Originally Posted by
wiigelec
Unlikely. Even if a well has a gas pumping unit or gas compressor, if the non-heat traced well heads, instrument lines and aboveground pipelines are frozen, you’re still not getting gas to move anywhere.
Gas comes out of the ground with water in it. Up here in the winter lands, well heads are heat traced and insulated, with glycol dehys and pipelines buried feet in the ground. Generally that is not how they do things in Texas, at least according to my oil and gas colleagues who have worked there.