MTEX Well Pad

Bring Midland Basin oilfield operations to Farming Simulator 25 with a complete West Texas-style producing well pad, modelled on a Permian Basin lease. An animated C-456 pump jack, separator, heater treater and 3-tank battery sit on one 43 × 39 m pad. The well produces crude and produced water that you load onto trucks at the load-out.

How you get one

The shop item is "M-Tex Well Pad (pump jack + tank battery)", under Misc (or Production > Factories in the build menu; M-Tex Oil if you use the M-Tex store category). You can buy it directly for $275,000. It can be renamed, and it can be sold.

The M-Tex Drilling Rig also places this well pad automatically when a well is finished. The rig positions the pad so the wellhead sits on the rig's well centre, then removes the rig. That well pad is included in the rig's shop price. When the rig places it, the pad is not re-levelled: it sits on the gravel the rig already levelled, or on TerraFarm ground if you shaped the site that way. If the Well Pad mod is not loaded, the rig stays until the mod is active and retries the swap every 10 seconds.

When you buy the pad from the shop yourself, it is levelled on placement: a gravel pad and a dirt lease-road entrance.

Production

The well is scaled from a typical mature Permian (Midland Basin) vertical rod-pumped well: 20 bbl of oil per real day, and 3 bbl of produced water per bbl of oil (75% water cut). 1 game day represents 1 real week, so the pad makes 22,258 L of crude (ORF_CRUDE, the same fill type as the M-Tex tanks and refinery) and 66,775 L of produced water per game day.

Production is added from the game clock, so leaving the site, sleeping, or skipping time all count. It is saved with the pad's storage and is multiplayer-safe (the server decides).

The pump jack stops when the crude storage is full (high-level shut-in) and starts again when a truck hauls oil. If the water storage is full, extra produced water goes down a buried SWD line, so the well keeps pumping.

Storage and load-out
- Crude: 111,291 L (5 game days of production, 700 bbl). At 5x time scale, that's about 24 real hours before the well shuts in on a full tank.
- Produced water: 133,549 L (2 game days).
- There is no delivery into the pad; it only loads out.

The truck load-out is outside the battery fence, on a gravel bay with room to turn around. It loads crude or produced water at 500 L/s, with a standard AI load node. A 30,000 L crude trailer fills in about 1.35 game days (about 6.5 real hours at 5x).

The load-out stand has a valve, camlock and drip bucket.

Features
- Animated M-Tex C-456 pump jack on a concrete base with a rod-pump wellhead, inside its own chain-link fence with a double gate. The jack runs at 8 strokes per minute while the well is producing.
- Compact 43 × 39 m layout, with the 3-tank battery standing right behind the jack.
- Buried flowline to the M-Tex horizontal separator, then a header on pipe stands to the M-Tex heater treater and on into the tanks. There is no flare and no containment ring.
- M-Tex 3-tank battery with weathered dull-galvanised shells (rain streaks, rust at the seams and fittings, dust at the base), galvanised stairs and a walkable catwalk.
- Chain-link equipment fence around the treater and cabinet, and a grey electrical cabinet on a concrete pad.
- The pump jack, tank battery, separator and heater treater are the M-Tex models, copied into this pack, so those other mods are not required at runtime.

Price: $275,000 | Daily upkeep: $2,450 | Multiplayer supported

The daily upkeep is the real lease operating expense of a rod-pumped Permian well (about $350 per real day for power, pumper, chemicals, repairs and water disposal) times 7 real days per game day.

Requires: Petroleum Products, which defines the ORF_CRUDE fill type.