Hello Ms. West,
There has been no significant developments in quit a while. There has been activity to our north west in Bienville Parish. But nothing in our area. On a side note, our three year lease agreement on our property in NE Natchitoches Parish will be ending next Summer. So I figure things will pick up early in 2010. Time will tell.

Ms. West,
Just letting you know that the survey crew are now actively working in Winn Parish. I now have the "geophone" and cable equipment staked into our yard. The blasting will be soon. I am located in north west Winn Parish, is your property in this part of the Parish?

Just an update. Still slow going around here. The data collection crew is closer but still about 6 miles west the Winn Parish line. The are slowly moving from West to east. I guestimate that they will be in my area, North West Winn Parish, in about a month. I guess time will tell, but I have not heard any news on my end.

No Ma'am there has not been any new information lately. Kind of quite, and probably will be for a while. The seismic survey is still in progress in this area. The ground crew that cuts the lanes for the geophone cables are in northwest Winn Parish, they cut the lanes on our property three weeks ago. The crew that are laying out the geophones and collecting the seismic blast data are about 10 miles to our west in Natchitoches parish. From what little I know it will be approximately 6 months after that do the blasting to process the data collected. It seems like everything has stopped, awful quite lately, but we will just have to be patient. I'll try to post anything new as it happens.

You bet, I'll post anything I hear regarding our area. Please do the same. Thanks for the info on the current survey time line, I guess we will just have to be patient.

Yes, he seemed very confident, as do I, about the shale formation extending into Winn Parish. I believe it may end up going further than that. But mainly we will know more when the seismograph results, currently being conducted, are completed.

Marley,
The Messenger well is SOUTH of us and further EAST than any Haynesville well to date. They drilled it to a depth of over 14,000 ft. which is a good indication of the depth of the HS in Winn. The well near Dodson was drilled by a very small company out of Bossier City only to a depth of 6900 ft. These HS wells require much more resources than this company has. It is listed on the Louisiana sonris site as "plug and abandon" I just don't think that well has anything to do with the HS.
I have a house in Winnfield and spend some of my time there.

Hi Marley,
I saw that article in Advocate too, I don't know if that is based upon any new information. The map which was published by the Shreveport Times about 6-7 weeks ago depicted the NE section of Winn included in the HS. If you have not seen it, take a look. http://www.gohaynesvilleshale.com/photo/photo/show?id=2117179%3APhoto%3A35023
It was based upon what I think is incomplete information from the LA mineral board. Looks to me as if they used existing wells to draw their lines. My feeling is that the seismic results from the recent tests in NW Winn and the production of the Messenger well in Natchitoches Parish will be our next indications. Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Marley,
I have not heard anything new. What have you heard, why do you think Winn is now included?