Ring Energy appears to have recently assigned some of its leases in north Gaines county to CH4 Energy Six, LLC. A Ring Energy leasehold map can be found in slide 8 of this December 2018 presentation.
The Hz San Andres - one year later 08/14/2017
Roth Capital Partners’ John White revisits one of the strongest plays in the Permian Basin
Descriptions in a two year term lease dated Nov 5, 2018 and recorded 1/22/2019 with Ring Energy being the lessee:
All of the W/2, NE/4, and the W/2 SE/4 of Section 2 and
All of the SE/4 NE/4 and the E/2 SE/4 of Section 3 of Block A-22, PSL, and
All of the SW/4 of Section 22 of Block A-21, PSL, Gaines County, Texas
Is there any information on Ring Energy spudding its “Maximus” well http://wwwgisp.rrc.texas.gov/GISViewer2/index.html?api=16538499
Very interesting, thanks AJ!
You’re welcome, TwoShoeBeagie7. XTX Operating LLC has also leased a lot of land in Block H NE of Seminole.
Still trying to discover what Oxy is planning for the newly leased land in Gaines county, Texas. The February 13, 2019 Q4 Earnings Call offers more clues. The executives refer to Slide 7 of the conference call documents pdf and unconventional EOR commercial success in 2019. Below are excerpts from the transcript of the earnings call courtesy of SeekingAlpha.com
Paul Sankey
Thanks, Jeff. And follow-up along the lines of clarification on slide 7. You talk about unconventional EOR commercial success in 2019. Could you talk more about that? I’m not sure what you mean there? Thank you.
Vicki Hollub
We have in the past, on done 4 CO2 injection pilots in the Midland Basin to test the efficiency and the commerciality of CO2 flooding the shale. And that’s in the Midland. And what we’re looking at in the Southeast New Mexico area is more of an enhanced oil recovery with using hydrocarbon gas injections, which would do two things for us.
First, it would help us to maintain pressure. Secondly, it would become also somewhat miscible than the oil and would make it the same as CO2 does, make it less reluctance to flow, lower the friction and improve the ability to flow the oil from where it is to be freezed, to help in performing a full string.
What we intend to do in Southeast New Mexico would be a continuous injection that would be full stream. So we’re going to test that. We believe based on our models that it’ll work and part of the objective there is to try to lower the decline of the Resources business and we believe that we’ll successfully do that over time.
Paul Cheng
A final question that, I think, Vicki was talking about, you guys have done a number of pilot on the CO2 as well as using the other hydrocarbon. Have you so far seen any distinct pattern, certain type of activities like of the reservoir will be better respond to a certain – to CO2 flooding and the other one? And is there anything that you can share? And how wide spread is that application could be?
Cedric Burgher
Yes. I mean, nothing meaningfully that we can share, but you’re right. I mean, different reservoir characteristics will be more conducive to hydrocarbon gas versus CO2. And I’d say, you can look at, in a conventional world, many of the same principles will apply with miscibility, depth, pressures, temperature, all of those things.
And so, as Vicki said, we’re really comfortable now from a technical standpoint that we know with the EOR, hydrocarbon gas and CO2 through the different reservoirs, we can get more oil. And actually is better technically than what we thought.
The real challenge is, from a commerciality standpoint what do patterns look like, how do you design them and how do you handle the gas processing, all of those things, that’s where the real challenge lies and that’s why we’re focused on proving up that commerciality. But you will see differentiation based on reservoir characteristics, not that different than what you see in the conventional reservoirs.
Paul Cheng
And when you guys will be in a position that you maybe share more of the data?
Cedric Burgher
I would expect late this year, we’ll share more of that.
Leo Mariani
Hey, guys. I just wanted to touch quickly on the EOR business. Obviously, you guys have put some longer term growth rates between 2018 to 2022 for Permian Resources and international. Just want to get a sense of how is that EOR business play out that outlook? Is it more flattish with cost reductions? Or how do you think about that production stream?
Jeff Alvarez
It has very minimal growth. It’s on the order of 1% CAGR over that time period. So we continue – as we show we have tons of inventory for further EOR projects, so we continue to prosecute that. But we need more inject and other things. So it’s CAGR is around 1%.
