You notation right here is interest: PS note on NE Gaines County - there is low thermal maturity in that part of the basin. This will negatively impact any success in true “shale plays”
Like I say I am a novice but doing my best to learn, seems like I have never heard anything negative about a “shale” play. It’s always intrigued me but I have not studied it in detail nor spent time figuring out the intricacies like you mentioned - “NE Gaines County - there is lowthermal maturity in that part of the basin. This will negatively impact anysuccess in true "shale plays”,
Something else, I would have never guessed that small trend traveling thru at least three shale zones is a San Andres producing trend. It may have seemed like something normal to you but to me it was just odd, and the San Andres looked strange.
The whole subsurface “state of affairs” with any prospective formation is ultra complicated. Especially in an area like the Permian Basin with all its complexities and intricacies.
Issues that impact “shale plays” (and technically these are not shales - but I won’t go into that here) are thermal maturity, clay content (brittleness or lack thereof), organic types (oil vs gas kerogen) and overall thickness of target intervals versus frac barriers and/or wet intervals. Then you tie in operator related issues such as picking the right landing zone, staying in that zone along the lateral length, getting a good cement job on casing in the lateral and then performing an effective frac along the entire lateral. And then drilling out those frac plugs and doing a good job producing the well over time.
The San Andres trend / existence is tied to the original deposition of that formation and subsequent O&G migration and charge of traps in that trend. This is a true conventional play that has been tapped since the early days of Permian Basin production. Today operators are trying to suck out more O&G from the San Andres via horizontal drilling and stimulation as well as chasing the ROZ interval in certain areas. There is also a lot of effort in the San Andres tied to secondary and tertiary recovery (using water and/or CO2 to help strip out more O&G).
As noted earlier, the Permian Basin is a very complicated playground.
AJ, good article on CO2 and OXY - thanks for posting that. The cost per BO for this approach was an interesting number. I wonder if that includes SWD and all other operating costs.
On to the Clearfork Shale item - Diamondback tried chasing that a few years ago in Andrews County. Lots of science (core, high tech logs) plus drilled a couple of state of the art laterals.
Results were less than economic - just not enough oil in place in stimulated intervals to support horizontal drilling. But with higher prices, you never know if this play will become viable.
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Kelli, at one point in time you were asking who Cimmeron was leasing for in Gaines County.
It was Tomahawk Oil Production out of Midland, they really pursued the ‘shale’..including Eagle Ford & a couple of others. Initially they were doing ok, then something went wrong then they filed bankruptcy around 1992…then reorganized and started over, not sure what their deal is now.
Evidently they were leasing a lot in Gaines, not sure if in one spot but all over the place. I was told years ago when they were leasing that they thought they had located a ‘shale play’. Not sure where, but they were leasing from me sec 13, sec 12 & sec 7…which is in the northeast portion of the County, near the Adair unit.
But he didn’t specifically say they thought it was under my stuff, something I assumed. Could have been talking about other area of Gaines. Cannot remember the exact conversation but Sec. 12 seemed to be something special from what they were seeing.
Last year a land man for Tomahawk (allegedly) leased a half section from my family on land a couple of miles northwest of Cedar Lake. So far, no other activity on it.
Joe Kell… tried to look you up on LinkedIn but could not find you. It’s new to me and still trying to get a handle on it.
I do not even know how my name got on there.
Getting OXY personnel from different departments.
One of the most important was location a guy from Monroe Louisiana that’s working with OXY on that pipeline. If I can find out exactly where that line is going plus the possibility of it extending off of the main to other sectors I will have a better idea what to ask for my Minerals or Mineral Lease.
Before OXY they were in with Amarada Hess on some big stuff, probably because they could Amarada’s pipeline to processing plant… approx 8 miles away, just a guess on the distance. This was not a small processing plant, it was huge for that area… almost like a little city.
Wonder if Chevron was moved out with Amarada when OXY purchased? Or maybe I’ve just missed it, but have not heard anything from anybody, even employees from other companies have not mentioned them - not once.
It’s Texas, the very southwest County in the state bordering New Mexico. You guys probably knew it. Did not Google, but looks like an area that might have about 332 total citizens if El Paso is not connected.
Something else… Chevron & Amarada (may have just been Amarada) had plans to enlarge the processing plant around 2000. A big expansion, then everything fell through with Amarada’s & Chevron’s project that year… they thought production would increase to such a large extent.
To this day, over 18 years, I still think something happened between Apache & Chevron over not moving forward, Amarada was stuck in the middle.
RRC production data query shows Chevron and Chevron Mid Continent as operators in the year 2010, but neither are listed for 2018. A search indicates Sabinal bought properties in several counties from Chevron in 2017.
Back in February of this year, a landman representing Ring Energy was looking to lease right we own in S/W 1/4 of Section 18, Block A-21, PSL Survey, Gaines County, Texas. They went silent. Has anyone recently received an offer to lease in this area?
Cindy, look under the Home tab above. Generally, no solicitation is allowed because the owners depend on advertising to support the site, plus it undercuts the spirit of the site which is to exchange information.