Spill Reports

As we finished Coastal 6H stg 13, one of the hands called on the radio to tell us there was an FR spill. Went back and checked, a load of FR was delivered during the stage, the driver was told not to blow off until we were finished. (it causes the FR pumps to lose prime). Evidently, he left the pump running and left. I don’t know where he went. When the Producers guys found it there was a large quantity of FR on the containment, pumps, pump room and a small amount beside the containment. There is even a thin film on the side of the AST.

Driver – Richard Charles says he owns Charco Three the trucking company. Truck Tag AG 68768 Pennsylvania Trailer Tag PT 672E2, Copy of CDL attached, did not have any proof of insurance
Hauling for – Flowtek (FR supplier)

When asked why he was pumping after being told not to pump, he claimed no one told him. I believe this statement to be an absolute untruth. I asked him his name, I asked his employer and he told me Flowtek, I asked for his supervisors number and he gave me Rick Shaner 412-452-4032. I called Rick and found out Richard doesn’t work for Flowtek. I doubt almost everything the guy has told me.
It appears Richard Charles owns Charco Three (trucking company) and is self-employed.
Richard was told not to leave the pad until Producers was through with their investigation, he tried to get up the hill 3 times, powering out each time, before Producers employees got him stopped and backed off the hill.

The estimated volume at this time is 100 gallons until we know better. (really hard to tell how much some is on top of pumps.

We have captured as much as we can off of containment, cut the saturated felt up. The small amount off containment has been soaked with moss and will be picked up and contained. The containment is being cut out and repaired were it is soaked.

Hopefully, we will be back in operation within the next hour or two, as soon as the mat is repaired and the trucks re-spotted.

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Frac McClellan 14H

While performing walk around found approximently 10 gal off road diesel on containment under pump #11 & #13. Spill was cleaned up, leak was found to be coming from braided fuel pump line on pump #11. Pump was shut down and line replaced. Fuel had also breached containment through a bad seam and was trapped between main containment and Felt. Containment was removed, fuel was cleaned up, rock was removed, new felt and containment was laid.

Frac Operations on the McClellan 6H, 10H, 14H

Following up from prior report from unknown source of spill resulting in spill off containment on 2/10/21 at first was undetermined later was found to be SI SteamStream SC- 405. The leak originated on containment at a camlock on Scale line between scale ISO to blender. The camlock was not secured properly resulting in a slow leak of 600 gal of scale over the course of 12-24 hrs. The scale mixed with snow melt and rain water on containment traveled and collected at the low point of containment berm then leaking through 3 cracked seams in containment breching containment then collecting in standing water off containment. On 2/10/21 containment was cleaned and standing water directly affected off containment was picked up and desposed of in produced water tanks. A sump/trench was cut outside containment to collect and catch any residual that may accumulate. On 2/11/21 another 4-5 gal was picked up with vac truck that had accumulated over the course of 24 hrs. A 40'X70' section of containment was cut out and removed to inspect for any accumulation that could be traped under containment, no accumulation was visibly found. Containment repair replacing the removed section is underway and will be completed before moving removed frac equipment back on.

Cleaning up location after rig was moved out.

A heavy storm rolled in that seized cleaning operations on the Bunner pad. Upon leaving the site, Sam noticed soap bubbles forming in the ditchline along the lease road. Nothing was present on the pad, only the bottom half of the lease road & culvert. It appeared to be Dawn soap, which is used to clean the rig prior to a move. Its assumed that a truck load leaving location the prior days splashed some residual soap onto the blacktop lease road. The heavy downpour agitated the soap and made bubbles visible. The DEP inspector was notified. The following morning the soap suds were not visible.

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Rig crew instructed in the morning safety meeting to check equipment that needed to be capped and/or plugged. they men where told where their where caps, plugs and valves opened and to ensure the equipment was ready for transport prior to loading and hauling. The crew failed to ensure that the load and several others where road ready. The result was a 0.5bbl spill from the elk horn from a valve left open. The truck operated by Complete was loaded and hauling to Cummins from Matteo. The NNE company man, noticed drilling fluid along the top left side of the truck bed and wheels. The Company man inspected the truck and then headed up the lease road to find where the spill was located. The company man then took pictures, contacted NNE Drilling Engineer and went to Matteo to speak with the Patterson Rig Manager to make a plan for containment and cleaning.

A 0.5bbl spill occurred just off the Kassay Pad on the lease road heading down hill towards Cummins Pad due to the failure to properly inspect equipment prior to loading. Spill was contained and cleaned up quickly.

During an inspection of the backyard area, stressed vegetation was noticed on the backside of the Boggess pad. It appeared and was later confirmed that the source of the spill was base oil/drilling mud.

A flow line connecting the mud pits had a slow leak and had been dripping for some time. The location of the line is not readily visible without climbing between the tanks. The entire backyard area is on containment and matted. Unfortunately the leak accumulated over time and found its way under the containment due to a small hole under the matting. I contacted WVDEP, Gayne asked that we get the spill contained to make sure that it does not leave our LOD, and gave us permission for now to continue with drilling operations. Clean up will be done once the rig is moved off of location.

