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Towboat Trash · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 7:03 am Post subject: PINS 11/1/13

"You can't cash my checks, and you can't feel this hunger. You can push me into that water, but you just can't hold me under...."

Jamey Johnson, Guitar Song Album

Hot darn ya'll! Jamey got one heckuva voice. And if you don't like old Jamey Johnson, then put yourself in a box and mail yourself to Rascall Flatt's house. You'll fit right in! Laughing

Anyways, wasn't tryin to get beat down this early in the morning. Actually, with the seas and winds being what they have been, I have been trying to beat out the hellacious West Nile PINS mosquitoes and do a lil tinkerin behind the dunes once again, after such a long hot summer...

Hoping to get some ID on a lot of the following oil field equipment from some of ya'll that I know have a clue about this stuff.

And if anyone is unaware, the landowners maintained the mineral rights on PINS, and there is actually a good bit of equipment remaining on Island. And quite a few old trails.... Twisted Evil

Whoops, almost forgot those snake chaps!

That old surf just a-barin' those teeth isn't it?

But oh so pretty.

This is the main tanks in the area known as LEMON. The Lemon tract is unused now, but does anyone know what we're dealing with here? I'm assuming....natural gas? By the way, from what I gather, the platforms at the 5 are merely collecting the product and pipelining it back to the beach and onward to the mainland...

These we often see from offshore....

Collapsed communications tower...

Could smell the oil....thought I was back at work again for a minute....

Sure was pretty...

And as I stood there watching, I actually saw my first Forktailed Flycatcher....yep, the bird migration is in full effect, so get on out there!!!

Thanks for any and all ideas ya'll.

And to the Rascall Flatts fans, in the words of that fool "Larry the Cable Guy,"......"Lord!? I apologize!"

-Colin
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mike35 · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:10 am Post subject:

From what I can tell that is a natural gas well. Those tanks are to collect the condensate(gas mixed with oil). They usually come and suck it out. Of course I could be wrong. But from my 13 years working in the oilfield in Colorado and 1 year here that's what I would guess without seeing it in person.

SandJKENNELS · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 12:32 pm Post subject:

Old well. From the tree it looks low pressure. The three tanks are for saltwater, and oil/gas. The taller smaller "tank" looking object with the pipes coming out is a separator if I am not mistaken. I would be willing to bet that well has old gas lifts in it.
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Towboat Trash · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:09 pm Post subject:

OSOMURF · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:56 pm Post subject:

Yep. As they say, tank battery with a separation system. Set up for truck haul out.

JayandCoyote · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:47 pm Post subject:

I guess wells like that one are part of the reason BNP went bankrupt. It produced two months back in 2008 and only made ~63,000MCF. There were also a few dry holes drilled from the same pad.

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Jay

Towboat Trash · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:00 pm Post subject:

Bwanablue · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:41 pm Post subject:

TT, that well was completed on 2/24/2008 by BNP. It was a directional drill with the production point off the beach in the Gulf. Produced a total of 62,966 mcf of gas and 203 barrels of condensate in February and March of 2008 and was then shut in and has been temporarily abandoned ever since. The operator now is Modena Operating. They only hauled off 176 barrels of condensate (one tanker load) so there's probably 27 barrels (1134 gals.) left in one of those tanks. BNP originally permitted 3 or 4 additional wells off that location but never drilled them.
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Towboat Trash · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:06 pm Post subject:

Mason · Horse Mullet Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 102

definitely oil/condensate/gas well. low pressure judging from the well head. the two tanks that are hooked together with a load line for trucks are most likely for oil, while the single tank with its own load line is for the saltwater thats produced as a byproduct. the tall thing in the picture is some kind of heater/separator, the shorter version of this is looks like a two phase separator (hard to tell from the pic) that first separates fluid and water. the horizontal long barrel looking thing with the stack next to those is a dehy unit, used to "dry" out the natural gas before sending down the sale line.

as for the oil by the wellhead, thats probably due to a crappy cement job when they set the casing in place. it shouldnt be leaking, especially after just a few years.

this well is probably not associated with the ones nearshore to PINS, different operating companies, different leases, etc.
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