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landownerPermalink Reply by Ted Ward on February 18, 2026 at 6:48

20 century witch craft

landownerPermalink Reply by Ted Ward on April 22, 2026 at 8:06

in re to well#255420 in south Bienville i see on sonris that they have applied for and been granted a permit to plug and abandon the well  temporarily for future reentry. Does this mean the well is done or they are waiting for something  to happen?

Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on April 22, 2026 at 8:19

Status 31 is the code that operators use after a well has been drilled but is not yet completed.  This is not a permit to plug and abandon.  This is a well waiting on a completion crew.

landownerPermalink Reply by Ted Ward on April 22, 2026 at 8:38

sorry Skip maybe i did make myself clear. Today a permit dated 4-22-26  was issued to set a cast iron bridge above perfs @9,994 with cement on top to temporarily abandon well for future re entry. this is the first entry on sonris since 2-23 that was a permit to frac.

Permalink Reply by Jesse Joyner on April 22, 2026 at 8:45

Ted, once the frack is finished, reviewing the SONRIS well info can give you a better forecast of the well's future production. Note: Rarely does a frack hangup in the HA these days, but it has happened in the past. If it does happen, the well will then be P&Aed . . . unless the risk/$ to attempt another frack temps the operator to give it another shot.

Also, sometimes it can take months to move a frack crew in. Nevertheless, you probably have rough odds -- better than 90% or so -- to be put in the pay deck if you own mineral rights in that well's section/s.

The only thing that jumps out at me is the name of the operator. I'm not familiar with that company. But hey, they've spent a ton of money so far on the spud, and ya gotta dance with company that brought you to the lease.

Finally, I always tell folks not to go on a spending spree until the first direct deposit actually clears your bank. Plus, once you get your first royalty statement, you'll be able to better estimate your monthly income for the foreseeable years.

Congrats. 

landownerPermalink Reply by Ted Ward on April 22, 2026 at 9:22

Jesse thanks for the reply. the well is a CV and LCV vertical well. Lots of ups and downs since 11-20-25 but it does seem strange to me that today they applied for a permit to plug and abandon after being in status 31 since 2-18-26. For someone who knows nothing about drilling it is as mysterious as the universe. Again thanks for the reply  and i will keep checking on sonris to see what happens.

Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on April 22, 2026 at 9:38

Looks like Magnetar didn't find what they were looking for.

landownerPermalink Reply by Ted Ward on April 22, 2026 at 9:47

 well i guess we are 0-2 in section 32, damn

Permalink Reply by Jesse Joyner on April 22, 2026 at 11:36

Yes, Skip & you are right. I was wrong. I rushed and didn't clearly read the well file. It doesn't look good. At least they gave it a shot.

landownerPermalink Reply by Ted Ward on April 22, 2026 at 11:46

i am lucky to have a shot at 2 gas wells. not many people have that chance. oh well back to eating beanie weenies instead of steaks!

Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Rock Man on April 23, 2026 at 4:13

Was looking at the Magnetar well details - figured they spent $3.5-$4 million drilling, setting casing, testing / frac'ing this well with no apparent success.

Magnetar's website indicates that their objective is to drill high risk / high reward type of prospects that have been ID with 3D seismic. 

I still believe that the target for this well was some sort of deep "reef" feature - something in the Jurassic section (Cotton Valley? Haynesville?).

• Their surface vs BHL info on the permit points to them looking to hit a specific target in the subsurface - like a reef feature. Based on similar reef success cases in East Texas, the CVL reefs are pinnacle in nature, i.e. tall reef build ups with small areal footprints (e.g. less than 100 acres).

The frac effort (only 1.8 million pounds proppant and 45,620 BW) was probably an attempt to build on gas shows and some reservoir development seen that caused them to set production casing.

I know of other Cotton Valley reef drilling that took place in this same area back in the 1990's in Winn Parish (about 50 miles south of here). Snyder O&G and their partners drilled two CVL reef features based on 3D work. Both wells encountered reefs - but the reefs were tite with on porosity and perm.

landownerPermalink Reply by Ted Ward on April 23, 2026 at 5:26

thanks for describing the situation in language even i can understand. The work description states "temporarily abandon well for future re entry". Does this mean anything or is it just a dead hole?

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