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Parachute Natural Gas Liquid Leak Slowing

by KREX News Room
by Danielle Kreutter

Story Created: Mar 20, 2013 at 5:33 PM MDT

Story Updated: Mar 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM MDT

PARACHUTE, Colo. - Crews still have not discovered the source of an underground natural gas liquid leak near a Williams energy plant after it was discovered almost two weeks ago near Parachute.

Williams' officials tell NewsChannel 5 that the leak has continued to diminish and on Wednesday there is only one vacuum truck on site which has collected 1-2 barrels of hydrocarbons and 383 barrels of water.

Since the leak was discovered on March 8, 143 barrels of hydrocarbons and 2,442 barrels of water have been collected.

Samples of the nearby Parachute Creek continues to be collected on a daily basis, with visual inspections happening every half hour.

Williams' officials say there is still no evidence of any impact on the creek.

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TBC. said on Wednesday, Mar 20 at 5:52 PM

Or have they been underreporting production to account for the missing “stuff” and been hoping that it wouldn’t turn up? None of these scenarios fills me with a deep sense of ease. The vast majority of wells on Silt Mesa are less than 100′ deep. A spill like this would devastate this community. But at least I can be confident that Colorado is one of the toughest regulation enforcers in the country and doles out fines like jelly babies at Halloween. Oh wait. It isn’t.

ReadandWeep/Seep said on Wednesday, Mar 20 at 5:51 PM

Fiona Lloyd Says: March 20, 2013 at 2:48 pm Correct me if I’m wrong, but wells in production are “metered” for want of a better word? So that royalties can be apportioned? In this case, are Williams saying that they haven’t noticed a discrepancy between production at a well and at the delivery point to a pipeline? If so, that’s a lot of royalties people are being cheated out of. It can’t possibly be a leaking pipeline. I mean, they know how much they put in (don’t they?) and the pipeline distributor pays them on that, so if there was a discrepancy there, then it would be noticed. Or are Williams saying this stuff isn’t coming from a well that’s being metered ie it’s coming from a well bore? You know, from around one of those ultra safe cemented from top to bottom can’t possibly contaminate anything casings? And they have No Idea which bore? It could be travelling between bores? TBC.....

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