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Permalink Reply by Mark on April 10, 2009 at 10:57

Thx Jim! Aren't you from done around that area from some time in your past?

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Permalink Reply by Mark on April 10, 2009 at 11:04

I grew up in RR Parish and an glad to see gas making such an impact to my ol stompin grounds.

You think Encana is choking it down due to delivery contrainsts (pipeline capacity) or just the overall market right now. I hope the other well they are drilliing is better, though I am certainly not sneezing at this one.

Acorns or other nuts, and sooner or later a blind sow will find some.....

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on April 10, 2009 at 17:34

Mark, the well you are discussing was completed in the Mid-Bossier Shale with only three frac stages. You may want to look at Page 9 of EnCana's Feb 24th presentation which shows the early production rate on a graph with other wells. Note the production rate stayed fairly constant in those first 30 days. I think this is an excellent well given the limited number of frac stages and proves up the economic potential of the Mid-Bossier play.

http://www.encana.com/investors/presentationsevents/

EnCana, Colbert Timberlands 16 #H1 Well, Serial #238108, S16-T13N-R9W

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Permalink Reply by b on April 11, 2009 at 2:54

Good information. I thought it was interesting to note that their 2009 objective is to focus on land acquired in 2008. That is very good news.

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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on April 11, 2009 at 6:14

Les B, are you suggesting that this well (238108) was drilled to and completed in the mid-Bossier formation and that there is no completion in the Haynesville Shale zone in this well?

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on April 11, 2009 at 9:19

Spring Branch, that is my understanding from the information and comments provided by EnCana. That they purposefully planned to separately test the potential of the Mid-Bossier Shale. I believe Petrohawk plans a similar Mid-Bossier test during 2009 probably in Red River Parish.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Hahn on April 11, 2009 at 16:19

Truth is, Encana officials informed me they "mistakingly" drilled the lateral into the Bossier Shale. They are on the same location drilling another well to go into Haynesville in order to hold the current lease

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Permalink Reply by Joe Hahn on April 11, 2009 at 16:24

The other fact is that they intended to frac more zones but tooling hung up in the hole and they are still waiting on pressure to go down before attempting to removal tooling.

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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on April 11, 2009 at 16:31

Then it would seem to indicate that the Colbert Lands 16 H #2 which is drilling now in the same section is their Haynesville Shale test. At an IP of 4 1/4 million cu ft, that would seem to be some serious lagniappe for the royalty owners that have productive Bossier Shale in their sections to go with the Haynesville Shale. Referring back to Petrohawk's cartoon map on page 9 of the BMO North American Unconventional Gas Conference presentation, their interpretation of the Bossier Shale play within the Haynesville Shale outline indicates that the Bossier Shale trend starts to the Southwest @ East central Nacogdoches County, sweeps up through most of the southern 2/3rds of Shelby county, and continues NE through Southern DeSoto/Northeast Sabine Parishes and plays out in east central Red River Parish. Les/Jay have either one of you looked at this interpretation closely enough to have an opinion on it or where you think the Bosssier Shale might be productive within the Haynesville Shale play?

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on April 12, 2009 at 4:05

SB, I will have to let Jay address the areal extent based on his interpretation of log data. My only point of information about area was the unlabelled Petrohawk blob which may be very conservative given the location of the EnCana well within Red River Parish. The extent of the Mid-Bossier Shale play was the subject of some lengthy discussions promoted by Gray Sands a few weeks ago. Gray is very interested in how far the play extends northeast into Louisiana. I am waiting for EnCana to put forward a map since they have a large acreage position along the southern edge of the Haynesville Shale play.

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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on April 12, 2009 at 9:12

Les, in a later blob map, the green oval is labeled "Bossier Shale Trend", by Petrohawk. Even Encana's interprertation of the total Haynesville Shale play does not extend enough to the NE to catch Graysand's area of interest at this time. Jim, this is the first I heard that the Messenger well was a vertical Middle-Bossier rather than a Haynesville. That certainly appears to extend the Bossier off Petrohawk's map to the SE. Must have pretty decent porosity to produce 6 million as a vertiical.

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Permalink Reply by Mark on April 12, 2009 at 1:22

Thanks to all for the replies. Be interesting to see how the Haynesville well looks when they complete it. Based on Sonris, they are getting close to TD already on it. From the notice Encana sent to me earlier this year, the lateral is going parallel to the Bossier completion, offset to the west just a bit.

Also, would this mean 8 wells could potentially be completed in the Haynesville shale and 8 in the Bossier shale?

I would assume so, but asking to get the more knowledgable's thoughts.

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