I will venture some educated guesses as to what you saw as per your note.
Operator will not be logging the horizontal wellbore - but they would log the vertical well / especially if it was drilled as a pilot hole thru the target section so as to “see” how this looks before planning to go lateral (as well as compare to other log results across the trend).
Vacuum trucks may have been doing one of two things - bringing in oil-based mud for drilling the lateral or taking off some water-based mud from the pits.
Note it may be difficult to ascertain if the rig is still on the initial Pecan pad well or has moved over to the 2nd location. Wellheads would only be about 25’ apart on the pad.
I checked the surface locations of each of the wells and they are darn close, so I would guess you would not be able to tell a difference in rig location from where you took the picture @milton_mache
Been trying to post a pic no luck if that rig moved 1ft it would show up got electric pole fence post in same spot on rig. We’ll head still under rig. I don’t have much going on now watching pipe line getting covered up in my hay patch. Rig today not doing much.
Milton- in a post you had about a week ago you mentioned Monster was a “dry hole” where did you get this info from ?
Went to Pecan Farm yesterday, rig half loaded with pipes on one side, but no activity, and few workers on site. Lot of pipeline workers though…a lot of them just huddled up talking and watching someone else work.
Still very little info about Pecan farm wells…only thing I got was 1 negative comment on Monster…..but….is this the narrative EOG wants during lease assignment negotiations with KEW ?
Went by Parr yesterday as well…spoke with landowner who has been watching activity daily, and he says the amount of trucks compared to Blackshear’s flowback is a small fraction. I was there over 30 minutes and no tanker trucks on site, then 1 water truck came in and hooked up to one of the 12 frack tanks. Flare was barely visible at times…at other times not visible at all. Again only thing I can think of is that the frack process on Parr took a lot less water ?? At least we all should have some comfort that EOG is one of the best if not the best player we can have in this area…so the results will be the results….
Modern Energy just permitted it’s 3rd well on the Grover unit in Komensky…but they are calling the unit another name…Ellie Mae or something like that…this again is a 13,000 foot well with horizontal running north/south like the other 2…not sure if they are looking at a different reservoir…
MR-ML Taught they were finished must of been taking spiral drill collars out of line. Walked by this morning rig is in same spot got plenty of drone videos to know if moved. Going on3rd day no pipe in are out. Halliburton got big wire line unit with cable going up to drill floor. Still waiting to see more casing are drill liner to go down the horizonal part. Pipe line in my hay patch 70 percent covered up. Waiting to bore under roads.
Modern Energy Nelda Sue unit aka Grover unit on corner of FM 532 and FM 1295 new permitted well will be an Austin chalk well with about a 9500 ft horizontal running north/south. Redhawk has the land to the east of this unit and has plans to do the same with north/south laterals.
I was at Parr a couple hours ago and there was pretty good traffic. I was there around 20 minutes and had 4 trucks come and 2 left. There were 4 hooked up to the frac tanks and one to the oil/liquids tank.
I’m not sure what you call this process of where the liquids go into the frac tanks, but the one maroon color tank that spews some sort of steam/vapor was really going crazy today. In the last 3 days this is getting stronger (more pressure) every day . Whatever this is must be good, when I was there this morning I saw 1 water truck leave and 2 pulled in and hooked up to frac tanks…also had 1 oil tanker. Blackshear is still giving out 600 bopd so this has to be added to oil truck count. The flare is still barely visible compared with Blackshear day 5 of flowback when it was crazy high….although this also might be a good thing since there were issues with the pipeline first 2 weeks of Blackshear production. Yesterday , was told by a rep that Parr is a “productive” well…ask some questions and only told that Parr’s numbers are less than Blackshear, but a “green light” for the 2 units to the south of this pad….they had surveyors out on thursday last week. Asked about the 4 units above Blackshear/Parr and got no response….think my question quota was up.
Lots of action at the monster rock pecan pad got three vacuum trucks. A fuel truck came in a hot shot truck with a bunch of tools couple big collars and subs.
Last night wire line trucks finally left. Must’ve ran the drill pipe back down in the hole and right now they’re pulling the pipe back out.
The flare was was constant kind of like a oversized candle and I saw the same on the water vapor/steam which I have no idea what it was, At first I thought it was something to do with an HVAC system. When I was there there were two units by the frac tanks blowing steam
What’s going on at Pecan Farm? Is there a strike or people just not working on Sabbath day? The rigs pipe rack was a quarter full, rig not running, no workers present plus at the new pipeline there are no backhoes running or workers on site. Deadsville!!!
With respect to the “steam” - remember that these fluids are coming from a high temperature environment - estimating 225-250 degrees F (without looking at deep logs to confirm bottom hole temperature range).
Hot fluids both oil and water / frac fluid - plus part of the “steam” may really be some gas being liberated from the fluid stream
Common to let pipeline crews have some time off on weekends.
As for the rig, I am sure the rig was “running” (i.e. pumps circulating fluid) / they would never shut them down.
Not seeing any workers on the rig may have just been a coincidental viewing while crew was in a meeting (out of sight).
Or rig was short of crew due to unexpected drug test results (contractors to this a lot - if workers fail, they are kicked off, and new workers need to be brought in). I have seen this happen often - rig crews not the most reliable as to staying away from prohibited substances
Technical term for this is “post frac flowback” - lots of variability in water volumes and oil cut (percentage) plus associated gas as the wellbore starts to “clean up” after being opened up after frac has been performed.
Clean up time to get to stabilized O&G (and water) rate will vary based on formation and area. Sometimes one will see stabilized flow in a couple of weeks. Sometimes a month.
Spraberry formation in Permian Basin takes several months before stabilized flow is achieved.
A comment about your note “Blackshear is still giving out 600 BOPD”.
Unless EOG (or any other company) has fired their safety engineers and/or are trying to get OSHA to shut them down and/or are trying to get people killed, the Blackshear will NOT be producing while the Parr well is being frac’d / flowed back. Wellheads are too close together to allow this to happen without creating a major safety issue.
Normal process - which is 100% norm on these multi-location pads - is to shut in the producing well (in this case, the Blackshear) and set 1-2 temporary plugs to protect that well from any damage in case things go south on the Parr during frac and flow back operations
The 600 bopd for Blackshear was taking the actual production of oil only which was 14,043 for August…Only 23 operating days for August due to Parr shutdown brings this to 610 bopd.
They restarted the unit for about 3 days beginning of September, then down until October 13th.