ConocoPhillips AC drilling program in EF and WF.
This 3 well/unit drilling program appears to be a very well thought out program. It will test the AC from just North of the shelf to the MS/LA state line. This should give them excellent basic information about the formation over a very wide area. The next step is to see what they plan as for the actual drilling, completion and stimulation of the formation. Will they drill, complete and stimulate as a sand/shale well or will the they use practices more towards the unique characteristics of the AC. Time will tell. Again, An interesting drilling program that will yield a lot of information.
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Maglone on
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When will they start drilling ?
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on -
Sometime after their units are approved and they acquire a drilling permit. Only COP knows for sure but we will be posting permits as they are entered in the state database.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on
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Skip, I don't see any opposition to the units. So they should sail thru. As for as I know they could start preparing site now and get permits at any time. However, I personally would like to see units in the 1280 to 1440 size but I don't have an interest in or around that area so I'm just an outsider at this point. At this point they probably feel they need the large units to protect leasehold acreage.
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Permalink Reply by Claude E. Daniel on
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At the hearing last Thursday They said the rig was on site last week in the Freeland Field and they would start shortly. They had a map on the wall for people to see where it was located.
A man sitting next to me said it was on his property in E.F . I am almost positive they said they already had a permit for that unit A.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on
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Correctl This is the Freeland Field well. The weekly rig report had the rig status as "moving On" last Friday with a projected spud date of Saturday.
SERIAL WELL NAME WELL NUM ORG ID FIELD PARISH PROD TYPE SEC TWN RGE EFFECTIVE DATE API NUM 251215 AUS C RA SUA;MCKOWEN 001 C298 3950 19 00 058 03S 01W 08/14/2018 17037201590000 PRMT DATE SPUD DATE STAT DATE ST CD 08/14/2018 08/14/2018 01 WELL SURFACE COORDINATES
Surface Longitude Surface Latitude Lambert X Lambert Y Ground Elevation Zone Datum 0-0-0 0-0-0 2029561 762277 156.7 S NAD-27 WELL SURFACE COORDINATES GENERATED BY DNR
UTMX 83 UTMY 83 LONGITUDE 83 LATITUDE 83 668510.86838057 3404656.77342429 -91.23933454 30.76295802 BOTTOM HOLE COORD
EFFECTIVE DATE END DATE PLUGBACK TOTAL DEPTH TRUE VERTICAL DEPTH MEASURED DEPTH LAT DEG LAT MIN LAT SEC LONG DEG LONG MIN LONG SEC COORDINATE SOURCE LAMBERT X LAMBERT Y ZONE COORDINATE SYSTEM 08/14/2018 15500 17500 02 3307971 817315 S 02 08/14/2018 15500 17500 02 2027173 756605 S 01 WELL HISTORY
SERIAL WELL NAME WELL NUM ORG ID FIELD ST CD PT WELL CLASS EFF DATE END DATE STAT DATE 251215 AUS C RA SUA;MCKOWEN 001 C298 3950 01 00 08/14/2018 08/14/2018 SCOUT INFO
REPORT DATE WELL STATUS MEASURED DEPTH TRUE VERT DEPTH DETAIL 08/14/2018 01 17500 S 29 D 43' 38" W 21,095.08' FROM USC&GS MONU. "KARR 2 1978", LOC IN SEC 58-T03S-R01W. PBHL:S 22 D 49' 56" W 6,153.63' FROM SURF LOC & LOC IN SEC 61-T3S-R1W.
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Permalink Reply by Hale Yayuh on
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Joe, what "3 well/unit drilling program?" What do you refer to?
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Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on
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COP is applying for 3 drilling and production units in EF/WF. They begin just North of the Shelf and extend North almost to the MS/LA line. They hop back and forth along Thompsons Creek.
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How do you know that, Joe? Have they sent out a hearing notice? Cool, hope they hit big.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on
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I personally know 2 of the 3 land owners where the wells have been staked. The units are surveyed and the well locations sited.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on
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I have a correction. Its 2 units but 2 wells have been staked in the Freeland unit. I guess one is an Alt.
