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Smackover-Something Is Going On

I took a few excerpts from earning call Q & A's and an article written recently.  The goodrich question and answer is from memory as I couldn't verify with the transcript yet.

 

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Ronald Mills - Johnson Rice & Company, L.L.C.

There's been talk the past, I don't know, two or three months, but especially over the course of the last two weeks, about potential lower Smackover [Smackover Formation] over portions of North Louisiana and East Texas. Any commentary on that, in terms of -- given y'alls acreages is further south, whether there's any overlap with either your Louisiana or maybe even more likely some of your stuff in Harrison County that you're not really targeting for the Haynesville at this point?

Miles Allison

Well, we are looking into that. That's an interesting sidebar on the Haynesville play, certainly in Harrison County. We have some data in Northern Louisiana that suggests that it's pretty sparse in that area. But we're gathering data.

Petrohawk

Ronald Mills - Johnson Rice & Company, L.L.C.

Floyd, I know there've been multiple reports of this lower smack [ph] over in Northern Louisiana and given your position there via the Haynesville, is that something that you all have started to take a look at?

Floyd Wilson

We'll certainly look at it, Ron.

Goodrich

 

And lastly, what about -- there has been a lot of talk about the smack over underneath the Haynesville. Can you all talk about that?

 

We are aware of that and are looking into that.

 

Charles R. “Rick” Stone, chairman and chief executive officer of Signa Engineering Corp., also has been working with operators to apply MASTER CLEAR FLUID.

Stone says he has used The Mud Master Group’s fluid system on five wells, all of them Buda horizontals where the water-sensitive Midway, Dexter and Maness shales in the vertical intervals historically dictated using OBM. Next up, he says are horizontals in the Eagle Ford Shale and a deep, high-temperature Smackover exploratory well in Northeast Texas with a planned depth of ±20,000 feet.

“We are conducting hot rolling and high-temperature testing to determine the system’s stability point. The testing will give us an indication of what to expect, and we will push the limits. The temperature at total depth in the exploratory well is expected to be 380 degrees F. I do not think we will be able to go to 380 degrees, but I expect to get somewhere between 315 and 350 degrees F before we have to displace to OBM,” he reveals. “We have a casing seat appropriately located at that temperature/depth range.”

 

 

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landownerPermalink Reply by North LA on February 23, 2011 at 9:49
The last thing these guys want is another HA land rush. That is unless oil keeps shooting up then one of them is going to have a premature press release.

Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on February 23, 2011 at 10:45
Without units and wells, there is nothing to base a press release upon.  When the Haynesville Shale was made public in April, 2008, there had already been 63 Haynesville Drilling & Production Units formed by 5 different operators, 25 HA wells had been permitted and 23 spud by 8 different companies.  All that activity did not occur in relative proximity to the announcement date.  It was going on for a year and a half prior.  These reports are highly speculative in nature and indicative of news organizations reporting because a competitor did so.  No one wants to be scooped even if the story turns out not to be true.

landownerPermalink Reply by North LA on February 23, 2011 at 10:48
Premature.

Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Terry L. Antee on February 23, 2011 at 11:11
Just because the Smackover is under the Haynesville (natural order of things) does not make it productive and at 380 degrees it is gas and probably has H2s and I would not want an H2s well anywhere near me. The Norphlet, Werner ,Ealgle Mills are under the Smackover that does not make them productive until someone completes a well. 

landownerPermalink Reply by ALongview on February 23, 2011 at 11:26

I don't think that the companies referenced just realized in the last few weeks that the Smackover was under the Haynesville and I didn't hear anyone say it was productive. 

I also would take the well attached any day and it had a bottom hole temp of 396 degrees.  No specific mention of high sour gas must mean they feel they can handle it.  33 mmcfd IP sounds pretty ok to me.  In fact, I'll take 8 or 10 of them.

1.782 BCF in first 4 months of production.

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Terry L. Antee on February 24, 2011 at 4:27
The topic is Smackover something is going on, we all know the Hayesville is productive.

Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Les Bamburg on February 24, 2011 at 13:41
Terry, in the area of interest near the Arkanasa/Louisiana state line the Smackover is much shallower and could be oil productive.

landownerPermalink Reply by North LA on February 24, 2011 at 13:43
It's around 9500-9700 ft at the ark/la line.
Permalink Reply by easttxhaynesville on February 24, 2011 at 14:08
Hy les what are your thoughts as far as harrison county smackover? Too deep for oil??

Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Les Bamburg on February 24, 2011 at 14:18

ETH, I am staying away from that argument as I value my body parts too much.

:-)

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on February 24, 2011 at 14:34
chicken
Permalink Reply by easttxhaynesville on February 24, 2011 at 14:49
hahaha. Too funny! It seems with all the hostility towards it there must be something there.......wait and see I guess

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