This is now a theme in the Haynesville Shale. I heard the same from the conference calls from Cabot and Southwestern and you have to assume many more are facing the same delays. The following press release from Penn Virginia sums up the issue. What are your thoughts on how this may affect the amount of gas being sold from the Haynesville in the next few quarters? How might that affect the inventory or in turn the price of gas? Most importantly though how do you think this will affect the cash strapped E&P's that spend to drill but cannot generate any cash flow from that capital expenditure? Will it break the back of the small players?
East Texas -- During the first quarter of 2010, we drilled three (2.8 net) Lower Bossier (Haynesville) Shale horizontal wells, all of which are waiting on completion. Since we resumed drilling late last year, we have faced delays in completions that have resulted in our having an inventory of five wells that are waiting on completion. The delays relate to the scarcity of high working pressure pumping equipment with sufficient rating to stimulate Lower Bossier Shale wells.
We currently have two operated rigs drilling wells, one targeting the Lower Bossier Shale and one targeting the horizontal Cotton Valley. Due to the completion delays and the inventory of uncompleted Lower Bossier Shale wells, after drilling one more Lower Bossier Shale well, we expect to devote both drilling rigs to the horizontal Cotton Valley program. This two-rig Cotton Valley program will continue until the Lower Bossier Shale completion program is caught up, most likely late in the third quarter. Primarily as the result of the completion delays, we have slightly lowered the upper end of 2010 production guidance by 1.0 Bcfe, or two percent.
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In researching the decades-old Tuscaloosa Trend and the immense wealth it has generated for many, I find it deeply troubling that this resource-rich formation runs directly beneath one of the poorest communities in North Baton Rouge—near Southern University, Louisiana—yet neither the university ( that I am aware of) nor local residents appear to have received any compensation for the minerals extracted from their land.
This area has suffered immense environmental degradation…
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