Conroe, Texas

According to the vendor, the nnit cost of the remediation at the United Creosote site in Conroe, Texas, was 220 per ton (D20539A, p. 4-22). 

Results from 2 years of groundwater sampling at an abandoned wood treatment facility in Conroe, Texas, where coal tar creosote had been used for about 20 years, showed that monitoring wells were contaminated with levels of up to 3,490 pg/L naphthalene, 1,263 pg/L methylnaphthalene, 425 pg/L dibenzofuran, and 302 pg/L fluorene. The contaminants had apparently migrated through the clay and... 

Several PAH constituents of creosote were detected in soil samples taken at an abandoned wood treatment facility in Conroe, Texas, at depths of up to 25 feet. Maximum concentrations of the compounds were detected in samples collected at the 0.7-1.8-foot depth. Maximum concentration levels were 3.7 mg/kg for naphthalene, 3.4 mg/kg for methylnaphthalene, 3.8 mg/kg for dibenzofuran, 4.2 mg/kg for fluorene, and 2.2 mg/kg for anthracene. An investigation of vertical variations in contaminant concentrations in the soil zone above the water table revealed that, in general, >90% of the organics were removed within the first 5 feet at the location studied. Organics can be degraded by microbes, adsorbed onto soil, or altered by interactions with soil humus (Bedient et al. 1984). 

FIGURE 11.4 Plant for the oxidation of propane with oxygen (Meyer process) in Conroe (Texas). 

The Conroe oil field is 40 miles (64 km) north of Houston on the upper Texas gulf coast. The 30-sq mile (78 km2) field was discovered in 1931 and is developed on 20-acre (81 x 103-m2) spacing with about 1,100 wells. The major producing horizon occurs at an average depth of. 000 ft (1500 m). Total Conroe field maximum efficient rate (MER) is 60,000 B/D (9540 mVd). Before unitization, those leases that joined the unit included 20 active oil wells with an assigned MER allowable of 8,300 B/D (9268 m5/d). 

Examples of domal structures are the Conroe Oil Field in Montgomery County, Texas and the Old Ocean Gas Field in Brazoria County. Texas. Another example of a reservoir formed by an anticlinal structure is the Ventiua Oil Field in California. 

The author expresses his sincere thanks to the following persons who have provided data and/or information for this chapter R.E. Hall for solid-state data G. Havner for confirming the bromine test D.D. Taylor for partition coefficients, UV, MS, and NMR data R. Conroe and S. Spruill for the svnthesis and B. Scott and P. Ritter for analytical data on 1-naphthylacetylethylenediamine, all at Alcon Laboratories Professor John Baker, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi for NMR data and interpretation and Professor Hugo Steinfink, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, Texas for x-tay powder diffraction and crystallographic information. 

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