Earlier today I posted a series of rather horrifying photos from a well in Bartonville. I labeled it Mystery Well because we were unsure who the operator was. The confusion was due to a Gulftex employee, a Mr. York, who swore that site did not belong to Gulftex. Wow! I thought, “My lying eyes!” I remembered seeing a sign that said “GULFTEX” in a video of the site. So confusing…
See what your eyes tell you about 1:06 into the video
Mystery Green Lease Well Video 2 from Runner Susan on Vimeo.
See if you see Gulftex scratched into the red paint on the photo below. See, if you put red paint over the rusted and pitted out metal, that fixes it, right?
Oh, and I guess this box thing-a-ma-jig somehow got mislabeled.
Well, we have no worries now because that well has totally been all cleaned up by power washing the tanks and dumping clean sand on top of the toxins. (Does this remind you of another Barnett Shale operator we all know and love?)
I had to make a new blog category for Gulftex because I’m betting we haven’t heard the last of this operator.
UPDATE: GulfTex head honcho, “Mr. Good Guy,” claims he sold the Green well but the TRC has no record of that and shows GulfTex as the owner. As a conscientious citizen journalist, I have to use the most current state information unless I have some other form of proof that “Mr. Good Guy” no longer operates this well. Angry phone calls to the landowner are considered intimidation not proof of ownership. Now I have to add another category to the post.
Could someone please request a list of the chemicals Bartonville and Argyle tests for in their water? Send it to me, will ya?
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whoa! somebody got served!
Maybe the box is owned by Gulftex, & the well & other equipment is owned by a still mysterious company. 😉
Maybe someone stole the box and just put it there to make Gulftex look bad. Then they engraved Gulftex on several of the pieces of equipment. And they forged all the papers posted at the TRC web site. I'm pretty sure Gulftex was framed.
Maybe Aruba did it….just to throw off the scent.
Another fine example of how the Industry "Take great measures to protect our health". I think GulfTex learned this trick from Aruba..don't fix or replace faulty equipment, power-wash it, then paint it.
The 5 month old tank battery and well-heads on our stolen property have been power-washed TWICE and repainted already. Just came in today with more gravel for their pad. And wouldn't you know it, they ran out of gravel AGAIN to repair the driveway they wrecked. Promises, promises.
Now that I think about it, could this be one of those cases where GulfTex owned the well and then sold it off once the production dropped?