDF files.
my new blog is
http://rancholoslosmalulos.blogspot.com/
or go to
www.RanchoLosMalulos.com
and click the blog link.
09.08.08
humble purge water agreement
patterson-reply-to-rrc-re-exxon-response-aug-4-2009.pdf
chevdisc1.pdf
chevdisc2.pdf
chevletter1-23-09.PDF810415-toddy-burns-results.pdf
ferc-guide-to-pipeline-repair.pdf
sierra-mineral-and-well-status.pdf
plat-of-humble-oil-refining-937-ac-surface-lease-1.pdf
humble-oil-refining-surface-agreement-vol-33-pg-505-08-24-1949-1.pdf
sierra-mineral-and-well-status.pdf
tceq-sites.PDF
271-272check-stub.pdf
bucket-on-_590.pdf
pcb-in-gas-pipelines.pdf
coronado-mcgill-606-gu.pdf
exxon-coronado-unit-design-vol-281-pg-584-06-01-2007.pdf
pcb-dumping-by-4-pipelines-reported-new-york-times.pdf
texeasterb-pcb.pdf
polyline-lawsuit.PDF
exxon-intervention.PDF
scnn2859_000.pdf
brooks-tax.PDFbrooks-tax.PDF
tax-ruling.pdf
ksc-ep-results.pdf
blog-sierra-pit.pdf
kcs_1-core-sample.PDF
xom-royaltyletter1.PDF
protective-order.pdf
xom-v-me-signed-inj.pdf
exxon-tx-letter.PDF
campclosure.PDF
rrc-2-3-09-letter.pdf
letter-to-don-magee.pdf
exhibit-a.pdf
kelseyfield-waterflood-ke_624.Tif
el-paso-well-_618.pdf
el-paso-well-_623-tree-bill.pdf
tb_2-cracking-pit.pdf
don-magee-letter.pdf
koch-oil-runs.PDF
transformer-dump-sample.pdf
kelsey-gas-plant-lab-tests.pdf
polyline-case-witnesses.pdf
chevletter4-6-09.pdf
polyline-proposal.pdf
my-response.pdf
rrc-pcb-letter.PDFrrc-pcb-letter.PDF
krgphonors.PDF
polyline-discovery
xom-discovery-request.pdf
rrc-oc-pcb.PDF
deporequest
kcs-grandfather1.PDF
tng-no-clean.pdf
burns.pdf
_559-what-happened.pdf
newstory_31.pdf
newstory_51.pdf
kochepc-pump-station.pdf
arsenic.pdf
tceq-6-17-09.PDF
hebronville-water.pdf
dirnett-disc2.pdf
mrl-to-pbi.PDF
elpasocommenter.pdf
elpasofans.pdf
plinemove.pdf
pattersonxomjihad.pdf
vkbrgconsol.pdf
spe-00029746.pdf
spe-00026366.pdf
jp-ltr-to-tx-supreme-ct-re-motion-for-rehearing-20090713.pdf
pattersonrrcletter.pdf
jim_rrc.pdf
40-f3d-716.pdf
807-f2d-1200.pdf
dea-story_1.pdf
dea-story_2.pdf
newsstory2.pdf
newstory_1.pdf
newstory5.pdf
title='potranch_4.pdf'>potranch_4.pdf
tanker-ring.pdf
they-die-in-brooks-county-by-mary-jo-mcconahay-the-texas-observer.pdf
usao-sdtx-071212-hernandez.pdf
combs-letter.pdf
holloway-xom-letter.PDF
_2-rrc-rport.PDF
_2-rrc-records.PDF
08.28.08
Bill Carr’s report
kcs-restraining-order.PDFchevron-tb_1.PDF
bill-carr-initial.pdfbill-carr-2.pdfbill-carr-11-06.pdf
ep-haz-waste.pdf
rrc-pit-_701.PDF
exxon-v-me.PDFexxon-v-me.PDF
gas-plant-lease.PDF
kcs-restraining-order.PDF
soil-results.pdf
water-results.pdf
humble-surf-agree-vol-10-pg-62-12-24-1936.pdf
amistad-12-08-tests.pdf
notice-letter.pdf
sierra-pit-samples.pdf
oce4.pdf
guide-to-citizen-suit.pdf
skilling-letter.PDF
document2009-01-28-133416.pdf
tree-bill-for-well-_626.pdf
mcgillinterconnection-licenseformetersiteuse.pdf
disc-responses-letters.pdf
08.15.08
I have a NEW blog…
I only use this blog now to post PDF’s and TIFF, GIF files. Stuff that the new format doesn’t upload. All of historical posts will remain on this blog because I don’t have the energy to move them. So, read the older posts here and then check out my new blog….. thanks.
