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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 2, 2011 at 2:32

Louis, you can always call SWEPI and ask.  I would speculate two things:  One, that the 282 is a typo and, Two, that there is so much gas being produced into the gathering system by very good new wells that in order to accommodate that flow some older wells are choked back.  SWEPI completed and brought on line a number of wells in 2010 in the vicinity of Section 10.  The new wells completed and turned to sales in the last few months have been above average. The capacity of the gathering system is limited.  New wells must be allowed to flow at a maximum designed rate in order to flow back the frack water and "clean up".  As the trend toward drilling alternate unit wells continues operators will have to adjust chokes on all their wells over time as none of them build gathering systems with the capacity to handle that many wells flowing at high rates.

Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on October 3, 2011 at 3:27

Louis, this is likely related to either the gas treating capacity in the region and/or construction activity that could cause the well to be taken off production. Check the August production when available.

Permalink Reply by Pelican on October 5, 2011 at 7:42

The 282 is correct. Not a typo.  The last flow date is 7/12 which produced 139 MCF.  I am trying to find out what is going on.  Will update later.  Just FYI, the gathering system is no where near capacity.