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05/17/2005- Still looking good today, production is up to 140 MCFD. Matt said it had made 1 1/2" in the tank in a 24 hour period.

Congratulations to the Solar Pump project team:
Wilmer Hoffman, Dacia Foster, Greg Nelson,
James Walker and Lane Farnsworth

Overview of Project.....July 17 through August 27 - 2003 (additional info will be available here in a few days).

July 17 - Equipment arrived in Farmington, met with Solamotor on
location to discuss particulars of the installation, developed plan for
installation, gathered materials.

Solamotor: Nothing further to add...

July 18 - Installed concrete pads, repiped wellhead, installed pumping
unit and constructed solar array.

Solamotor: Nothing further to add...

Saturday - July 19 - Service unit arrived on location and rigged up,
tagged 60' of fill, pulled tubing. Completed wiring solar array.

Solamotor: Nothing further to add...

Sunday - July 20 - Ran bit & scraper, began cleaning out well bore.

Solamotor personnel not on site.

Monday - July 21 - Finished cleaning out well bore.

Solamotor personnel not required at site.

Tuesday - July 22 - Ran poly tubing with fiberglass rod and pump
assembly into well. Landed tubing and loaded with water to set anchor.

Solamotor: Nothing further to add.

Wednesday - July 23 - Attempted to set anchor using air pressure,
failed to set. Pulled poly tubing and found hole 10' above anchor.
Developed plan to use steel 1 1/4" tubing in place of poly.

Solamotor: Nothing further to add at this time.

Thursday - July 24 - Machined change over parts for pump barrel to
tubing. Ran 1 1/4" tubing and flushed out string. Pulled out of hole
and stood back.

Solamotor: Pulled 3/8 rod from poly tubing and spooled back onto the
reel. Connected plunger to the 3/8 sucker rod.

Friday - July 25 - Ran 1 1/4" tubing into well, ran pump plunger and
fiberglass rod into hole. Tried to pump, found pump fouled. Pulled
rod string and cleaned plunger. Ran rod string and tried to pump,
fouled again. Pulled rod string and cleaned plunger. Ran rod string.
Soaped down the casing to clean up backside.

Solamotor: Nothing further to add.

Saturday - July 26 - Started pump. Well pumped off in 1 1/2 hours.
Set to cycle 25 minutes on and 3 hours off. Made 3 barrels.

Solamotor: Cleaned pump unit, battery box and location. Touched up
painted finish and installed the safety cage.

Sunday - July 27 - Pump stuck in barrel after 36 hours of operation.

Solamotor: Nothing further to add.

Monday - July 28 - Tried to unstick pump, failed. Plan to build
scraper type pump and install on fiberglass rod in two weeks.

The pumping unit was running at a peak of 18 amps and 16 amp average.
We feel that if we can improve the survivability of the pump the
installation will be a success. I will batch the photos to you all.

Solamotor: Returned to Fort Davis Texas.

****We feel that if we can improve the survivability of the pump the installation
will be a success.

Tuesday - 8/19/2003 - Pulled 3/8" fiberglass rod string out of well.
Prepped the 1/2" fiberglass rod string and spooled onto reel.

Solamotor: When we pulled the 3/8 rod and pump from the well it was
fouled with a black coal material in the top and bottom cages. A
build-up was evident around the top cage (check).

Wednesday - 8/20/2003 - Pulled 1 1/4" tubing. Changed pump barrel and
ran tubing back into hole. Ran new wiper pump and 1/2" rod string into
hole.

Solamotor: Loaded first (bottom) two joints of tubing with detergent (5
gal, liquid) to emulsify material expected to settle in the tubing
pump. The unit was not pumped this date. It was allowed to stand
inactive overnight.

Thursday - 8/21/2003 - Hung off rod string on pumpjack and started
pumping. Pumped for 2 hours and started making water. Water rate was
approximately 15 gallons an hour. Caught samples of produced water.

Solamotor: We were pumping 8 3/4 strokes per min. Average amp = 22.

Friday - 8/22/2003 - Pumped well for 1 hour. Cleaned up pumpjack and
guards. Made decision to install "catch cups" (see attached diagram)
on rod string to keep sediment from stacking on top of pump. Shut in
until 8/27/2003.

