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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on April 12, 2009 at 2:56

It sure would have been interesting to have seen what the Middle Bossier Shale in Section 16 would have done with a 4600' lateral and a 12 stage frac. We'll know eventually.

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on April 12, 2009 at 4:17

Mark, actually it appears the H2 Well is being north from the surface location similar to the other Haynesville Shale wells while the original H1 Well was drilled northwest from the same surface location. I can post the well permits if you are interested. This northwest orientation of the original well is completely different than most other HS horizontal wells and may have been another sign of EnCana targetting the Mid-Bossier Shale with the well.

It is too early to know if EnCana may be planning 16 combined wells in a section. The Mid-Bossier could be planned for much later development or EnCana could drill a couple of wells in each initially and then add wells as production declines to maintain the field rate at plateau based on facility and pipeline capacity.

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Permalink Reply by Bacon on April 12, 2009 at 5:40

Not to flagellate the deceased equine here but....I watched Greysands thread for a while and never saw the conclusions. So the Bossier is between the the CV and HA, generally in RR Parish? And the Hosston is above the CV? Sorry to get OT.

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on April 12, 2009 at 7:00

Bacon, in Louisiana terminology yes the Bossier Shale is immediately above the Haynesville Shale and generally has less porosity (Page 8 of EnCana's Feb 24th presentation . In Texas the Haynesville Shale is just seen as the lower portion of the Bossier Shale. I don't think anyone has a real conclusive view of the extent or outline but you can see Petrohawk's initial indication on the attached map (note the green oblong shape between Texas & Red River Parish).

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• Blob Maps 3-7-09.pdf, 272 KB

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Permalink Reply by w.r. frank on April 12, 2009 at 15:24

Jim, how can you tell Messenger is a vertical Bossier Shale instead of a vertical HA. well. Sonris says Messenger has perfs from 13,346' t0 13,387'. Sort of deep for HA. and for Bossier (which is above HA). See Murray, which is HA at 11,920 to 12,845. Also, Nabors Logan 34, which began curve at 12,279'. These are three most southern wells. I know HA. deepens as you go SE, but that seems awful deep for Bossier Shale?

Do you have some logs?

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Permalink Reply by w.r. frank on April 13, 2009 at 2:22

Thanks Jim. Messenger sure drops off in production rapidly. From 96 mmcf in 22 days in September to 17 mmcf in 31 days of January.

Any theories? At DUG last week, the COO of HK said HA. gets deeper to SE, temperature and pressure go up, and porosity goes down. Also, since Messenger was vertical, perhaps will know more after another well is drilled this far SE.

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