Be patient for a bit. Those wells are just on the edge of a very extensive drilling program that Continental is working through in 1S-3W and 2S-3W. They were probably shut in to protect them during the frac work on the many wells to the west.
Please start a new topic in the correct State and county if you have a new question, This topic was about Carter County in OK. It keeps the forum from getting confused about the area of interest.
But do they really? Im in 3 of the 4 named wells and exchanged numerous emails and calls with Continental. Would you be patient knowing you have good producing wells that suddenly generate 0 income for months while oil prices are over $100 a bbl and knowing you missed out on the gravy train? Then when they turn the wells back on, do they come back producing the same and how long until the next check arrives, a year? So the original poster and100’s of others like myself are out what a year of payments when oil prices are high, so the operators can shut in the wells to drill other wells that wont be paid out for a year, they dont sweat getting paid on wells like us mineral owners do.
It is very frustrating to have them shut in. But better to have them shut in for a time while they frac the nearby wells and protect the producing wells from the frac pressure hit that could kill the wells forever resulting in no royalties at all. Continental was finishing the drilling and completion of the additional Gapstow and Columbus diagonal wells. The bottom hole locations are very near to the shut in wells and the frac would likely have damaged them.
Once the wells are turned back on, the royalties should follow at about a few months later for oil and another month or so later for gas. That is how long it takes to get the production reports through the operators accounting system and back out to the royalty owners in payments. As to production levels at turn on, it depends upon the well. Some come back better, some are about the same and some may be less.
Here is an Exhibit from one of cases to show how close they are to the ends of the new NW/SE wells.
I had the same question regarding the Courbet 2-21-27 which I am in. It looks like the Courbet bottom hole location is right next to the Columbus well.
