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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 16, 2012 at 3:56

When DNR Secretary Angelle is making announcements on behalf of energy companies touting their wells (even borderline economic wells such as Devon's TMS wells to date) it demonstrates just how close the relationship is between the regulators and the regulated.  I'm still waiting for the Devon Little Silver Creek unit application to be entered as a Field Order on the SONRIS Classic portion of the database.  From what I understand it was amended at the last minute and is different from what was stated and depicted in the notice letters to Interested Parties.  Any application with a substantive amendment should have to go back through the pre-conference notice process for a public meeting.  To amend it at the last minute, approve the application as amended and give no notice to the Interested Parties is not regulation in the public interest, IMO.  It is circumventing the DNR's own protocol and due process.

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Permalink Reply by GoshDarn on July 16, 2012 at 6:17

Good point, Skip.

Maybe Angelle is sniffing around to change careers.  Hey, the State of La. is notorious for its low salaries, and managing press releases for Devon might triple Angelle's income.

And, as you also know, 384 BOPD might not even cover the cost of drilling the well (per the decline), although it certainly shows potential for tweaking and possibly eventually hitting the (higher) needed numbers per the learning curve.

GD

 

 

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