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| Country: United States | |
| State: Pennsylvania | |
| County: Allegheny | |
| Municipality: South Fayette Township | |
| Operator Name: UNKNOWN OPR | |
| Well Pad ID: | |
| Farm/Lease Name: WILLIAMS | |
| License Status: Plugged and Abandoned | |
| Spud Date: | |
| Permit Date: | |
| Well Type: GAS | |
| Unconventional Well: N | |
| Configuration: Undetermined | |
| Conservation: No | |
| Latitude: 40.370889 | |
| Longitude: -80.214583 |
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2015-09-02 | Begin Plugging |
| 2015-11-19 | Finished Plugging |
For data sources see[4]
| Inspection ID | Inspection Category | Inspection Date | Inspection Type | Inspection Result | Inspection Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2410208 | Primary Facility | 2015-04-15 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Visit location to plan upcoming pre-bid conference to plug well. Well is beneath driveway. Hole in blacktop driveway opens up to a 2-3 foot cavity beneath the blacktop. Casing is several feet below surface and hole is open around casing. Water can be heard trickling into open hole outside of the casing. |
| 2410217 | Primary Facility | 2015-05-12 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Prebid conference for plugging the well. Constractors present were Hydrocarbon and Yost. |
| 2410226 | Primary Facility | 2015-09-02 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon began operations by excavating around the well. They dug out an area of blacktop and began digging around the 7" casing. Excavator broke down before a large enough area could be opened to weld an extension onto the existing 7" casing. |
| 2410228 | Primary Facility | 2015-09-03 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon finished excavating around the 7" casing and welded on an extension. They then cut 13" conductor casing 12 feet long to be slipped over the 7" casing before backfilling the hole. |
| 2410232 | Primary Facility | 2015-09-09 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Check site before rig moves on. Conductor (13") set, hole backfilled and equipment has been delivered. |
| 2410241 | Primary Facility | 2015-09-10 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | Adverse Events or Actions Reported | (Rig moved on location late day 9/9/15) Crew rigged up cherry picked, got hole cleaned out to ~100 feet. Got out pieces of wood, then mostly cavings. The 7" casing became loose in hole after cleanout started, with cavings heard falling behind 7". (Later in day cherry picker came loose at tool joint and fell into the hole.) |
| 2410247 | Primary Facility | 2015-09-14 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Continue fishing for cherry picker, using 3-prong grab. Spudded w/ grab to ~300 feet, TOOH w/ grab, one of the prongs bent. TIH w/ fishing tool, trip out & in several times, unable to grab fish, filling w/ mud each time. |
| 2410255 | Primary Facility | 2015-09-15 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Pumped some water in hole to attempt circulation, but no circulation. Attempt to go in hole w/ custom-made fishing tool, but tool hung up at joint in 7" casing extension, so fabricated a second tool and TIH. Filled w/ mud, no results. |
| 2410262 | Primary Facility | 2015-09-16 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Still fishing w/ washover shoe and 3-prong grab, no results,loosing hole w/ cavings. |
| 2410269 | Primary Facility | 2015-09-24 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Cleaning out hole to ~277 feet, Rig up 4" bailer and bail hole, retrieving cavings, sand and coal. Shut down operations until 4 1/2" casing can be approved and delivered to run in hole to stabilize and possibly allow circulation. |
| 2413503 | Primary Facility | 2015-10-07 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | (Hydrocarbon delivered 4 1/2" casing 10/6/15, ran 261 feet) Continued running 4 1/2" today by spudding w/ cherry picker, got 290' to 305' in hole while there. |
| 2415225 | Primary Facility | 2015-10-13 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon cleaning/deepening hole w/ cherry picker to 324 feet, w/ 4 1/2" casing run down to 321 feet. Progress is very slow at time of inspection, making ~5 feet/day. |
| 2415667 | Primary Facility | 2015-10-14 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Cleaning/deepening hole w/ cherry picker and bailer. Depth = 334 feet at time of inspection, 4 1/2" = 331 feet. Rate has improved to ~ 10 feet/day, but still slow. |
| 2416744 | Primary Facility | 2015-10-19 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon repaired rig, cherry picked for a while, then shut down (2+ hours) to repair rig again - tighten drive chain. |
| 2417613 | Primary Facility | 2015-10-20 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hole began making oil yesterday afternoon. Hydrocarbon cherry picking & bailing out hole, working 4 1/2" casing down. Depth at time of inspection ~365 feet. |
