Hilcorp Arnie  

Natural Gas Engine powered pumpjack, lifting water off of the Fruitland Coal bed below, allowing natural gas (primarily methane and some condensate) to be desorbed. Judging by the thickness of the mineral precipitate on the well head, the well head packer has been leaking for quite some time, and with no sump basin to catch it, the saline water heads to the La Plata River, then the San Juan, and then the Colorado...