Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Apr 20 - 27

Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Friday, April 20, 2018
Morning 60 Degrees, Wind ESE at 3 to 8 Mph, Humidity 59%, overcast.
Afternoon 81 Degrees, Wind SE at 11 to 24 Mph, Humidity 42%, mostly cloudy.

Rain shower about seven this morning, turned into only drops then continued overcast and windy. Sand trucks coming and going slowed and went to none and then a coiled tubing crew came in the gate. That basically means there is a problem down the hole. Some sand trucks did come in to top off the sand silo’s so that they were full when the frac started again. Otherwise they would be waiting a long time in the holding area. Now they get to go for another load possibly to a different well site. 


Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Saturday, April 21, 2018
Morning 68 Degrees, Wind SE at 2 to 6 Mph, Humidity 80%, cloudy.
Afternoon 84 Degrees, Wind ESE at 10 to 17 Mph, Humidity 54%, mostly cloudy.

Slower day, sand trucks,

Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Sunday, April 22, 2018
Morning 59 Degrees, Wind ENE at 5 to 8 Mph, Humidity 70%, mostly sunny.
Afternoon 84 Degrees, Wind NNE at 8 to 16 Mph, Humidity 26%, mostly sunny.

Normal day, new sand trucks, our favorite are returning vehicles as there are less -operations to perform on the I Pad. Sometimes it feels like every truck in the company has been dispatched to our site instead of having the trucks return. The other thing is hours of service for drivers runs out and other drivers replace them. There are now seven different companies sending trucks to our site with sand

SensorTransmitter

Our sensor for the out going vehicles was not working so I changed the batteries but the problems persisted. L put up with that the rest of the day finally going the again and checking the connection from the semsor to the transmitter a USB plug, it was disconnected. Well I got it working for my wife’s shift. Some vehicles do something (too fast or too slow) and we do not get an alert. 

the black pipe detects vehicles

Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Monday, April 23, 2018
Morning 60 Degrees, Wind ENE at 3 to 6 Mph, Humidity 75%, mostly cloudy.
Afternoon 86 Degrees, Wind SSE at 1 to 6 Mph, Humidity 32%, mostly sunny.

Monday traffic, busy.


Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Morning 61 Degrees, Wind S at calm Mph, Humidity 76%,partly sunny .
Afternoon 94 Degrees, Wind SSE at 4 to 13 Mph, Humidity 26%, mostly sunny.

 
Word this afternoon is the frac will be done Thursday, yea right


Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Morning 63 Degrees, Wind ESE at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 75%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 86 Degrees, Wind NW at 6 to 23 Mph, Humidity 88%, overcast.

The afternoon started off with a thunderstorm and lightening, everything got wet but no recordable accumulation. For the lightening, they shut down the operation for a Thursday completion is not going to be meet. This means the operations picked up overnight during my wife’s shift. 


Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Thursday, April 26, 2018
Morning 59 Degrees, Wind NNW at calm Mph, Humidity 77%, mostly cloudy.
Afternoon 80 Degrees, Wind NE at 6 to 10 Mph, Humidity 46%, partly cloudy.

Sand trucks were waiting and started coming in right away and there were some already waiting on the well pad and they unloaded and were coming out. We are expecting them to finish overnight tonight. From there we are expecting to be here for about another week.

A pressure truck going out

Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Saturday, April 28, 2018
Morning 64 Degrees, Wind SE at 1 to 3 Mph, Humidity 65%, partly cloudy.

Sand silo frame coming down 

Another oil company manager came in this morning and confirmed we are done today. So now to inform the company (gate guard) we are released and get out act together and move Buster. Yesterday I was talking to another coordinator he had a gate for us when released from here so I called him letting him know we were released. The new gate is close by.

Now the silo comes down

Buster’s Gate Catarina, TX - Friday, April 27, 2018
Morning 58 Degrees, Wind SE at calm Mph, Humidity 90%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 80 Degrees, Wind SSE at 1 to 8 Mph, Humidity 44%, partly cloudy.

Frac completed this morning and the work now starts to shift to down rigging. 
Pressure trucks moved out in a ten truck convoy today. Sand silo’s went one and then a convoy of sand conveyers and silo’s (3) came out. Other companies are also moving their equipment out.

Silo rolling out

Started breaking down Buster’s camp area today in preparation to move Buster.



Thought For The Day – I was reading an instruction manual and got to the part about needing a screwdriver. So I got out the vodka and orange juice.