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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on April 3, 2009 at 12:03

It is generally after the hit a well. Dry holes don't need pipelines.

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Permalink Reply by ALongview on April 3, 2009 at 12:09

Thanks for the reply Two Dogs. I only ask because I was told by a landman that they were working on land for pipeline for a well that was just approved a month ago. It is in the Quirk survey in San Augustine. Haynesville Shale well by St. Mary......Blm-?. I thought it peculiar that they would be working on this well before the well had been finished. Any thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on April 3, 2009 at 12:15

You can get the cart before the horse in the HS, don't think there will be many dry holes in this play. In the Austin Chalk play CHK had to redo some wells because they didn't have pipelines in place to move the gas fast enough and the wells silted up.

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Permalink Reply by Checkmateking on April 4, 2009 at 5:10

Dry holes don't need pipelines but there won't be any dry holes in the core shale, some may be better than others but they are now in the unique circumstance to be able to count their chickens before they hatch.

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Permalink Reply by herefordsnshale on April 3, 2009 at 13:53

On the appraisals I do in the hot CV areas in Panola County they've got to where they lay out the well pad and pipeline at the same time. I've asked the landmen about it, they say they don't worry about dry hole in those areas.

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Permalink Reply by Big Daddy, bcnr on April 5, 2009 at 15:05

For what it's worth, a 12" gathering line was being constructed and crossed our property awhile before the well was finished. It is for a HS well in sec. 18 14n-13w (maybe 14w) Desoto Parish. Obviously they were confident on the wells productivity. So what you described is going on in the core area.

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