Agreed. Perhaps Questar and Empresa didn't get the commissioner's order. It was affective July 28, 2008. Both companies have CV wells at HA depths permitted after that date.
OK. I'll admit it.... I don't get the significance of this. Is this a way of HBPing something on the sly? What is the point of this discussion. Why is this of such interest?
Henry, you can read more in a prior discussion that is titled, Clarification of HA reservoir designations and HA depth definitions. Here is an excerpt from that thread that will give you the basic answer to your questions.
Reply by ShaleGeo on June 21, 2009 at 9:03am
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Early on some operators attempted to include the HS inside of a lower cotton valley definition. This was probably an attempt to hold acreage. The DOC got wind of it and stopped it. The guilty parties were the smaller HBP operators in Elm Grove. Not naming names but it is easy to figure out.
Jay
So the instances of including the HA in a cotton valley depth definition are obviously not limited to a few small operators in the Elm Grove Field. According to the LOC there are cotton valley, lower cotton valley and jurassic units which include the HA. Jurassic is no surprise as it has been discussed as including the HA since the early days of the Play.
skip the Messenger well in Natchitoches was completed in the C V total depth 14600.they perfed at 13902-1387 vertical. Is it because everything is deeper the farther south you go.