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Comment by William W. Lynn on December 21, 2008 at 8:41

Thanks to JT, I got up from my cup of fresh hot coffe and went to the LSU site. That is some amazing information, although I'm not able to decipher much of it. As I interpret the listed pages (and some earlier ones as well), a reader can sift through all the various formations and increasing depths and come up with a sort of 3D side view of north Louisiana as if you were looking at a slice of the earth from the surface to down past 14,000 feet. Since I need to do something to contribute around here, I have taken the liberty of going through the formation list and pulling out the data on Union and Claiborne parishes only. I am not sharp as a marble like I used to be, but I think I got the vast majority of the available (and useful) information. While looking at the chart below, keep in mind that just because a formation appears in one or both parishes, it does not mean that the formation can be found everywhere in the parish/parishes. However, I hope this will provide landowners and potential leasees some "ammunition" in the form of information to squeeze the last dollar out to their benefit. I am dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to interpreting geological information, but I would think that the thicker a given formation is, the better chance a driller would have of hitting it without going through, and the more porus a formation is, the better chance it would have of holding fossil fuels. OK, boys and girls, here goes:
Formation name Depth Thickness Porosity Minerals
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Navarro Gas Rock 2000 - 2500 10 - 70 ft 5 - 25% gas only
(Union Parish only)
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Navarro Arkadelphia 2200 to top 10 ft 14%
(Union & Claiborne)
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Navarro Nacatoch 800 - 2700 15 - 50 ft 28%
(Union & Claiborne)
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Taylor Saratoga,Marlbrook 1250-3100 10-60 20-30% gas &
Annona, Ozan condensate
(Claiborne only)
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Austin Tokio 2700 -3100 10-12 20-25% gas & cond.
(Union & Claiborne)
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Trinity Rodessa 4100-6000 10-30 10-26% gas & cond.
(Claiborne only)
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Trinity James 4700 - 6000 30-60 10-15% gas & cond.
(Claiborne only)
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Trinity Pine Island 4000 - 7000 30-60 10-15% Cond to gas
(Union only)
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Sligo Pettet 5000 - 9000 10 - 140 16 -20% Gas & cond
(Claiborne only)
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Hosston Travis Peak Texas 5000 - 12000 20-80 10-26% Gas & cond
(Union & Claiborne)
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Cotton Valley Schuler 7200 - 14500 10-60 9 - 18% Gas & cond
(Union and Claiborne)
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Louark/Haynesville Buckner 9700 - 10500 30-45 9 - 16% Gas & cond
(Claiborne only)
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Louark Smackover 10000 - 12500 20-120 11 - 22% Gas & cond
(Claiborne only)
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After looking at the way things lined up, the transition from my email format to this narrower format did not work well, but I think you will be able to figure this out.

Comment by North LA on December 11, 2008 at 17:16

Scroll down to company strategy. We need some wildcats over here :)

http://www.columbiapetroleum.com/sabine-uplift-development

Comment by William W. Lynn on December 10, 2008 at 10:14

I read or heard that Chesapeake had experienced a jump in their stock, so eventually the big players will be back in the leasing game. As JT Green noted, thanks to this website and a lot of savvy contributors, us po' boys and girls from out in the sticks are now a lot more sophisticated and wise to the tricks of the O&G companies and their landmen agents. The next round of leasing, when it finally arrives, should equal or exceed what Bossier Parish experienced this past year.
I can wait!

Comment by North LA on December 10, 2008 at 5:32

JT,

Don't know if the hydrocarbons are there or not but at the very least we know the formations are there so no one can tell you the Bossier shale isn't in Union parish. On one of the wells in the Mount Olive field just south of Lillie you can see that they produced from the Haynesville formation getting up to 1,000 barrels of oil a day at one point. I guess we'll just sit and wait :)

Comment by North LA on December 9, 2008 at 18:08

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Comment by North LA on December 9, 2008 at 17:34

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Comment by North LA on December 9, 2008 at 17:21

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Comment by North LA on December 9, 2008 at 17:18

Go to "Work Resume" page and look at the formations the O&G companies drilled through.

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