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Originally Posted by fotze
In the field I have, there was a line break just prior to me starting, operator just happened to be driving by and caught it before it got too bad. That didn't sit well with me, so I had monitors put on all injection lines, you could have them alarmed to shut them in too.
Its not even a requirement and you can actually do it pretty cheap.
That Zama area is an absolute nightmare, its the wild west up there.
Just pulled all their 11 disposal wells in the area. They average 100-400 m3/d disposal each. For the amount that they estimate was spilled (which is probably about half of the actual spill), they pumped water for 30 days before noticing the leak. If it was on a line with one of the lower rate wells (100 m3/d) it was 4 months prior to leak detection.
That probably isn't acceptable.
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It's okay, the ERCB is undergoing rebranding at the moment! I'm sure that will increase their efficiency at keeping O&G under control!