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Recently, pumps – so-calls pump-jacks aka “nodding donkeys” – have been installed on those two oil wells just across the highway from our place: Well, actually these pumpjacks are just being set up and have not yet been connected to … Continue reading
Victoria Advocate | Karnes rides cycle of boom, bust (Video). The article from which the following excerpt was taken appeared yesterday in our regional paper, The Victoria Advocate, as the seventh instalment in a series about the oil-boom we’re at … Continue reading
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This is what it looked like across the highway after fracking was done: After fracking was done and over with, it looked like this for a while across the highway from our property. I don’t really know what they were … Continue reading
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That’s what it looks like when the diesel engines are at full power to provide energy for the fracking – not too nice a view: And this here doesn’t look any better: Related articles Report: Fracking Could Cause a New … Continue reading
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… for fracking are in full swing. What exactly will be done with this tower/rig I don’t know as the actual drilling of the well is over. Judging from later observations, I can only speculare: they might be flushing the … Continue reading
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… there was no activity on that drilling-pad across the highway, but now work is being resumed again: the preparations for fracking those two wells are in progress. First, after all the previous mobile homes had been moved, new ones … Continue reading
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Last Thursday the second of the two wells across the highway from our property was done drilling and all tghe machinery was being removed. All of that drilling went really fast, to my mind, considering that it was two wells … Continue reading
… is not quite as loud as we had originally been afraid of, but, when the wind is from the southwest, we sometimes get quite a whiff of the exhaust fumes of the diesel engines there – mostly in light … Continue reading
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After the main preparations, i.e. preparing the pad [more about that in another posting], had been finished before Christmas, they really got things going on Tuesday [more about that in again another posting], and as of yesterday the drilling rig … Continue reading
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Today the first – small – drilling rigs arrived: I tend to think it’s the beginnings only as usually they use really big drilling rigs here. Therefore I think that something really different will be showing up soon. It’s going … Continue reading
