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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on May 21, 2009 at 5:49

The permit for the well in section 24 shows the surface location in section 25, where did you find this map? I bet they moved the proposed location because of the school.

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Permalink Reply by cerebra on May 21, 2009 at 5:50

Is there any indication that they're working in Section 24? It looks like there's a well being drilled in Section 25 (#239352).

Also, Serial 239789 seems to be a new well being drilled on 5/19/2009, and according to the attached image, it looks like the location for a well for Section 24 will be located in Section 25? The text in the Sonris report seems to indicate something of that nature: "200' FNL & 1109' FEL OF SEC 25. PBHL: 250' & 1140' FEL OF SEC 24-T17N-R13W." Does that mean that for horizontal drilling, you can start drilling in one section, and drill through to the other section?

Hopefully someone can come in here and clear this up.

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Permalink Reply by cerebra on May 21, 2009 at 6:10

Does the well name indicate the section whose gas is being targeted? At least in this case, the well name for 239789 is "HA RA SUC; GRAYSON 24H" even though this well is located in S25.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on May 21, 2009 at 8:23

In this case the mineral owner is the same. Might even be under the same lease.

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Permalink Reply by cerebra on May 21, 2009 at 8:46

I guess I don't understand what this means. Been trying to keep up with all this, but this is confusing.

If there was a homeowner in Section 24 who signed a lease, and a homeowner in Section 25 who signed a lease, to which person would the proceeds of this well go to?

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on May 21, 2009 at 8:53

The well will only produce from the HA RA SUC unit, which in this case is the same boundries as section 24. The surface location is in section 25. Only mineral owners in the unit will receive royalties.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on May 21, 2009 at 8:56

The land owner in section 25, where the surface location is, could receive additional moneies depending on what kind of deal he worked out with the operator. He may not receive anything above what he will make anyway, it depends on his lease and other surface use agreements. (As I said above, in this case the mineral owner Sam Grayson owns land in both sections.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on May 21, 2009 at 9:02

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Permalink Reply by cerebra on May 21, 2009 at 8:59

Thanks!

Has there been a discussion elsewhere on why these companies rename sections as boundaries? Is it mainly to deal with irregular sections?

Is this standard protocol, to name a unit instead of just referring to it by the S T and R?

I'm clueless about this stuff...don't have any idea what HA RA stands for either, although I guess the HA stands for Haynesville? SU=section unit?

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on May 21, 2009 at 10:31

Quick Primer on units.

Units can be geological or geographic.

In North LA, most are geographic, and tend to be based on section lines.
In South La, units tend to be geological, they can be crazy ameoba shapes, long rectangals or whatever shape they want.

The first set of letters is the producing sand (or in the Haynesvilles case, shale) The nomenclature is standard i will attach a list after this post. RA is resevoir A, you can have a resevoir B etc... And Finally, SUA is "sand unit A" unit names are specific to each field, There can be a HA RA SUA for mecalf, johnson branch, caspianna and so on...

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on May 21, 2009 at 10:32

A well in an established unit is refered to the unit in is well name, followed by the mineral owner, follwed by the well #

example HA RA SUA Baron #1

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Permalink Reply by cerebra on May 21, 2009 at 10:49

When you say "mineral owner" , as in the case here it's Grayson, does that mean the primary mineral owner in the unit? I understand in this area Grayson held a lot of land, but there were also smaller landowners involved.

BTW, thanks for the primer...it makes a lot of sense.

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