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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 11, 2013 at 2:48

The application was scheduled to be heard March 5.

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Permalink Reply by 1kw6x71km1v37 on March 11, 2013 at 5:22

It may be a wildcat, but if you look at the electrical log illustrations in the old Basin Institute report, a few test wells were drilled nearby into the Tuscaloosa years ago, and then there is new data from the Bentley wells in the mix today. This wildcat is highly prospective at this point. Given the trouble to the east with clay jamming the works, the oil companies may have started exploration on the wrong side of the state in view of the calcareous nature of the geology encountered in drilling the Bentley wells. And from the Basin Institute report, all this has been known for years. If they ever get that clay thing worked out and drilling cost down, they'll have some pretty good wells on the east side, but right now the future looks brighter for Rapides, Vernon and Beauregard parishes.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 11, 2013 at 5:32

cs, I'm not sure that clay content can be overcome by hydraulic fracture stimulation.  Calcareous is certainly better to a point.  The southeastern fringe of the Haynesville Shale play appears to become too brittle in areas.  I too think that the western LA area of the trend holds some promise.  Amelia Resources and Kirk Barrel have a lot at stake in the eastern portion of the trend so I don't take exception with his rank wildcat characterization.  He needs to keep the focus on Amelia's acreage. I appreciate your comment concerning the logs as few of us here are other than rank amateurs at log interpretation.  EOG is about as good as they come regarding horizontal development.  Their Fort Polk unit will be worth following.

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Permalink Reply by 1kw6x71km1v37 on May 29, 2013 at 15:23

The EOG well in Vernon Parish seems to have dropped off the map. The well does not show up in a Hearings search. Likewise, the term "Ft. Polk" field seems to have vaporized. Maybe I'm just having a bad nite on the keyboard.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on May 29, 2013 at 15:40

cheap, I think you are referring to the EOG TMS Unit Application.  That application, Docket # 13-89 was approved by the Commissioner as Field Order 1563, Fort Polk Field, Vernon Parish on March 8, 2013.  The granting of a field order by the Commissioner includes no requirement to drill a well and is effective indefinitely.  EOG would still have to apply for a permit to drill but that would not require a notice to Interested Parties as the unit application did. The effective terms of the leases required for EOG to drill are the controlling factor.  It is not unusual for a unit to be formed but never drilled.  Happened quite a few times in the early Haynesville Shale Play.  I hope that's not the case here but EOG probably has a good bit of time left on their leases.  We'll just have to be patient and check the daily posting of well permits.

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Permalink Reply by 1kw6x71km1v37 on May 30, 2013 at 16:26

Thanks for that, Skip Peel. For some reason, I'm not able to pull that up, although it worked for me back then. EOG was headed to the Cline Shale in TX at last count. Maybe they got cold feet in the TMS.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on May 30, 2013 at 16:34

In the new age of unconventional reservoir development it's not unusual to see drilling units formed prior to an initial well being spud.  I think it likely that EOG will drill a well within the unit at some time in the future.

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