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Consider and take action on a request by ConocoPhillips for variances to Chapter 42, Article IV, of the League City Code of Ordinances, entitled Drilling Production, Plugging and Abandonment for a possible Well Plugging and Abandonment permit of an existing well identified as Stewart Title & Guaranty Well #6, generally located south of the Sedona Subdivision, east of Hobbs Road and west of the Butler Road right-of-way (Director of Planning and Development)
Staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
Background:
Beginning in October of 2014, City staff began coordinating with ConocoPhillips and their contractors on a soil remediation project located south of the Sedona Subdivision and west of the Butler Road right-of-way. The project had been requested by the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) and involved the removal of approximately 7,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil from an old existing oil and gas “sludge pit” and replacement with clean soil. Two wells (known as Stewart Title and Guaranty Wells #1 and #6) were discovered during the remediation work. The applicant, ConocoPhillips, along with the Texas Railroad Commission, have researched both wells history and discovered that Well #1 had been properly plugged and abandoned in accordance with the Texas Railroad Commission in 1959. Well #6, a salt water disposal well, has no records of being properly plugged and abandoned.
Project Timeline:
August 4, 1941 - The Oil and Gas Division of the Railroad Commission of Texas issues a permit to the Phillips Petroleum Company to drill the subject well.
August 14, 1941 - The Phillips Petroleum Company begins drilling the well.
September 1941 - Several documents were found relating to plugging the well, however no records were found after 1941.
October 6, 2014 - A representative from Conestoga-Rover & Associates (CRA), a contractor for ConocoPhillips, contacts the Oil & Gas team to discuss a project to remediate existing sludge pits related to oil and gas pr...
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