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Hi agent m, paradox basin is normally low flowing but can also get 5-10mmcf in the right areas, lisbon field wells close to faults said thats where the best flowing wells for them came from.
The lisbon field is only a 100kms south from pb2. The new company in the area fidelity has a lot of permits and are producing from 3 wells, i can only see the first wells reports since everything else of theirs is confidential in the last couple of years. The flow rates are small but the wells flow for a long period of time at sustained rates with minimal decreases. The flow rates are around 0.5mmcf per day and they still went ahead with another 12 permits in the area aswell as a couple already drilling. This isnt a small company with a market cap of over 3 billion and in the fortune 500. They also have about 80% of production from the rocky mountains area, also 70-80% of the reserves is from the area. They increased their greentown acerage to 95000 net acres.
MDU resources has done a presentation recently which shows their area in utah but from looks of it seems its just 1 structure on their land since they have wells outside the red line on the map in the presentation.
There is also a new well that was drilled late last year and already producing, since december it has been producing gas and each month the flow rate has been increasing, the well is named san arroyo 1625-220 it is 77 miles north slightly to the east of pb2. The daily production started around 0.6mmcf its now over 1mmcf it doesnt seem much but the flow rate of gas from the well is increasing each month based on the data on utah oil and gas.
Most wells in utah stay at 10 000 feet or less since production has been achieved at those depths such as lisbon hit leadville and deeper formations around 8-10 000 feet when pb2 has to drill to 15000 feet to hit leadville. This seems to be the case for most drilling in utah for producing wells and very few that drill to 15000 feet have been productive doesnt mean none were just most have been dry. That is why reports kept saying how significant the first well was it found large gas intervals deeper then 10000 feet. The paradox formation, which has gas shows this time didnt the first well is a producing formation on vertical wells, the ismay formations are a big producing formation on vertical wells, desert creek, akah barker creek all producing decent amounts of gas with no horizontal drilling.
Even leadville and alkali gulch produce from vertical wells mostly but horizontal drilling will increase the amount of production that could be achieved and better flow rates.
Lisbon field has produced most of the total gas from the leadville formation and considering its distance from pb2 it may offer some hope that leadville will flow on this well.
I could give you a list of wells in the area many of them flowed under 1mmcf per day and still were put into production.
This well here called are w20-16 is a big producing field, from the reports it looks like there are a number of wells producing for the company, the report seems a bit harder to read to understand if the zones they are producing from are producing by multiple wells or the one well, it seems likely its from multiple wells the total produced by the report is 169,393,111mmcf.
You might want to have a look at that one since you might understand the report better, the well is a lot further from pb2 compared to lisbon but you might be interested in the reports.
Most in the area near pb2 produce under 1mmcf but that can be improved. I guess just have to wait and see if the wells will flow at decent rates.
The reason the area is popular for gas and oil is because the rates dont decrease much over time and are wells that produce for a very long time frame.
Also you mention paradox has to be a monster for it to economic, so far p90 reserves give 27bcf over 640 acres if they can get the full strucutre to be proven as a field producing from those formations p90 reserves could easily be 150-200bcf or higher, after recent results its possible to think p90 estimates will be increased by a decent amount. Many companies report p50 estimates and if gdn did that then they would already be saying 100-150bcf field and over the full structure thats almost 1tcf alone. (thats if the 4940 acres are productive from those 4 formations and good results over the full area for that estimate). It would take a long time to get it to that stage so a 27-50 bf estimate on what is currently known on a p90 estimate seems like a good place to start to see if worth producing. If gdn wanted a quick dollar they could drill a couple more wells get the p90 estimates a lot higher then sell the full acerage but it seems more likely they want to get multiple wells producing in the area and then look at other possible structures on their land.
Not sure if this answers any of your questions though.
The lisbon field is only a 100kms south from pb2. The new company in the area fidelity has a lot of permits and are producing from 3 wells, i can only see the first wells reports since everything else of theirs is confidential in the last couple of years. The flow rates are small but the wells flow for a long period of time at sustained rates with minimal decreases. The flow rates are around 0.5mmcf per day and they still went ahead with another 12 permits in the area aswell as a couple already drilling. This isnt a small company with a market cap of over 3 billion and in the fortune 500. They also have about 80% of production from the rocky mountains area, also 70-80% of the reserves is from the area. They increased their greentown acerage to 95000 net acres.
MDU resources has done a presentation recently which shows their area in utah but from looks of it seems its just 1 structure on their land since they have wells outside the red line on the map in the presentation.
There is also a new well that was drilled late last year and already producing, since december it has been producing gas and each month the flow rate has been increasing, the well is named san arroyo 1625-220 it is 77 miles north slightly to the east of pb2. The daily production started around 0.6mmcf its now over 1mmcf it doesnt seem much but the flow rate of gas from the well is increasing each month based on the data on utah oil and gas.
Most wells in utah stay at 10 000 feet or less since production has been achieved at those depths such as lisbon hit leadville and deeper formations around 8-10 000 feet when pb2 has to drill to 15000 feet to hit leadville. This seems to be the case for most drilling in utah for producing wells and very few that drill to 15000 feet have been productive doesnt mean none were just most have been dry. That is why reports kept saying how significant the first well was it found large gas intervals deeper then 10000 feet. The paradox formation, which has gas shows this time didnt the first well is a producing formation on vertical wells, the ismay formations are a big producing formation on vertical wells, desert creek, akah barker creek all producing decent amounts of gas with no horizontal drilling.
Even leadville and alkali gulch produce from vertical wells mostly but horizontal drilling will increase the amount of production that could be achieved and better flow rates.
Lisbon field has produced most of the total gas from the leadville formation and considering its distance from pb2 it may offer some hope that leadville will flow on this well.
I could give you a list of wells in the area many of them flowed under 1mmcf per day and still were put into production.
This well here called are w20-16 is a big producing field, from the reports it looks like there are a number of wells producing for the company, the report seems a bit harder to read to understand if the zones they are producing from are producing by multiple wells or the one well, it seems likely its from multiple wells the total produced by the report is 169,393,111mmcf.
You might want to have a look at that one since you might understand the report better, the well is a lot further from pb2 compared to lisbon but you might be interested in the reports.
Most in the area near pb2 produce under 1mmcf but that can be improved. I guess just have to wait and see if the wells will flow at decent rates.
The reason the area is popular for gas and oil is because the rates dont decrease much over time and are wells that produce for a very long time frame.
Also you mention paradox has to be a monster for it to economic, so far p90 reserves give 27bcf over 640 acres if they can get the full strucutre to be proven as a field producing from those formations p90 reserves could easily be 150-200bcf or higher, after recent results its possible to think p90 estimates will be increased by a decent amount. Many companies report p50 estimates and if gdn did that then they would already be saying 100-150bcf field and over the full structure thats almost 1tcf alone. (thats if the 4940 acres are productive from those 4 formations and good results over the full area for that estimate). It would take a long time to get it to that stage so a 27-50 bf estimate on what is currently known on a p90 estimate seems like a good place to start to see if worth producing. If gdn wanted a quick dollar they could drill a couple more wells get the p90 estimates a lot higher then sell the full acerage but it seems more likely they want to get multiple wells producing in the area and then look at other possible structures on their land.
Not sure if this answers any of your questions though.