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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 20, 2022 at 13:24

Explanation of scout report text courtesy of Rock Man.  That TTS near the end is Turn To Sales on Friday.

Pretty simple once you break it down

Obviously tied to drilling out the frac plugs and getting the hole cleaned and ready to flow back post frac

Prior to 11/23, they had already drilled out frac plugs #1 thru 58. Using some sort of drilling assembly on 2.875" tubing

11/23 - first drilled 5 frac plugs / changed out rams (probably due to pressure increase / needed good ram integrity) and then drilled 18 more plugs. Plug 81 appears to be the last frac plug in the lateral / then CBU = circulate bottoms up (hole / lateral is now open to TD 

11/24- continued circulating to clean out hole. Started pulling out of the hole with the tubing and frac plug drill out assembly (circulating as they go to clean out the hole / lateral). Figure there is frac plug debris, frac sand and other material in the hole

Pressured climbed to 7000# during this operation / figure this is flowing pressure since no evidence well was shut in during this operation

Changed out rams again (probably to optimize integrity of rams if they needed to use them)

11/25 - continued to pull of the hole with the tubing and bottom hole frac plug drill out assembly. Laid down all these tubulars. Closed frac valve to "shut in" well.

Rigged down the service rig and moved it off location

Nipple'd down the BOP and replaced it with wellhead tree / Now ready to flow the well back once it is hooked up to sales line or separator / test unit

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 29, 2022 at 3:27

Aethon spud the Rowell 16-21 HC #2 on January 27.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Frazier on April 19, 2022 at 4:45

SONRIS Well Information for serial # 252834 HA RA SUE; LA MINERALS 18-19 HC 001 section 18 13N 07W Natchitoches Parish is showing production info:

04/12/2022

10

20744

13208

COMPLETED 11/26/21; GAS; 11985 MCFD; 18/64 CHOKE; 9225# FP & CP; PERFS 10360-20586'

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on April 19, 2022 at 4:51

Thanks, Daniel.  We'll look forward to some monthly production reports.  And the well cost report.

Permalink Reply by Rock Man on April 19, 2022 at 5:00

Good looking well on an IP basis.

Surprisingly low water rate (6 BWPD) on IP / would have thought a lot more due to post frac fluid flowback volumes

Production decline now the post important aspect moving ahead

Thanks for posting

Permalink Reply by The Shadow on April 25, 2024 at 4:39

Skip, There is a notice in the Natchitoches Times, that list a meeting to discuss a request by Ashtec Water Service, Kilgore, Texas, Docket No ENV 2024-01 for E&P Wast disposal well in Section 16, Township 13 North, Range 7 West.  This is a good indication, to me,  that there is more drilling planned around Ashland, LA. The section we are in was in the process of being leased by Chesapeake and then suddenly dropped, a few years back.  What are your thoughts on this?  Thank you!

Permalink Reply by The Shadow on February 24, 2026 at 14:19

Skip, With the Japanese oil/gas companies buying out Aetheon will this possibly affect further development of the Ashland field?

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on February 24, 2026 at 14:33

Good question.  Aethon was running low on well locations and they still held some leases in the Ashland Field.  SONRIS isn't working currently but my spreadsheet shows two  Haynesville wells producing and two plugged and abandoned.  It is possible that Adamas Energy/Mitsubishi might revisit Ashland.  If I see a new permit, I will post it.

Permalink Reply by The Shadow on February 24, 2026 at 14:39

Thank you, Skip!  I hope there will be a renewed interest in Ashland, and help that area.

Permalink Reply by The Shadow 45 minutes ago

Skip, Have you read the Oil & Gas news in the Natchitoches Journal?  Part of the article said there are three additional applications just South of Ashland.  Also 300 square miles of 3D Seismograph from Natchitoches into Sabine Parish.  Seems to me that the Oil & Gas companies are trying to get more potentially productive sites leased for future drilling and not more wells producing, at this time, because of the over abundance of gas predicted for 2026 and 2027.  Not sure if I mentioned, before, that Chesapeake did 3D Seismograph from Ashland all the way through Goldonna and even into Winn Parish, a number of years ago.  Never heard anything about the results.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant 32 minutes ago

Thanks, I don't read the Natchitoches Journal.  I thought the Natchitoches Times was the major newspaper and I'm surprised that there are enough readers to support two newspapers.  Did the journal specify where the three additional applications are located south of Ashland?  That covers a lot of ground.

Local news departments haven't had anyone on staff for decades that knew the first thing about the O&G industry.  I'm old and when I was growing up there was a regular O&G column in the newspapers written by reporters who knew their was around a rig and the industry.  We lost that forty or fifty years ago.

Yes, Haynesville focused companies are prospecting for additional well locations because they have developed a lot of the areas where they started out.  The Chesapeake seismic shoot and the early wells they drilled in the Ashland field make me wary.  If that 3D showed anything positive, Chesapeake would not have abandoned the field.  And any operator interested in the field could have acquired that seismic data by now.

I looked at the Journal website and read through the article you mentioned.  I'll put a link below for anyone who would care to read it.  It lacks specifics that are important for forming an opinion.  There is no mention of the company or companies taking the leases mentioned nor the section-township-range locations.  Those specifics are available in the memorandums of lease filed in the public record.  Either someone doesn't know that is important specifics or they are deliberately not publishing that information.  Once again, I am wary.

I wish I could be more optimistic but I do not see any reason to be at this point in time.  Hang in there.

https://natchitochesparishjournal.com/2026/03/04/oil-and-gas-activi...