Thursday, February 05, 2015 12:52:14 PM
McFarland,Ca is 10.2 miles West of the Bear Wells...most of the wells you can't see and are below the horizon from the 65 Porterville Highway looking East even though they are only a couple of miles from it. Part of the AMI is leased from a womans living trust whom happens to be a rancher. There are thousands of wells in all directions that are active within a 6 square mile radius. Daybreak IMHO strategy was to find the leases a bit aways from the pack and put up 1-3 miles electrical lines from the massive clusters on these leases and other outfits. Some of the wells are on the same dip fault lines just further down from hundreds of other wells further up in the hills. There are unnamed faults in the immediate area as well...with several smaller fields that don't get much attention like the McVay etc. When you have a 10 mile wide area to drill it opens lots of opportunity. Daybreak visits the wells daily and they monitor them if you don't they will "sandy up" if your not diligent and out there on a daily basis. If the wells are idled for a period time or taken off line it takes some work to put them back online because of the sand. From the Sherman 1-23 it's a level 1/2 acre cut pad and you can see Mount Poso very very close by looming over another smaller foothill between them. It has communications gear and antennas plus loads of wells active, inactive and idle. Just this past year over 165 new wells were drilled in Mount Poso field alone. IMHO the AMI is between the Poso and Round Mountain fields and dices between them and on the Arch. Stretches quite a distance borders up to the Kern River and Front fields as well. Chevron has the Kern River and they use some really old pump jacks we're talking ancient cobbled together that require serious maintenance because there are thousands of them. No joke.
