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Permalink Reply by Checkmateking on February 8, 2011 at 13:02

can we please stop starting these threads? google the "oil gas window?

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Permalink Reply by North LA on February 8, 2011 at 13:14

What parish are you in?

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Permalink Reply by Shale Yeah! on February 8, 2011 at 14:12

The most wonderful parish in the great state of Louisiana.......Desoto

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Permalink Reply by Susie Brown on February 8, 2011 at 14:14

Shale Yeah, are you in north or south part of Desoto

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Permalink Reply by Shale Yeah! on February 8, 2011 at 14:19

Property nwest of Mansfield was contacted

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Permalink Reply by Eliza on February 8, 2011 at 15:54

How far north & west? Can you be a little more specific?

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Permalink Reply by BirdDawg, plain ole' idiot on February 8, 2011 at 14:52

Lets beat this ole dog some more. Seismic doesn't mean oil.

Don't get me wrong, I hope someone finds billions of barrels of oil somewhere. But this doesn't make me feel a whole lot better about where it is.

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Permalink Reply by North LA on February 8, 2011 at 15:22

I know Penn Virginia has mentioned drilling some horizontal SMK wells in that area but they made it sound like it was for the gas and not oil but who knows. They just mentioned that the SMK should be similar to the Bossier shale from core samples they have and they want to drill a couple of horizontal wells into the formation this year.

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Permalink Reply by Shaleeee on February 8, 2011 at 16:15

My question is to anyone who cares to comment - Back in the mid 1960s there was an oil boom in Sabine Parish - what was it that spurred the boom - did they do seismic back then? I do know for a fact that gas caused many wells to be plugged and abandoned. So, if oil was thought to be in Sabine Parish back then, is it a possiblity with new technology that this could be a field of interest again in the future? Mike, if you are still out there I would like your career based opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Checkmateking on February 8, 2011 at 18:34

That was shallow oil and really has nothing to do with what is going on now, it is highly unlikely there is any oil or even condensate under the Haynesville shale, the Smackover is hotter and deeper.

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Permalink Reply by Jack B2 on February 9, 2011 at 2:15

XTO is extracting condensate from under the haynesville well after well from the gray sand formation in the Cotton Valley field at depths over 11,000 feet, giving to the possibilty that wet gas exists as production extends toward the basin. The drill bit will have the final say,IMHO.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on February 9, 2011 at 3:14

I see nothing in the public record that would support the rumor of oil under the Haynesville Shale.  Most seismic shoots are proprietary and are the property of one or a small number of clients.  Where multiple operators are involved in development, there will often be more than one shoot covering the same area.  For all the time that this rumor has been going around, there has been no well posted to GHS as proof of a Smackover test south of I-20.  All the wells that I have reviewed that penetrated the Smackover did so to a depth of 100' or less.  IMO, that's not testing the SMK, it's ensuring that the drill bit has fully penetrated the Haynesville.  A SMK test would penetrate the full extent of the formation.  I would urge anyone who knows of a well that they believe to be a SMK well below I-20 to post it for discussion.

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