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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on February 19, 2011 at 13:59

HA RA SUL is the name of the unit, not the well.  HA (Haynesville), RA (Reservoir A), SUL (Sand Unit L).  When a well is drilled in an approved unit, the unit designation is shown first and the well name second.  You will notice that the first well is assigned number 001.  The following wells will be designated 1-Alt., 2-Alt., etc.  36 would be the section number.  The well surface location would be in S36-14N-10W.

Permalink Reply by Bet Crain on February 19, 2011 at 14:04

Thank you so much Skip.  That is what I thought but I wanted to be sure.  I did see that the section below section 36 is l and that  is HA RA SUS 

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on February 19, 2011 at 14:07

The first unit in a field for a given formation is SUA.  Once the alphabet has been run through once, operators can double up on alpha designations or go to numeric.  The Sand Unit designations are not in line with the sections.  In other words SUA could be in Section 1 and SUB in Section 12.

Permalink Reply by Bet Crain on February 19, 2011 at 14:18

I just wanted to be sure that the well is in my block before I get excited.  The well number is 242774 in Bracky  Branch.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on February 19, 2011 at 15:27

I understand.  Do not get excited.  The surface location for well 242774 is in Section 36.  However the Bottom Hole Location is in S1- 13N-10W.  That means the perforations in the horizontal lateral will be in the section to your south and production from this well will pay mineral interests of record in Section 1.

Permalink Reply by Bet Crain on February 20, 2011 at 15:43

Thank you so much Skip for explaining this to me. 

Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on February 22, 2011 at 9:15

Bet, of course you realize you already have one well producing from your section.  You will note the new well is being drilled by Shell rather than Samson, whose is the operator in your unit.

 

Samson, Breedlove 36 #H1 Well, Serial #240288, S36-T14N-R10W, Red River Parish, 16631 Mcfd, 22/64" Choke, 7300 psi Flowing Pressure

 

S36-T14N-R10W, HA RA SUL Unit, Samson, Bracky Branch Field, Red River Parish

Permalink Reply by Bet Crain on February 22, 2011 at 15:24

Yes Les I do get paid on the Breedlove Well in 36 but I watch Sonris since I am out of state and never know what is going on and I saw the new permit in 36.  I did not understand how they pay when they drill in one block and go horizontal into another block.  Thanks for your reply.

Permalink Reply by GoshDarn on February 22, 2011 at 18:47

Bet:

 

It's sorta like the entrance to a copper mine.  A landowner is only paid oil and gas royalties for the minerals that are pulled out from directly underneath their own land, unless it's a unitized well (in La.) and then all of the landowners/mineral owners in that unit (which many times is a section of 640 acres) . . . then all of the landowners in the unit share equally on a unitized well, per the leases that they've signed and per the number of acres they own.

 

So, when the pad is in one section and they horizontal (i.e., drill sideways) into the next-door section (unit) the location of the pad (or the location of the entrance to the copper mine) doesn't matter.  It's where the minerals actually are located under the ground that matters.  Sometimes it's just more efficient and/or cheaper to locate the mine entrance (the rig's pad) on land a few hundred feet nearby, maybe near a road or on land that a more friendly (read:  who maybe asked for less money to put a pad on his/her land) than if the pad had been graveled in to the unit/section being produced from.

 

So, the copper mine entrance doesn't really matter if it's nearby when the actual copper and copper mining is extracted from a neighboring section.

 

Hope this helps.  Congrats on your good well.  Your future looks bright (from what little I know about it).

 

Permalink Reply by Bet Crain on February 22, 2011 at 19:39

Thanks Gosh Darn.  I am getting an education on something I never knew anything about.  It does look as if the well is a good one.  I guess it is true that you are never too old to learn something new.