10 July 2008
KENNEDY -1H
Adelphi has been advised by the Operator, Texas Crude (“TCEI”) that the second stage of fracture stimulation took place on Thursday 3rd July. In preparation for the stimulation, an additional three sets of perforations, each 3 ft long, were placed in between those used for the first stimulation in the bottom 600 ft of the well.
The fracture operation successfully placed approximately 100,000 lbs of high strength proppant into the fractures before high pumping pressures prevented the full program being completed, this represents 90% of the planned fluids and 50% of the planned proppant.
Flow back has recovered about 1,200 barrels of the 6,540 barrels of fluids pumped during fracture operations. Trace amounts of gas and condensate were also recovered towards the end of this period.
Operations are now in progress to clean out any fracture proppant that was left in the well bore as a result of the early termination of fracture operations. After that, flow-back and testing operations will resume. Further announcements will be made as the results become available.
a 600 foot section getting a planned 200,000 pounds of proppant, which means 2,000,000 pounds would be used in a 6000 foot completion.. thats some staggering amounts of proppant ..
i shale remind you of what they used in the eagleford again
HOUSTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Petrohawk Energy Corporation ("Petrohawk" or the "Company") (NYSE: HK) announced a significant new natural gas field discovery in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. This new field in La Salle County, Texas, was discovered after extensive regional subsurface and seismic mapping, geochemical analysis and petrophysical study. The Company has leased over 100,000 net acres in what it believes to be the most prospective areas for commercial production from the Eagle Ford Shale. The field is located immediately south of the Stuart City Field, which is on the Edwards Reef Trend that extends across South Texas.
"This discovery folds perfectly into our portfolio of unconventional resource assets," said Dick Stoneburner, Chief Operating Officer. "Petrohawk's staff has extensive experience in the acquisition and development of horizontal plays as exhibited by our results in the Haynesville Shale and Fayetteville Shale plays. Leveraging that expertise to uncover new opportunities like the Eagle Ford Shale adds significantly to our playbook."
The discovery well, the STS #241-1H, was drilled to an approximate true vertical depth of 11,300 feet during which extensive coring and open hole logging was performed. An approximate 3,200-foot lateral was drilled and subsequently fracture stimulated with over two million pounds of sand in ten stages. The well was placed on production at a rate of 9.1 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day (7.6 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and 250 barrels of condensate per day). A confirmation well, the second well drilled on the project, the Dora Martin #1H, which is approximately 15 miles from the discovery well, has been drilled, cored and logged. The quality of the Eagle Ford Shale in this well appears to be superior to that found in the STS #241-1H. The Company is currently drilling the lateral on this second well. A third well is expected to spud by mid-November.
imho the kennedy is not in the chalks at all, and the fracture was done in the deepest part of the kennedy well which is more in the shaley eagleford regions which was equally overpressurised and it was hardly able to get half the proppant in because of pressure issues..
those pressure issues and fracc techniques will be resolved also in the near future imho, conoco did immediately go for the deeper regions in marlene olsen after seeing what the kennedy well did..
all imho and dyor..