Pictures of the Adrian Township - Adrian Oil Field

Pictures of the Adrian Township - Adrian Oil Field (KML-File)

1. Hunt Rd. - Tipton Hwy. - Moore Rd.

Well 60347 - supposedly plugged

4-Well Tank Farm (Central Processing Facility) and Well #60285

4-Well Tank Farm (Central Processing Facility) and Well #60639

2. Tipton Hwy. - Moore Rd. - Lenawee Hills (Knight) Hwy -  Emery Rd.

Well and Pump Close to a Luxury Home off of Tipton Hwy. (#60246)

Another Well/Pump off Moore Rd. (#60374)

Another Well/Pump off Moore Rd. (#60253)

Two Wells/Pumps off Knight Hwy. (#60398)

Another Well/Pump off Knight Hwy. (#60331)

Tank Farm Processing 6 Oil Wells, an Injection Well for Brine Disposal, and a Pump off of Knight Hwy Adrian Twsp Michigan

Puffing off gases instead of flaring - what is better?

3. Lenawee Hills (Knight) Hwy. - Shephard Rd.

Oil Pump (#60068) close to Farm off of Knight Hwy Adrian Twsp Michigan

Another 2 Oil Wells with Pumps (#60099 and 60397) off of Knight Hwy Adrian Twsp Michigan

Another 2 Oil Wells with Pumps (#60230 and 60100) off of Knight Hwy Adrian Twsp Michigan

The largest Tank Farm Processing 6 Oil Wells, an Injection Well for Brine Disposal, and a large Flare off of Knight Hwy Adrian Twsp Michigan

A Oil Well with Pump (#60130) off of Shephard Hwy Adrian Twsp Michigan

Yet another Oil Well with Pump (60097) and the largest Tank Farm Processing 6 Oil Wells, an Injection Well for Brine Disposal, and a large Flare off of Knight Hwy Adrian Twsp Michigan

Implementation Headlines from our Future Workshop

FUTURE WORKSHOP: Oil Drilling and Processing in Adrian

Weber Center/Campus of Adrian Dominican Sisters

March 5, 2013

Upstairs Workshop

• New City Boards/CouncilsEnvironmental
  Human Development

• Snowball Effect with Letters - writing more letters so commissioners care to be re-elected
• Petitioning City
• Larger Forum in a school gymnasium
• Speakers Pool to speak for groups/institutions, e.g. Rotary Club
• Information of the public
• Broadcast / Stream previous Forum
• Email Information to mailing list
• Participation in City Hall
• Meet Commissioners
• Raising Awareness
• Gathering in larger groups
• Support/Standup for Victims
• Investigate possibilities for law suits
• Freedom of Information: Follow Money
• Signatures / information about how people were tricked into leases

Downstairs Workshop

• Create a citizens group to engage in variety of activities around this issue.
• Find a way to hire an environmental lawyer to review leases, etc.
• Call on Commission to designate proceeds of oil to monitor air, water, soil
• Call on City Commission to sponsor a Town Hall meeting on the issue.
• Take advantage of opportunities for baseline testing, e.g., Sierra Club offers training.
• Create a nonprofit group to raise money for testing, hiring an attorney.
• Continue to participate in City Commission meetings.
• Press City Commission for publication of a more comprehensive (“extended”) Agenda so citizens know what they’re voting on.
• Become better educated on local government – it’s powers and procedures
• Support Rep. Irwin’s legislation requiring oil companies to disclose chemicals they’re using – and urge others to support it.
• Find larger space to hold additional forums to educate public on these issues.
• Hold oil companies accountable for pre-testing before drilling by an independent company paid for by oil companies.
• Call on City Commission to earmark oil revenues for scholarships for Adrian high school graduates to get higher education. (Some concerns expressed that this might imply acceptance of oil drilling within city.) 
  

Seismic explosions in Heritage Park

Kaboom!

Central Processing Facility (Tank Farm) on Witt Farm

The tank farm and well on Witt Farm are PRODUCING! The separators are humming and a flare is burning hidden in the new low standing burn-off tank - you can see the heat in the video.

The producing well

         

 The roaring separator where brine, gas and oil are separated by heat 

The gas is not harvested but flared gasing off dangerous gases and combustion products hidden in a open roof tank.

   

  Storage tanks surrounded by earth walls and lined with plastic to catch oil spills.
The 2nd row shows the truck loading station.

   

                                             Open Pit full with? - Storage tanks in background                                                                       

The surface of the facility is leveled with ground walls keeping surface runoff from M52 but directing runoff directly into the nationally registered wetland on site!!!

Besides - the soild is highly draining thus not keeping eventual spills to the surface!

Current Wells around Adrian

The below map shows the currently operational oil and injection wells as well as well sites already permitted.

I just downloaded the well location in an excel file and generated a Google Earth file from it:

Legend: Blue are injection wells, green are oil wells, and white are new permits.

Surveying goes on in Northern part of Heritage Park

More Flagging in Heritage Park and Rauisin Township

Fore flagging through sensitive wetlands in Heritage Park. Some showing already buried charges. Nice transects that cut through all kinds of landscape regardless its potential for groundwater pollution and destruction of rare and vulnerable habitats. A friend told us that they are also very active in Raisin township around E Valley Rd and N Wilmoth Hwy.