That’s a fine report from the Feed Store News Network roving reporter on Special Assignment in Breslau.
You didn’t mention the frack pond/tank and I don’t recall seeing one a couple of weeks ago. Along those same lines, I wonder how close the nearest SWD well is? I’m aware of at least one on US 95 around Moulton but that’s a long way to haul water.
I was looking at the RRC map and it looks like there’s a nat gas gathering pipeline running south from the plugged Steffek well and operated by Mascot Oil Co. If the map is accurate, it’s really close to Blackshear.
So other than an SWD well, it sounds like most of the infrastructure is pretty close to being in place.
Any feed store updates? Wouldn’t be surprised if they have this well fracked pretty soon.
I have an update. Drove down there this afternoon (05/12). They’re fracking now. Don’t know how long they’ve been at it but it usually takes around 20 days barring problems and the number of stages.
WATER: Still no frac pond in sight but two pipes in the road ditch running off to the east. Maybe the pond is down there somewhere and the water is being recycled? They’re doing that nowadays. Conjecture.
SAND: They’re not using those ‘Sand Box’ transporters but the old school method. It’s coming down 532 from the west. They have a battery of sand silos where they mix the sand, water, and chemicals into the slurry to be used in the frac. Chemicals are done by ‘the chemical guys’ and are generally not part of the fracking outfit.
FRACKING: This is being done by Flying A Pumping Services. I’m unfamiliar with them but if you DYOR you’ll see that they aren’t from around here. In fact, their home page looks like they’re operating on the surface of Mercury. That doesn’t make them better or worse; just sayin’.
(GAS?) PIPELINE: Pipe is being laid off to the east. Assuming that is going to connect to a gathering pipeline somewhere over there.
If you’ve never seen this process at work, I recommend doing a drive by with the windows down. Sensory overload.
WI, I was over at the BLACKSHEAR UNIT site last Wednesday, and they were setting up some FRAC eq. and still hooking up Tank Batteries, and Seperators, and a dehydrator unit. As I was leaving, there was a Heavy Haul truck turning off of 957 heading down the gravel road to the right or Easterly direction. That is LCR 241 it turns into LCR 240, the truck went down the road until I could see several belly scrapers and other equip. to the North of the road. He turned into there. I’m not sure but I would bet that is where the FRAC water pit is located.
EOG just made a large acquisition in the core of the Eagle Ford and today announced a huge deal in the Utica after buying Encino. It is just my personal opinion, but I would not expect very much development in our area because the drilling dollars just won’t compete with the other two areas they acquired. I could be wrong, but I wouldn’t expect them to start drilling exploratory wells closer to Schulenburg, etc.
I just checked and see that in the period 5/1 - 6/1 Redhawk has filed 60 more leases in north Lavaca County generally from Komensky up to Engle and then east to 77. Nothing at all in Fayette and leases by EOG (59) are all down around Weid on 90A. So things are still happening but to what end? I recall my Cypress lease had something like six JV partners so it would seem that these partners may have some say in whether or not any more exploratory wells are drilled. No telling what the actual documents say.
Drove to Blackshear on Wednesday 6/11 and there was no one at all on site. Not even security. Odd. However, has anyone actually seen them drilling out plugs and beginning flowback? I’m thinking that’s next.
And since EOG is so good about hiding the ball we probably won’t see anything on the RRC site until the very last minute… unless someone wants to go down there, sit in the road ditch, count oil haulers, and do us all a big favor by reporting back here every day! (just kidding, mainly)
May 2025 saw just a few leases filed for tracts in southern Fayette.
Baytex filed for tracts in Abstracts 180, 185, 240, 265 and 266 south, southeast and west of Flatonia.
EOG leased with us for three years w/ option to renew in May of 24’. No drilling updates to my knowledge. $1200/acre at 22%.
New poster here! Happy Father’s Day to all dads. Lotsa night glow coming from the Blachshear pad last night. Curiosity called for a drive by this morning. The pad was very populated with equipment, looks like SWD trucks mostly (10+ lined up, 2 of them backed up to the onsite tanks) and there is an intermittent flare going. Not that familiar with the process, could be in flow back, post fracking. I’m guessing??
Definitely sounds like flow back. Will be interesting to see when more oil trucks start lining up.