ok, with respect to the sanish pool: whiting drilled the locken 11-22h in a 1280 ac unit consisting of sec.s 22 & 23 and the leffrig 11-27h in a 1280 ac unit consisting of sec.s 26 & 27 in 153-91.
whiting intended to drill these wells as multi laterals, but because of drilling problems were not able to get the job done. whiting petitioned the commission to create an "overlay" 2560 ac unit covering all 4 sections. and as i understand it, revenues from the locken and leffrig will continue to be distributed as before. and production from mcnamara 42-26h will be shared equally by everyone in the 2560 acre unit. whiting tap danced around the question of protecting correlative rights by testifying that the wells had similar production and reservoir characteristics. there was some objection expressed by mineral owners, but the commission granted whiting's request anyhow. i sort of doubt that this will become the standard procedure. for example, what if the locken and leffrig did not, as whiting claims, exhibit similar reservoir and production characteristics ? someone would probably object and if they were able to present a valid case, i dont think the commission could validly protect correlative rights with a formula based only on acreage. damn, rufus you've opened up a can of worms. On Nov 5, 9:32 pm, "Rufus O'Malley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elwood, > 'tract weighting within a unit' --- what are you calling a 'tract'? A > well? a measure of land within a section? > Tell me about some of the other types of 'units' not a drilling unit/ > spacing unit...? is the Fed Exploratory Unit the same animal, > vegetable or mineral as an 'assessment unit'? > > On Nov 5, 6:10 am, elwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > rufus, there are other types of units than drilling units (where every > > mineral acre is equal to every other mineral acre). iow, other > > parameters can be brought into play, like cumulative production, net > > hydrocarbon pore volume, current production rate, acres, number of > > usable wells and each tract is given a participation in the unit > > according to the weighting of each of these parameters. this is done > > typically for a secondary recovery unit although i have seen a case > > where a unit was formed just to manage primary production. and if this > > type unit is created, every mineral (and working interest owner) would > > participate in the entire unit according to their unit participation. > > > a federal exploratory unit is another animal and i will let someone > > who knows more about the subject comment on that. > > > On Nov 4, 9:18 pm, "Rufus O'Malley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anybody home out there? What, no opinions? No theories? > > > Ruf > > > > On Nov 3, 12:33 pm, "Rufus O'Malley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I recently read that in Montana there has been some activity with > > > > merging 2, and even 3 1280-acre spacing units to create mega-spacing > > > > units with entirely new well density allowances.... I can't seem to > > > > backtrack to the article to post it, but the gist of it was that once > > > > a 1280 had hit it's max density, that it merges with an adjacent 1280 > > > > to create a 2560 or merges 3 separate 1280's to create a 3840-acre > > > > unit where addt wells with different orientations are being allowed. > > > > Anybody hear anything else about this? If this IS being done, it > > > > brings me to the following question: > > > > How many spacing units can an individual section,or portion thereof, > > > > be part of? > > > > For example: let's take a section 4 over 9 standup - can section 4 > > > > concommitantly be in a section 5 and 4 laydown unit? And then again, > > > > into a 4-3 laydown unit at the same time... ?? > > > > Rufus- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bakken Shale Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bakken-shale-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
