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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on October 13, 2013 at 12:16

I wouldn't think that Tex Moncrief would be betting if he didn't think it was there. It is the only decent size lease buy going on that I know of in Louisiana. I keep hearing that things are supposed to break wide open after the first of the year. I feel sorry for the young folks that thought they had a real job  that  would last for a long time.

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Permalink Reply by Craig Cooper on October 14, 2013 at 8:00

Gatrpaw,

The targets in the Davy Jones area are all L. Tertiary sands and potentially U. Cretaceous carbonates. Even though some / many / all in the area are 'below salt' they're not below the depositional base of salt; i.e. not Paleozoic, Triassic, early Jurassic. 

Salt has moved over time to form domes, overhangs and other contorted salt bodies along with welds created via salt evacuation so the younger Tertiary reservoirs can often end up below the older salt.

Given the deep position of the Tertiary targets here, the Eagle Mills et al will be extremely deep, hot and probably under a lot of pressure; probably not much hydrocarbon potential. Paleozoics would be even deeper and have less potential in this area.

Not to say that those things won't be of interest or reachable farther onshore but, even then, a massive effort would be required to understand & unravel original depositional environments, et al. Their geologic history would be much different than the Mesozoic & Tertiary sections since they pre-date the rifting / plate separation that caused salt deposition & movement and created the GOM. 

We (Amoco) drilled a sub-salt Eagle Mills well in the E. Texas basin early during my career and found a nice thick Norphlet sand on top of poor reservoir-quality EM. The Norphlet had excellent original porosity & permeability, however, it had become salt-plugged. We never followed up with additional work.

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Permalink Reply by David on October 14, 2013 at 7:07

Another interesting well that is deep and producing is this one, Valentine Pontiff #. There is significant production:

http://sonlite.dnr.state.la.us/sundown/cart_prod/cart_con_wellinfo2...

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Permalink Reply by jim weyland on October 14, 2013 at 7:43

does anyone know what the MA 7 RD sand is called in common parlay?

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 14, 2013 at 8:44

There is no common name as far as I can find in the field orders in force for the Bayou Carlin Field.  The rules and nomenclature for defining  zones and units is geological in S LA as opposed to geographical in N LA.  The production above is for two wells as indicated in the Well Ctn column of the Lease/Unit/Well portion of the SONRIS Lite well file.

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Permalink Reply by jim weyland on October 14, 2013 at 8:50

as always, thank you, sir.

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Permalink Reply by jim weyland on October 14, 2013 at 9:26

once again, thanks.

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