Look at that Beautiful PA sky!

[petey]

They spud yesterday, they were cementing the 7" to 675' when I got up this morning. Drilling to TD now. Just spent the last two hrs in the doghouse with the tool pusher chatting away. They are at 1800 and should hit TD by 3:00 tomorrow!

Nice view from my side deck of a beautiful PA sky

[petey]

Nice looking sunset too!

Free gas and royalties; the soothing hum of the rig put me fast asleep last night. Dollar bills baby!

[Dan Morris]

Guess now, you gonna be known as the Shah of Pa.
Dan

[petey]

Dan,

I wouldn't go that far (yet!) he he

They hit TD (total depth) around 3:00 am and the log truck was on location when I woke this morning. I stopped up on my way to work and jumped in the Log truck (no not for trees!!)

For those that don't know, when they "log" a well they run seismic tools down the hole to record a number of things from periosity, permiability, temperature, hole size, etc... All those different types of measurement tell you if you're in sandstone, golamite, shale, if there's gas, oil or water, etc. Basically it tells you where the "pay zones" or formations are and where to Frac (fracture). My well is an open hole, so they'll be notching and fracing it in about a month.

Funny thing is, I work for a competitor gas/oil company, know how to read a log and everything about the drilling, completion and production of a gas/oil well. One of the owner's of the production company that's drilling my property was in the log truck. Very nice fellow and we chatted for about a half hr, then he even had them print a log for my own records! That about floored me. Quite the gesture, but basically he gave me a picture of my well underground so I know how good it's going to be. The average Joe would just see some squigley lines on a piece of paper. I guess I was suprised since it's always something that most companies keep to themselves. They pay for it, and keep what they know underground a secret.

Anyhow, I have about 5 different formations that have gas or oil in them. They aren't what I'd call great formations, but for my area he told me it's one of the best logs he's seen. Hey, she'll have plenty of gas to feed my house for the next 20 years and bring in a free check each month. Not expecting much from royalties, but even $100 is $100 I didn't have. Some wells we drill bring land owners over $3K or more a month in just 12.5%.

It's a good time to have a gas or oil well on my property at today's rates. If I do get some royalties off of it, I guess I can't complain about the price of gas at the pump. Not when I'm making money off the crude. That'd be a bit hypocritical eh?

[skeeter@ccia.com]

Petey...just call it your turn in the barrel....

[captain2k_ca]

Such a small rig to drill it tho


Heres a bigger one




I used to move these things...weeeee!!!

[petey]

is that a 2 or 3?

Most holes around here are about 2000-3000 for Upper Devonian, but now that the Marcellous Shale has come into play everyone is coming to PA to drill. Those depths can run from 5000-12000 depending on where they are. We have a couple Mediana and Onendaga Reef wells that are deeper than that. I think one Medina is like 15000' Of course the deeper they go, the bigger the rigs are, especially if they go horizontal on the well bore.

[captain2k_ca]

That was only a double...not a really big one. Had one triple that had around 120 loads that we move up north that winter...that was waaaaaaaaay more fun

Heres the shaker tank off of that triple:



This is another double we were moving around Southern Alberta:
It was a very heavy rig. Pumps and sub halves were almost too heavy for our bedtruck...front end would come right off the ground!!





Here is a BIG substructure!!



Quick way to move a derrick...TWO Truck it!