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Permalink Reply by jffree1 on November 1, 2010 at 3:55

Thanks for posting, Les. The Shelby Trough has been extended several miles to the south by this well and there will be some happy shalers in that area today.

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Permalink Reply by H1 on November 7, 2010 at 4:46

LES:
I am curious about how much the production depends on the shale and how much depends on the accuracy of the horizontal leg. I can imagine a leg being "too high" or "too low" in the shale, as opposed to one being in the middle, with equal shale above and below the horizontal leg.

I have seen some wells drilled "side by side" so to speak, where one produces and the other does "squat".

Doesn't some of the initial production depend on the "quality of the drilling"?
Is it possible/likely that a lot of the formation holds the same gas (within the immediate area), but they simply "do something wrong" when drilling?

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on November 7, 2010 at 6:10

H1, initial rates are primarily a function of shale quality (permeability, porosity, clay content, depth, etc) and the completion/fracture treatment design and execution. The later is the reason you see the variation between adjacent wells.

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