Should production volume per SONRIS equal paid volume per royalty payment?

I've just received my first royalty check from Chesapeake on a well drilled last October. Having read about some problems other owners have had with Chesapeake, I looked at the remittance advice details pretty carefully. One thing I noted is that the monthly volume on which royalties are being paid is consistently 5.18% less than the production volume on SONRIS Lite. Is there some legitimate reason for these differences?

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Permalink Reply by Ben on September 23, 2011 at 8:58

I noticed that some of have TVDs of several hundred feet shallower.  I guess these are the Bossier completions?

 

I had always been under the impression that it would take a separate well to produce the reserves of the Bossier shale, and thus, the most likely and pleasant scenario would be to have up to 8 wells to the Haynesville and 8 to the Bossier shale.  Am I wrong?

Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on September 23, 2011 at 11:52
Ben, you are correct.  Sections with both formations could have 10 to 16 wells depending upon the well spacing chosen by the operator for development.
Permalink Reply by Donna Thornton on September 26, 2011 at 14:10

A good example of this is S9 T9N R12W in Sabine Parish.  All 16 possible wells (HA and BO) are drilled or partially drilled. 

 

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