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Permalink Reply by blackjackjackson on September 6, 2012 at 16:22

HALCON

PRESENTATION (Floyd Wilson, CEO):

“Target 5-6 plays; targeting one million acres in the company; taking position in plays with running room; seeking 50 years of oil drilling inventory”

TMS: “Starting leasing 6-7 months ago; on way to about 100,000 acres; traditional cost improvement play; zone is there; it’s thick; susceptible to modern technologies (frac jobs); well costs quite high in early phase; need $9-10M; AFE at $11M for first wells; profile in terms of measured depth of a deep EF well so shouldn’t be a problem getting there; early stages extra money spent; EUR 600-700 MBOE play; if you get 7000-8000’ laterals; depths are approaching 14000’, a lot around 10000’; going to be a bit of a challenge; moving rig in on Broadway right now then Lambright; 12 miles apart; high confidence based on old control that we’ll find what we’re looking for; approached differently; west of activity; intentionally prospect area away from thick Tuscaloosa water bearing sands, find on top of bottom of shale section; won’t have water to contend with”

from tuscaloosa trend:  http://tuscaloosatrend.blogspot.com/

Permalink Reply by david crocket on December 26, 2012 at 12:44

latest on broadway well from sonris

12/26/2012

05

12/24/12, DRILLING LATERAL AT 16317'.

Permalink Reply by Jean on January 14, 2013 at 16:39

there used to be a link to sonris with your post and now there is nothing showing. could you repost the link please?

Permalink Reply by david crocket on January 14, 2013 at 17:15

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

245249

BROADWAY H

001

H215

9709

40

00

028

02N

02E

08/03/2012

17079205390000

PRMT DATE	SPUD DATE	STAT DATE	ST CD
08/03/2012		08/03/2012	01

WELL SURFACE COORDINATES

Surface Longitude	Surface Latitude	Lambert X	Lambert Y	Ground Elevation	Zone	Datum
0-0-0	0-0-0	2069427	166566	56.5	N	NAD-27

WELL SURFACE COORDINATES GENERATED BY DNR

UTMX 83	UTMY 83	LONGITUDE 83	LATITUDE 83
568811.546296	3443631.41288	-92.27827315	31.12456849

BOTTOM HOLE COORD

EFFECTIVE DATE	END DATE	PLUGBACK TOTAL DEPTH	TRUE VERTICAL DEPTH	MEASURED DEPTH	LAT DEG	LAT MIN	LAT SEC	LONG DEG	LONG MIN	LONG SEC	COORDINATE SOURCE	LAMBERT X	LAMBERT Y	ZONE	COORDINATE SYSTEM
08/03/2012			14500	19500							02	2068028	161490	N	01
08/03/2012			14500	19500							02	3348819	222193	N	02

WELL HISTORY

SERIAL	WELL NAME	WELL NUM	ORG ID	FIELD	ST CD	PT	WELL CLASS	EFF DATE	END DATE	STAT DATE
245249	BROADWAY H	001	H215	9709	01	00		08/03/2012		08/03/2012

SCOUT INFO

REPORT DATE	WELL STATUS	MEASURED DEPTH	TRUE VERT DEPTH	DETAIL
01/08/2013	05			01/07/13, RETRIEVING MWD WITH WL @ 18905'.
01/02/2013	05			12/31/12: DRILLING LATERAL @ 18,905'.
12/26/2012	05			12/24/12, DRILLING LATERAL AT 16317'.
12/18/2012	05			12/13/12: RE-TEST BOP'S. 12/18/12: DRILLING LATERAL @14500'.
12/11/2012	05			12/10/12, TRIPPING OUT OF HOLE, PRESENT TOTAL DEPTH 13733'.
12/04/2012	05			12/02/12: SET 75/8" CASING @ 13685' W/ 885 SX. 12/04/12: RE-TEST BOP'S.
11/27/2012	05			11/26/12, DRILLING AT 13615'.
11/20/2012	05			11/17/12: RETEST BOP'S. 11/19/12: DRILLING @ 12695'.
11/13/2012	05			11/8/12, PROBLEMS WITH HOLE, ORDERS CHANGED, WHIPSTOCK SET @ 3568'. 11/12/12, DRILLING @ 8015'
11/07/2012	05			11/06/12: TRIPPING IN HOLE W/ WHIPSTOCK TO 10,705'.
10/30/2012	05			10/30/12, ATTEMPTING TO KICK OFF WELL AT 10,555'.
10/24/2012	05			10/15/12: TOTAL DEPTH OF PILOT HOLE (STRAIGHT HOLE)- 14,100'. 10/22/12: PLUGGING BACK STRAIGHT HOLE @ 12,400'.
10/17/2012	05			10/15/12, LOGGING, TOTAL DEPTH 14,100' (NOT FINAL TD).
10/10/2012	05			10/08/12: CORING @ 13681'.
10/02/2012	05			10/1/12, DRILLING AT 13,410'.
09/25/2012	05			09/18/12: TEST T-3 BOP'S TO 5000 PSI FOR 30 MINS, TEST OK. 09/24/12: DRILLING INTERMEDIATE HOLE @ 9674'.
09/18/2012	05			9/12/12, SPUD. 9/15/12, SET 10 3/4" CASING AT 3620' WITH 2805 SACKS OF CEMENT.
08/03/2012	01	19500		368' FNL & 1587' FWL OF SEC 28., PBHL: 100' FNL & 300' FW

