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Permalink Reply by Jesse Joyner on August 7, 2021 at 5:21

Thanks for the update, Skip. Glad to see big-gorilla Aethon has moved a high-horsepower rig onto the pad. They're getting it done a bit sooner than I'd expected. With NG prices zooming up, up, up -- this warms the heart. Bodes well for things to come. Looks like the roughnecks will have some idea, even if it's speculative, of the location's potential before Thanksgiving. Lucky us.     

Permalink Reply by Rock Man on August 7, 2021 at 5:48

I wouldn't count on the rig crew / rough necks knowing anything about potential. They will be long gone before the frac crew comes in and does their thing.

Wonder what sort of time frame will pass between rig move off and frac operations? Timing probably impacted by the construction of gas pipeline to be able to take post frac straight to sales instead of flaring it.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on August 7, 2021 at 6:08

There is a gathering system in place so only a line from the well site to the closest tap will be required.  Chesapeake came through the Ashland Field in 2011 and drilled three wells.  Two were completed as Haynesville and one as Cotton Valley.  Those early wells under performed so Chesapeake moved on to other areas.  At the time this was considered the eastern extremity of the economic fairway.  Not surprising to see Aethon give the Ashland Field another go with updated well designs that have worked in other peripheral areas of the known fairway.  These three wells were produced until 2016.

https://sonlite.dnr.state.la.us/sundown/cart_prod/cart_con_wellinfo...

https://sonlite.dnr.state.la.us/sundown/cart_prod/cart_con_wellinfo...

https://sonlite.dnr.state.la.us/sundown/cart_prod/cart_con_wellinfo...

Permalink Reply by Jesse Joyner on August 7, 2021 at 6:10

Thanks for the insight, RM. In the past some of the guys on the drilling/frac crews have shared their insider thinking with the locals living near the Ashland Field. Of course, one has to take such roughneck scuttlebutt with a grain of salt. That's true. Note that CHK put a pipeline in near there years ago for the Guin well, I think it was. So turning to sales might be sooner rather than later since they'll be motivated to cash in on the high NG hub prices.

Permalink Reply by Rock Man on August 7, 2021 at 6:33

Attached a map from ENVERUS showing the new permit (20500) versus nearby historical well control. The three nearby laterals all went off line in 2016 - not that long ago so as to allow for that gathering line to be in pretty good shape.

I am sure that Aethon has been talking to pipeline owner about tap fees, line pressure and capacities.

Note - the old vertical gas wells on this map went off line in 1984. I would worry that line as a viable option since it has been dormant for over 36 years.

Attachments:

• 20500 permit map Ashland.pdf, 323 KB

Permalink Reply by Jesse Joyner on August 7, 2021 at 6:45

As I remember it, the CHK pipeline came up straight from the south (not the SW) to produce the Guin well. It was a brand new ROW. Of course my memory might be wrong.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on August 7, 2021 at 6:59

Looking at the IP pressures for the two HA completions, I would expect that the existing gathering lines are rated for high pressure and are of adequate diameter for this well.  But what do I know, I am but a lowly landman.  :-)  Thanks for the map Rock Man.  I would think that rock on the peripheral of the defined economic fairway that has existing infrastructure would be of interest to a number of companies.  I'm still processing how far north Trinity has drilled and continues to form HA units in northwest Caddo Parish.  Most of the early Haynesville focused operators took a look at the rock in 18N-16 &15W and quickly moved on south.  That area, Town of Blanchard/Longwood Field area, was without any exploration for about eight years until Comstock came along with the backing of USG Properties (nextera) in 2018.  Of course that was still early in the era of ever longer laterals and evolving high intensity frac designs.  Not a complete total surprise that it worked well along I-20 but economic wells have been made another 8 to 9 miles further north to date.  That was under performing rock deemed to have to great of a clay content.  And that is a surprise to me.  See my disclaimer above.  :-)

Permalink Reply by Daniel Frazier on October 13, 2021 at 23:41

Sonris shows the 577 released from this well and it looks like the rig has moved out of the parish on the Precision rig locator. Maybe Aethon and Halliburton will send in the all-electric fracturing spread at some point.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 14, 2021 at 3:05

Thanks, Daniel.  I would be good to know when the completion ops get underway.

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on December 6, 2021 at 12:38

The completion ops are finished and although the well is not reported complete just yet, Aethon must like what they have seen so far as they permitted another Ashland Field well today.

253123

HA RA SUN;ROWELL 16-21 HC

001

A1760

0131

35

00

016

13N

07W

12/06/2021

17069205090000

 

PRMT DATE	SPUD DATE	STAT DATE	ST CD
12/06/2021		12/06/2021	01

WELL SURFACE COORDINATES

Surface Longitude	Surface Latitude	Lambert X	Lambert Y	Ground Elevation	Zone	Datum
0-0-0	0-0-0	1817831	525801	176.9	N	NAD-27

WELL SURFACE COORDINATES GENERATED BY DNR

UTMX 83	UTMY 83	LONGITUDE 83	LATITUDE 83
491648.87277583	3552740.01461369	-93.08852669	32.11098115	View GIS

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

12/06/2021

15304

23144

02

1818984

518452

N

01

WELL HISTORY

SERIAL	WELL NAME	WELL NUM	ORG ID	FIELD	ST CD	PT	WELL CLASS	EFF DATE	END DATE	STAT DATE
253123	HA RA SUN;ROWELL 16-21 HC	001	A1760	0131	01	00		12/06/2021		12/06/2021

SCOUT INFO

REPORT DATE	WELL STATUS	MEASURED DEPTH	TRUE VERT DEPTH	DETAIL
12/06/2021	01	23144		2380' FSL & 1606' FEL OF SEC 16-T13N-R7W. PBHL: 330' FSL & 380' FEL OF SEC 21-T13N-R7W.

Permalink Reply by Rock Man on December 6, 2021 at 18:59

Again, building on Skip's comments, operator finished drilling out the 81 frac plugs on Nov 26th and then were fighting over 7000# of casing pressure before shutting well in over Thanksgiving weekend. Very well may be flowing back right now.

Did 82 frac stages - a pretty intense stimulation effort. Looks like about 100' frac stages.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Frazier on December 12, 2021 at 23:29

Ser# 252834 is flowing back. The wellpad in Section 16 for Ser# 252123 (appears to be the slot 6 well to south)  looks about ready to receive a rig. 

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