Office of Conservation
Bayou Corne Field Update
Nov. 27, 2012 Activities
Texas Brine Facility
Oxy 3-A Cavern Well –
Injecting brine/removing oil and flaring natural gas
Vent Well to Top of Aquifer –
Flaring gas at 46.9 mcf/day
Vent Well to Top of Cap Rock –
Shut in pending plug and abandon evaluation
Sinkhole Site –
Settling/shifting of material underlying sinkhole created disturbance of water in sinkhole in morning roughly coinciding with USGS report of observance of seismic activity – crude oil emulsion and woody debris from sinkhole bottom observed rising to surface, water from nearby swamp seen flowing into sinkhole. Surface activity observed for several minutes before water calmed again.
Conservation/Shaw Operations
Observation/Vent Well #1 –
Flaring gas at 32 mcf/day
Observation/Vent Well #2 –
Flaring gas at 30 mcf/day
Observation/Vent Well #3 –
Removing water to improve flaring efficiency
Observation/Vent Well #4 –
Flaring gas at 12 mcf/day
Bayou Corne Community
Participating in ongoing in-home monitoring effort with DEQ
Oversight of installation of first Office of Conservation-directed Texas Brine geoprobe monitoring well in Bayou Corne community, additional geoprobes to be installed
Assumption Parish Police Jury 