Spill Reports

At approximately 12:00 PM, while crews were transferring freshwater to Dyna Tank #1, the pressure gauge on the booster pump at the Matteo site failed. As a result, approximately 1 gallon of freshwater was released onto the ground, but within the pump's containment. The Rock Water employee manning the pump immediately shut down and notified NNE's Water Consultant. Upon investigation, it was discovered the housing for the stem of the gauge failed, not the gauge itself. Crews replaced same and resumed transferring water.

At 12:00 PM, April 3, 2017, NNE found a failure in the tank containment on the Beach Pad. The failure was a six inch cut in the containment, which allowed standing rain water to exit onto the pad - all water released remained on the pad. Notifications were made, the water was tested and results were within the allowable parameters, a sand bag was placed on top of the cut to reduce any additional water from escaping, and crews were dispatched. Daybrook Development was called to remove all remaining water from containment, and RW Products was called to patch the failed portion of the containment.

1-1.5 gallon diesel spill on Statler lease road. Rockwater was moving a fuel cell in place for water transfer from the Statler impoundments. The fuel cell was mostly empty. During transport on the forklift a pump broke off allowing the remaining fuel to spill

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.

While performing our bore at the Jakes Run Stream Crossing we have seeped into the stream bed with our drilling mud. The mud finds a way to the surface from the bore. Bentonite is the only foreign substance in the mud. The stream is milky in color. I notified WVDEP inspector. Inspector Arrived on site at 2:10pm
Seep location was Identified. Our plan we presented to the inspector upon arrival as follows:
Build a temporary coffer dam above seep area with flume pipe. This construction practice has been approved per construction detail located on Sheet D10 of the approved NPDES plans. This is also acceptable with the ACOE due to ?discharges into waters are under 500? or 1/10th acre for each crossing? per email approval from the corps for the project.
The inspector is OK with this plan,as long as it was in the scope of our permit, coffer dam and flume will be built and operations will resume.
Hollie notified the spill hot line.

On November 30, 2017 at approximately 3:15 PM, NNE employee arrived onsite at the auxiliary pad above the Fisher Pad and found hydraulic fluid released on the ground where a fusing machine had been sitting. The fusing machine was removed from site, absorbent pads were placed on the contaminated area, and a crew removed the contaminated stone and replaced with clean stone. WV DEP Inspector, Gayne Knitowski, was notified and provided no other action to take.

On 12/13/17 at approximately 11:00 AM, water transfer crew members were relocating a pump from the Campbell Pad to the Dunkard Creek Withdrawal Site and upon transporting the pump, diesel fuel leaked out of the pump's fuel cell in two places along the Coastal-Campbell Access Road. Oil soak rags were immediately placed on the spill areas. The pump was taken to a level area in order to run the pump and use the extra fuel prior to transporting further on uneven terrain and potentially causing further leaking. NNE's HSE Rep and Water Rep talked with crew members about fueling with consideration of transporting pumps.

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.

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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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."

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.

Transferring produced water from the ASTs on the McClellan pad to the frac tank on the McClellan staging area in order to load out trucks.

AT APPROXIMATELY 3:07PM, ON APRIL 2, 2021, NNE WAS NOTIFIED THAT THE FRAC TANK AT THE MCCLELLAN STAGING AREA WAS OVERFLOWING. THE SELECT ENERGY SERVICES ("SES") HAND THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OVERSEEING THE PUMPING AND TANK FILLING WAS DISTRACTED BY HIS PHONE AND ALLOWED THE TANK TO OVERFLOW. PRODUCED WATER WAS PUMPED INTO THE TANK TO THE POINT THAT THE TANK ITSELF OVERFLOWED INTO THE SECONDARY CONTAINMENT, THEN BREACHED THE SECONDARY CONTAINMENT AND WAS RELEASED ONTO THE GROUND, AN ESTIMATED 50 BBL WAS RELEASED ONTO THE GROUND. THE PUMP WAS IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN TO ELIMINATE THE SOURCE. WATER TRUCKS WERE DISPATCHED IMMEDIATELY TO EVACUATE ALL WATER FROM THE SECONDARY CONTAINMENT AND GROUND. E & S CONTROLS WERE PLACED IN ORDER TO MINIMIZE IMPACTS AND PREVENT FURTHER CONTAMINATION. NO STREAMS OR WETLANDS WERE AFFECTED BY THE SPILL. SES DISPATCHED MCCUTCHEON, AN ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP CREW, TO FULLY ADDRESS THE SPILL AREA. THE WV DEP INSPECTOR, BRYAN HARRIS, WAS NOTIFIED, AS WELL AS THE SPILL HOTLINE (REFERENCE ID 31-13410). MR. HARRIS VISITED THE SITE AND WAS HAPPY WITH THE STEPS TAKEN AND PLAN AHEAD. SES WILL BE COMPLETING A SPILL REPORT AND WILL SUBMIT.

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