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Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on March 4, 2014 at 10:48

James,

After the well is drilled it takes time to setup the fracking and get it done. It will not happen over night. Just be patient. It will happen it just takes time.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 4, 2014 at 10:46

james, once a well is drilled to TD and the rig is gone I get no more weekly reports.  There is no similar tracking service for completion contractors.  Days and indeed weeks can go by with no operations at the location.  We depend on local members to keep an eye on the well in order to know when completion ops commence.

Permalink Reply by james l. stewart on March 4, 2014 at 17:39

   Thanks to everyone for the help, I live in baton rouge so I depend on this site for my info.

Permalink Reply by Bernell McGehee on March 4, 2014 at 11:43

The fracking crew hopes to begin arriving on the Lawson 25H-1 site sometime early next week.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 11, 2014 at 8:47

Fracking begins on Lawson well

McComb, Mississippi  www.enterprise-journal.com   

Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:00 pm

Equipment associated with hydraulic fracturing is seen Monday at the site of the Encana Lawson 25H-1 oil well located in Gillsburg on the property of county Supervisor Max Lawson. The fracking of this well is a long-awaited and highly anticipated development in the exploration of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale formation in southwest Mississippi and southeastern and central Louisiana, where oil companies are going after an estimated 7 billion barrels of oil.

 

Permalink Reply by james l. stewart on March 11, 2014 at 18:05

  thanks skip,keep us posted.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 12, 2014 at 2:12

james, we'll have to depend on articles such as this one and any members who are in the vicinity.  Once drilling is completed there are no more rig reports to track progress.  It can take over a week to complete the frac operations and then the well must have a pipeline connection in order to flow.  Even after EnCana flows the well it could be months before Initial Production is reported.  Hopefully it will be a very good well in which case EnCana may mention it in a corporate presentation or press release.

Permalink Reply by rasputin on March 15, 2014 at 9:21

Hey, Skip, Tuscaloosa wells produce crude oil.  Pipelines are not needed.  The oil is collected in tanks at the well site and then  hauled away in trucks to, for instance, the terminal at Liberty Mississippi,.  

Operators receive Louisiana Light Sweet prices less the cost of transportation to St. James, Louisiana.

Permalink Reply by Bernell McGehee on March 15, 2014 at 9:28

Yep. 

And, the natural gas that is produced (roughly 6%) is "wet" such that it is also hauled away in trucks.

The pipeline proposed from Liberty to St. Francisville will offer another market for the oil, but isn't necessary.

The CMR 8-5 started producing earlier this week.  Oil trucks have been leaving the site since Tuesday or Wednesday and each day since.

Permalink Reply by jim weyland on March 15, 2014 at 10:35

imo, it's very unlikely the gas is being trucked out. it has been done, though, but it requires specialized trucks with the many narrow, skinny tanks you'll see on the road carrying helium, argon or other such gases.

given how expensive those (pretty rare) trucks are, when combined with the costs of temporarily, field compressing the gas to the needed pressures to get into those trucks, my guess is that 99 of 100 operators will wait to get a gas line built to the closest, existing gas line w/capacity.

and, i'm guessing that the well site you reference has in addition to any conventional tanks set to receive oil/condensate, there's some 'bullet' tanks. note: these resemble very large propane tanks. they accept lighter hydrocarbons knocked out of the gas stream by separator(s) or by a field j-t unit. 

imo, 6% sounds to me like gas liquefiables, therefore, bullet tanks; by definition, 'wet' or 'rich' gas is that which has a bunch of liquifiables.

onshore, oil/condensate and gas liquifiables are trucked out unless there's enough production to build dedicated pipelines. but, with gas a pl is about the only economical way to move the stuff.

Permalink Reply by Bernell McGehee on March 15, 2014 at 13:44

Jim,

They are, in fact, liquefying the gas onsite and trucking it out in specialized trucks. 

I'm not certain, but it you will look at the pic below that rasaput... posted, I think the white tanks on the right are involved in this process.

Regardless, they have run lines from the Anderson 18-1 and 17-2/3 wells to the site of the Anderson 17-1 unit where all gas from these 4 wells is being liquefied/purified enough to be hauled away.

Whether it is profitable or not to do this, I don't know.  EnCana seems to think it is.

I also recall Goodrich mentioning it in one of their presentations.  So, I'm fairly sure they are doing the same thing.

Permalink Reply by Bernell McGehee on March 15, 2014 at 15:33

Ahh...found the pic of the 17-1 site.

The white horizontal tank is, I believe, the storage tank for the liquefied natural gas.  The little bit of dry gas remaining is flared. 

It isn't of commercial quality according to folks I've talked with at EnCana and they are allowed to flare it.

The TMS is a liquids play all the way.

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