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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on October 1, 2009 at 22:23

Les, are you suggesting that in 15/10, Section 34 Questar is drilling a horizontal Cotton Valley well and that in this well a TVD of 12,280' places the completion in the Cotton Valley formation rather than the Haynesville? If so, I find it a little hard to believe.

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on October 2, 2009 at 13:46

SB, I am saying Questar has permitted this well as a Cotton Valley test so I do not have any reason to believe it is anything else. Once the well is drilled I will have more information concerning the true vertical depth of the interval drilled and perforated. Before such time everything else is just speculation. If you review information from drilled wells you see that actual depths can be very different than those shown on the well permit.

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Permalink Reply by BirdDawg, plain ole' idiot on October 2, 2009 at 14:20

Les,
I understand what you are saying, but I will bet good money that this one goes to the Haynesville.

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Permalink Reply by Les Bamburg on October 12, 2009 at 17:25

SB, I have taken a closer look at the subject section and now realize the Cotton Valley Zone for this unit includes the Haynesville Shale Formation. I believe the well permit is mis-labeled because even though the unit/zone is named Cotton Valley, the permit should list the specific targetted formation rather than the zone.

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Permalink Reply by redrivergal on October 3, 2009 at 7:12

The well permit for 240262 listed on Sonris originally had the location as being in Red River Parish. It has since been corrected and now lists it as a Bienville Parish well. It will be just north of the RR-Bienville Parish line.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 4, 2009 at 11:17

I sent an email to Dr. Kumar at the LOC. He had one of his staff call me. According to the staffer, there are a number of CV, LCV and Jur units which include the HA. Not much of a surprise on the Jurassic but I was under the mistaken impression that the units approved as LCV that included the HA were limited to one field and several smaller operators before the Commissioner issued his order to disallow units combining the HA with any sandstone formations. The staffer did not have a total number for the approved units in question but he said there were quite a few in a number of fields and some predated the HA Shale by a considerable period of time (No, I didn't ask how long). The fact that some apps were for the CV was a surprise as that seems like an extreme stretch. Every approved D&P unit that combined HA and sandstone intervals in the same unit app regardless of what it was called was grandfathered in by the Commissioner's order if it was approved prior to the order's effective date. Therefore we will continue to see HA wells permitted as CV, LCV and Jurassic wherever those grandfathered units exist.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 4, 2009 at 15:00

The latest example:

http://dnr.louisiana.gov/CONS/CONSEREN/hearings/2009/11NOV/09-1178a...

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Permalink Reply by insomniacnla on October 4, 2009 at 15:44

I apologize for being a little off topic but...
About 3 weeks ago, I was checking Empresa on Sonris and noticed that Aubrey McClendon is listed as the CEO. He wasn't always listed as the CEO was he?

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 4, 2009 at 15:57

insomniacnla. Aubrey is not listed as the CEO of Empressa. Dale Bowering is CEO.

http://www.empresaenergy.com/Team.htm

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Permalink Reply by insomniacnla on October 5, 2009 at 2:48

When you go to Sonris and click on the organization name for Empresa and Empress, scroll down to the bottom of the page and this is what is listed:

"Officer Name Title
AUBREY K. MCCLENDON CEO
MARCUS C. ROWLAND CFO
STEVE DIXON COO"


I just cut and pasted it here from Sonris.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 5, 2009 at 2:52

Classic SONRIS glitch. I can assure you Aubrey is not the CEO of Empresa.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on October 5, 2009 at 3:20

The LOC staff is human and makes the occasional mistake. I contacted them this morning regarding Docket # 09-1171, an XTO unit app in the Sligo Field. The application lists the four proposed units as HA RA SU 53 - 56 but the plat shows HA RA SU BB - EE. When dealing with the alpha-numeric maze of S-T-R, numerous codes, orders and dockets, mistakes happen. It happens to me all the time. But then again, I have Les to correct me when I make a mistake. Thanks, Les

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