I was wondering if anyone has been contacted concerning this well. I'm trying to figure out what I can expect next and in what kind of timeframe.

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I don't see any drop in production on Boll Weevils, so it must all be on Keydets.

I am figuring that the wellheads on this pad are about 25-30' apart. For a workover rig with a relatively small footprint, operator should be able to avoid having to shut in the entire set of producing wells to workover one of them.

The wild card issue here is safety - remember that these wells are flowing some very high rates of gas (4-6 Million CF per day) under some high pressures. There is some risk having a workover rig and its various moving parts and equipment operational this close to high pressure flowing gas / wellheads.

I will say that if this were a drilling rig doing a new well, all the wells on the pad would be shut in (and perhaps have temporary plugs set) to optimize safety conditions. This shut in would probably continue through frac operations for any new well.

After all this work was done. the "shut in" wells would be restored to production status.

I will be going back up to our property this evening so I can report when I get back home (no internet available there) if the rig is still there or moved on. If it is still there, may be able to jump the fence and get a closer look to determine what well they are on. My cousin owns the property where the wells are located so maybe won't get shot at. Never know though...relatives???

Hope you can get a good view of things on site. 

I checked some of the survey plats for these wells - even the inset blow up images show the surface locations to be right on top of one another. I would expect 20-25' of separation.

Take photos of what you see if possible.

I can confirm the workover rig is still on location (and working), as of Sunday afternoon. The rig is set up on the southernmost well (Keydets H1). Kind of a bummer that they are on that well since it is the only Keydets well that has been producing,  KD-B1 hasn't produced any appreciable amount for a couple years. Hope they don't mess it up. Attached are a few pics. 

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Yeah, I've always wondered about Keydets B1.  Why it never showed production.

GNGE, thanks for the field report and photos. 

This looks like more than a normal workover operation. The large BOP stack plus travelling block on the rig seems to point to some more major work effort. Also appears to have some drill pipe stacked in the rack (looks too big to be tubing). This operation still going on for as long as it has points to something significant going on

Maybe they're trying to bring B1 online?  

I have a question.  If its a stacked lateral, doesn't the production from the child well just get include in with the parent ell?

If you are looking at the production query on the RRC site, then yes, the production from both wells is what is recorded. However, the statement from XTO (when you get your check or go online to look at it) will show the individual production from each well. In the case of Keydets, only H1 is listed on the statement because there has not been any production from B1 for a long time. The only way I know this to be the case is because we have some interest in Boll Weevils (nextdoor to Keydets) and for some of those wells, the parent and stacked lateral are both producing and the XTO statement gives the production rates from both wells separately.

Thanks for the clarification.

My curiosity has led me to dig into this whole Keydets well situation as to the B1.

Below is the production graph for the Keydets H1 from ENVERUS site. Pretty clearly shows the early production is only the original H1 lateral. Then down time while more wells are drilled on the surface pad. Then the combined B1 and H1 production starting around Dec 2018.

And then I would say that the B1 well was shut in / stopped contributing sometime from 9/19 to 10/19. (Drop from 479 MMCF to 227 MMCF).

These two laterals were about 300' apart as to TVD of the two laterals with the B1 being the shallower of the two. One of two things happened to the B1 - either there was a catastrophic mechanical failure downhole that shut off the production or XTO opted to shut in the B1 due to some sort of cross flow / negative production impact created by pressure drawdown between the two laterals. 

I am figuring that the latter has taken place.

On related point, the production drop from around 130-140 MMCF (Aug) to only 78 MMCF (Sept) is most likely tied to the workover effort on location. I would expect to see little to no production for October since that rig hasn't moved.

It will be interesting to see how long in November this rig stays on location. Based on the photos, this is a major operation. And difficult due to the high pressure still on the wellhead.   

Keydets%20H1%20Production%20Graph.pdf

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