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Permalink Reply by obed w odom on June 26, 2013 at 13:18

shale player,

According to the links that I gave above, the BML well is the older of the 2 by about 6 months, so in this case the older well is doing better.

Permalink Reply by B Kenner on June 27, 2013 at 4:11

That is what I understand also.  The BML is the older well.  My question is ....How do you determine how long a well will produce and please explain the decline of the wells.

Permalink Reply by obed w odom on June 27, 2013 at 6:39

Brenda, I'm not an expert on this, but it certainly seems that the Doles is declining faster than the BML.  For example, the test of the Doles on 4/23/13 showed it producing 61 barrels of condensate per day, which is 35.7% less than its average of 95 bcpd for the whole month of April. Gas production for the Doles was down 11.2% on the test date from the average for the month.

On the other hand, the test of the BML on 4/27/13 showed 139 bcpd, which is only 8.55% less than the April average of 152 bcpd. Gas production from the BML was down only 4.4% on the test date from the average for the month.

There have been some reports that casing problems in the Doles caused some of the fracture stages to be unsuccessful, which may account at least in part for its poor performance so far.

Permalink Reply by B Kenner on June 27, 2013 at 9:20

Thank you Obed.  

Permalink Reply by shale player on June 27, 2013 at 11:35

Obed and others,

Sorry, I guess I'm getting older and senile. The older well is doing better but neither well is doing very good.  The rates are way too low to payout the wells' cost.  I'd guess that SWN will have to install compression soon to keep them producing and that's not good when you started with a reservoir pressure that was very high as reported by Mr. Mueller. 

Permalink Reply by B Kenner on July 22, 2013 at 4:12

Well, the Doles was really down in May.  What is the deal...Will this production increase?

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 22, 2013 at 4:27

B Kenner, are you referring to production reported on SONRIS Lite?

Permalink Reply by B Kenner on July 22, 2013 at 5:02

No it is from another report.  Have they had it shut in ?  

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 22, 2013 at 5:18

The DT-1 test 4/23 does show the choke opened from 26/64th. on the original SDM20 test to 34/64th.  There will be another DT-1 reported in November.  Outside of those two reports operators are not required to report choke adjustments or shut in condition so there's no way to know for sure unless the operator will tell you.  The BML appears to be holding up better as it has not been changed from it's original choke setting as of the report 4/23.

Permalink Reply by obed w odom on July 22, 2013 at 7:23

The combined May production figures reported by SONRIS Lite  for the BML plus Doles are:

162 barrels condensate per day, down 36% from April

1980 mcfd gas, down 36.7% from April

So this is a larger monthly decline than we had seen previously, especially in the gas production. Brenda, you may be right that the Doles is doing very poorly now or has been shut in. As I said earlier and Skip re-iterated, the DT-1 tests in late April indicated a relatively poor performance for the Doles, compared with the BML.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on July 30, 2013 at 13:57

The Well Cost Statements for the BML and Doles wells were recently entered in the SONRIS Classic database.

BML  Form STRP-WCS (Well Cost Statement)  http://ucmwww.dnr.state.la.us/ucmsearch/UCMRedir.aspx?url=http%3a%2...

 

Doles Form STRP-WCS (Well Cost Statement)

http://ucmwww.dnr.state.la.us/ucmsearch/UCMRedir.aspx?url=http%3a%2...

Permalink Reply by dbob on July 30, 2013 at 14:02

Combined costs of $37,000,000  That, my friends, is a lot of Benjamins!

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