Talk:Wytch Farm

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Wytch farm is the farm my grandparents live on,they are very nice, they have next door neighbors who are relatives and have many White park cattle and dogs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.10.174.54 (talk) 10:22, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

WYTCH FARM is a FARM the oil gathering station was built NEAR WYTCH FARM and we dont have  an oil refinery onsite but we did have cows ! . It has oil and gas processing facilities onsite but not refinery processes (such as crude distillation). Suggest you delete references to oil refinery. —Preceding unsigned comment 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)

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. —Preceding unsigned comment 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). —Preceding unsigned comment 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)


 * It still does not make sense that "the field ... began producing oil in 1979" but in the next sentence it speaks about continuous pumping since 50's. Either the field is older or the pump in question belongs somewhere else. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.214.171.66 (talk) 11:19, 2 May 2007 (UTC).


 * Somebody vandalised the article to change 1970 to "late '50s". Joe D (t) 12:35, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Kimmeridge Bay beam pump
The nodding donkey at Kimmeridge bay isn't part of the same structure as Wytch Farm, and is a seperate oil field in its own right. I visited the site last Friday, wish i'd taken a photo of the information boards there. The well was drilled in 1959, and has been producing since then, and, from what I understand, is the oldest continiously pumping well in the UK, if not the world. Seems that someone has got their facts mixed up. Wytch Farm was discovered in 1979, but Kimmeridge bay is a seperate oil field. Oil from Kimmeridge is taken by tanker to the facilities at Wytch Farm though, and then on to the refinery. In short, the "vandalism" of the article changing the date to the late 1950s was actually correct. I'm not sure what Wiki requires in the way of sources, but here are a couple other than the information boards at Kimmeridge: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/kimerbay.htm (search for "nodding donkey", its a long article) http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/STAGING/global_assets/downloads/U/uk_asset_wytch_farm.pdf (the bp article doesn't make it crystal clear, but Kimmeridge is seperate from Wytch Farm, but is included in the same asset booklet as its tiny, in the same area and in similar geology.) http://mem.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/943

Hope that clears some things up! Sam 86.137.98.238 22:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'll have a go at rewriting the article when I'm less busy next week. Joe D (t) 22:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Furzebrook Terminal
I have just linked the Swanage Railway Furzebrook Terminal to this article. It may not be obvious why as yet but the terminal was used to transport oil and gas before the pipelines were constructed. This note is to remind me (and anyone else) that: The oil was sent by tanker before the pipeline (not sure about that) Liquid Petroleum Gas was sent by train (as liquid in tankers) before large tanks were placed at Furzebrook and the gas sent by pipeline (the tanks were moved in by road from outside over the course of several weekends nin an operation that probably merits a section to itself).

I'm not sure what the current status of the oil terminal at Furzebrook is but it's still there on Google Earth. Britmax (talk) 13:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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