Marathon Oil is drilling two wells in a 660 acre lease with a 500' spacing between the wells. That spacing implies a well spacing of one well per 60 acres, for a potential total of 10-11 wells. The lease is about 10 miles SW of Kenedy.
Word on the street is that Marathon plans to drill a total of 8 wells, which would be a spacing of one well per 80 acres.
Any guesses or insight - based on other experience in Sugarkane or similar fields - what the typical well spacing would be in this area?
At the NARO-TX conference in June I heard someone from Marathon Oil speak about the companies' Eagle Ford development. If I recall correctly, he said Marathon had successfully tested 350' spacing with no crosstalk between wells in Karnes County but wasn't more specific as to the location. As an aside, PXP has used 60 acre spacing and EOG 80 acre spacing in Karnes Co. so your estimates seem reasonable.
John,
Thanks for the update. That would be great news - 350' spacing is about 40 acres per well. Either way - 40 acres, 60 acres, or 80 acres - great improvement over the 160 acre spacing first expected.