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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on August 1, 2011 at 12:42

North LA, I am not playing. There is by far more going in the State of Louisiana than I have ever seen in my career as a Landman.

Permalink Reply by jkw3 on August 1, 2011 at 9:56

That rig rumor and the one that EXCO is out buying leases below base of Haynesville Shale are both without merit.

EnCana did permit several Smackover horizontals in T15N-R14W within the last year, but I have not seen any operations on those locations.

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Permalink Reply by jkw3 on August 1, 2011 at 11:03

Clarification - Encana permitted the Jackson Davis 35H-3 (#241286), 35H-4 (#241287) and 35H-5 (#241288) wells in April 2010  and the permit applications stated that they were to test the "Non-unitized lower Smackover", the "Non-unitized middle Smackover" and "Non-unitized upper Smackover" respectively.  They were  all subsequently drilled and completed as HA wells, not Smackover.

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Permalink Reply by Hale Yayuh on August 1, 2011 at 10:18

If it were true, why would they move "several" rigs into a play that doesn't even exist yet, if ever at all? I think the word "several" is telling... the rumor has no merit. Ask him what he bases his info on.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on August 1, 2011 at 10:30

Early in the play there were 15 wells by 4 operators with permitted horizons of Smackover or Non-Unitized Smackover.  One by Samson Contour, five by Chesapeake, two by EXCO and seven by EnCana.  All were completed, long ago, as Haynesville Shale wells.  I have looked on several occasions for Haynesville well file data that would support operators testing the Smackover formation and found none.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on August 1, 2011 at 10:44

The first SWEPI well drilled, the one that was P&A supposedly went into the upper smack it was permitted as a Jurassic.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on August 1, 2011 at 10:51

Would that be S/N 236842, Olympia Minerals 26, S26-9N-12W spud in January 2008 and P&A'ed last year?

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on August 1, 2011 at 11:10

I think that is the one. I was all by myself buying Fredricksburg leases when they came in and ran the price of doing biz from 50 to 100 bucks with their protection leases.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on August 1, 2011 at 11:36

At 13,655' it doesn't look of sufficient depth to have tested the SMK.  Based on the completion reports for HA wells in the vicinity, it may have penetrated a portion of the upper SMK RA.  I would think a SMK test would penetrate the full extent of the formation.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on August 1, 2011 at 11:55

Thats the well that I was pulled off of my work with the small boys to do recon for the big boys. The big boys had heard a rumor that one of the wells in that neck of the woods would do 60 million a day. About all that I could find out was that the night watchman told my contact that the gauge on the well was showing 16,000 psi, after that my contact heard that the casing busted due to extreme high pressure.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on August 1, 2011 at 12:10

It's an interesting vertical well with 7 frac stages stimulated over six weeks from 13,300' to 12,150'.  The official completion report shows "Stuck CTU" on 9/19/2008.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on August 1, 2011 at 12:21

Another well that was P&A in the top teir of T8N-R11W or bottom tier of T9N-R11W but I think it was in 8N, my contact told me that the driller got scared and hit the panic button and sheared off 287 feet that dropped to over 12,000 feet. I think the high pressure and H2S in that area have the workers on the edge of their seat.

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