Mr. Von Wilson,
If you get bored do a google search for the “Lake Peigneur Disaster.”
Susan I show a pooling hearing for 9/3/13 for section 25-17n-4w. In the pooling for section 26 the oil co. was ordered to offer $850 for 1/8, 750 for 3/16 ,650 for 1/5, or no cash and 1/4.
Does anyone know about the well in Sec 29 Twshp 19 2W?
You should be part of this well if you are in 26-17n-3w
Lake Peigneur Disaster, that reminds me of the salt mines under Lyons, Kansas, where indeed millions of tons of salt have been mined. Once considered for our National Nuclear Dump, Lord it is beautiful down there, but is probably another disaster waiting for its time to happen. LOL
OCC is having a meeting in Perry, OK Aug 22, Thurs 6 p m at the high school auditorium. This is on H drilling.
Virginia, I suppose OCC, being Oklahoma Corp Commission, is hust hosting this event? We are seeing many commercials in Pennsylvania touting Oklahoma City as a viable and important fact of our nations energy policy, quite obviously there will be a tad bit or more of environmentalists at this meeting and disscussion. Hopefully most of them will not be crying too much, and can see the situation in Cairo Egypt and the Suez Canal through their crocodile tears. I hope so. I have been through the Suez Canal 3 times, saw a few camels way back then and imagine those same camels are still there. Most of the world is changing, but little ever changes in that part of the world.
J I could find no permit yet for a well in 29-19n-2w . They have the spacing and pooling.
Thanks Ron. That is what I was thinking. So I should be getting a division order before any type of payment. Correct?
I have a question that I can not seem to find an answer to and hoping for some help. I saw a completion report for my section township and range. Does that mean I should be part of that well or is there more to it? I did get an offer for 3,500 and acre which seemed a lot more than the others I had been getting.
26 - 17N - 3W
Thank in advance for your help and knowledge.
Marlo
Harley—this isn’t Cathy but—yes, it does seem strange that most of Slawson wells are coming in at 125 BOPD, but, other operators drilling in the Miss. are also reporting the same. I haven’t gone back thru the comments and checked but are Slawson wells all in the Miss. and Stephens wells all in the Woodford? Qsage/Slawson has said they plan on three wells per sec. before they are thru drilling and I’ll bet the next wells will be in the Woodford. Our interest is in sec. 20, they are hauling oil but we have not received a division order yet, and our lease is for the Miss. and Woodford formations.
It will also matter whether the wells are Miss Lime or Woodford (probably better).
Marlo, I thought a Div Order is in order before anything happens, but from what I have seen over the past 11 months here is that nothing ever happens like it is supposed to happen, or like we are told will happen. Quite obviously every well is different, ever oil company has their own policies, no crude has the same characteristics, and the price of natural gas alone remains pretty constant. Sometimes. LOL I stay busy writing poetry and songs. I don’t know what the oil company CEO’s do to pass their time, but I bet they paint or do Karaoke or something. LOL
In April and May, 8 wells were completed and tested in Township 17N, 3W. Five were completed by Slawson in Sections 5, 8, 21, 26 and 28. Three were completed by Stephens in Sections 7, 331 and 32.
The Slawson wells all “Tested” at 125 BOD and 100 MCF. The Stephens wells tested at 508BOD/265MCF, 456BOD/807MCF and 450BOD/&32MCF.
Can someone explain what Slawson is doing to control the flow and why? The completion reports have a space for “Choke” but they are all blank.
Marlo, that $3500 is a good price. I have seen interests going for a lot less recently. I also heard the flow wasn’t great but I am not sure if that well had the ‘power’ issues like the other Osage wells.
Harley, I just hate it when a news anchor says, “Great Question…” but in fact, you have asked a truly great question. LOL The response most resembling the truth, which comes to us much in bits and pieces and incomplete, is very complicated and deals with government regulation and intervention, belief in how many wells will Obama just force to be capped, our National Reserve, and the market for crude still lingers just under $110.00 the barrel. It is still my firm, and unshakable belief, that there are wells in our future approaching the 10,000 output, and if this does not happen in our relatively near future, I will believe there is some serious pussy-footing gong on in several groups. Are you watching the Suez Canal today? Hosni Ubarack? Make no mistake this is not the normal much adeau about nothing, and will change the situation in Oklahoma very shortly. Just my own opions, of course. Bottom line, are they able to, and DO THEY control the flow? Is a group of Owls called a Parliment?
Harley, I suspect that there will be amended testing results for Slawson. Those look to be very generic reports and suspiciously alike. They are also missing the perfs, lateral lengths, etc. I have a feeling these are “placeholder” reports. They did a more complete job in 18N-3W and 19N-4W. The first checks will be more accurate with actual flow rates.
To answer the general question: When wells are flowing on their own with reservoir pressure, a company will choke back for several reasons. Could be the size of the tanks they have on location and their pick up schedule. They don’t want to flow more than they can get picked up. Usually, the choke is determined by the optimal reservoir performance. Also could be determined by the size of the gas lines available or contracts that they have for transportation. It can get complicated in OK. When wells are on a pump, the choke can be wide open (or not) and the pumping rate determines the flow.
These are mostly Miss. Lime wells. They are just learning how they will perform. May take a little experimentation for the optimal rates. Also, different companies complete wells with different strategies. Some of the companies are running behind in their completion work due to lack of crews.
These Miss Lime wells are producing out of very tight rock (low porosity and permeability) which relies on the fracking, so don’t expect huge rates at this time. They aren’t physically possible. Time and improving technology may improve rates a bit. (The huge rate wells seen in other areas are coming out of sandstones or carbonates with excellent porosity and permeability with huge areal extents and thicknesses and completely different geology and pressure and maturation than what we are looking at in the Miss. Lime of Logan Co. I drilled some of those wells in the Gulf of Mexico. The geology is completely different than here.)
M Barnes, Thanks for the training lesson. About 30 minutes after posting my comment this morning, I received an email containing Osage News Release about the Mallard Well, 16-17N-3W announcing 705 BOD using an electrical submersible pump and a certain choke setting. Now producing more in a week than in the first couple of months on-line. This supports your premise regarding experimentation. Also, I think Osage had previously announced limitations due to electrical and pipeline availability. The News Release also mentions a new production team. That is good news to me since our well will be on the same pad as the Mallard except going North under section 9 instead of South under 16. Get the kinks worked out guys! I believe all of the Osage/Slawson in 17N3W are Mississippian.
This is great reading all of these keynotes about what is happening. Makes it all sort of fit together in ways we were mostly totally ignorant to a year ago. And you just read that from the King of Dummies. Hey may be a good title for a book, WILDCATTING FOR DUMMIES???
Harley, we should also be encouraged by the fact that Osage/Slawson have indeed rebuilt the pipelines in the Ruffed Grouse area, Section 20 -17 - 3w, and also the electrical grid as I understand it. Huge investments are obvious all over North Central Oklahoma, especially Logan and Payne Counties.