GeoSouthern Completion Report

Texas Mineral Rights Anderson County, TX
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GeoSouthern filed a completion report today with RRC on the well called the Everything that they drilled at the northeast corner of Anderson County last September.

The report was filled as “well record only” and listed the well’s status as a “shut-in producer”, but the remarks section of the W-2 states “WHILE DRILLING LATERAL THE WELL TOOK A HIGH PRESSURE KICK AT 13,010’ MD, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE FRESH WATER (LIKELY FROM A NEARBY FRAC). AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO KILL THE FLOW, IT WAS DECIDED TO P&A THE WELL.”

There don’t appear to be any other wells nearby so if they are talking about “frac water” it would have had to travel a long distance. That lateral leg was projected to pass under Lake Palestine but at that kind of depth I can’t picture a natural fracture could get the lake involved.

The well went to 8893’ vertical and they had permitted to drill a 10.000’ horizontal leg extending into Cherokee County, But the water kick apparently forced them to stop drilling the lateral after about 4,000’. The formation record in the W-2 doesn’t identify anything encountered below the Woodbine at 5,700’. GeoSouthern had blocked up a lot of acreage extending into Cherokee County, and the plat filed for the Everything permit indicated they had plans to drill a second well called the Empire from that same pad. It’ll be interesting to see where things go from here.

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Geosouthern was targeting the Goodland Lime with this well. Organic rich limestone interval in the same rim syncline feature that initially EOG and now Valence has been playing since the early 2000 teens.

The “frac hit” referenced in the Everything 1H filing has to have come from the Valence Lionhead 1H - located about 1.8 miles due north of the Geosouthern well (and also drilling out under the lake from the east bank).

Seeing a “frac hit” of this distance is relatively rare - but considering the structural orientation of the rim syncline (N-S) and what one would expect as natural fracture orientation and stress directions & dynamics, it is easy to make the connection between these two lateral wellbores as to what has been reported.

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