Lloyd, whats interesting if you look on the second page of the JoAnn permit it references a location exception with SHL in sec.19. They don’t know if they are going north or south!
Lloyd and Lea…Next time I go to the diggins I’ll go a little further west and check on the McElroy.
The are back to drilling again on both of the last two Branch wells so maybe they will have those two rigs loose before long and we can get them all fracked. It doesn’t look like they will be able to stick with the date of April 15th for that like was planned but maybe soon.
Linda: You are so right. A couple from the Houston area missed the explosion by a few minutes. Father and daughter crossed the finish line and were resting up when the blasts occurred. Prayers. Jim
Our hearts and prayers are going out to the bomb victims in Boston!
Amen
I would like to find out the latest production figures for a well in Blaine County. It is the Birds Nest 1-6H in 6-14-11. I’m sure there must be somewhere to look this up. I would appreciate any information.
Angela,
Sadly there is not really a public way to look them up. At least not all of it. You will find the gas production on the OCC site. However, those records are mostly incomplete and in many cases not accurate http://www.occpermit.com/WellBrowse/ The API of that well is 3501123453 .
Here is the OCC GAS
September 2012 32318
October 2012 35086
November 2012 31703
December 2012 31027
January 2013 29590
February 2013 25289
Shoot me a friend request and a message and I can give you a few other options and info.
It looks like it was producing about 180 barrels a month of oil in the last half of 2012.
Angela,
I did not find any reports for this year. Just end of year figures. Maybe someone else has a better source?
Darla,
I’m not seeing anything but 2012 data except from OCC gas reports. But most of my other sources usually lag 6 months or so anyhow.
Ron,
I’m pretty sure that DI is not correct. They are showing ~5,700,000 cumlative, but the first month is ~5,500,000 of that.
The numbers @ OCC and DI should be MCF. Some others uses MMCF (M=1000) It looks like they entered CF figures for month one. (April 2012)
Ironically all 4 reports I looked at show various months missing where others show production. However some of them get the data from various sources. Based on numbers I have looked at I would say it was 362,000 MCF total from April-Dec 2012 would be pretty close.
Rick What do you show for gas production on Birds Nest well from first prod. date of April 2012 to Dec. 2012 as reported on D.I. . Is that MCF or CF ?
Thank you everyone who went the extra mile to help find something on the Bird’s Nest.
As a general statement, sometimes these wells are shut down for a period of time for various well treatments, and sometimes these can take weeks. The other thing that can happen is that in a particular month, you may not meet Devon’s minimum threshold of payment, in which case they would accumulate money for you until it does. I don’t know that either of these apply in your case, but that is often what the problem is. Devon is especially overloaded right now, and not particularly responsive.
Rick,
Thanks for the information on Bird’s Nest in Blaine County. I received a payment from Devon on this well monthly from October through March 15 (which was for 1-2013 production) , but nothing since. I’ve contacted Devon and have received no response.
Is that normal that payments would be intermittent? I see production numbers at OCC for January and February.
Steven,
The oil companies should be paying each month sales occur unless they area under the threshold as JW stated. They have to pay if the amount is over $10, but can amounts up to $100 if they have an agreement with the owner. I think you will find that agreement in your division orders. Most have it. If you look at your check stubs, I think you will find gas sales to be minimal and monthly oil is what drives up your check. The OCC number you are seeing are only for gas production.
This well is producing low enough that the tank may not be filling to a full truck load each month. I see that happen quite a bit with our wells. They will sell 150-180 barrels at a time and 1 (to several) months will skip and it is not producing much.
Been offered a Lease in Stephens co. for $ 300.00 bonus and 3/16 for 3 yrs. is this the going rate. for sec. 33-T2N-07W? Thanks for any info.
For everyone in these discussions…
Do NOT do business with Ferrell Oil out of Oklahoma City. We had an offer to purchase minerals in Grady County, 11-03-06. Jim Meyer with Ferrell said he represents a college endowment fund and wanted to purchase our property for the school. We negotiated a purchase contract with them and was asked to fax it to them with our signature so they could show it to the school to get funding to close the purchase. He said it would take 30 days to do a title opinion. They, however, never did sign the contract and return it to us.
As it turns out, they are a broker and do not purchase property for their clientele rather than look for a buyer once you agree to sell to Ferrell Oil. They will want to issue you a 30 day bank draft and if they can’t find a buyer for your property in those 30 days, they just don’t pay the draft. We negotiated to be paid by ACH/Wire Transfer.
We will find another buyer but DO NOT do business with Ferrell Oil out of Oklahoma City unless you want to sit around, be lied to and then never get the deal closed.
Also be wary of them doing business under another name.
I had the suspicion that this was their strategy. Deep sixed the offer.
Rick and JW,
Thank you for the information regarding Bird’s Nest. I finally heard from Devon. They overpaid me in November. It looks like someone entered numbers, realized they were wrong and then entered new numbers in three categories - but failed to delete the first set. Considering how complicated the reports are, this is not something that jumps off the page (at least not to me). They discovered the problem in February or March. They thus are offsetting payments for April and May and likely part of June. I wish they had bothered to tell me: I had to contact them multiple times to get a response. Their mistake causes some minor tax issues (which I can deal with), but is otherwise just a cash-flow problem now that I know.
Steven:
I have some interests in several wells in the Cana Woodford. On my statements, there are an incredible number of adjustments, going back multiple months. This is not only true of Devon, but other operators such as Cimarex. In most cases they are minor adjustments, sometimes positive and sometimes negative. Sometimes there are literally several pages for an individual well. Gas accounting has got to be a nightmare. The scary thing is that you really have no way of knowing what is right and what is wrong for the most part.