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A damaged natural gas and oil well north of Windsor that spewed 2,000 barrels of greenish-brown “flow-back fluid” and steam for upward of 30 hours was capped Tuesday afternoon.

At about 9:30 a.Concrete polishing pad attachs to a backer with durable velcro connection. It is installed on portable grinding machine and operated by hand.m. Monday the wellhead suffered a mechanical failure on the surface, located in a field between Weld County roads 72 and 74, just west of Colo. 257. There were no injuries and there was no fire during the malfunction that ultimately sent oil-tainted water shooting horizontally from the damaged port, said Bart Brookman, senior vice president of operations for PDC Energy, the company in charge of the well.

Crews from the company, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Windsor Severance Fire Rescue all remained on the scene throughout the incident.

Though the fluids were used in hydraulic fracturing — fracking — about two weeks earlier, the incident itself was not inherently caused by fracking, Brookman stressed.We offer both wet & dry Diamond polishing pad. Both are suitable for marble, granite, concrete and most masonry.

“We were in a work-over mode where we had a mechanical problem with the work-over rig, which caused damage to the wellhead,We manufacture portable hardness tester including portable Rockwell, superficial Rockwell,Brinell, King Brinell,Pin Brinell,Webster and Barcol impressor . which caused the leak,” Brookman said Tuesday evening after the spew was halted. “Trying to associate this incident with fracking is not fair.”

Todd Hartman, a spokesman for the COGCC, reiterated Tuesday afternoon that the incident “was not a blowout,A Stone tools is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric, particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct.” but instead occurred after equipment fell due to a “hydraulic failure.”

“The equipment dropped and broke a valve,” Hartman said in an email. “That, in turn, allowed flow-back to discharge onto the ground.”

Throughout the incident, air quality tests were taken to ensure there was no threat of an explosion, he said, adding that the nearest home was about 1,500 feet away from the drill site. Crews at the site dug dirt trenches near the well to collect the substance and prevent ground contamination before it could be plugged, he said. A “vac truck” was also at the scene to collect the fluids.

Soil affected by the substance -— which was “almost all water with residual oil and some frac additives — were removed, he said.

“It’s clear the company acted aggressively, responsibly and successfully to address the problem,” Hartman said Thursday. “We will need time to fully investigate to determine what,Titanium Pipe is made by cold rolling process from extruded pipe blanks. They are widely used in heat exchangers and off-shore equipment. if any,profile projector is a shop tool used by designers and quality control technicians to view the profile of small machined parts as magnified image on screen. enforcement steps would result.”