Office of Conservation

Bayou Corne Field Update

Dec. 27, 2012 Activities

 

Texas Brine Operations

 

Oxy 3-A Cavern Well –

  • Snubbing unit rigged down following removal of 4-inch tubing in preparation for installation of equipment for vertical seismic profile

 

Texas Brine Facility Vent Well to Top of Aquifer (TB Vent Well #1) –

  • Flaring gas at 25.3 mcf/day

 

Texas Brine Facility Vent Well to Top of Cap Rock (Vent Well #2) –

  • Shut in pending plug and abandon

 

Texas Brine Facility Geophone Well –

 

 

Texas Brine Facility Shallow Pressure Monitoring ( TBC 1-3)

 

TBC 1

  •  Shut in, flaring equipment installed, to be tested as potential vent well

TBC 2

  •  Flaring gas at 21.4 mcf/day

TBC 3

  •  Shut in, to be tested as potential vent well

 

Sinkhole Site –

  • Skimming and removing vegetation/debris from sinkhole surface

 

 

Conservation/Shaw Operations

 

Observation/Vent Well #1 –

  • Flaring gas at 15.1 mcf/day

 

Observation/Vent Well #2 –

  • Flaring gas at 15.1 mcf/day

 

Observation/Vent Well #3 –

  • Remains in monitoring status, set up to vent/flare natural gas if concentrations are observed around wellbore

 

Observation/Vent Well #4 –

  • Continuing work to clear perforations that have sanded in in order to restore natural gas flow for flaring

 

Bayou Corne Community

 

Bayou Corne Community Aquifer Monitoring Wells (BC 1-2)     

BC 1

  • Texas Brine reports awaiting landowner access

 

BC 2

  • Installed and completed

 

Bayou Corne Community

  • Participating in ongoing in-home monitoring effort with DEQ
  • Oversight of ongoing operation of Office of Conservation-directed Texas Brine geoprobe monitoring wells in Bayou Corne community