Thanks Just me2. Its going to be interesting to see what the final completion report going to be on the RVW TRUST UNIT 1 right next to the Tonkawa. It’s vertical so it will probably be a rather circular perimeter around the wellsite but it will be interesting to see if it produces more oil and liquids instead of dry gas. Hopefully it will be profitable for EOG and maybe just maybe if it’s good they will drill more vertical Wells in that vicinity which cost a whole lot less than the Tonkawa unit cost with all the fracking etc. We’re just going to have to wait and see. It may take years but at least it’s better than a dryhole.
Hottshott,
Yeah, if you look at the TRRC map of the area around the Tonkawa H-1 Unit, there are quite a few dry holes.
Hopefully, we stay blessed with the Tonkawa Unit producing for some time and with even more producing wells to come in the immediate area around it as you mentioned.
Take care.
Has anyone seen if they have filed a completion report on the RVW trust unit? It would be interesting to see actually what it is producing and at what rate.
My resources for information have no new data that EOG has reported on the well. It is still characterized as a DUC.
If EOG follows the same time schedule they did with the completion report for the Tonkawa then the one on the RVW well would show up on RRC’s site around May of next year.
Maybe on this last one they won’t have any reasons to hide the ball like they did before, but EOG seems to have their own way of doing things, and RRC obviously doesn’t enforce their rule that G-1’s are due within 90 days after first production, so I’m guessing it will be while.
Are you sure it was completed and is producing?
Anything going on with the Tonkawa.
It is producing. Looks like they trimmed back on flow in March from 3,500 mcf/day to 300 mcf/day likely due to prices dropping is my guess.
Thanks Oliver. Hopefully will start back up soon.
Is the TONKAWA Unit 1 producing or did they choke it back,
~900 MCFD was what is saw in May’s production filing
About 570 MCFD for June. I am guessing it is choked back, but there are other possibilities as well.
Hopefully it will get back to the levels before the oil bust. Pretty much wrote off 2020.
It’s probably old news to folks in the area but in Courthouse Directs latest lease alert I was interested to see EOG recorded 200+ lease amendments covering over 100 separate Colorado Co. tracts. They were spread over 20 surveys but the largest number were just south of the Tonkawa unit in the Cummins, McElroy and Ehlinger surveys.
EOG recorded the leases in July but most of them were signed in January or February. It’s hard to tell from the memos they recorded but it looks like these were leases taken by Pallas in 2016-17 and EOG was amending what had originally been a 3 year primary term plus a 2 year option into 6 year leases so they will run to 2023.
Since those amendments were negotiated before Covid got going and crude crashed they may not reflect EOG’s current plans but at least in early 2020 they were still willing to invest more money in that area.
If anyone involved with one of those amendments is willing to say I’d appreciate knowing what EOG paid to make that change.
My mother owns property and minerals in the McElroy survey that was leased by Pallas, then EOG. If I remember correctly, they offered $100-$200 per acre to extend the lease till '23. Not sure if she signed or not as it didn’t amount to much.
Thanks for sharing that. I was thinking it was probably a small number.
EOG finally filed a completion report yesterday on their RVW Trust well, but it was a “Well Record Only” report, meaning after more than a year they still haven’t provide any information except that they did drill a well there.
The report is attached below. A note on the third page says “This well has not been completed at this time.” It shows it was drilled to a total vertical depth of 11200 feet and plugged back to that depth. If anyone can figure out more from what they filed I’d appreciate knowing.
The RVW was the vertical well EOG permitted in October, 2018 to drill on the same pad where they drilled their Tonkawa well, but they formed a separate 66.5 acre unit for it within the boundaries of the much larger Tonkawa gas unit and permitted it as a “Wildcat” meaning they were targeting a new producing formation.
We speculated why EOG wanted to drill another vertical well there when they appeared to already have plenty of research information right there and going much deeper than the permitted 11700’ depth for that new well. The best guess seemed to be that they aimed to complete it in the Wilcox or some other zone above the Austin Chalk. Unless EOG finally pulls back the curtain by producing or plugging it we may never figure out what is really happening with the RVW.
I heard a rumor that this well was being drilled as a relief well due to concerns about the structural integrity of the Tonkawa wellbore. I find this highly unlikely but possible. If it was planned as a contingency relief well, it appears that it wasn’t used.
Seems more likely that it was drilled to target a Wilcox/Midway zone that looked like oil pay in the Tonkawa well.
Tonkawa unit 1H produced 45 million cubic feet of gas in November. Its been alternating between 25 million and 50 million for nearly the past year. Can anyone answer why is this? I noticed at the Tonkawa CDP where the pipeline from the Tonkawa well goes into the main transmission pipeline that it’s been quiet most of the time. Sometimes it’s making it’s hissing and pinging and the low roar of gas passing through. Does anyone know if it’s just being produced occasionally because of the miserably low prices of natural gas or it indicative that it’s running "out of steam " lol
In the past 10 days evidently they have finally completed the RVW TRUST UNIT 1V WELL. There was a lot of activity there this past week and I noticed Friday evening February 26 it was flaring. Anyone have a definitive that that is what actually occurred. The RVW was drilled about 16 months ago and was targeted in the Wilcox formation. Anyone care to guess if this is a correct presumption
That’s interesting. Based on the way EOG handled the reports on the Tonkawa and others they’ve drilled, nothing may show up on RRC about completion of that well for months.
Have they started building a tank battery? I’m thinking no fracking will be involved on that vertical well so if it makes crude at least temporary tanks will be needed when it’s completed.
You mentioned the RVW well targeting the Wilcox formation. It was permitted as a wildcat, and EOG drilled it to the full 11200’ depth they permitted it for. The formation record that was included in that “well record only” type completion report EOG filed on it in December said that they hit the top of the “Wilcox, Lower-Production” formation at 7504’ and the “Midway-Production” at 10373’. There is no way to tell from that what their target was.
It may not mean anything, but the formation record EOG included in the completion report they finally filed for the Tonkawa well called the top of the " Wilcox, Lower-Production" formation as 5913’ versus 7504’ shown in the RVW report. Since the vertical hole for the Tonkawa is right next to the RVW that seems to say there’s a fault between them, but the depths they reported for the Midway formation being only 33’ apart in both wells seems to say that’s not the case. The reason for the 1600’ difference on the depth of the Lower Wilcox is probably sloppy reporting, or just more of EOG’s tendency to make everything they report confusing.
Since the Tonkawa report called the top of the “Wilcox-Disposal” the same 5913’ that same report also showed for the “Wilcox-Production”, and the RVW report shows the “Wilcox-Disposal” at 5896’, I’m guessing the person filling in the numbers on the Tonkawa report just picked up the wrong depth for the “Wilcox-Production” formation.