Has anyone heard of a oil company (in this case Halcon) ever refracking a well to increase the well's production flow?
Gene, I had heard of Marathon refracking wells drilled in 2002 to 2004 that were completed with only a single frack stage. The thing is that I believe that due to the cost of fracking sometimes exceeding the cost of drillin, that the smart money would rather drill a new well in an fresh undepleted area to get the most bang for the buck. If you are over multiple formations there is the possibility that your well could be plugged back or drilled deeper and recompleted in a different formation, I have one of those but they are rare also.
There is also the matter of sometimes the operator has a hard time keeping in the pay zone when drilling the well and no amount of refracking is going to greatly change the result.
I would hope for a new well.
Gene, where exactly is your well, township, range and section 2? Maybe I could see something from looking at the area or well files.
r w kennedy said:
Gene, I had heard of Marathon refracking wells drilled in 2002 to 2004 that were completed with only a single frack stage. The thing is that I believe that due to the cost of fracking sometimes exceeding the cost of drillin, that the smart money would rather drill a new well in an fresh undepleted area to get the most bang for the buck. If you are over multiple formations there is the possibility that your well could be plugged back or drilled deeper and recompleted in a different formation, I have one of those but they are rare also.
There is also the matter of sometimes the operator has a hard time keeping in the pay zone when drilling the well and no amount of refracking is going to greatly change the result.
I would hope for a new well.
Gene, where exactly is your well, township, range and section 2? Maybe I could see something from looking at the area or well files.
Gene Hamann said: The wells location is: township 157 N-Range 101W, section 2: lots 3,4,S1/2NW1/4,SE1/4
r w kennedy said:Gene, I had heard of Marathon refracking wells drilled in 2002 to 2004 that were completed with only a single frack stage. The thing is that I believe that due to the cost of fracking sometimes exceeding the cost of drillin, that the smart money would rather drill a new well in an fresh undepleted area to get the most bang for the buck. If you are over multiple formations there is the possibility that your well could be plugged back or drilled deeper and recompleted in a different formation, I have one of those but they are rare also.
There is also the matter of sometimes the operator has a hard time keeping in the pay zone when drilling the well and no amount of refracking is going to greatly change the result.
I would hope for a new well.
Gene, where exactly is your well, township, range and section 2? Maybe I could see something from looking at the area or well files.
Gene Hamann said:
Gene Hamann said: The wells location is: township 157 N-Range 101W, section 2: lots 3,4,S1/2NW1/4,SE1/4
r w kennedy said:Gene, I had heard of Marathon refracking wells drilled in 2002 to 2004 that were completed with only a single frack stage. The thing is that I believe that due to the cost of fracking sometimes exceeding the cost of drillin, that the smart money would rather drill a new well in an fresh undepleted area to get the most bang for the buck. If you are over multiple formations there is the possibility that your well could be plugged back or drilled deeper and recompleted in a different formation, I have one of those but they are rare also.
There is also the matter of sometimes the operator has a hard time keeping in the pay zone when drilling the well and no amount of refracking is going to greatly change the result.
I would hope for a new well.
Gene, where exactly is your well, township, range and section 2? Maybe I could see something from looking at the area or well files.
Gene Hamann said: The well is located at: Township 157 North, Range 101 West, Section 2, lots 3,4.
r w kennedy said:Gene, I had heard of Marathon refracking wells drilled in 2002 to 2004 that were completed with only a single frack stage. The thing is that I believe that due to the cost of fracking sometimes exceeding the cost of drillin, that the smart money would rather drill a new well in an fresh undepleted area to get the most bang for the buck. If you are over multiple formations there is the possibility that your well could be plugged back or drilled deeper and recompleted in a different formation, I have one of those but they are rare also.
There is also the matter of sometimes the operator has a hard time keeping in the pay zone when drilling the well and no amount of refracking is going to greatly change the result.
I would hope for a new well.
Gene, where exactly is your well, township, range and section 2? Maybe I could see something from looking at the area or well files.
Gene Hamann said: The well is located at: Township 157 North, Range 101 West, Section 2: lots 3,4.
r w kennedy said:Gene, I had heard of Marathon refracking wells drilled in 2002 to 2004 that were completed with only a single frack stage. The thing is that I believe that due to the cost of fracking sometimes exceeding the cost of drillin, that the smart money would rather drill a new well in an fresh undepleted area to get the most bang for the buck. If you are over multiple formations there is the possibility that your well could be plugged back or drilled deeper and recompleted in a different formation, I have one of those but they are rare also.
There is also the matter of sometimes the operator has a hard time keeping in the pay zone when drilling the well and no amount of refracking is going to greatly change the result.
I would hope for a new well.
Gene, where exactly is your well, township, range and section 2? Maybe I could see something from looking at the area or well files.
This information may be of no help or interest to you, however.... this shows it can be done. Don't know if it is economical or not.
BP is reworking several (I estimate a dozen or so) wells in Pittsburg and Hughes Counties, Oklahoma. These are Woodford Shale, dry gas wells drilled by Chesapeake about 2008, and were bought by BP after about 2 yrs production.
The one I have been following (my wife and her cousins have an interest), is located Section 4, Township 4N, Range 12E, Pittsburg County. Timeline, taken off production Dec. 2012, back on line January 23, 2013.
The decline curve seems to have moved back about to the level of one year earlier. It is hard to tell about IP numbers to compare as the choke size for the original completion was not stated. Paperwork filed with OCC shows replacing casing, reperforating, and refracking. The well is the Donald Loftis 1-4H, API# 35-121-23883.
They could drill up to 7 additional wells on this 640 acre spacing. Several sections in this play have up to 8 wells. The well history, including permits, completion reports, and monthly production is available on the OCC website.