Cedric Burgher
The one thing I’d add to that is if you had noticed when created the Low Carbon Ventures group last year, we’ve got some milestones listed in that area too. It’s not reflected in the 2022 outlook but it is certainly an area that we like to make great progress and develop. And as Jeff mentioned we have a lot of running room to grow in terms of EOR projects if you could just get more CO2. It’s kind of the irony in today’s world where most people want to eliminate CO2 emissions and we just can’t get enough CO2 commercially to our locations. And it’s an area we’re focused on.
Vicki Hollub
Yeah, the bottom line is that that’s another potential upside for our 2022 plan.
I found another free feature of the ShaleXP website. One can click on this link Active Oil and Gas Properties in Texas and search for/select a property name [lease name?] and reveal production data and ShaleXP’s “Value Estimations” based on a 0.05 ownership of the property. One may adjust the ownership interest by changing the decimal interest number at the bottom of the Value Estimations box. Reducing the provided map [ - ] gives a sense of where the property is located in a county. For a specific example, this is a link Medusa in Gaines County, TX | Oil & Gas Production and Well Details to Ring Energy’s “Medusa” lease horizontal San Andres well in Gaines county. And this is a link to ShaleXP’s report on Kinder Morgan’s greenfield EOR CO2 Tall Cotton property in Gaines county Kinder Morgan in Gaines County, TX | Oil & Gas Production and Well Details
An instrument filed Feb 15, 2015 seems to show that Oxy Usa purchased three tracts of land totaling approximately 146 acres in the northeast corner of Blk G, Sec 264 Gaines county, Texas. Staging area? Tank farm? Any ideas?
“Since the 1950’s, observers have noted correlations between water well levels and seismic activity due to earthquakes or trains. Similar effects were noted in oil wells due either to distant earthquakes or proximity to highways or trains…”
‘Really Smart Guys’ Push to Make Biggest Oilfield Even Bigger
"While the U.S. shale revolution has boosted American oil production to a record, it’s also leaving lots of crude in the ground. At best, fracked wells only recover about a 10th of what the industry calls the oil-in-place.
“We are trying to be very conservative, but certainly we believe that we can improve from 10-11 percent to 17-18 percent,” Occidental Chief Executive Officer Vicki Hollub said in an interview in Houston. “It’s a lot. When you consider the scale of the Permian basin, to do that will be amazing.”
"…The challenges are daunting, however. In conventional rock, EOR engineers inject CO2 and water via one well, flooding the reservoir and pushing the oil and gas out of another well. It’s a lot more difficult for shale. For a start, the temperature and pressure need to be just right for the CO2 to mix with the oil. Furthermore, the CO2 and water struggle to move through the tightly packed rock. While Occidental is testing the conventional method of different wells for shale, it’s also piloting a different technique that uses one well for both injection and production."
…In support of the current two-rig drilling and development program, management has provided a breakdown below of potential drill sites by location and categorized them based on internal engineering estimates as “Tier 1” being at the top and ranging to “Tier 4”.
Tier 1:
Highest confidence wells. These wells would represent “type curve” production. At $50 per BOE received, they reflect an IRR over 80%, a net reserve of greater than 325 MBOE and PV-10 of approximately $4 million.
Tier 2:
These wells should be on par with Tier 1 wells, but there is more risk associated with these locations. They would be a primary “stepout” to a Tier 1 location.
Tier 3:
These would be commercial wells but may be below “type curve”. The net reserves associated with these wells would be in the high 200 and low 300 MBOE.
Tier 4:
This is acreage with unexplored potential, has geology associated with upside, but would require more work in order to be elevated to a higher tier.
C H 4 ENERGY SIX LLC has leased thousands of acres N-NE of Seminole. A memo recorded 1/29/2019 shows DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION COMPANY LP leasing 11,951.21 acres to C H 4 ENERGY SIX LLC. But didn’t Devon lease to Ring Energy? Maybe Devon retained depths below the San Andres and CH4 Energy Six LLC is targeting Wolfcamp or ? " Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CH4 It is a group-14 hydride and the simplest alkane, and is the main constituent of natural gas."
Since May 1, 2019, Occidental has submitted 20 "new drill; permits and one “re-entry” permit for Gaines county, Texas.