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Permalink Reply by jffree1 on August 1, 2013 at 2:20

067-30693 Arkla #1 is a vertical oil well completed in the '90s. If Stroud has a successful completion in the Cotton Valley they will change the name of the old well to match the lease name used on the new well.

Permalink Reply by Dats Oil Brother on August 23, 2013 at 5:25

HZ Well was spudded on 8/16 With plans for 17 fracking stages.

Permalink Reply by Gatrpaw on October 9, 2013 at 14:42

This well should be nearing completion of drilling now. As I understand, there is solicitation going on by an agent seeking leases for possibly Anadarko just west of this well toward Linden as well as east just over the line in Louisiana.

It will be interesting to see if Stroud will continue to pursue other leases as well in this same area.

Permalink Reply by waylon buckland on October 11, 2013 at 10:07

dont lease until you have talked to Jeff Mays they will chg. lots of your royalty with all kinds of costs.

they are leasing from huffines west to linden north to u s 59 and south lodi.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 20, 2013 at 7:11

Arkla Blackstone #1 H reported 64 days drilling on 10/18/13, no depth given.

Permalink Reply by Gatrpaw on October 20, 2013 at 11:27

Could be extending the lateral....

Permalink Reply by Dats Oil Brother on December 10, 2013 at 6:18

16 of 17 stages successfully fracked. Flow back underway. Testing thru December to determine consistent production numbers.

Permalink Reply by waylon buckland on December 10, 2013 at 6:56

i have not heard a word about this well. they finish drilling about 2 mo. ago are paying 300.00 per ac, for leases in the area.looks like they want more leases before they bring it in

Permalink Reply by Dats Oil Brother on December 10, 2013 at 11:44

Nothing confirmed, but I heard that they will go right back in if they like the results from this well.

Permalink Reply by Gatrpaw on December 11, 2013 at 16:14

DOB...you may be right!

Permalink Reply by waylon buckland on December 12, 2013 at 7:12

was in the clerks office this morning every computer was in use not enen a table available to read a book on.

must have been 20 people in there.

this is the biggest thing cass co. has ever seen even bigger than the cities service well years ago

Permalink Reply by Gatrpaw on December 12, 2013 at 14:25

I know that I have said this before way back when and it may be time to say it again....lol.

What you are seeing happen in the Three States area being talked about here is very simple to understand and easy to follow if you will keep a few things in mind.

These are not "new" formations that are being drilled. They are formations that have been drilled and produced from for many many years. Some as far back as the Rodessa Field discovery.

Most of the productive formations in this area all the way to the "Lower Smackover Brown Dense" have been drilled to with mixed results. Some of these bad results where due to lack of technology to deal with what was found at the time the wells were drilled. That same lack of technology is still effecting some of the deeper stuff like the LSBD today. Give this time...it's might still come!!

The fact that technology is still lacking for the LSBD has not deterred some operators from using new horizontal and completion technology to breath new life into the Cotton Valley, Travis Peak, Pettit and Rodessa formations that have been long time vertical producers in the area. 

The trick is finding where this new approach will be effective and where it will not.

That said. A little refresher. Vertical wells only allow the well bore to be exposed to the formation for the vertical thickness of the formation itself. In some cases the entire formation is not productive. Some part of a formation may contain salt water or nothing at all. In some formations the entire formation has some form of productive hydrocarbons. Well logs and core samples tell these secretes from the deep. 

Practical example: A formation is 100 ft thick. If the log and cores show only the bottom 10 feet holds oil or gas then, a vertical well would be completed in the last 10 feet of the pay zone. That ten feet would be all that is exposed to the well bore and thus whatever the porosity (how easy gas or liquids can move through it) of the formation would determine how large an area the well would drain.

In Cass county and much of the surrounding area I mentioned at the start, many of these vertical wells eventually quit producing what was considered an amount of hydrocarbons to make the well economical to keep. Thus they were P&A'ed.  This decline in production in many cases was due to the single vertical well bore had depleted everything within the reach...which depended on the porosity of the formation (either natural or frac induced). With state mandated spacing of wells and just the shear impossibility of putting a well "everywhere"...there is still a lot of oil left out there between the gaps so to speak.

Just a thought...ever tried to drink a thick milkshake through a straw? Remember the hollow spots created in the cup around the straw......lol. What did you do?....lol.

Today, we have horizontal drilling capabilities of several thousand feet. We have mud motors that can stay within inches of the path they are set on to drill and can steer well beyond the flexibility of the drill stem. One well can expose thousands of feet of formation and within that formation the well bore can be kept within what is known to be the most productive area of the formation.

Take that 100 ft. thick formation I mentioned earlier. Using a mud motor to stay inside the 10 ft pay zone and drill 4,000 ft horizontally into that formation. What do you think happens!!  

All said. When an operator gets it right.....welcome mail box money! LOL

Not every mineral owner will have productive minerals. There are some areas that just don't have and never have had hydrocarbons. However, If you have ever been leased, had productive wells in your area in the past or are currently being solicited to lease....Keep the faith!

I hope this has helped someone out there understand in a little simpler and better wary what is going on. Merry Christmas and God Bless!!

 

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