The horizontal bore is the producing portion of the well and what the mineral rights are paid on. The vertical portion and the turn to horizontal are not fracked and do not produce any product.
The companies place the surface hole location near the section boundary, in this case sections 19’s northern boundsary, so after the turn is made all the horizontal bore is in section 18 and 7.
Linda, thank you for your input-you can be so comforting in hard times. LOL. Daniel and Barbara, thank you for explaining, also. Barbara, how were you made aware of that?
That’s interesting. I assume you have royalty in 7. Best wishes to you. Keep me updated.
The ability to isolate the locations where the production comes from is because of the perforations of the casing. This is the same in vertical and horizontal wells regardless of them being fractured or not.
Here is an animation showing the process. http://www.oerb.com/Default.aspx?tabid=242
You can see how in this case they are not producing directly under the well. Most of the recent Newfield wells I have researched (24 out of 28) have been drilled from a section adjacent to the production sections. Of the 13 Continental wells I have notes on; only 1 is being drilled in an adjacent section. Marathon 1 out of 6. Newfield seems to be the major player doing this in the Scoop area.
Here is the vertical version on a mult zone well.
Hutch, where can I see those leases in Garvin? I am unable to navigate OCC website, so I hope it’s not there. We are looking for a lease in the mail from Jackfork for sec. 3 1N 3W that my family members negotiated recently @ $1500 per acre, so I assume it is for Continental.
Just want to make sure I understood you correctly.
Barbara,
Where will the surface hole location be in sec 19. That is how many feet from the section bountry, like FNL or FWL etc.
Daniel, what is FNL, FWL?
I should have said moving a office to OKC.
Vicki, below is a link to a county records website. You can veiw listings of leases, deeds etc. for free, if you want to see the documents you have to subscribe. Your lease won’t be filed until after you execute and return it to Jackfork. The OCC has a lot of information but they do not record leases. With all the activity I’m sure JF is snowed under, if you feel like you have been waiting too long check with your Landman or Woman as the case may be. It probably won’t speed things up but a reminder wouldn’t hurt.
Rick…Those are SUCH good films! It helped my little brain to absorb some of the stuff that hubby has been trying to tell me for years about how it all works. I’ve watch them several times since they were first put on the forum. Appreciate you guys!
Hutch, I was able to pull up some “stuff” by my name but unable to look up leases filed in Garvin yesterday. It’s just my lack of navigating knowledge. Thanks for the info, though. You guys are all so awesome
Vicki…It will pull them up by description of each Section T and R. Just errase the dates and Sections they automatically have in the page and put only the description you want to check and I think you can access everything back to 1967 or something like that.
Rick, to me Newfields model makes sense, longer laterals, more perforations, more production. But are the results really that much better? I would hope CR has a method to their madness as well.
I guess you saw the 28 leases filed in Garvin yesterday?
I’m not sure of the true answer, Mike.
The requirements from the OCC will require x amount of feet from the section line. Bringing the well a few hundred feet on the other side of the section line could allow for a larger radius in the transition from vertical to horizontal drilling. It seems to me the larger radius would be easier on equipment, but would add to the total drilling footage.
I just looked at a few permits. It looks like Newfield is permitted to start perforating 50’ from the line on the locations I looked at where the surface is on an adjacent section. Same section permits were 155-165’. So it looks like they gain 100’ or so of production area. On the mutlizone, they could gain 400’-500’.
Linda, Referencing 33 fracking compleation. Preston does good work.
Yes Richard…he likes people and they seem to like to visit with him and that’s a good thing! It’ll be a few days now until all that frack water is all back out but then I’m sure you guys and gals will be getting some of that long awaited good news! Be sure to write down the first day that you hear as the date of production so you can count up the six months until check time. You will want to know that down the road. I had written it down on ours but had to go through a lot of notes before I found it. If Newfield keeps up it’s usual routine your first check will be for four months. Then you may have Christmas around July! Woopie!!!
Is 31 3n,4w where Newfield drilled the “Condit” or was that 32?
Linda, it is the Condit 1-5H I think he just left the dash out. It is permitted but not yet spud. Single unit well.