| 2417635 | Primary Facility | 2015-10-21 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon cherry picking and bailing to deepen hole, cuttings vary from rock fragments to fine cuttings. Making oil. Depth at time of inspection 386 feet, casing at 382 feet. |
| 2417660 | Primary Facility | 2015-10-16 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Hydrocarbon not working. Evonne Williams commented that Hydrocarbon had turned a truck around over her leachbed. She wanted to document the event, in case the leachbed was damaged. I inspected area and took pictures. Very minimal evidence of tiretracks noted. |
| 2419422 | Primary Facility | 2015-10-27 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | (Final depths from prior day, 10/26/15: TD 526 feet, 4 1/2" casing 416 feet) Hydrocarbon loaded hole w/ 100 bbl water and well finally held steady fluid level @300 feet. Rigged up power swivel & mud pump, finished loading hole and established circulation. Drilled to 531 feet, maintaining good circulation. |
| 2421753 | Primary Facility | 2015-11-03 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon back to cleaning/drilling w/ cable tools after being unable to regain circulation. Reached depth of ~570 feet w/ slow drilling & a lot of cavings, so stopped drilling & ran more 4 1/2" into hole. Got over 90 feet additional 4 1/2" casing in before it set down at around 513 feet, then drove a few more feet. |
| 2423548 | Primary Facility | 2015-11-04 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon worked 4 1/2" casing down to 591 feet while cleaning out/drilling out. Drilling is very slow, hard. Will attempt to establish circulation again to drill w/ tricone. |
| 2424403 | Primary Facility | 2015-11-12 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon set bottom plug 11/10/15 from attainable bottom @ 593 feet to 373 feet, top of plug, then pulled all 4 1/2" casing. Chisler ran camera in well to look at condition of 7" casing. Casing had holes @ 167 feet, 232 feet and 233 feet, ratty collars @ 126 feet and 189 feet. Fluid level was at 233 feet. Decision was made to set cement basket on 4 1/2' casing @ 227 feet (above holes @ 232 & 233 feet in 7" casing). Hydrocarbon began running 367.45 feet of 4 1/2" casing. |
| 2425216 | Primary Facility | 2015-11-17 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Hydrocarbon completed cementing 4 1/2" casing vent in place inside 7" casing after setting bottom plug. Pulled all 28 feet of 10" casing sleeve that they had run earlier to stabilize caving around backside of 7". Grouted backside of 7" casing, then filled larger hole near surface w/ gravel. Installed two 2" PVC vents; one on 4 1/2" casing vent and the other extends into gravel bed. Remoting vent pipes away from house and driveway ~75 feet. Will be pouring a concrete pad over vents and surrounding area in preparation to restore driveway. |
| 2427251 | Primary Facility | 2015-11-23 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | All equipment is off the site, except porta-john. Ground is rough-graded and mulched. Grate covers cement pad over well until hole is filled level w/ driveway. Vent pole is set. |
| 2436341 | Primary Facility | 2015-12-29 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Visited location to see if Porta-John had been removed per landowner request; it was gone. Checked on seeded/mulched areas for grass growth-fair germination; and erosion-none noted. Rough areas of yard will be leveled and seeded in spring. Driveway still has grate over damaged area, needs removed and gravel fill added.until spring blacktop repairs. |
| 2469378 | Primary Facility | 2016-03-24 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Checked site for upcoming yard restoration by Hydrocarbon. Site is dry and ready for work to resume. |
| 2477022 | Primary Facility | 2016-04-20 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | In Compliance with Schedule | Driveway patched, large cracks filled and all sealed. Hydrocarbon reset vent pipe, graded & seeded lawn. |
| 2479526 | Primary Facility | 2016-04-27 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Met w/ landowner to discuss what patching and sealing was done to driveway, and what remained to be done. Work done was not up to the owner's expectations. |
| 2498107 | Primary Facility | 2016-06-14 | Plugging(Includes Plugged/Mined Through) | No Adverse Event or Action Reported | Looked @ driveway prior to top coat of blacktop is installed. A few new areas are beginning to crumble from plugging equipment damage. Sealer is coming off in some areas. |
| 2502474 | Primary Facility | 2016-07-18 | Routine Final Inspection | In Compliance with Schedule | Performed final inspection to check on status of driveway after getting a new topcoat of blacktop on 6/15/16, yard seeding and reclamation and vent stack work done in April. Driveway blacktop looks good, the grass has grown in nicely and the remoted vent stack is firmly cemented in place and functional. |
For data sources see[5]