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Permalink Reply by BirdDawg, plain ole' idiot on August 31, 2008 at 6:24

Jim Krow,
I have been told when a well is fraced, that if it pulled too hard during flowback that the sand or other proppant can be sucked back into the well, hence "sanding up". Does that sound reasonable to you?

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on August 31, 2008 at 6:46

Jim, sometimes once a well starts producing formation water it can cause a well to sand up. Most offshore wells require the gravel-packed completion you discussed.

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Permalink Reply by popeye on September 1, 2008 at 1:19

Thanks guys..... what happens 12,000+ feet below my pillow is both interesting and perplexing too. If there were a thread here, that kinda walks everyone through the drilling and things like this from start to finish, maybe someone can point me to it.

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Permalink Reply by Lloyd on June 30, 2010 at 7:31

I have a well that was being fracked and sanded up. They say that the next step is to bring in a work over rig, clean it out and re-frack (sp).

Anyone know how long they can leave it this way as the original lease has just ended this month. There's no production. Someone from the company told a family member that they had 90 days.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on June 30, 2010 at 9:52

depends on the lease. 90 is pretty standard though, but all long as there are contiuous operations they can hold the lease. Mot of the time continuous is pretty loosly defined.

I assure you though, they are as eager to get in as you are, they just spent a bunch of $$$ and will want to get some production.

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Permalink Reply by Lloyd on June 30, 2010 at 10:30

Thanks, Red. Far as I can tell, no activity has taken place since they pulled the frac rig out. We are on the waiting list for the workover rig and I agree that it's in their best interest to do something soon. I have heard of them doing lease extensions before and we got $150/acre for the lease that just ended, I wouldn't mind them asking for more time.

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Permalink Reply by awharris on June 30, 2010 at 9:40

"Sanded up" = unconsolidated formation sand was produced through perfs and covered perfs enough to restrict flow. This doesn't happen much in these parts because most sands have enough cementitious material to keep the grains in place even at high flowrates. Although in some cases, frac sand can be produced back and sand up the perfs/wellbore

"Well screened out" = the frac created during the "pad" phase of fracture stimulating prematurely closed before all scheduled sand was pumped and cleared the perfs, etc. This isn't always a bad thing by the way but it does mean you're going to have a clean-out job on the sand before production.

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