Permalink Reply by Jean on January 15, 2013 at 2:47

Thank you for replying .....it states the "true vertical" as 14500 and the "measured depth" as 19500.......so is the 19500 the length of the lateral leg??? and while I'm asking...can you have more than one leg??? Thanks again.

Permalink Reply by david crocket on January 15, 2013 at 3:28

Jean, I don't know very much, but to get the lateral length you have to subtract the true vertical depth from the measured depth, so it would be 19500 minus 14500 to give the lateral a length of 5000 feet.  I don't believe that you can have more than one leg, but I don't know for sure.  I would think not. 

Permalink Reply by Jean on January 15, 2013 at 6:13

Thanks David.....Do you or anyone else know how the lateral leg works as far as getting oil out of the ground? How many feet does it get from the pipe  when extracting oil?  I have land in the next section of the Broadway well and just wondering "could they be getting oil from my property?"....something else, I heard that a "unit" could be as little as 60 acres, is this true? 

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 15, 2013 at 6:55

Although this video represents a natural gas well, the process is very similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0kmskvJFt0

The "frac cylinder" created around a horizontal wellbore generally has a limited radius, say 150'.  Operators are required to keep perforations in the lateral 330' from unit boundaries.  So no, the well would not produce any hydrocarbons outside of the unit boundary.  Drilling & Production units vary in size by depth and type of hydrocarbon produced.  Shallow oil units can be small, 40 to 80 acres.  Deeper gas units may be 320 to 640 acres as a gas well typically can produce from a wider area.  These are examples of units for conventional reservoirs.    The state has approved units in excess of 640 acres for unconventional reservoirs owing to the desire of the industry to drill laterals of a maximum length.  Although drilling units have historically been defined as the area that can be drained by a single well, the state has modified that in regard to deep unconventional reservoirs.  As an example Haynesville Shale units are generally a section, 640 acres, yet the state's well spacing is 80 acres.  Therefore theoretically each unit can have 8 horizontal wellbores, 8 x 80 = 640.

Permalink Reply by Jean on January 15, 2013 at 7:32

Wow! You sound so smart...thank you so much ...that has helped me understand a lot of what I was wondering about!!!!  I have heard "third hand" something everybody might be interested in hearing...I'll just say that the landowners around the Broadway well supposedly will "be very wealthy"...this from the driller who is from Texas...time will tell...

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on January 15, 2013 at 7:52

Jean, suggest that you take rumors with a grain of salt.  As to drillers knowing anything about the potential of a completed well, that's not the case with horizontal wells which require hydraulic stimulation.  The drilling rig is long gone by the time the completion operations get underway and even the frac crew doesn't know the well results when they drive away.  Only those industry members who handle tying wells into gathering systems are in a position to know how a well flows.

Permalink Reply by Keith on January 15, 2013 at 7:25

Jean, the length of the lateral would be 19500MD-14500TVD= 5000 feet. The 5000 foot section is where the oil source rock lies, so the longer the lateral the more contact area your well has in the pay rock.

 I know that the use of multi laterals are done in the oil field, but I don't think they are currently using this in shale wells on a large scale if at all. You could have more than one leg but I don't think they are doing that as of now is my answer.

As far as one of your other questions about them getting oil from your land in shale plays your going to deplete probably 90 to 150 acres with the average well. The state should be highly involved with this process, so I wouldn't worry too much. If Halcon were to encounter a prolific conventional oil sand that covered thousands of acres (which no one expects) then it would be a different story.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Jean on January 16, 2013 at 2:39

Thank you Keith...I appreciate all the information and knowledge all of you share...all I can contribute is "third hand" information that someone close to me tells me, which needs to be "taken with a grain of salt"...

Some of my family has leased their land and some haven't, what do ya'll think is the wise thing to do at this point knowing that Broadway's well seems to be promising... Halcon is moving their drilling rig to another well site 12 miles south from there and I "heard" and pretty sure, correctly so, that another well is going up on Hwy 1 just north of Broadway's well...should they accept the 500 per acre with 25% royalty or wait for something a little better....

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