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Permalink Reply by William Ladd on August 14, 2011 at 1:01am

I noticed that the rig on rt 49 near the old arbor entec place was being moved friday. And also there was a rig being move from Ely hill road onto the Catlin hollow road. It pulled off the road about a mile from the fairgrounds by that church and school. We had to wait for it and so did other fair goers. There were many other trucks, tankers,  piping also in the area.

 

Bill L.

aka Bummy

Permalink Reply by Robin Jackson on August 14, 2011 at 1:47pm

The Pipeline crosses over 6 and right into the back of Cherry Flats rd..just below the Bowens. That heads toward Delmar Twp.

Permalink Reply by Lynn Wigglesworth on August 14, 2011 at 3:16pm

I think that's a different pipeline. There seems to be at least 2 main pipelines coming from southern Tioga Co. heading north. This one goes from Stony Fork, around by Johnson Airport, then to Heise Run Road. It's aimed to cross Route 6 just east of Heise Run Road. The pipelines may join together somewhere or may both head north; I'm sure the destination is the Tenneco Pipeline.

Permalink Reply by Robin Jackson on August 14, 2011 at 1:47pm

My parents live on Heise Run ..Rd

Permalink Reply by Terry James Erway on August 22, 2011 at 2:40am

The rig at the Butler site was removed late last week with the horizontals finished. The fracking of the horizontals is next. The pipeline in that area is continuing with a lot  of the waterlines and communication pipe now underground.  The pipeline is easily visible at the pond near Breckbills across the road from the Kennedy well.That same pipeline goes over to Hills Creek crossing rt 6 by the gas station near the junction, continuing up the hill and eventually to heise run , gee hollow ,the airport etc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Terry                  

Permalink Reply by Lynn Wigglesworth on August 23, 2011 at 1:47am

Did they do the seismic testing in that area? The Butler well is only a mile or two from me and I haven't seen any sign of survey activity around here. I thought they did large areas, or do they test one unit at a time?

Permalink Reply by Terry James Erway on August 23, 2011 at 4:45am

The area was tested sometime ago but Shell is redoing the area verifying the information provided by East.I met with the man friday to sign papers allowing the testing (my property is right across the road from the beginning of Gee Hollow road which is where the Butler well is. It is one half mile from my old home front door.)

Permalink Reply by Lynn Wigglesworth on August 23, 2011 at 4:51am

That seems to odd to me. Shell is spending lots of money to have this 3-D seismic survey done. It's supposed to tell them exactly where to drill the bore holes...why would they drill the horizontals THEN do the survey?

Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on August 23, 2011 at 5:33am

According to what I've read, they do have to extend the testing 1/2 to 1 mile outside the target area to get an accurate map.  Also, it may be more efficient to just do a whole area over than to patch in previous results.  (If it's not the same seismic company, using the same software, it might not even be possible to combine reading.) 

 

Seismic certainly is valuable, but it's not perfect.  When I browsed the August YTD permits, 12% of them were alterations to already drilled wells.    

 

 

Permalink Reply by Terry James Erway on August 23, 2011 at 6:50am

I should have mentioned that when I signed the papers for the seismic testing the man mentioned that the crew was presently in the Mansfield area and would be to my property within the month, hope that answers your question.