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Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on January 30, 2009 at 16:14

great presentation

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Permalink Reply by Jaybird on January 31, 2009 at 5:54

That is a great report. Thanks for posting it. Very informative.

Jaybird

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Permalink Reply by North LA on January 31, 2009 at 17:05

No problem at all. I was trying to learn about a formation called the cotton valley black shale and I came across this. Interesting to see that the Haynesville formation is all over the place and that he calls the formation Haynesville shale in Jackson parish. Too bad the economy has died because things were just starting to look good :(

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Permalink Reply by North LA on February 1, 2009 at 16:23

JT,

It is in Union and Claiborne but no one knows if it has gas. It seems that the Haynesville is continuous with the Cotton Valley formation and extends down into Alabama. It varies in thickness, structure, depth, and content of gas/oil.

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Permalink Reply by North LA on February 3, 2009 at 4:38

From old logs I've looked at it looks like the bossier shale covers almost all of north louisiana and is found with the cotton valley. Like I said, it varies a lot depending on where you look. Around Shreveport it's a lot more shallow than in Jackson/Winn parish because of the Sabine uplift. It's also shallow in Ouachita parish because of the Monroe uplift. I know that Chesapeake has been fooling around NELA because a company affiliated with them named Greystone has drilled some wells around Bernice and also north of Monroe in the old Monroe gas field. I don't know what they found, but I know they drilled down to the Smackover and took some cores on the way down. They drilled north of Monroe around '06 and just recently finished the well close the Bernice. The Bernice well was P&A but I think they just wanted cores. I'll try to find all the well numbers and post them so you can take a look.

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Permalink Reply by North LA on February 3, 2009 at 5:12

Here you go.

#239153
bernice greystone, this well was cored at 10500ft approx depth of where the HS would be if it is there, I know this because this well (#63784) was a haynesville sand well drilled in the 50s at 10400ft in the same field

Greystone is Chesapeake so I have a feeling they are checking out what's in UP

http://www.allbusiness.com/mining/oil-gas-extraction-crude-petroleu...

These two wells
#233498
#234288

were drilled in the old Monroe gas field in '06 and were P&A. I don't see any cores documented but that doesn't mean there weren't any. I don't know what to think of these wells since Chesapeake focused only in Shreveport. It could be there is no shale there or it's too thin or there is no gas or they want to save it for another play "discovery" or ... who knows?

I know if I were an O&G company I would want to go where the pay is the highest and the formation is easiest to get to making it less expensive to drill. Going by that the Haynesville formation is at the least depth at the Sabine uplift, Monroe uplift, and along the northern border. We know the Haynesville shale is present in the Sabine uplift but don't know if it's present along the Monroe uplift or the northern border of the cotton valley formation.

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Permalink Reply by Taylor on February 1, 2009 at 7:42

North LA, Glad you posted the revised presentation. I have the others.. noticed they finally added some pertinent information about the HS. TYVM Tay

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Permalink Reply by fngrsxnpd on February 3, 2009 at 6:23

This sounds like great info for those areas, how about extreme northern bossier parish, 22n...?

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Permalink Reply by Ken Knight on February 11, 2009 at 12:43

I was surprised to see the 2005 Cabot-Knight well on my property in southern Jackson Parish included in the LSU report. I'm not sure about the Bossier-Haynesville zones marked on the well log, but I'm having someone look at it for me.

The Knight well was a disappointment because Cabot Oil didn't find the Cotton Valley production they were looking for there...but there's a little Hosston gas left in the ground two miles down still coming up after 30+ years of production in the Clear Branch field.

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Permalink Reply by North LA on February 3, 2009 at 16:06

"Are there other seismic shoots going on that have been recently completed by HK/KCS or any other companies in or around your area."

None that I know about, but I'm cautiously optimistic about the future.

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