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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on June 16, 2014 at 5:20

Nabors Drilling #X17 reported 30 days DRILLING AHEAD @ 13463'', 6/13.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on June 20, 2014 at 15:38

Nabors Drilling #X17 reported 37 days Drilling Ahead @ 19128', 6/20.

Permalink Reply by Bernell McGehee on June 20, 2014 at 22:36

Goodrich announced June 18 that the Denkmann 33-28H-2 had reached had reached total depth in 25 days.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=83169&p=irol-newsAr...

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on June 21, 2014 at 2:21

Bernell, the rig report uses Drilling Ahead as a general category of operations.  In other words operations such as tripping pipe, logging, and running casing would all fall under DA.  If you are expecting what the rig is reporting to be the same as what GDP states in press releases you will continue to be disappointed.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on June 21, 2014 at 4:38

Bernell, while attempting to straighten out some date variations in rig reports for a play other than the TMS I found that RigData made a mistake as part of a major change in how they format and deliver their reports.  The June 13 report went out under the new format but was incorrectly dated June 20.  The report date was used to calculate the days drilling so it mistakenly added 7 days to the total.  The twelve day difference in the GDP TD date was too long to account for the work that normally comes after TD.  Five days is a much better fit for tripping pipe, conditioning the hole, running the casing and cementing the casing.  I'll pay closer attention to the date in the future but suspect that this was a one time anomaly associated with the report format change. 

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on June 28, 2014 at 2:00

Nabors Drilling #X17 is still reporting 44 days Drilling Ahead  with no change in depth @ 19128', 6/20.  As I mention above the term, Drilling Ahead, covers all rig ops not just actual drilling.  Can anyone confirm that the rig is still on the location?

Permalink Reply by Bernell McGehee on June 28, 2014 at 18:28

It is, but is reportedly moving shortly.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on June 29, 2014 at 1:41

Thanks, Bernell.  You'll recall that Denkmann 33-28H #1 experienced a casing failure and only has 1379' of perforated lateral in 6 stages. I'll look forward to completion ops getting underway on the #2.

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