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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 20, 2011 at 13:59

Depends on what stage the well is in.  After the permit is approved it can be months before a rig is assigned to that well.  No need for weekly reports until the well spuds.  While drilling the tendency is to see regular reports.  Makes sense as there are events worth reporting.  However once a well has reached Total Depth (TD) the rig is gone and the well is waiting on completion.  It can take months before a frac crew is available and during that time there is nothing going on to report.  Due to the number of wells reporting and the short staff at the DNR/Office of Conservation, there are varying amounts of delay posting reports to the database.  It is not unusual for a well to be drilled to TD and the rig gone before it shows up as spud on SONRIS Lite.  Those of us in the business do not track drilling on SONRIS Lite.  We subscribe to proprietary weekly rig reports.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Taylor Ds2 on October 20, 2011 at 14:12

Thanks, Skip.  I know the rig is gone.  Last report was Waiting on Completion on 8/12/2011.

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Permalink Reply by Tracie Caston on October 20, 2011 at 14:13

Scout reports are updated weekly and based on work permits issued at the Conservation District office level. But it is as Skip said, the process can be slow. SONRIS is updated as soon as information from the operator is available. You can find the Office of Conservation numbers here: http://dnr.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&...

You are always welcome to contact them to check things out.

 

Thanks!

Tracie

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 20, 2011 at 14:18

Thanks, Tracie.

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on October 20, 2011 at 15:02

Nancy, the timing of the scout report updates varies significantly from well to well and month to month.  This seems to be due to the high level of activity and shortage of resources. 

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Taylor Ds2 on January 5, 2012 at 10:55

Well, here it is January 2012.  Last Scout Report is still 8/12/2011.  Information is still showing "In test" "waiting on completion".  Any thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 5, 2012 at 11:00

Nancy, post the well serial number please.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Taylor Ds2 on January 5, 2012 at 11:49

243211

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 5, 2012 at 12:05

Effective 11/29 well S/N 243211 was assigned an Allowable of 18,552.  This indicates that the Initial Production of the well was 18,552,000 cubic feet of gas per day.  A good well.  Maybe even a very good well but that can only be determined when the completion report is entered in the databases and we can see the other completion data such as choke size and pressures.  I suggest that you search SONRIS Lite using Wells by Section-Township-Range.  Leave the section box blank and enter the township and range (11N -12W).  Click on the well files for status code 10 wells in the vicinity of Section 12 and compare the Initial Production rate in the Well Scout portion with the Allowable section further down the page.  I think you will see the correlation.  Congratulations, you have a good well.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Taylor Ds2 on January 6, 2012 at 10:20

Thanks, Skip.  The closest wells near this one had rates of more than 14,000.  I'll keep looking every week for updates.  Hopefully it will be soon now that the holidays are over.

 

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Taylor Ds2 on January 11, 2012 at 13:06

Skip, the well info has now been updated.  We were told to expect Division Orders in 3-4 months.  And Royalty check another month after that.  Is this information correct?

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 11, 2012 at 13:10

Nancy, no one outside of the operator, and your lessee if not the operator, could know the timeline for the division order report.  As far as an average time, that's a reasonable estimation IMO.

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