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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on February 27, 2010 at 5:17

Jr, there are a substantial number of leases in southern Red River Parish and northen Natchitoches that will begin expiring in mid-2010 so that will give some indication of operator plans in the area. I am especially keeping an eye on EnCana/Shell and their actions over the next few months.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on February 27, 2010 at 5:55

Those protection leases around the Olympia ("Big Woods") well will start to go down in the next couple of months.

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Permalink Reply by jr on February 27, 2010 at 16:21

I have a family member who owns several hundred acres in southern Red River parish near Lake End and the Mondello well that was just drilled. The property only had a few months left before the old lease expired. Encana made an offer to extend the lease and he agreed in less than a week they withdrew the offer and said they would drill the section before the leases were up. Les do you think the messenger well is the reason for not much activity in our area(natchitoches parish) i know that encana had alot of trouble drilling the well(mainly drill bits) and according to the conservation web site it is not producing much gas at all. we are leased to anadarko and had two wells staked last year that they havent drilled yet.what do you think anadarko plans to do with their louisiana lease hold i know they have alot in east texas held by production already.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on February 27, 2010 at 18:15

Ecana's Messenger well has been discussed at length on numerous occasions and the latest and best opinions are that it is not a Haynesville Shale well. It is producing from LCV and BO.

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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on February 27, 2010 at 21:56

Petrohawk just filed for a Haynesville unit two miles east of the Messenger well. They must be liking the area. As you said, Les, ShaleGeo has called the Messenger well a vertical Bossier completion. Wonder what the H2S situation is in theis area??

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on February 28, 2010 at 5:54

SB, clearly the H2S will be higher but how much higher I don't know. Most of the gas production from the HS/BS play exceeds pipeline H2S and/or CO2 limits so requires treating.

Some maps depict the HS in the Messenger area to be similar to southeast RRP.

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on February 28, 2010 at 5:49

Jr, I think the lack of activity to date is more a function of priority and who holds the leases in that area. For EnCana/Shell, they needed to initially focus their capital and resources on northern RRP and DeSoto Parish. Now they are moving south and southeast in RRP but we will just have to see if they manage to drill areas before leases expire.

For Anadarko, they have spent little effort on the Haynesville/Bossier Shale and all of that has been in East Texas to date. There have been a lot of statements in the past that Anadarko was looking to JV or sell their acreage.

I believe the depth with higher pressure and temperature limits the number of operators willing to tackle the HS/BS in the area but the Messenger actually had a good inital flow rate for a vertical well.

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Permalink Reply by jr on February 28, 2010 at 9:07

thanks Les B i have some property in sabine parish (9-11-sec 21.22) south of pleasant hill and things are moving along nice.
i know a person that worked on the mondello well in southern red river parish he said very little h2s was present. i hope that when this well is completed it will help northern natchitoches parish.

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