Spill Reports

Unloading water recovered from drilling from water trucks into AST on Coastal pad.

Driver was unloading when he noticed a leak on the ground. After further investigation, he noticed a wing nut on the truck's pump had broken, allowing the pump to leak. When the leak was discovered, the driver put down absorbent pads and notified his supervisor. Supervisor and HSE rep went to site to conduct clean-up.

Crew was on the Coastal Pad removing solids from the AST, loading into vac boxes, and making ready for transport to disposal.

After the solids removal crew loaded one of the vac boxes, it was relocated from the work area to the staging area to wait for transport to disposal. As it was being unloaded from the roll-off truck to the staging area, the hatch door wasn't fully closed and allowed some of the solids/sludge to escape and spill onto the pad, outside secondary containment. The solids removal crew cleaned up the sludge and dressed in the area with new stone.

Diesel/water mixture under the mats most likely from an overfill of the boiler. A water truck had split the berming and was allowing the mixture to drip out onto the gravel, gravel was scooped up and disposed of and we began pulling mats to vacuum the liquid out from under them, extreme called out to repair section of containment.

Diesel/water mixture under the mats most likely from an overfill of the boiler. A water truck had split the berming and was allowing the mixture to drip out onto the gravel, gravel was scooped up and disposed of and we began pulling mats to vacuum the liquid out from under them, extreme called out to repair section of containment.

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.

Reclamation of Paw Paw Creek road bore

While reclaiming the Paw Paw Creek road bore, the operator struck an unmarked 3" water line . Fairview water department was notified and shut the water off after approximately 1 hour. There was enough water that the super silt fence and silt sock were compromised and allowed fresh water to flow into Paw Paw Creek.

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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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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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.

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.

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.

Was notified of soap suds in run off water believed to be coming off the pad on a neighbors property. Went to investigate.

Upon skidding the rig this morning according to Decker drillings superintendent it is believed that the rig hands disconnected the mist pump lines on the containment. The mist pump lines contained soapy water. We had a torrential downpour. All water went to the back end of our containment which is the lowest point of the burm over flowing into the gravel. The max concentration soap to water is our mist tank is 30 Bbl's of fresh water to 2 gallons off soap. Corrective action was discussed with Deckers superintended, tool pusher and rig crew that anytime lines are disconnected they will be sucked out with the super sucker also additional catch pans will be place under the tote were soap is collected on the the containment.