I just drove by the “Pecan” farm pad just about 10 minutes ago. They are currently mobilizing to that pad. There are personnel, fork lifts, a dozer, pipe racks, other equipment and what I would call frac tanks on location. I’m guessing the frac tanks might be there to store oil based mud. I haven’t heard whether they are using oil based or water based or a combo. Someone said they saw the rig on 957.
Well this is a blast from the past. I was fairly active on this site many years ago when the Eagleford was just starting up in Lavaca County and it’s good to see some of the same names and main contributors. Do you guys remember the failed Zaza Energy wells that were drilled just east of 77 and a couple miles south of 532? One of the wells was the Grahmann Unit and was drilled in 2011-2012. I never heard the true version of what happened but there were rumors of issues with the drill stem but I believe the real issue was the operator was not qualified to drill in the geology. I believe this area is in the wet gassy formation. I do remember watching the flare stack and it was massive. Anyways, I am curious if these wells relate to what EOG/Redhawk are after. It looks like Blackshear/Parr and horizontally headed towards both wells Zaza drilled. I’m guessing the Blackshear/Parr pad is 3-5 miles NE of the Grahmann well. I have not heard of any leasing east of 77 so curious if anyone had thoughts or comments on this.
I believe that the ZaZa group was trying to target Eagle Ford instead of moving up hole and targeting the Austin Chalk section.
Zaza flared enough gas from Grahmann to power Las Vegas for a month.
I guess as much depends on the knowledge skills and abilities of the contractors as it does the actual rock. Low bid (or your brother in law) is not always the best choice.
If EOG were to move in that direction how do you think they would handle that existing pooled lease. It is HBP so would they bypass it or try to purchase it (if they believed in the geology)? Zaza no longer exists so I’m not sure who owns it, who knows it could be owned by a bank.