Today I heard that CHESAPEAKE has made a BigHugous well in East Texas. My buddy is usually right with the gossip. He's not from East Texas and he acted confused about the actual County name - first he said (& mis-pronounced) "Panola" County; then, he said "Shelby".

I know CHK is drilling a well or 2 along in Shelby - - but this lone well sounded Ginormous, and "unusual" compared to other, similar wells. He also said CHK was unleashing landmen (like fireants) to cover the map. This sounds like CHK operations, giving creedance to the story. Has anyone heard of a well making MANY millions ("MM") of cubic gas per day from a single CHK well in either Panola or Shelby Counties?

Also, I'm a member of Nacogdoches County. Thank you, (the powers-that-be). Could this rumored well actually be in Nacogdoches County, which contains the oldest town in Texas?

Many thanks!

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Even though I'm not with CHk, it better be in SHelby County. lol
However, if it happens to be in Nacogdoches County and on your land...Congratulations!!!!
Seriously, I've not heard of anything other than a well in San Augustine? Not sure about this either....could be a rumor.
Waiting patiently for someone to speak up here! The landman for CHK did call me on Wed. with another lease offer. Hadn't heard from him since Sept, and he did say they were leasing again. So maybe something to the unleashing landmen.
Charmine---what area is CHK interesting in leasing? The only area I hear about that hot presently is in the Stockman or County Line Field--SSW Shelby, NNW San Augustine, Central East Nacgodoches area in that triangle. Presently 8 rigs running in area.
My minerals are located about 3 miles north of Center, in the John Forsythe Survey
Chesapeake stated a couple of weeks ago that 25% of their leases in the H.S. are in Panola county. The upper 2/3's of Panola county has been HBP (held by production) for decades. I know they've leased in the upper half of Shelby county and S.E. Rusk county as well. They also have a bunch of leases in The north/northeast Nacogdoches area. I believe this will be their E.Tx "Sweet Spot." They've leased as far west as Alto, but I don't know If they found shale out there or not.

P.S. My guess on this well (if true) would be their HZ well west of Gary Tx on hwy 999.
Chesapeake took over a chunk of acreage(3000+) in northern Sabine County as well. I think the southern part of the shale will be much better on the Texas side than the northern part of the Texas side. Don't jump on me for that as it is just a personal opinion. Looking at Harrison and Panola IP's vs. the very few results we have in the southern part of the shale along with an incredible consistency in the rumors it looks like the wells will be better. Companies are factoring in the James Lime, the Middle Bossier, the Haynesville, and the CV Lime, when figuring ultimate recoveries in the southern part of the shale as well.
You could be right, however, that would mean the 800'+ of shale in the areas I outlined before and the discovery wells (one in my survey) was misread by CHK. The mass leasing of said areas by CHK mirrors what they did in the Barnett. Before anyone knew of the Barnett, CHK had already leased up much of the core areas, just like this H.S. play. These Cats use their own lab in OKC and have been able to keep these shale plays quite for years sometimes, while they cherry pick the sweet spot leases..In the area I outlined are CV, Travis Peak, Mid Bossier, Lower Bossier (aka H.S.) and Haynesville Lime. You could be right but these Cats are good.
EastTexas, sorry but Mitchell Energy discovered the Barnett Shale and completed much of the the core area development before Chesapeake even knew that shale gas existed. Others including XTO, Chesapeake, EOG & EnCana entered the Johnson County part of the play later. Because the Barnett Shale was thinner in that area, it required the use of horizontal drilling to make an economic well.
Well, "technically" in '81 Mitchell Energy started to experiment with different drilling technics to unlock the Shale gas math in the Barnett. The first horizontal well wasn't drilled in the Barnett until 2002. Mitchell Energy did all the R&D for HZ drilling, then sold to Devon. As far as CHK goes, of the 310,000 net acres of leasehold in the Barnett, 280,000 net acres are located in the prime Core and Tier 1 areas. That's a heck of a batting average.
i did some reading on "mitchell " a while back. what an intresting story. as i understand it, horizontal drilling was first utilized for drilling shale where it ran thin. it seems now to be a commen pratice no matter what the thickness is. would it be pratical to have two horizontal legs one on top of the other if the shale were say mabey 150-200 ft. thick? how far do the verticle fractures reach... over 50ft. ?
kj
Man, good question, like a hybred stacking system of some sort. I think someone is going to take it to the next level in this play at some point. These guys have a hybred system I'd like to see given a shot in our region:
http://titerock.net/technology.php

I don't know how their technique would translate at the depths/heat/permability/pressure of the H.S.
i dont see why this would be so difficult. they already do multiple laterals off of the same bore. to me the question remains how far do verticle fractures go ? thanks for the link e.tex. !
anybody have any insight?
kj

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