January 4, 2013

Texas Brine Operations

Oxy 3-A Cavern Well –

·        Shut in, monitoring pressure pending logging operations scheduled for next week

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

·        Flaring gas at 35.2 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 –

·        Ongoing monitoring for seismic activity, data available at http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/heli_temp/

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

TBC 1

·        Monitoring pressure, flaring equipment installed, location to be tested as potential full vent well site

TBC 2

·        Monitoring pressure, no longer flaring, plans being developed to install full vent well adjacent to TBC 2

TBC 3

·        Shut in, to be tested for potential vent well site

Sinkhole Site –

·        Removing vegetation and oil from site

Conservation/Shaw Operations

Observation/Vent Well #1 –

·        Flaring gas at 11.59 mcf/day

Observation/Vent Well #2 –

·        Flaring gas at 12.39 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 to reach proposed site

BC 2

·        Installed and completed, ongoing regular monitoring of pressure

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