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Permalink Reply by Steve on April 4, 2012 at 5:51

They must have set a cement plug to isolate the bad section of hole where they left drill string. Then they set a whipstock after drilling the cement plug out to 9510'. A whipstock is used to deviate the hole away from its current trajectory to a new wellpath... in this case it sounds like they are  getting a do-over on the curve and lateral. As far as losing the well, this is one way that you keep from doing just that - you re-plan and drill a new hole. Hopefully this will keep them from losing the well.

Permalink Reply by The_Baron on April 4, 2012 at 7:27

yes, they lost the bottom of their hole. So they came up to good hole, and will now try again.

Permalink Reply by B Kenner on April 10, 2012 at 4:50

Thank you for the info.    Are there any further updates since last Wednesday? 

Permalink Reply by obed w odom on April 10, 2012 at 5:19

4/09/2012

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04/07/12: SET 7" LINER. THE TOP OF LINER @ 7693' & BOTTOM OF LINER @ 10,000'. 04/09/12: NIPPLING UP @ 10,000' I don't know exactly what the above means, but I take it that  they are still in the process of re-starting the lateral.

Permalink Reply by The_Baron on April 10, 2012 at 8:17

It means they intalled a liner in the hole to hopfully prevent them from losing the hole again.

Permalink Reply by B Kenner on April 11, 2012 at 3:55

Oh!  Well let's hope they have much better luck this time.  Thank you and The Baron for updating me.

Permalink Reply by The_Baron on April 11, 2012 at 9:11

Its not just the depth, but the type of rock. The BD is obvously very difficult to deal with

Permalink Reply by obed w odom on May 2, 2012 at 5:26

As of 4/30/2012, the Ora well is reported drilling at 13678' and doing a bit change, so they have drilled about 3000 feet of their lateral, which we now think will only be around 5000 feet.

http://sonlite.dnr.state.la.us/sundown/cart_prod/cart_con_wellinfo2...

Permalink Reply by B Kenner on May 2, 2012 at 7:00

Thank you for the report. 

 

Permalink Reply by Kenneth E. Deloach on May 6, 2012 at 7:52

Has anyone heard if they have finished the lateral on this well. serial #244319

Permalink Reply by Ed on May 7, 2012 at 10:45

05/04/12: TOTAL DEPTH REACHED. 05/05/12: RE-TEST BOP'S. 05/07/12: LAYING DOWN DRILL PIPE.

Permalink Reply by Kenneth E. Deloach on May 7, 2012 at 12:22

thank for info I guess completion process starts next?

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