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Permalink Reply by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on
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Houston-based drilling giant ConocoPhillips is making a play in Louisiana’s portion of the Austin Chalk formation, raising the prospect of a resurgence of onshore drilling activity in the state.
Already EOG Resources, another Houston company, has drilled a test well in the formation, which stretches across Texas through the middle of Louisiana.
The formation had little leasing activity here for two decades until the past year or so.
In that time, a handful of companies — Conoco being the latest with its lease announcement this week — have established positions in Louisiana going from the Texas line eastward through Avoyelles, the Felicianas and beyond Baton Rouge.
“The excitement surrounding it is definitely there and measurable,” said Gifford Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association. However, the “jury is still out,” he added, on whether the activity will turn into a full-blown resurgence of drilling here. Several variables are at play, such as drilling difficulty, costs and production potential that will be tested with exploratory wells.
EOG Resources, which announced last fall that it had leased 130,000 acres, already has drilled a test well in Avoyelles Parish. The firm on Wednesday said it would not comment on exploration work unless it moves into active development, but Conoco's news is another indication the formation could potentially see drilling activity in the near future.
Kirk Barrell, president of New Orleans-based Amelia Resources, said his firm sold 85,000 acres of leases in the Austin Chalk play to Conoco in December for $87 million. Since then, interest in Amelia's additional 360,000 acres has increased significantly. He said EOG is continuing to lease. Conoco's exploratory wells are expected to be in East and West Feliciana parishes.
Leasing is happening "all over," Barrell said, with Marathon Oil also recently getting in on the action. EOG paid $200 to $300 per acre for a purchase it made about 18 months ago, he said, and recently paid $1,500 per acre for several thousand acres in West Feliciana Parish.
"It's very encouraging to see the quality of companies coming to Louisiana," Barrell said. "If the play works out and it’s able to be drilled and completed economically, it could be a significant situation in the state."
Conoco declined to provide more information on its announcement, but disclosed in a news release this week that “most” of the 245,000 acres it acquired earlier this year are located in central Louisiana’s Austin Chalk formation. The firm said it will drill several exploration wells this year.
PetroQuest Energy from Lafayette is another company that has announced lease purchases in Louisiana’s portion of the Austin Chalk. Briggs said Redhawk Holdings Corp. and Blackbrush Oil and Gas also have positions in Louisiana.
It remains too early to tell whether the recent activity will spur a resurgence of onshore drilling in Louisiana, and whether it will extend across the state. So far, the exploratory well from EOG only provides insight into the area around Avoyelles Parish. But Briggs said leasing also is picking up west of Avoyelles in the larger Master’s Creek and Brookeland fields in central and western Louisiana. Those fields hold the keys to boosting the state and region’s economy, he said.
“It sounds like (Conoco) is interested,” said Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute. “When they start talking about how many rigs they’re going to be working that’s when I figure out if they’re going to be doing anything.”
While Texas has benefited from a shale formation drilling boom in recent years, Louisiana’s formations — like the once-promising, oil-rich Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, which sits underneath the Austin Chalk — have experienced a dearth of activity. The TMS is one of the most expensive formations to drill in the U.S. Activity fell off when oil prices cratered several years ago and companies looked to cheaper drilling areas elsewhere.
Louisiana industry leaders are hoping Austin Chalk wells will become profitable as companies bring newer technology from the Texas shale plays, and will eventually make drilling in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale profitable again.
“All these variables are constantly shifting around,” Smith said. “As the technology changes, things that didn’t look so hot before are starting to look attractive now.”
One of the challenges facing the Austin Chalk is that the formation is more difficult to drill in Louisiana than in Texas, Briggs said. That’s the biggest thing that will “keep us from becoming Texas,” he said, as drillers have to work harder to find suitable areas of the formation for drilling.
http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_7ca96c...
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Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on
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Thanks Keith for posting this.
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