# Initial Production - Nothing to get excited about?
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/initial-production-nothing-to-get-excited-about/22463
**Category:** General Mineral Rights Discussion
**Created:** [November 29, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/initial-production-nothing-to-get-excited-about/22463 "2011-11-29T17:37:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Susan\_Nolen](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Susan_Nolen)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/initial-production-nothing-to-get-excited-about/22463/1 "2011-11-29T17:37:24Z")
So basically, these numbers are not anything to hang your hat on to calculate monthly projections?
### [EOG Resources Reports Production On Six Barnett Shale Wells](http://shale.typepad.com/barnettshale/2011/11/eog-resources-reports-production-on-six-barnett-shale-wells.html)
EOG Resources (EOG) reported the production results for six wells drilled into the Barnett Shale combo play in Montague County in Texas. The names and the initial production rates of these Barnett Shale wells are:
Ketchum Unit #1H – 496 barrels of oil and 354,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day.
Ketchum Unit #2H - 638 barrels of oil and 455,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day.
The Farrell Unit A #1H, Farrell Unit A #2H, Farrell Unit B #3H and Farrell Unit B #4H wells had initial production rates ranging from 335 to 475 barrels of oil per day and from one million to 1.4 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
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### Author:  [@Jason\_Stewart](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jason_Stewart)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/initial-production-nothing-to-get-excited-about/22463/2 "2011-11-29T19:07:27Z")
Initial production volumes are sketchy at best. There is no standard as to when they are recorded. They may be the first day the well produced, the first full day of production, or perhaps the highest recorded volume in the first month. Unless working with coal bed methane, the initial production rates are almost always the highest volume the well will produce. In order to accurately predict future production, you will need many months of production data to construct a reasonable production forecast.
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### Author:  [@Susan\_Nolen](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Susan_Nolen)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/initial-production-nothing-to-get-excited-about/22463/3 "2011-11-29T21:40:12Z")
What I thought and then that will be affected by the RRC allowables. So as I see it - there’s really no way to get data that would provide a reliable prediction.
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### Author:  [@Farrah\_G\_Shepherd](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Farrah_G_Shepherd)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/initial-production-nothing-to-get-excited-about/22463/4 "2011-11-29T22:48:17Z")
It is my understanding enough data exists to reasonably predict annual decline rates for oil production in the Eagle Ford. I know this is not a production prediction but it is an important number in the prediction equation.
I was reading another forum ([gohaynesvillshale.com](http://gohaynesvillshale.com) or [eaglefordforum.com](http://eaglefordforum.com)) where decline rate data (not production) was around 35% annually. This trend continued for years two and three. Year four the wells apparently level out in production. I am not sure if these numbers are accurate but one of the posters took it upon themselves to crunch the numbers. I think they used Petrohawk’s numbers since they were one of the first in the Eagle Ford play.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/initial-production-nothing-to-get-excited-about/22463/5 "2018-08-15T04:06:44Z")