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Eagle Ford Shale fracking flowback spill in Lavaca River causes fire

June 15, 2012 By TXsharon

This is a rumor from a landowner who lives in the area. If anyone has more information, please let me know.

The Lavaca River runs by Moulton, Texas. As the story goes, a spill during flowback flowed into the river. Apparently, the operator forgot to report the spill because it never got cleaned up. When the operator lit the flare it caused the flowback in the river to ignite and there was a sizable fire.

If you look on the map below, I think the well might be the horizontal well SE of Moulton sitting on the edge of the river.

I could not add more information about that particular well because peasants are not allowed to use the Texas Railroad Commission system in the morning, only operators have that privilege.

I’ve been told by several sources that operators landowners in the EFS are afraid to report accidents for fear they will lose income.

Conversation on royalty owner board.

Reply by Guillermo Guerra 9 hours ago Anybody know the details on the gas fire in the river bottom during flow back near Moulton?

Reply by Praha Native 7 hours ago Havent heard…blowout???

Reply by hill country 2 hours ago Not a blowout. Just flowing back the frac on the NFR Sustr well.

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  1. WCGasette says

    June 15, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    http://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/DP/drillDownQueryAction.do?fromPublicQuery=Y&name=SUSTR%2BUNIT&univDocNo=487005067

    • TXsharon says

      June 15, 2012 at 1:30 pm

      Thanks. When I tried earlier it said blah, blah unavialable. I can’t open the P-12. Can you send a copy?

      • WCGasette says

        June 16, 2012 at 12:29 pm

        Hope you are enjoying the P-12! Using the Google Chrome browser seems to work well for opening these TIFF files. There are options from the drop-down menu that may pop up when you click on the link for the P-12. We had a lot more difficulty last year. Not sure.

        They may have improved something. Firefox doesn’t seem to know what to do with TIFF files. When we talked with IT early on (2010) they were never able to tell us why we couldn’t access the files. Just that it required a special application. Something may have been improved. But since they are shutting down the site between 8 AM and 11 AM, Monday through Saturday, it’s clear they are still experiencing problems.

        The position of IT Director remains “Vacant” as of May 31, 2012.

        http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/contact/OrgChart.pdf

        • TXsharon says

          June 18, 2012 at 9:23 am

          I can open the tiff files on my PC but I think I need to download something to open them on my Mac.

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