Coonass Counsel

One of the really neat things about the blog -- I find myself in contact will all sorts of people from around the world that I would never run into. Many contact me to share their expertise. When I describe something incorrectly, petroleum engineers will email me and tell me, "No, you got it wrong. Describe it like this." Being that I'm a simple housewife of little means, I rely on this community involvement. Sometimes people tell me about their lawsuits or their child with leukemia. It gives me great joy to hear scenarios involving ExxonMobil and Chevron in heaps of trouble. Not just in Texas. In Lousiana, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Soon, the stockholders are going to wise up. The SEC will no doubt order ExxonMobil and Chevron to take a huge write down for their true assertable claims. Many folks see the problems building. Exxon and Chevron are oblivious.

It was thru the blog that I met an attorney that works for the State of Louisiana: Coonass Counsel. I asked if he minded being called a Coonass and he said he did not. The State of Louisiana is suing ExxonMobil and Chevron over all their legacy oilfield mess. The state has kicked ExxonMobil and Chevron's "sorry sack-of-shit asses" (to quote Coonass) across the the bayou on a number of properties and now ExxonMobil and Chevron are both settling cases with the state of Louisiana based on a technology called GEM. This is short for Geophex Electromagnetic Survey. It involves a conductivity probe that measures soil conductivity (more salt = higher conductivity) as you push it into the ground with a hydraulic rig. The probe is connected to a computer so that you can see how deep the salt contamination is in the field as soon as you are done pushing the rod as deep as you want to go. Using this toy, and the GEM, the plumes of open produced water pits are completely mapped before any samples are collected. It all loads into the ESRI mapping system that we currently use. (can be put in shade files that overlay into Google earth, etc)

Coonass says that to do a pit in an open field runs a mere $1200. The state of Louisiana uses a company called ICON Environmental. That's really cheap when it comes to environmental work. He said you can turn it over to the regulators and watch Chevron and ExxonMobil attempt to clean up produced water pits. That's going to be a lot of trucking for all my friends out there with the trucking companies! We need this salt water pit excavation work now in my area. The oilfield is slow. All the rigs have moved to the Eagleford Shale stuff around Laredo. Backhoes, loader, trackhoes, and drivers are sitting around collecting dust in my neck of the woods. Time for my Malulos Green Job Initiative to come into play and save the day. Both Exxon and Chevron Texaco had their open pits in tank batteries not too far from their petroleum sludge pits. So, once you start digging the produced water pits..... you are bound to hit the petroleum sludge pits and then it's just endless remediation work. You can see the produced water pits in these historic aerial photos -- see the big square/rectangle sludge pits? Now look for the round whitish pits. Those, my dear friends, are open produced water pits. These photos are all from the ExxonMobil McGill Bros, Chevron McGill Bros, and a few El Paso Corp leases next door.