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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on August 6, 2012 at 4:36

Unless there is a member active in the service industry who can answer your question you may have to contact the frac contractor or SWN directly.  SWN has not made a completion report on their LA BD wells that would give any details to their frac designs.  In other words there's nothing in the public record.  SWN has a sand sourcing operation so it's possible they are supplying their own frac sand in the BD.  Then again when they finally settle on the proper completion design they may require outside sources for whatever they do not produce internally.

Permalink Reply by obed w odom on August 6, 2012 at 6:00

I don;t know what type of sand they have been using, but Mueller said that, in the Johnson well, they will test different sand types:

"We will complete this well vertically in order to test the effects of fracturing fluid and sand type on reservoir performance."