Talk:Wytch Farm

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Wytch Farm has not got an oil refinery onsite. It has oil and gas processing facilities onsite but not refinery processes (such as crude distillation). Suggest you delete references to oil refinery. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.132.14.38 (talk • contribs).

Thanks. I have made the suggested changes, but am wondering if you can provide any references for this? Ideally all of the facts in the article should cite a source. Joe D (t) 00:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nodding donkey (elsewhere)

I removed this section : One of the "nodding donkey" beam pumps, at Kimmeridge, has been pumping continuously since production began in 1979 and is the oldest continuously pumping well in the world.

Firstly, I don't know where it comes from, but it sounds like bullshit to me. I've seen hundreds of nodding donkeys over the years that look rusty enough to have been operating since before 1979, and they're in deserts where things hardly rust.

Secondly, It refers to Kimmeridge. Which is a good few miles away, and penetrates to a different structural and stratigraphical level. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by A Karley (talk • contribs).

There is an oil well in Pennsylvannia (MacClintock #1) that have been producing since 1861. But perharps the well at Wytch Farm hods a reliability record (longest production with no nterruption). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 90.1.60.125 (talk • contribs).

My source is from talking to Wytch farm's PR person, and therefore isn't ideal for Wikipedia. I'll try and find a written source. Your rusty comment is irrelevant: I assume when a well dries up the nodding donkey isn't just thrown away, the machine, or its parts are reused elsewhere; this is about continuously pumping. It was explained to me that the reason it had been pumping so long is that oil flowed in from other parts of the field. Your second point could apply to several of the wells in the area, but they all pump to and are owned by Wytch Farm: this article is about the field, not just the processing facility. Joe D (t) 16:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)