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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant yesterday

Les, there are a number of Section 13s and 14s in the Elm Grove Field.  It's a big field. An informed response would require knowing the township in addition to the section numbers.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant 20 hours ago

Les, that alternate well application for BPX in the Elm Grove Field was entered in the database this afternoon.  One of the three HC wells is a first.  A different design of a U-Turn well.  It goes  down through sections 1&12&13 and then makes a U-Turn to the west and drills north up through Section 14.  It is the green octagon symbol on the well plat.

https://sonlite.dnr.state.la.us/dnrservices/redirectUrl.jsp?dDocnam...

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Permalink Reply by Les 6 hours ago

Yes, I should have been more specific with the Township and Section numbers. Thanks for the comments and map. Glad to see BPX sees potential there.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant 6 hours ago

You're welcome, Les.  You're correct that the more shallow formations are largely depleted but these are Haynesville Shale wells deeper than the numerous Hosston and Cotton Valley wells that were drilled in the first 50 or 60 years of the Elm Grove Field.  The Elm Grove Field was largely developed early in the Haynesville Shale play - approximately 2008 to 2012.  For that reason there are a lot of existing Haynesville laterals that new alternate well designs must account for.  That is what BPX is doing with this very long lateral, U-Turn well.  It will be interesting to see if BPX or other Haynesville operators drill U-Turn wells like this in fields that are largely developed.

When we discuss fields in the Haynesville play think of them as a layer cake.  There are numerous layers from the surface to the bottom of the Haynesville Shale formation.  Each of those layers have been unitized by the state and are primarily drilled, produced and reported separately.  In the Elm Grove Field the last 60 years or so have been drilled for the Hosston, then the Cotton Valley and then the Haynesville from shallow to deep.

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