Solamotor: We brought water samples back to perform pumping tests and
to construct the catch cups.

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Wednesday - 8/27/2003 - Pulled 1/2" rod string. Installed "catch cups"
while running rod string back into hole. Set cycles at 1 hour on and 3
hours off. Pumpjack being monitored for performance.

Solamotor: The Wiper cup installed on the plunger previously was seen
to be completely full of coal residue.

Solamotor: Monday- 10/27/03- Arrived Farmington on Service trip.

Tuesday-10/28/03-Met at BP office with James Walker 7:15 a.m. On location at 7:30. Unit not pumping. Suspecting that trash was the problem we attempted to free top check valve. This was unsuccessful. Pulled plunger out of pump and tubing. Problem was the seat in plunger was damaged due to foreign material causing excessive wear. Replaced bottom seat with new and improved seat. Also installed new pump cup. No wear was evidenced elsewhere. Ran pump plunger back in. Put unit back on line at 3:00p.m..

NOTE: We immediately observed an increase in water production from previous pumping. In phonecon with James Walker two days later he advised us that the unit was producing 2 inches (approx - 4.5 bbl) in one day tank measurement.

Solamotor: Monday 12/8/03 - arrived Farmington location on service trip. Unseated pump this date and resumed operation the following day, 12-9-03, due to inclimate weather.

Tuesday - 12-9-03 - We pulled the rod and found considerable trash. All of the flow pipes on the surface were frozen. Discussing the situation with James Walker we agreed that the problems with the trash build up in the well causing interrupted normal pumping may be due to the compressors going offline.

Also discussed on-site was the feasibility of having a pressure activated switch to disengage the pump when the compressor system goes down.

This is the text of the email Solamotor received from James Walker dtd, 10 Dec 03:

Jeff,

As we talked about yesterday, the plan for is for Charlie to design a retrievable standing valve and we will continue the test in mid-March. In discussions with some of the folks here, would it be possible to design a pump that you could unseat both of the valves to flush the pump without pulling it out of the hole? I will have the rig pull the tubing to retrieve the pump barrel and we will reinstall in March. Please update the website with our progress to date.

James Walker

Monday-4-19-04- Met in office of James Walker with Craig Wilcox, Charles McAnally, Jeff Fisher . Discussed pump options. Decided to go with new improved solamotor design with larger bottom ball in bottom cage recommeded by Craig. The design of pump included the capability to release fluid in case needed to be pulled.
Check with Bill Gorm on location. Pulling unit Transmission down. After 1:00 p.m. tagged and tripped tubing and pump barrel out of well bore. Bottom cage full of coal material. Went to CDI to refurbish pump barrel and bottom cage.

Tuesday- 4-20-04- Went by office 7:25am. Arrived location 7:35am. Run pump barrel and tubing in well bore. applied soap. Started Rigging down unit. At 12:45p.m. run rod and plunger in tubing. Set to pump by 2:30p.m. Quit pumping by 3:20p.m. Changed to a 2 inch pulley on motor. Started pumping but not consitant. Shut off at 3:45p.m. for 15 minutes. Started pump 4:00p.m. Intermittent pumping. Shut unit down .

Wednesday-4-21-04- Went by office7:25am. On Location 7:35am. Started Unit pumping 8:15 am. Pumping perfect every stroke. Water to surface by 11.35am. Need to slow pump down. Decided to install jack shaft assembly. Shut system down . Went to get parts and a Welder for tomorrow. Back on location 3:45p.m.Turned unit back on for over night pumping.

Thursday-4-22-04- Went by office 6:50am. On location 7:15am. Holding tank gained 1 inch. Work was performed by Welder to install jackshaft on pumpjack. Installed pulleys and belts and Started unit pumping. Set to 4 strokes per minute. At 1:20 installed Murphy pressure switch. Set for 28 pounds to disconnect unit when line pressure increases. Left on Auto on timer to run for 6 hours in 24.

Friday-4-23-04- Arrive location 7:35am. to check system. All working well. Check system 5:00pm. System Working well.

Saturday-4-24-04- Went by location 7:30am. Set timer for 7 hours in 24 Unit is set to pump average 2 barrels a day.