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The white X means this well is shut down and the pump jack will be removed. Part of the Sun Oil, Sunoco, heated waterflood experiment in the Big Sinking Oilfield. Hundreds of acres with scattered abandoned well sites. Near by Beattyville, Kentucky, Lee County's seat, was featured by a BBC documentary "America's Poorest City."
conventional wellsite construction with conventional reclamation. Not looking so good...
Too much mulch was left of the surface of this wellsite. Too much mulch doesn't allow spruce to grow because the solar radiation reflects off the mulch, and burns the saplings. Suckering aspen on the other hand do much better at a site like this (notice that grass has not taken over the site)
2006 constructed wellsite. The roots of the removed trees were salvaged then lightly buried after wellsite abandonment. The hope was that the roots would sucker again They apparently did (this is not a regular reclamation technique for abandoned wellsites - yet).