08.14.08
ignored one call
I have a different blog for posts. I just use this blog to upload documents to link to my current blog.
08.08.08
Day in, Day out, things leak here.
I was telling my husband about the leaking tank at S.E. Kelsey yesterday and he said he thought it was leaking the last time we went over there. I started driving around the lease in March taking photos — but I didn’t have a GPS camera and all that leaky stuff looks the same to me.
I looked around for some old photos from March. I found these photos from March of 2008. Sure enough, things were leaking then. I imagine they are the same leaks. The photos with out the Watermarks are from March of 2008. Five months later, no one has fixed the leaks. Does look like ExxonMobil has thrown some fresh caliche over that big dirty area by the septic tank they use for oilfield purposes.
and the septic tank rig up –
ExxonMobil just lets things leak day after day, week after week, month after month. They do not care. They see this as they work here and they just ignore it. They do not follow their official spill policy.
spill-policy-1.pdf
I have never personally done a “one call”. Things will change. The enviro guys were explaining how they go thru a big one call procedure and how important it is. Before we turn the key on a back hoe, plant a tree, etc we will do the “One Call”. I didn’t even know that was the law. I am from Cincinnati. My family didn’t own a backhoe while I was growing up. This one call business just never came up. The Burns Fire in March burned approximately 60 miles of fence that we now must redo. Additionally, we will be redoing 19 miles of highway fence over the next 3 years. So ExxonMobil (and everyone else) better start figuring out where all their stuff is.
08.07.08
Exxon’s guidelines for Spills
I have decided that all of ExxonMobils Kelsey Field Staff must have been too busy following the companies “Spills and Air Emissions Reporting Guidelines” to get to responding to the One Call request to mark their live lines. Read this thing:
spill-policy-1.pdf
Gosh, with all their leaky stuff, this is a full time job in itself for a crew of people.
Learning new things every day.
While driving around, I often see these on the ranch:
This Cortron product seems to be what is leaking out of this tank I saw yesterday:
I did some research and found that Cortron is a powerful biocide used to treat the salt water that ExxonMobil is re-injecting into reservoirs. Wells in this area naturally produce a lot of salt water and it is typically re-injected into disposal wells where it goes back into the reservoir from which it came. Sometimes, on us, ExxonMobil dumps the salt water into open pits.
Salt water disposal is a normal thing in South Texas oil fields. Most operators truck the salt water to a disposal well. ExxonMobil uses a web of old steel flow lines and retired gas pipelines to move the salt water to their disposal well on our property. It’s much cheaper to use pipelines than to truck. Problem is that salt water is corrosive and it eats the metal pipelines and they leak. Frequently.
Before salt water is re-injected into a reservoir, it is treated with Biocides to kill small bacteria know as “sulfate reducing bacteria” or SRB. When conditions are right they can multiply to the level of millions of cells per gram and generate significant quantities of hydrogen sulphide (H2S). The H2S together with the stagnant conditions formed by the colony on the pipewall lead to enhanced pitting corrosion rates. So, treating the salt water to be disposed with Cortron is an effort to kill all life in the water. It also kills life on the dirt on which it leaks. This makes ExxonMobils salt water leaks easy to spot because the areas are completely lifeless. When the salt water leaks before the Cortron treatment, things do grow. The growth is sparse, but there are some little plants. In areas where the salt water leaks after the Cortron treatment, the land is completely sterile.
Another reason to treat salt water with Cortron is to prevent souring of the oil and gas reservoirs. The salt water is in the same reservoir as the oil and gas that the wells are producing. Often reservoirs will sour (ie. start producing H2S) after seawater injection as the seawater provides a large source of sulphate ions. It normally takes many years for injected seawater to make its way back to the producing wells. But Exxon has been operating here for “many years” — wonder how many of the field’s oil and gas reservoirs they have soured with their shoddy salt water disposal system. Souring ruins a reservoir.
