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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on September 11, 2009 at 15:54

SL. I suspect that the notice letter you received is for a unit application, not a well. The inclusion of multiple zones/formations in the same unit application is becoming more common. Many Haynesville depth wells will encounter shallower zones/formations that will have production potential. In the industry, productive zones not initially produced are said to be "behind the pipe" meaning that the well bore has no perforations to allow production from that zone. Many wells will eventually have commingled production from more that one zone. The ability to commingle is dependent on formation pressures. The Haynesville Shale formation pressures are too high to allow commingling until some future time when the pressure has declined. It is also possible that the Haynesville may be produced until a point of depletion when it will be isolated by a plug and new perforations in the vertical wellbore may be created in the Cotton Valley, Hosston or both. The potential for a single wellbore to have commercial production from multiple zones is lagniappe for the lessee and the lessor.

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Permalink Reply by SL on September 11, 2009 at 16:08

You're right. I just read it and it said to create one additional drilling and production unit in Cotton Valley and then it said the same thing in the Haynesville Zone. Thanks. Do you know anything about the test results for the Smithburg 7h? It is section 7, T13 R12

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