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Permalink Reply by littleasy on January 26, 2012 at 7:16

Captain,

Your comment would seem to mirror Kirk Barrell's interpretation of a West versus East AC-Yield hydrocarbon system?

Austin Chalk - Yield

Permalink Reply by WHuguet on January 26, 2012 at 9:03

littleasy, not really, all 3 of these Anadarko wells (Dominique, LaCour, Rabalais) and the 2 Nelson/Pryme Deshotel wells are clearly in the AC East, which is supposedly more productive as per Kirk's depiction.

Other than Pryme, info is real tight compared to Tusc (e.g. still no 11/1 Dominique production numbers).  Heard positive about lifts a while back.  If the oil is there in significant quantities, slow and steady may work, just not the kind of thing that tends to excite the short-term oriented investor community.  For an example, look at the production history of these four (4) producing Atinum chalk wells in St. Landry Parish, which I believe are "only" verticals:  Serial Nos. 219028, 219728, 220852, and 221516. 

Anadarko has 5 year leases blanketing the area, these wells have clearly not been disasters, the oil is there, and at over $100 for this high quality oil (supposedly fetches a premium) I expect them to make another run at it. 

Permalink Reply by littleasy on January 26, 2012 at 10:21

WHuguet,

Below is a quote from Austin Chalk - Yield (Kirk Barrell)

"One other very interesting aspect of the "yield map" is that the point where this drastic change occurs in western Avoyelles Parish is aligned with the western edge of the "higher resistivity" TMS-East.  The significance of the TMS resistivity is yet to be confirmed.  The Austin Chalk yields and the TMS resistivity maps do seem to indicate that the east and the west are different hydrocarbon systems.  The significance of that will likely become apparent in the coming years after much more drilling in both plays."

In other words, the location and yield (bbl/mmcf) of the wells in question may suggest that they will be more "oily" than the AC-West wells.  Hence, the production methods for these wells may need to be different, and this will be reflected in the production histories.  Just a thought!

Permalink Reply by WHuguet on January 26, 2012 at 11:04

Sorry to besmirch your thought littleasy - I didn't read too well the first time, my bad.

Permalink Reply by Craig Wascom on February 13, 2012 at 5:28

Anadarko finally reports. I am not SONRIS savvy but this does not look good.

WELL ALLOWABLES

EFFECTIVE DATE	END DATE	LUW CODE	LUW TYPE CODE	ALLOWABLE	ESTIMATED POTENTIAL	CURRENT ALLOWABLE TYPE
02/15/2012	05/15/2012	050840	1	2200	0	1
11/14/2011	02/14/2011	050840	1	2200	3000	1
11/14/2011	11/14/2011	050840	1	3000	3000	1

Permalink Reply by Charles A. Benton on February 13, 2012 at 14:30

According to a reliable source, Anadarko is waiting for a downhole

pump to be built for LaCour 43.

On another note, a well site was recently staked out on Bruckerhoff property,

near Coon, La.  Anyone have any info?

Permalink Reply by William C. Morrison on February 14, 2012 at 2:56

I do not see anything on SONRIS Lite meaning I do not see any permits.  But that region is across the river from the Avoyelles action that has been going on.

Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on February 14, 2012 at 3:07

Chip,

I don't think they have to get a permit to put a pump in. That would be considered to be standard operating procedure as far as completion is concerned. They will probably report the instillation on the well history report and give a production rate under pump at that time.

Permalink Reply by Charles A. Benton on February 14, 2012 at 3:21

The site is across the Atchafalaya from St. Landry, about 3.5 miles North of Melville and about 10 miles SW of LaCour 43.

Permalink Reply by William C. Morrison on February 14, 2012 at 4:53

Sounds like an extension of North Bayou Jack area sitting in the bottom of Avoyelles/top of St Landry.   Melville is of couse in St Landry not Avoyelles Parish.

We used to go down to Coon to A A "Bubba" Robinson's place.  We took the north Morganza Spillway guide levee road down and then crossed over to the river road.  But then that was about 1955 or 56 time period.  Long time ago.  Alfred Robinson was a year older than me and his brother Douglass was a year younger than me.  They live around the corner from us on Deville Street in New Roads. 

Later I worked on paving the river road at McCrea.  That would be about 1957 or so.  McCrea is north of Coon.

I looked on SONRIS Lite for a well permit for Coon.  I did not see one.  All I saw were expired permits for SWD wells here and there.  Even the LaCour #42 permit has expired.

No, I realize there is no requirment for a down hole pump.  I was referring to permits to drill around Coon.  I did not see anything on SONRIS to lead me to think they were going to drill.

Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on February 27, 2012 at 13:32

John,

My interpretation of the EP of 0 is that the well is a dry hole and they are not going to try to produce it.

As I see it: They drilled too far North of the Shelf. The formation will have a limited amount of fracturing that far above the shelf. That's the same problem that CHK ran into 15 years ago and got them into trouble. Just poor geology, poor seismic and site selection. The second problem is Anadarko still insists on drilling long laterals in a formation that they cannot build a mud cake in the drilled hole. They bacisally are plugging the formation as they drill by mud encrocement into the formation. Thirdly, according to the reports that I've seen they did not do a acidization of the formation after completion. That is another mistake.

As far as reporting to the landowners: When you don't have good news there's really nothing to say.

Permalink Reply by John Matherne on February 28, 2012 at 2:36

Does not make sense to think a well tested at 3000 pbd and that dropped to 0 estimated potential unless the well hole collapsed and is now plugged. Would seem to think there would be plans to rework the hole or plug it.

 

The only promissing news from your reply Joe is that they went too far north. I am south of there. I want to see them poke a few more holes in the ground.

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