08.15.08
Posted in ExxonMobil (XOM) at 8:38 pm by Administrator
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.
Go to my new BLOG site
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08.14.08
Posted in ExxonMobil (XOM) at 7:44 am by Administrator
burns-one-call.pdf
I have a different blog for posts. I just use this blog to upload documents to link to my current blog.
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08.11.08
Posted in ExxonMobil (XOM) at 3:03 pm by Administrator
results-2.pdf
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08.08.08
Posted in ExxonMobil (XOM) at 6:23 am by Administrator
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.
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08.07.08
Posted in ExxonMobil (XOM) at 5:50 pm by Administrator
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.
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Posted in ExxonMobil (XOM) at 7:29 am by Administrator
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.
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08.05.08
Posted in Enterprise Pipeline (EPD), ExxonMobil (XOM) at 3:47 pm by Administrator
Technically, this tank is not leaking. It appears to be done leaking. I do believe that it has completely leaked out. I wonder how long it took to empty the benzene into the dirt. So, one less leak. For now. ExxonMobil may come by and refill the tank with something so it can leak again. Or, they could move the tank to a new location, refill it and let it leak in some remote area that they haven’t already contaminated. God forbid ExxonMobil left one grain of sand on their 30,000 acre terminated lease pristine. I have no idea what this tank is for and where it came from. It just had a fence around it and says “Property of ExxonMobil”. It is in the middle of no where on the south side of the ranch. Here’s a map that shows the Exxon old production so you can get an idea of how spread out their mess is.
Here is a TIF file if someone wants to print it out as a huge map and stare at it in slack-jawed awe.
exxon-lease-map.tif
Isn’t this wonderful? And Enterprise Products has a huge web of big pipelines thru this old mess. You have seen how Exxon takes care of their above ground stuff. I shudder to think about their underground stuff. We frequently see salt water bubbling out of the right of ways. Enterprise Products doesn’t realize that Exxon’s salt water is leaking around their pipes. Not only does ExxonMobil’s spaghetti bowl of salt water disposal lines cross Enterprises network in a number of places, ExxonMobil uses abandoned pipelines in the Enterprise right of ways as salt water lines. Old abandoned pipelines have a new life as salt water disposal lines.
Now here is a google earth image of the land.
I use a great camera and software from geospatialexperts.com. The software works with ARC GIS and Google earth and I just got the license for an ARC browser plug in thing, so hopefully in the not to distant future, readers can actually cruise around our place and pull up the photos from icons. Be patient, just know I am working on a feature so the full gravity of our situation is apparent to all in the region who are effected.
O.K., back to the latest leaking/leaked out tank. Here she is in all her glory. Sorry about the lack of coordinates, I did not realize that the camera hadn’t “gotten a GPS fix” when I took the photos. I will add a photo with the GPS next time I am in that area.
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08.04.08
Posted in ExxonMobil (XOM) at 4:29 pm by Administrator
I figured that people might get bored with the Central Tank Battery and the Kelsey Compressor Station. So, I decided to branch out to another facility — known as the Kelsey Meter Site #2. In keeping with the ExxonMobil tradition of excellence, the meter site is a showcase of all things modern and clean. First, we do need to check in with the Kesley Compressor Station and the Central Tank Battery. Mmmmm, what is that lovable ExxonMobil up to? Let’s go find out.
Firstly, the compressor station:
It appears that ExxonMobil is still having problems with that contraption. The truck in the foreground is an ExxonMobil mechanic. A rare sight, indeed. I showed my photos and some viewers are of the opinion that ExxonMobil is having difficulty getting the V-chip to work. I’m not sure what that means, but if it’s not working, ExxonMobil can be subject to fines from the EPA. It also looks like ExxonMobil had two belly-drop truck loads of gravel delivered. You don’t suppose they are planning on covering up a bunch of spills with that gravel, do you?
Now, lets see what is up at Central Tank Battery.
Looks like ExxonMobil is painting over some tank labels. Wonder if they are going to properly identify what is in the tank. Maybe put some numbers on there. And, right next to that artwork in progress, a radioactive substance continues to escape from a tank, but it seems like it is forming some kind of scab and has gone from flowing on Friday to a mere dribble today. Yea. That is real progress.
Now lets dash over to Meter Site #2.
This taller tank still has stuff in it. Wonder if it’s leaking out of the bottom.
I wonder what all these pipes do?
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08.03.08
Posted in ExxonMobil (XOM) at 6:19 pm by Administrator
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the ExxonMobil lease or skeptical of my claims. Here are some of Exxon’s maps of our ranch. For more about our ranch, visit the webpage.. www.rancholosmalulos.com
vicksburg-consolidation-approval.pdf
exxon-well-map-2.TIF
exxon-well-map.TIF
well-map-3.TIF
xom-stat.pdf
xom-lawyers-stats.pdf
xom2-stat.pdf
xom3stat.pdf
xom4-stat.pdf
xom5-stat.pdf
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