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Larry-
There is a video on the Home page that shows you how to check production records on "Pending" wells on the RRC website. Also, as far as day to day info, the Eagle Ford website is pretty active with that info.
From what I've heard, Berger and Penn Virginia couldn't come to an agreement on lease terms and they were left out of the unit. That unit became the Joseph Simper Unit and that pad lies just east of the Raab Unit which is still drilling the #1H as of yesterday. They should be getting closer to moving that rig off of the Raab Unit in the next few days and I believe the Simper Unit is due to receive a rig from the Schacherl Unit #2H currently drilling just to the west.
Anyway, as I eluded to, the additional pad you refer to is not on the same Raab Unit, it's actually on the newly formed Joseph Simper unit.
By my calculation, you're now part of the Joseph Simper Unit, just to the east of the Douglas Raab unit #1H which is currently being frac'd, correct? From what I understand, negotiations with Berger broke down and because Penn Virginia is rushed to drill these wells to hold the acreage before lease expirations, they simply re-drew the Douglas Raab unit and created the Joseph Simper unit...leaving Berger out in the process. Only Penn Virginia would know whether there's any chance of Berger re-joining either of those two units, but I would imagine their chance came and went. If they came to a last minute agreement prior to Joseph Simper unit division orders being sent out, PVA would have to grow that unit from ~555 acres to nearly 900 acres. That seems highly unlikely to me, but stranger things have happened I suppose.
Long and short, your acreage will never be in a "Berger" unit because that unit no longer exists...you will be part of the Joseph Simper unit as you likely already know. I'm pretty sure that well will be drilled very shortly as I know the pad is completed...just guessing but the Schacherl #2H rig may come over after it's completed.
Also, so you know, I do not think there's a high likelihood of a standalone Berger unit in the future for a couple of reasons:
1) The total acreage is only around 350 acres, and it's shaped in a manner that virtually no horizontal well could be drilled on it because Kenneth Svetlik's propery runs right through the middle of it. Svetlik is now in the new and improved Joseph Simper Unit.
2) On the northern portion where Svetlik's property doesn't intersect it, the maximum lateral length of a horizontal well would only be around 3,500 feet max...which just isn't economical to drill and complete.
The only way a standalone Berger unit could happen, in my mind, is if:
1) PVA and Berger agree to lease terms (obviously)
2) PVA drills what they call "sharing wells" beginning on Berger's land and continuing across unit boundaries into Kresta and/or Kubicek acreage to the east which is part of the Fojtik unit if I'm not mistaken.
3) PVA drills what they call "sharing wells" beginning on Berger's land, crossing Svetlik acreage which is now in the Simper Unit, crossing unit boundaries generally as in the example listed above. At this time, PVA hasn't just created a unit with this in mind..."sharing wells" have come to fruition from existing units to make the best use of the acreage and drill the most wells.
Hope this helps,
Chad
Any future sharing well that has any part of the horizontal wellbore crossing underneath the Joseph Simper Unit would be in some way profitable for you, so that's a plus. It looks to me like there's probably room for 3+ more wells in the Joseph Simper Unit alone...you never know when those will get drilled but if the price of oil stays above $70 or so, you can be assured it will happen sooner or later.