Anybody who has been on a golf course more than once has had the experience of hitting a really bad shot and getting a really, really good result. Think 40 yards off the green with a bunker between you and the pin, you skull the wedge, it hits the lip.. read more
Upstream oil and gas has a huge, looming demographic problem. Simply put, the median age for upstream professionals is near 50 years old, with over half the workers in the industry being 40 years old or more. With worldwide demand inexorably increasing, and too few graduates over the past decade.. read more
Nearly 80% of New York’s Black river wells have made 50,000 BOE or better, and nearly half have done 200K BOE or better.Ten percent are credited with over 1 MMBOE. The majority of the better producers are concentrated in NW Chemung and SE Steuben counties, but if we see strength.. read more
Hats off to XTO for permitting a 3300′ test in Geneva Co, AL (far SE Alabama) on trend with, ahem, not much that we can see. Could be an eastern extension of shaley facies in the Conecuh embayment, but there’s so little well control and only 3 reasonably close by.. read more
We’ve mapped Ohio permits since 1/1/2009, using %shale as a filter in the formation name and filtering out any multiple target formation objectives. Results include permit target formations named Marcellus, Devonian,and Ohio shale. The permits along the southern shore of Lake Erie are Ohio shale permits at shallow depths <3500′… read more
Although Governor Butch Otter of Idaho was quoted as saying “We hit a hell of a big natural gas well”, operator Bridge Resources (JV partner Paramex Resources Ltd.–both out of Calgary) was a bit more restrained by saying “We have had some encouragement in Idaho…” According to wire service reports.. read more
The recent announcements by Bridge Resources Corp and Paramex Resources Ltd. (Calgary) that their Boise Basin, Idaho drilling program was yielding results are worth noting and following. Based on news releases the M.L. Investments (Willow Project) well tested at 4.5 MMCFD with 54 BCPD (61.5 deg) with no water, and.. read more
While plowing through our database we decided to see what was going on in Arizona (more out of a sense of duty than a belief that we’d see much of interest). Goes to show…Potash Green LLC out of Moab last Thursday filed two widely spaced permits in eastern Arizona (Apache.. read more
We’ve heard from several knowledgeable commentators who claim that the reservoir being completed so successfully in the Dist 1 Eagleford play may in fact be the False Buda, which is a limestone bench beneath the Eagleford and which marks a downhole sequence change into a more open platform environment. This.. read more
Some early production results from the LA Haynesville are beginning to deliver some information regarding deliverability and variability of this reservoir. The graph below shows that there appear to be two trends to the production—one good, one not so good. Take a look at the map: Looks like there’s a.. read more
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