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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 17, 2010 at 5:04

Steve, this sounds like a pre-application notice letter for a drilling unit. Is this Section 6 - Township 9N - Range 11 W? BHL is Bottom Hole Location so that notation indicates a well or permit for a horizontal well in Section 6 but drilling into and producing from Section 7. Likewise if the other well in Section 31 has a BHL in Section 6 so its surface location is in Section 31 - 10N - 9W (?) but will produce and pay royalties in your Section 6. What company sent you the notice letter?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Thibodeaux on July 17, 2010 at 5:55

SHL is located in sec 31 and perforation point is located in sec 6.

also at the bottom of sec 6 there is a circle BHL with a line to sec 7 SWEPI in sec 7.

we receive a letter from Liskow&LEWIS addressed to commissioner Welch and er received a copy.

We tried calling this office on previous issues but no one would call us back.

Again
Thanks for your help
Steve

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 17, 2010 at 7:48

Steve, it would be a favor to the members if you could post a copy of the unit plat (the map) here in your discussion if you have the means to scan it.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Thibodeaux on July 17, 2010 at 8:57

Can someone tell me what this all about.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Thibodeaux on July 17, 2010 at 8:55

Me skip
I think I did this right.
I sent the letter and map. showing that I am talking about,
Again
Thanks for your time in helping me. We have gotten the screws so many times this would not be the 1st.
Steve

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 17, 2010 at 9:11

Steve, the pre-application notice letter is a requirement of a company applying to the State of Louisiana, Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation to form a drilling unit. The letter goes to those on an Interested Party list compiled by the company making application. Those persons/companies/trusts etc. are culled from public records, property deeds, tax records, etc. The list is compiled for all land and mineral ownership interests within the boundary of the proposed drilling unit boundary and those adjacent to a distance of 1000' feet. A unit order authorizes the company to operate the unit (do the drilling), force pool all the mineral interests (pay each ownership interest based on the terms of their lease and their proportional interest of the total acres in the unit) and drill the maximum number of wells as defined by O of C spacing regulations (8 in the case of a Haynesville Unit). Drilling & Production units are usually, but no always, formed prior to the drilling of wells for the unitized formation(s). If there are no wells currently in your section for the unitized depths, it probably means that one or more will be drilled in the not too distant future although unit orders are good indefinitely and do not require wells to be drilled on any schedule or under any time lmit.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Thibodeaux on July 17, 2010 at 12:07

Mr Peel

We were Unitized in 2008. and have received a letter similiar to this one applying for a application for 15 wells in that section. I thought we were already unitized.

I am not questioning your authority in this matter, but do they have to re unitize before drilling, and why is this letter directing to my section 6 only and not the other sections unitized in 2008.

I am just hoping that they are not driving more " nails in the coffin" because we were surly screwed on the lease.

Thanks very much for your information and concern
Steve

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 17, 2010 at 12:17

Steve, please repost your section-township-range information as your previous,

"sec 6 r11wt93"

is not clear. The proper order should be section-township-range and would look like this: S6 - 9N - 11W. Was the unitization in 2008 for the HA zone? Unit orders are issued for one of more formations by depth definition and numerous unit orders over many years can pertain to the same section. There can only be a maximum of eight HA wells per section/unit, not fifteen. If fifteen wells are shown on a plat, they are producing from zones other than the Haynesville. Plats in sections with numerous shallow wells usually contain a notation that the wells shown are only those deeper than X depth. In the case of HA wells usually those existing wells that are 10.000' in depth or greater.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on July 17, 2010 at 12:24

Skip I believe that this is where SWEPTI created those units and call them all jurassic. I would imagine that these leases are fixing to run out in the near future and they are fixing to drill.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 17, 2010 at 12:47

TDP, do you know the correct s-t-r of the section that Steve is referring to? You could very well be correct but I can find no section that seems to match the wells on the plat Steve is describing.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on July 17, 2010 at 12:52

I think it is 6-T9N-R11W, wells are permitted in 7-9-11 and 31-10-11. Remember 31-10-11 is where that Murray well was drilled, the second SWEPI well drilled into the shale. This is the one with 12000 feet of mangled tubing broke off down hole.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Thibodeaux on July 17, 2010 at 12:54

Sorry
A Type O
it is sec 6- 9n-11w

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