You are right, you will not be allowed at the site. Too many safety items in play. The status of the well can be a very elusive thing to find out. If Devon has a field office in the area call them and they may be able to help you. If not call Devon in OKC and try to get through to an engineer that is working with that particular well and you may get some good info. Finding the right person in a large company like Devon can be a nightmare. You might call H&P and see if they can give you an engineer’s name that was supervising the well.
What will happen next? Since the rig is off, assuming that the well is perforated, I would think a frac job would be next. With all the activity in Oklahoma that well may have to get in line for the equipment to be available to frac it. I have no idea how long that would be, it could be next week or two months from now. After the frac, the well will have to “clean up” meaning it will have to discharge the frac fluid and start flowing the gas and oil. That will take at least a week. Then comes the hook up meaning the producing equipment has to be attached to the well as well as a tank battery need to be set for the fluids. If the well is close to other producing wells a gathering system is probably in place. If not, then the well will have to be attached to the nearest pipeline for gas and the liquids may be trucked out.
After the well starts producing, and you are looking for checks associated with your royalty interest, the rule in Oklahoma is that a producing company has 6 months to start paying you. Not good news, but that is the way it is. From other posts in this forum it seems that Devon is behind in paying the royalty owners now.
Bottom line is that it will be a while before you see some checks. Devon is making a lot of noise about how much they are going to ramp up production in Oklahoma and that may mean that they will finish the completion on your well as soon as they can. That could mean that your well may be completed and flowing in the next 30 to 60 days.
Good luck with all of it.
Karen Klein said:
A little off topic but looking for some answers if anyone can help. We have a well in Dewey County that they just pulled the rig off of this week. How can we find out the status of the well at this point? Who do we talk to? We’ve been there a few times to watch from a distance but never actually on the well site so didn’t know if we were allowed to come onto the area due to safety reasons. H&P is the contractor for Devon. What will be the next step in the process and how long before we should expect it to be completed?