They finally got tot he point where Hubby could politely ask the officer why he was sitting in the middle of nowhere....and the officer said he was there to guard the compressor station. They had to guard it against terrorists 24 hours a day.
Hubby then had to explain to him that the wellhead out in the bushes he was staring at was NOT the compressor station, but a head for a gas well, and then gave him directions to the real compressor station....which SHOULD be assumed to be too large to miss.