Barnett Shale is deeply fractured, with fissures that tended to be sealed by calcium carbonate. The field went undiscovered until Mitchell Energy experimented with employing large gel fracture methods to open the wells to natural gas. Barnett Shale is deeply fractured, with fissures that tended to be sealed by calcium carbonate. The field went undiscovered [...]
Drilling likely will shift from the standard vertical wells to more expensive horizontal wells, requiring more manpower, equipment, expertise and time. Predictions are it will take another year or so before knowing if it’s a viable commercial opportunity. Drilling rigs are already located on the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, and inside the Fort Worth city limits, [...]
GAMLS is one such software program, which allows geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and petro-physicists to evaluate old fields, look for step-outs, and to analyze the potential of new producing zones. In many cases, the new zones have been overlooked because technologies to determine the zone’s potential, and then to successful drill and complete the hydrocarbon-bearing formation [...]
Barnett Shale
Barnett Shale: Fracturing of the shale in the F-4 well is scheduled to commence by July 31st. OSR-Halliday: the location for a new PUD location has been built by our partner Woodbine Energy. Barnett Shale gas is currently constrained by a lack of pipeline capacity, but this isn’t stopping EOG from projecting 15% total [...]
Drilling likely will shift from the standard vertical wells to more expensive horizontal wells, requiring more manpower, equipment, expertise and time. Predictions are it will take another year or so before knowing if it’s a viable commercial opportunity. Drilling through the shale is like drilling through a Brunswick pool table or bowling ball. Yet we [...]
Oil and gas investors can realize fast ROI’s. There is currently a huge Hunton Lime re-completion, de-watering play revitalization plan coming right through our back yard and we have at least 6-8 existing “cased Holes” ready for re- completion. Oil has also been start in lesser quantities, but plenty (with recent high oil prices) to [...]
Gas saturation seems constant across the region, so it is tempting to invoke increased natural fracturing in these areas as the explanation. Gas in-place is the total amount of free and adsorbed gas within the Marcellus. Given a resource that is found under more than 34,000,000 acres of real estate with at least 50 feet [...]
Oilfield service companies that are well capitalized and well managed are experiencing very high growth rates with good profit margins. We have heard reports of equipment manufacturers moving to establish offices in the area to compete for business in the drilling and trucking industries, both of which are booming in the area. Oil has also [...]
Gas shale well productivity varies widely by basin, due to variations in the natural fracturing, richness of the shale, net thickness, and initial rates. The major change has been in well completion and operating methods, which have led to increase per well reserves. Gas may be further categorized as in-situ generated-reservoired or as migrated gas. [...]
Drilling in Texas’ Barnett Shale is …
Oil has also been found in lesser quantities, but sufficient (with recent high oil prices) to be commercially viable. Oil and gas operations on leases that have been on production for extended time produce copious amounts of brine water along with the associated oil and gas. Produced water, (any [...]
