Hi some of the photos below are where some of the wells that are currently drilling or have been approved or new permits for drilling in grand county utah.
There is about 15-18 greentown wells in one area which can be seen in the photos where they are all bunched together, some of the other photos show them more spread out to show just how many wells that delta does have planned for that one project.
There are also many wells planned and currently drilling by tidewater which is to the right of the greentown project and just above the 3 salt valley wells by delta.
There is one well called joseph which is to the bottom left on one of the photos this is the first well drilled on the utah hingeline project which by an article by a brokerage firm suggests the area has lots of exploration potential.
There is a photo on the tidewater website but need to sign in to see the prospects which does show where the wells are for tidewater delta and paradox basin, which tidewater refers to both delta’s wells and gdn’s well near by when they talk about the many prospects they are working on in grand county.
Paradox basin 1 well is 10.38 miles or 16.71Km from the location of the black hat prospect well which is waiting to be drilled currently. They are looking at testing the honaker trail formation up to 10 000 feet where gdn had minor gas shows.
Another prospect tidewater has is the old sagers prospect which is near the black hat well and only 16.61km from paradox basin 1. A 16000 foot well will be needed to test the deeper potential of the old sagers prospect.
Tidewater also has plans to drill in the northern paradox basin where lynden ventures also has acreage and drilling prospects. The target is for a large amount of oil at a depth of 7600 feet.
Drilling by delta petroleum has validated the potential for gas and condensate in the deeper paradox formation between 12000-16000 feet in a fractured black shale prospect. This suggests that maybe this company might be planning on drilling several 12-16000 feet deep wells to test this prospect.
Tidewater has 150 000 acres in one prospect and 70 000 acres in another both in grand county utah.
Another prospect by tidewater is the Thompson canyon deep gas carbonate prospect. When they mention this prospect they show an image of the gdn paradox basin well #1 which is nearby to their prospect. A comment made on the website is “The seismic amplitude anomalies that are believed to be associated with carbonates and over-pressuring offer the potential for very large per-well reserves”.
On all these prospects that are mentioned they don’t say very much about the projects just enough to have some idea of why they are looking to drill in those areas. They also mention gdn and delta petroleum a few times when talking about the deeper than 7500 feet well projects. Looking at the google earth photos where some of the recently drilled or applied for permits are for tidewater shows a large number of wells are slightly above paradox basin wells and mostly in the middle of the greentown and salt valley prospects that delta petroleum are currently working on which by the locations of the number of wells they have a lot of interest in the projects. Since no smart company would be spending 3 million plus on each well when could easily run to 5 million or more each and have more than 20 wells planned in the area if they didn’t have good reason to be spending so much time and money on the projects.
Tidewater has 10 prospects in grand county utah, 5 are deeper than 7500 feet and the other 5 less than 7500 feet.
The first photo shows the greentown wells delta petroleum has planned and are currently drilling where they have 2 rigs in place. The picture shows 20 yellow markers and 4 that are dark these are all the wells in that area that are planned to be drilled by delta.
The second photo is a closer image to show where the paradox basin wells are to the greentown salt valley and tidewater wells are. To the top left you can see a group of markers in a dark shade which is where the large number of wells on the greentown prospect are. This photo just shows how many more wells are planned and most of the ones in this photo are by tidewater.
The 3rd photo just shows where the joseph well is which is a new exploration project on the utah hingeline compared to where the other prospects are further to the right.
The 4th photo is just a photo which can show the locations of the majority of wells for tidewater, delta petroleum and gdn’s wells to give an idea of just how many wells are being drilled between 2 companies.