Spill Reports

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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Conducting bi-monthly AST inspection.

While conducting the bi-monthly AST inspection, water was observed to be leaking on the outside of the AST and onto the ground. All water is within the AST's secondary containment and did not leave the site. The cause of the leak is undetermined at this time, until further investigation. The AST will be drained and the liner will be inspected for a failure. Once the failure is located, a repair will be made. If no failure is found, the liner will be replaced in its entirety.

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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Have a very small Diesel Spill on the Statler Lease Road. The only Party that looks to be at Fault is Jacobs Fuel. Currently Rock Water is Ordering Clean Up services.

On 11/21/17 at approximately 4:15 PM and on 11/22/17 at approximately 2:00 PM, as crews were pressure testing the temporary, aboveground waterline between Coastal and Fisher, stress fractures were discovered during the line walks. These fractures allowed freshwater to be released onto the ground. Testing was immediately halted, the line was evacuated, and repairs were made and have been scheduled. The pipe that was delivered for this installation was used previously for other transfer jobs. QAQC was performed on the pipe prior to installation, but due to the nature of these impairments, they could not have been detected until pressure was applied to the line.

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.

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.

Pumping slug to finish tripping out of hole

While tripping out of the hole, the fluid flow path was connected to the trip tank as normal. When it was time to pump a slug, the Driller called on radio for derrick hand to line up on the flow line and off the trip tank. The derrick hand confirmed the flowline was ready. Driller began pumping and immediately noticed an increase in pump pressure and shut off pumps. The back yard came across radio and said he was seeing mud coming across the choke skid. After investigation the main flowline valve was left closed causing pressure to build up and blow out the seal between the flowline and elkhorn. There was a miss communication, and the motorman shut the valve while the derrick hand was in the derrick tripping pipe. The derrick hand assumed the valve was still open.

Jeff was driving by pad when he saw the leak on the 3H and ESD'd the pad.

The Mepco 3H dump valve washed out and was leaking. Jeff Wilson was driving by when he saw the leak and ESD'd the pad. Nick Swartz and Matt Jones went to Mepco and saw that the dump valve had washed out. They replaced the valve and cleaned up the site. There was a small amount of produced water that got onto the ground. The DEP inspector was notified and the area was cleaned up and new material put down. The soil was also tested.

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Operations of Wells

The Campbell 6H was down and when checked on found that the dump valve had blown out. This caused produced water to flow out in Unit and on to ground.

While boring under 218/Paw Paw Creek Rd our drilling assembly became plugged with cuttings. In an effort to regain circulation a smaller assembly was inserted to remove the plugged section. During this operation the plug released and with it so did the drilling mud and spring water that had built up behind the plug. This volume of fluid overcame the drill pit, reserve pit and vacuum truck , as well as 2 layers of silt protection and an estimated 35 bbls of fluid containing betonite clay made its way into Paw Paw Creek.

Summary from East Coast Underground driller Clint George. "We had lost flow to the drill. We put on 12” reamer and started bringing it back to the drill in attempt to get the flow back to the drill. We were approximately 155 feet away from the drill with the reamer. While drilling out we hit a spring in the hillside that
is producing approximately 5 gallons a minute. Which was adding to the fluid that we had pumped into the bore hole. When
the flow started to come back to the drill. We were not able to keep up with the flow rate that was coming out of the bore hole.
We had a Vac truck sucking water up as well as the reclaimer pump picking up water as well. The 2 of them could not keep up
with it as fast as it was coming out. The fluid over ran both pits and ran out of the last pit. To the E and S control ran over them
and ran into the stream. Releasing approximately 700 to 1000 gallons of fluid into the stream."

Normal solids control operation pumping synthetic based drilling mud into the centrifuge for treatment.

During normal operating conditions, NOV was processing cuttings from the synthetic based drilling mud. A 4" hose that feeds mud into the centrifuge parted. Approximately 5bbls of mud went onto the matting boards below before the operator noticed and shut down the pump. All of the fluid spilled remained on primary containment. The matting boards were picked up and cleaned underneath. The inspector was notified.

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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