Our look at the
RODENSKI UNIT

MOUNT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, PA - August 13, 2009 is here and it is time to follow weeks of drilling and preparation by hydraulically fracturing Rodenski Unit gas well 1H. The "1" means it could be the first of many wells on the same production pad (a few miles away the Best Unit has 7 wells) and the "H" means it is a horizontal or directional gas well instead of a vertical gas well.

In these photos we see a fleet of Frac Tech equipment crowded onto the drilling pad that is being used to provide the extremely high pressure and fracturing fluids and proppants (up to 6 million gallons of water, sand, and frac fluids) to hydraulically fracture this Marcellus gas well. A gas flare that will light-up the night sky in Hickory may soon follow.

RANGE RESOURCES APPALACHIA LLC
RODENSKI UNIT 1H-A

RODENSKI UNIT 1H-A OG WELL 125-23639
Mt. Pleasant Township
Washington County

Early preparations included lining up Baker tanks for the hydraulic frac

   Frack Time.
A group of big FracTech trailer mounted MAGNUM 2500's arrive on site.

Each MAGNUM 2500 delivers 2,250 horsepower from a CAT engine creating pressure up to 12,000 p.s.i.

"Morning calm" in rural Mt. Pleasant Twp. Pennsylvania

   Frac Tech tankers parked close together

   Congested drilling pad about one mile south of Hickory on Washington Ave.

   Frac Tech command vehicle with satellite dish pointed south

   Foggy morning frac job

   An array of hoses and intermediate connectors for the Baker tanks and Frac Tech frac fluid tractor trailers

Frac Tech sand trailers

The 'Secret Sauce' for fracking could be something like this:
3 pinches of sand, 1,000 gallons of water and 2 quarts of frac fluid.
Add diesel fuel if you dare, but it's not legal.

The Sand Box
White sand proppant scattered beneath the trailer

White sand also covers the tops of trailers

Leaving the Rodenski frac job

Doesn't look so much like sand now

Frac Tech tanker

   Water Gate - No, not that Watergate, the new one!
Trailer contraption used to get fluids across a country road.

Leaky connections on both ends of the water gate. Hope it's just water... Diesel fuel showed up in a stream south of here on the very same day.

Remote field with several dozen more Baker tanks connected to the Rodenski frac job through the water gate. Each tank holds 2,100 gallons of water or other fluids.