Here's a couple pictures we've been sent showing tanks and a well head. I expect there needs to be a pump and some pipes to the tanks but there's not, yet. There's a completed well by the same company 1/4 mile to the east with the same tank setup, and another one a mile east of it. There's also a fairly recently laid pipeline running east/west about a mile to the north of these.
They moved the rig from this section to the one across the intersection at the n/e corner of this section-on the far side of that section and are currently drilling. There's no local gossip getting to me down here or documents posted on OCC verifying there's ever been a fracking crew on this site though. What I'm questioning is whether the tanks indicate assurance there's something to produce (willing to ask a likely dumb question), and maybe how much-little, average, quite a bit... and wouldn't that presume it already having been fracked? Also - this is in the Mississippian in north/central Oklahoma, and a horizontal well. My assumptions have been that means it's a shale formation and fracking the hole will be part of the process. But local gossip received today was talking about 'mobile' oil pooled in the area. So now I'm doubting my shallow knowledged assumption of it having to be fracked. The source of that gossip wasn't any expert in the field though. thanx in advance Larry
Looks to me like a gas well, has a separator on the right that looks kinda like a hot water tank. Pipe may be underground. Tanks usually have stickers with blue, red, yellow and white diamond shapes on the sticker. Crude oil has number 1in blue area, 3 in red, 0 in yellow. Consensate (which is produced with gas) is 2 in blue, 4 in red and 0 in yellow. One color tank is probably Condensate and the other saltwater.
thanx Ann - I didn't know of the stickers. I've sent word to look for them, it's a slow, slow word though ;' / and will probably take days to hear back. It's a good day, I learned something useful - thank you.
Ann Whitchurch said:
Looks to me like a gas well, has a separator on the right that looks kinda like a hot water tank. Pipe may be underground. Tanks usually have stickers with blue, red, yellow and white diamond shapes on the sticker. Crude oil has number 1in blue area, 3 in red, 0 in yellow. Consensate (which is produced with gas) is 2 in blue, 4 in red and 0 in yellow. One color tank is probably Condensate and the other saltwater.
Sometimes the direct approach is the best. Did you see any workers on the sites when the pictures were taken? Often times those people can be quite friendly and talkative. I have had pretty good luck in finding the local field office of the operator (not the drilling contractor), picking up the phone and saying I'm such and such, I'm a royalty owner on such and such well and wondering whats going on. You might be surprised how much some people will tell you.
Larry, that is not a gas seperator inside the fire wall rather it is a heater treater used to heat crude oil and better remove produced water and other sediments in the production stream. Clearly this is a tank battery designed to handle significant volumes of oil and water, as it appears the first tier of tanks closest to the road are fibreglass typically used to store water. The WH you are looking at is a casing head B section put in place upon rig down of the drilling rig. At such time as completion begins (perforating and fracing) this will all be reconfigured to facilitate a production tree. Mississipian wells are typically oil producers and good ones at that. I would not go out and buy a new pickup yet but things are looking up, I'd say.
