From what I understand it depends on how its permitted. In this case they drilled two water wells with in close proximity of the pond and pumped from those wells to fill the Frac pond. Supposedly could only fill the pond this way (no runoff). Then pumped water to Whitaker well with rolled out 12” (guess) lines and inline diesel pumps along the way. The large lake referred to by Anthony is on mine property and will be all runoff. Others are permitted so they can use runoff. I think that was what Comstock did on the Olajuwon well. They laid out the same type of line (over 10 miles) from a large lake that had to have had runoff. It may have been supplemented with a water well…but was mostly runoff.
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That seems to make sense. I own interests adjacent to and east of the Baker well (in the JM Rankin and WC Kelly surveys), and Mitsui is wanting to lease my interests. I was told that they wanted to “drill down on nearby property and then go horizontal through my property”. They may be wanting to use the Baker well pad to drill a horizontal well in the opposite direction from the current Baker well and use their water source at the Baker site to frac a second well there. Does that sound feasible?
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The Baker well site pad is fairly large. Enough to accommodate additional wells. Its also my understanding Mitsui has plans for a well site across FM1848 from the Baker well near CR381. I am also hearing the biggest obstacle is pipeline capacity which could slow things down considerably until addressed.
What does it mean for the status of the well to have removed the temporary water lines? Were they temporary while permanent lines were made? Were they temporary until an on-site pond was filled? Has fracturing finished in less than two months and they no longer need the water? Or what?
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The temporary water lines were for transporting water to well site for Fracking. I am not an expert but assume Fracking is complete since water lines have been removed.
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You can check the status of frac’ing on www.fracfocus.org. I use the Advanced Search for ease of use. The map is not as fast.
If Mitsui follows Comstock’s pattern of filings, nothing will show up on fracfocus until a completion report is filed with the Texas RRC.
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Mitsui decided to halt frac activity on the Lipsey wells because of the bad weather. Pad is set up for the frac operation, just need the pump trucks. My guess is they will get started next week.