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Permalink Reply by 1kw6x71km1v37 on January 23, 2014 at 10:35

Shaft the landowners again?

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Permalink Reply by jim weyland on January 23, 2014 at 11:09

yeah, i guess there's probably no sound quite as lovely as that of a screaming diesel/electric rig being operated w/in 100' of a non-mineral interest owner's homestead. i would imagine its sounds would be so very soothing to their poultry and stock, too.

i do hope someone might be able so suggest why apc seems to be drilling were they already have.

it's not my line of work. so, i'm clueless. and, to think about it, i wish i had a dollar for all the times someone has so described me.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 23, 2014 at 11:50

jim,  APC recently placed their central processing facility in service and that allows them to flow these wells.  Production must run through the facility to dehydrate the gas in order to meet pipeline requirements and to strip out the liquids for transport.   The first group of completed wells had their state tests a couple of weekends ago.  The allowance and completion reports are being processed at the District 6 office now and should be available sometime next week on SONRIS.

With the exception of one pad none of the locations are near a residence and I don't think that one is close enough to hear unless you step outside at night.  The traffic on Hwy. 71 is louder and more constant.

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Permalink Reply by jim weyland on January 23, 2014 at 12:51

skip, 

thank you, sir. i'm glad to hear they're nearing initial production/first oil.

i was joking inre: a rig operating in close proximity to someone's house. in a 'prior' lifetime i was sometimes on rig floors/sites as part of field visits. and, in my earlier years, it was w/o the benefit of noise attenuating headphones, much less earplugs. 

as a related aside, some years back in stx, the outfit i then worked for had to drill a well in very close proximity to the rancher's house. no one liked it, least of all, him. how he got my number i'll never know, but he gave me h_ll every day until operations were completed.

i'm still wondering/hoping if/that the site has someone that could give me some insight as to why APC is seeming to plow the same field twice inre: the two Volentine 5-33's

again, thank you, sir,

jim weyland

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 24, 2014 at 9:35

jim, the completion and allowable data will be online sometime next week for the Comegys 6-7H, Comegys 32-29H and the Volentine 5-33H.  I think there are additional completed and tested wells that will follow soon after those first three.

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Permalink Reply by jim weyland on January 24, 2014 at 9:43

skip, thank you, sir.

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Permalink Reply by ledlights on January 24, 2014 at 10:30

OFF TOPIC

"so, i'm clueless. and, to think about it, i wish i had a dollar for all the times someone has so described me."

Mr. Weyland, I greatly appreciate the humility and humor in your remark. I, too, sir could be rich by now if I had been so compensated, particularly if it had been my wife paying me from outside income.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 24, 2014 at 10:32

LOL!

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Permalink Reply by jim weyland on January 24, 2014 at 11:43

you're too kind, sir.

and, come to think of it, i think that most times i've been so called/described, it was by persons of the fairer gender, adult and child.

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