If a hole was dry and plugged in 1982 why would they drill again?
Please give your state, county, section, township and range or abstract and the well name so the forum can answer.
Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Sections 27 and 34 15N 21W It was plugged in 1982.
@Terra_Lee1, usually if an operator returns to a previously tried area, they would have new information on the geology of the area, and/or improved drilling abilities to access productive formations. They may know, for instance, that a deeper formation would be more productive, or often they have new abilities to access relatively thin layers and can continue drilling along the productive areas. I only saw a new well permitted in the sections adjacent to the ones you mentioned, but for the same reasons as above an operator could return to the area with previously plugged wells.
Lots of water flooding being applied to older and less productive fields now. The drive pressures are depleting and water is connating . They may be attempting to situate injection and production wells. This would be a good time to sell production interests
Rockhound2, Your comment on secondary recovery does not apply to this topic in this section. Encouraging people to sell is probably not a good idea here when new drilling is capturing reserves.
The new drilling in Roger Mills is mostly for new horizontal wells which can drain the reservoirs much more efficiently than the old vertical wells. The formations in these new wells are the Cherokee, Cleveland, Cottage Grove, Douglas, and Tonkawa. They are going after remaining reserves.
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