For the past few weeks there's been a low grade rumble in the house as the nearby leases for the horizontal wells get their frac on. It's not continuous, it comes and goes. Right now I can somewhat mildly feel it. It's not really disturbing, other than none of the wells are mine.
Last week there was an all night rumble and the next morning I saw a huge flare over on the Mojave site, visible from my back porch. I noticed it wasn't burning this morning.
There have been eight new permit applications for Fisher County this month. There are a couple that seem out of the ordinary, to me.
One is CH 24 MP 16.602 Well 1, about a mile northwest of Roby. It's permitted as a cathodic protection well, only 370 feet deep. According to the Schlumberger Oil Field Glossary, a cathodic well is used for corrosion control, transferring corrosion from a protected structure to one that can be sacrificed. This permit has not been approved as of yet.
The other is Cochran Well 1, a re-entry on a plugged well, about three miles west of Hobbs. The remark on the permit says this is to properly re-plug the well, but the field restrictions says for exploratory test only, so it looks like it could be leaking, or it could be lucrative. Time will tell. This permit has not been approved to date.
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