Petrohawk to build natural gas well inside Shreveport
From Staff Reports • February 23, 2009 5:20 pm
Buzz up! Petrohawk Energy Corporation has announced it will drill the first natural gas well for the Haynesville Shale within the Shreveport city limits.
The company just held a press conference to announce the plan at the site, between 70th Street at the start of the Jimmie Davis Highway Bridge, and Clyde Fant Memorial Parkway in Shreveport.
Yes, I know, but it is located right there. I was wondering if they might be getting ready to announce the RESULTS of the first well drilled within the city limits.
But on second thought, I did see a BUNCH of dump trucks at Hamels today, so maybe that is the location of their first well inside the city limits. The B&K 37 is probably outside of the city limits.
Permalink Reply by John on February 25, 2009 at 5:01
The fact that it is section 37 makes its location and description a little unusual. The maps show B-Caddo line to run through the oxbox behind the Haven and the well is on the Bossier side.
If you are flowing back after a frac, you will generally only do so untill the water returns cease or become manageable and/or the gas cleans up to pipeline quality. Ideally you want your gas to go into a sales line, not a flare.
When you frac your injecting a lot of water into the well along with sand and N2. Depending on the size and # of fracs, as well as the % of water that is returned, the time could vary.
Also, they may not have a pipeline hooked up yet, so they may have no other option but to flare.