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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 10, 2011 at 10:38

Lisa, when you use the Section-Township-Range search option on SONRIS Lite, leave the section query box blank.  Only fill in the township and range.  This will bring up all the wells organized by section for the entire township.  In this way you can check your section and the surrounding sections with particular emphasis on the sections adjoining to the north and south that could be a surface location for a well drilling into your section.  By searching in this manner you can scroll through all the wells in all the sections in a matter of minutes.

Permalink Reply by bshelby on July 10, 2011 at 10:01

Skip, Where do you go to download a township grid, I've looked and can't find anything.  Thanks

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 10, 2011 at 10:25

The master that I use is a pdf and the site doesn't handle that file type well.  There were several township grids archived here on the site under Media but I can not find them now.  Maybe someone with a jpg version will step in and provide one.  I'll see if we can get one included again under media.  No one has asked for one in a long time.

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on July 10, 2011 at 14:19

I have this one.

Attachments:

• La. Unitzed Sections.jpg, 1.6 MB

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 11, 2011 at 6:42

Thank you, jffree1.  That's a good basic version that I would encourage all the members to download and print out.

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on July 11, 2011 at 6:45

OK, the last one was a tif file so I'll try it again.

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• La. Serpentine Section Grid.jpg, 71 KB

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 11, 2011 at 6:52

Even better, thanks.

 

Now here is an example of how the township grid is important in monitoring drilling activity in one's section.  If your mineral interest is located in Section 22 for example, owing to the fact that horizontal HA/BO wells are drilled north and south, you would need to check Sections 15 and 27 for a well with surface location there but drilling into Section 22.  If your section was 4 of say 11N - 14W, you would need to check Section 9 in your township but also Section 33 in 12N - 14W, the township to your immediate north. 

Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on July 10, 2011 at 18:18

BS, do you have a particular area of interest?

Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on July 10, 2011 at 10:12

Billy, there is no typical distance because wells are being clustered at well pads and deviated up to 1000 feet before turning to drill the horizontal lateral.  The only limitation is perforations must be at least 330 ft from a section line.

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