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Permalink Reply by Randy on August 3, 2008 at 14:12

Yes in most cases, it depends on their negotiated lease with the person who owns the drill site land.

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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on August 3, 2008 at 14:32

Wouldn't that surpass the highly taughted 1920 acre unit that CHPK is trying to get done.Seems like the makings of a horrible friendship come HBP royalty time divided by 4 with the 2560 , instead of divided by 3 with the 1920 acre unit. I am beginning to think we may not be able to work together after all my friend.

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Permalink Reply by P.G. on August 3, 2008 at 15:01

Hmmm?
I thought a well had to be drilled in your section to be considered in your unit.
Theoretically, couldn't the O&G companies drill all the way around a section without actually drilling into it and drain that section without leasing a square foot of that section so long as they stayed just across the section boundary lines?

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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on August 3, 2008 at 15:05

Not sure about this Shale gas being sucked out like pocket gas P.G. I have heard that the frac doesn't create that much of a free flowing area but I dont know how far from the drill stem it flows. Rumor says that only 40 to 50 feet around bore hole. Doesn't sound like much of an area to me.

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Permalink Reply by P.G. on August 3, 2008 at 15:08

That sounds good! At least if they aren't buying it, they aren't stealing it then either, right?

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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on August 3, 2008 at 15:10

You ain't gonna hang me up on that one ! HA! HA!

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Permalink Reply by Randy on August 3, 2008 at 15:10

no snake, they are simply using a drill site out of the section to drill in the section.

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Permalink Reply by RONNY on August 3, 2008 at 15:19

Randy,

Don't they have to scoot over a few feet to drill a seperate vertical bore. Four sections worth of gas can't come up the same bore can it? How would each sections gas be measured?

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Randy on August 3, 2008 at 15:22

No, unlike in wells offshore, they can't go multiple directions off one borehole. But they can drill a hole, scoot over, drill a hole, scoot over... etc

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Permalink Reply by Grillin' - MmmMmm on August 4, 2008 at 4:22

Actually, they can drill in multiple directions. If they get a unit and authorization, the technical/physical drilling is the same as offshore. I've seen 6000' deep wells with over 20,000' of exposed section due to hairy fishbone type wells onshore. You could drill a well in the section and have a branch of the well head due north, then drill another lateral due south. you could also stack them vertically as well.s

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Permalink Reply by Randy on August 4, 2008 at 10:57

One of our operations guys explained to me why that isn't possible here. But I'm not knowledgeable enough to remember everything he said.... I looked back at my notes and I didn't write it all down.

Dale's guy that's over all of their drilling operations did us a seminar and that was one of the questions.

Randy

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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on August 3, 2008 at 16:00

But if you are in the section that the site is on wouldn't you still have to be a unit to go into other sections ?

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