While conducting a field review I noticed a spill on the access road. I contacted Chris Patterson to check on any reported water truck spills. The majority of the traffic at this time is water trucks moving water from the Fisher pad, and DTE coopers run facility upgrade. Chris checked with the field coordinators, and received 2 conflicting reports claiming to have witnessed the spill. One report from ECM claimed that a Daybrook water truck leaked the fluid, and the other Report from Ransom claimed that a truck hauling a gooseneck trailer spilled the fluid. The spilled substance had a petroleum odor, but was green in appearance, could have been oil or a mixture.

Mike Shreve called out Chisler Brothers to cleanup contaminated materials , and replace with fresh gravel. Cleanup was completed within 2 hours of finding spill.

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Delivering base oil to the Cummins Pad

While delivering base oil to the HZ rig on the Cummins pad, the truck blew a radiator hose traveling inbound to the Matteo/Kassay/Cummins pads. As he reached the hilltop, he saw steam coming from under the hood. The driver continued up the hill to a safe spot to pull over just before the Matteo Pad next to the guard shack. The driver used absorbent pads to clean up the radiator fluid. Company man made several passes up and down the road searching for any additional spillage but was unable to locate any. Company man had driver back up truck, place new absorbent pads underneath, cleaned up all radiator fluid on ground, and the driver waited for mechanic to arrive to do repairs. Less than 1 gallon was visibly on the ground and was immediately cleaned up.

While performing a site inspection, Josh Frazier noticed that there was a track of fluid spilled onto the Jenkins location road staging area.

After the rig move, Josh Frazier pulled onto location to perform a safety check and noticed a track of fluid where we had staged some of the Patterson equipment for the move, He notified supervision which in turn notified NNE Compnayman Josh Grim. Josh went out to check the area and get Chisler Brothers out to perform the clean up. By the time I had reached the location Chisler was already there and had absorbant on the spill and were prepping to scrape up any contamination and haul it off to be disposed of.

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Moving around immobile equipment in tight space

The Skidsteer was non functional in the front of the drive over. The derrickman attempted to move around the skidsteer with the extend a boom forklift as he needed to get to the other side of location. The rear right tire tagged the 4" mud line going to the drive over causing the hose to separate at the crimped collar causing a 1 to 1-1/2 bbl spill. The ground below and around the spill was excavated to remove all contaminants.

Water line ARV inspection

While inspecting the Kassay MEPCO line on night shift, a spill was observed coming from the ARV located on the Eddie Sine property. The ARV was locked and other than the water leaking out of the vault appeared to be in good condition. Attempts were made to close the valve to shut off the flow of additional water. Anthony Carlson was notified and drove out to location from his home, he was able reach into the vault while full of produced water and shut the valve below the ARV assembly, which stopped the flow of additional water at approximately 10:30 pm Friday night.

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Hauling Fuel

At approximately 8:30 PM, Rock water’s fuel truck reported seeing a fuel spill on the lease road by the county road. The release was just uphill from the county road, which would be on the Coastal side. The roustabout went there immediately to evaluate the situation. The roustabout returned and gathered material to contain the unintended release. Peat Moss and oil soak rags were placed to contain the fuel. I estimate that the release was under 5 gallons. Producers had just received a delivery from Stewart Oil. The fuel delivery truck off loaded, there was a Producers employee watching and assisting the driver. There were no issues during or immediately after the delivery. Producers field supervisor called the delivery driver and asked him if he had an unintended release. The driver stated that he did not believe so but would pull over and inspect his truck. The Fuel delivery driver did call back and stated that his lower vapor line cap was off. He also stated that the vapor line will sometimes collect a little fuel when he off loads a load of fuel. The driver also states that the cap was on when he did a pre-trip prior to leaving. Steward oil also said that they will utilize a trailer that does not have a lower vapor line from now on.
The release of fuel was cleaned up by Producers employees and the roustabout. They used an excavator and shovels to scrap the area. Peat moss was also utilized to help in the collection. Fresh gravel was also replaced on the lease road. Producers supervisor and the roustabout said that all the fuel was collected, and the area looked good. I will also inspect the area in the morning. The poly line was spray painted with orange to identify the area for future inspections. The waste was placed in a leak proof container and returned to the Coastal pad for proper disposal.
I personally thanked the Rock Water driver for reporting the incident which allowed us to begin the clean up immediately. The driver also states that the fuel truck was ahead of him on the lease road. This allowed us to have a very accurate time line for the release. Producers also thanked the fuel delivery truck driver for his honesty about the vapor cap missing.
Time of day: 20:30 on March 2, 2018.
Temperature: 31 Degs
Material released: On road diesel fuel
Wind: Calm
Delivery Truck info: Stuart Oil out of Parkersburg, WV
Driver: Eric Stuart (304) 482-1179
I have also attached 2 photos. The one picture shows a lot of peat moss. You can also see that it is mostly dry which means that there was not much fuel to absorb.

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