Just curious...

     I am in Liberty township and a few months ago got an offer to buy my royalties for 1500 to 1800 per acre, but they would do a more in-depth look if I was serious which "mite change the numbers" slightly....even tho I am not drilled or receiving any royalties ..talked to a landsman rite b4 I contacted them and he advised caution as there will be "significant" activity in my area in the "near future"....how about it, anybody else get an offer or hear anything or see any activity here in Tioga Co. ?

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The drill rig was taken down on sunday I believe. I could see a couple of very tall derricks with a cable and hook moving around the area. And today I saw at least two very large  tractor trailer trucks with sections of the drilling rig loaded moving slowly down Broughton hollow road.  One of the Eclipse boss men said that they were going to set the drilling rig on the Abplanalp pad and drill there and do the fracking. Then move the fracking rigging to the Painter well as soon as they were finished at Abplanalp.  Eclipse has a water impoundment a few hundred yards south of the Sperry road intersection and Mixtown road. This impoundment has only been there a couple of weeks at most.

DUC? isn't that a water bird?  I have seen and heard Geese but no DUCKS!

I will try to find a DUC!

Granddad Ladd

  PS....     A quick LOOK UP  says a "DUC" means an uncompleted drilled well

Granddad Ladd

William,

How many wells were permitted there? Did they drill them all?

Hey Bullfrex! 

As far as I know there are now two wells drilled there. We were told that the second one would be moved a few yards away from the first one. Eclipse drilled this second well.  Travis Peake officials seemed to be very well pleased at the first drilling a year ago.

The first one was flared a little more then a year ago and put on line soon afterward by Travis Peake.  The second well was drilled by a different outfit and it was said to tap the Utica deposit. 

It was also suggested that more wells may be drilled but it was not clear if these would be on the same pad (Painter), or on an adjoining unit. 

You just never know what the plans are until they start moving machinery in.....And even then often the plans could be put on hold or scrapped.

Granddad Ladd

WOW!

I just got back from "FLAT CASTLE".   I had no idea just how much area "Flat Castle covered".  It took me a little time to find the right site but it was well worth the effort.

Thank you for the information of how to get there.  Seems like quite an extensive project Eclipse has planned. I will get back to look it over most closely in days to come!

Granddad Ladd

They may have to put a second pump somewhere along the line. Moving water along a pipeline can be stopped dead by a slug of air  in a high spot somewhere along the line.  

 

Lu Ann just told me that there were four green painted tanker trucks headed to Painter well as I type this. Every time I see one of these  large trucks, I pull off the road and stop. Other cars do the same thing. Eclipse bound trucks are required to a speed limit of fifteen miles per hour. The road surface is being taken care of just as soon as a pothole  gets a little too large.  Doing away with the water truck traffic on Broughton Hollow road is a great safety move for residents traveling on it!

Granddad Ladd

At least in Jackson and Rutland Twps, SWEPI included 2x 6" fresh water pipes (and a fibre optic cable) with their

20" gas gathering lines. 

Afaik, only indirectly.

SWEPI has tried to install a water line in most of their recent ROWs for gas lines in Tioga Co.. As far as the fibre optics, I would guess that is their communication medium to monitor well pad and pipeline performance and safety....IMHO

From a 2011 O/E permit in the PABulletin:

"a temporary road crossing using 20 foot long, 18 inch diameter corrugated metal pipe, a 24 inch diameter and an 8 inch diameter natural gas gathering line, a 10 inch diameter and a 6 inch diameter fresh water line, and a fiber optic cable impacting 16 linear feet of an unnamed tributary to Mill Creek (TSF, MF) (Roseville, PA Quadrangle 41°51`48"N 76°59`18"W); ..."

When the pipe line thru our property was installed, and if I remember correctly, had been buried, the person who we had negotiated with came back.  He wanted to add another inlet or TEE to the pipe that was already buried.

He offered a few thousand more dollars if we agreed .   We agreed only if they put this stand pipe in an enclosure.  No problem he said.  At the time there were a couple of kids in the area who did not understand the words "NO TRESPASSING".  We had caught these kids several  times  just minutes after we had chased them away.  These particular kids are no longer in the area.

 

A fence was erected around the stand pipe.

Now I am wondering if another drilling site is planned  that will access this  stand pipe.  We are right in the middle of the "Flat Castle" area in another drilling unit adjoining the Painter well unit.

Granddad Ladd

Not sure where the "Hog Waller" is located. 

Many trucks have been moving up and down Broughton hollow today.  Big  nine axle flat bed trucks with escorts slowly creeping down hill.

Looks like serious drilling is in the works.

Granddad Ladd 

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