How to drill your own oil well

;) winking   Try this  ,Go to Google earth ,find your acres use search at the top and use the ruler 4th from right side . Now click on for degrees mark where you want the well , use 30 degree go north west or use 150 degree for south east . go the distance for horizontal let's say 7000 ft  use the foot ruler .Now go 525 feet on each side of the horizontal line for a total of 1050 feet , that will be your drilling area and     your royalty field .Spend it wisely :-? thinking A big correction on the north west degree ,it should be 330  not 30 (  Sept 22 ) Sorry about that .   Now you see why acres have to be pooled in

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Permalink Reply by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on September 22, 2011 at 4:15am
Interesting? Can you get a rig at Home Depot? lol.
Permalink Reply by paul geiger on September 22, 2011 at 4:48am
No , haven't try ed yet  .I 'm using  a very old erector sets  . Did you try Google earth and drill your own? .
0jw0dsu4txfuvPermalink Reply by 0jw0dsu4txfuv on September 23, 2011 at 12:47pm
I hope no one takes this post serious.
Permalink Reply by paul geiger on September 25, 2011 at 12:48am
Believe it or not  to take this seriously   but this is how they do it with one drilling pad  and one rig
Permalink Reply by paul geiger on September 25, 2011 at 12:57am
OK I'll try this again
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0jw0dsu4txfuvPermalink Reply by 0jw0dsu4txfuv on September 25, 2011 at 12:24pm

While you have it almost correct Operators generally don't plan to drill single wells on a pad. Here are three things you haven't covered. This site is for the right information.

1) Bare minimum is 1000 acres to lease.

2) Geolographical Studies to determine the shale porosity

3) *** Direction to drill and how to steer the well in the right direction to maximize potential.

Truly I sympathize with the interest like yours and have been involved in the past with some landowners attempting to do this. I don't agree on some things that have happened in The Marcellus Play but please get it right before you post something that looks like a very detailed drilling description.

Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on September 25, 2011 at 12:35pm

Homer; correct me if I am wrong but from what I hear the laterals are usually shorter, around 4000 feet.  And the frac zone is around 200' either side of the well bore.

 

I am sure there is a lot of variation from area to area and also between companies and their preferred  techniques and that the shale's charactoristics will determine much of this.

0jw0dsu4txfuvPermalink Reply by 0jw0dsu4txfuv on September 25, 2011 at 1:12pm

Yes the laeterals are from 3800-whatever. An acre is 209'x209'. It generally take 1000'-

2000' to get horozontial or 90 degress.  So to get 4000' you have to more. Think of these laterals in terms of circle. The degrees of the circle being the azmuth. As stated earlier so many things are only partially true.

Permalink Reply by paul geiger on September 26, 2011 at 2:17am
If you look closely at the OHIO drilling permit this is how they are drilling the field in Portage county ,Suffield township7438 feet long and 1050 in width at 150 degrees south west ,  I did NOT POST this as a  not true drilling description  , This is for the Permitted 4414-o1
Permalink Reply by Barbara on September 26, 2011 at 2:20am
if this is the 'formula', why all the expense of seismic testing???
Permalink Reply by paul geiger on September 26, 2011 at 4:06am

Seismic testing (aka seismic mapping or surveying) is a technology used to search for pockets of natural gas. Typically, high tech vibroseis or vibrator trucks crawl along rural roads of Appalachia and send seismic waves into the surrounding ground in order to discover geologic formations under fields, farms and homes. Heliportable equipment, that is seismic equipment dropped from helicopter, although less commonly employed, is also used in seismic mapping.

A typical seismic survey in a forest preserve was described this way:

Workers clear the vegetation and mulch down 4 ft. wide paths in a grid pattern throughout the woods being surveyed. Microphones are then connected via bright orange cables along the paths. Vibrator units mounted on buggies emit sound waves that go approximately five miles down into the ground. These waves reflect back off of underground rock formations, and are picked up by the microphones. The seismic data produced is then studied in order to decide where to drill.

A second form of seismic testing consists of detonating small explosive charges in the ground. Generally the testing crew lays out a grid. Shot points that have small explosive devices in them are aligned in one direction, and receiver cables connected to geophones go the other way. When the explosions are detonated they are 20-30 feet in the ground and generate seismic waves that can be picked up by the geophones. Ususally about one hundred shot points are used per square mile. When permission to test can't be obtained, the crew works around the parcel in question. However, higher resolution imagery results when more shots can be made in the area being surveyed.

Both the viboseis method and setting off charges in the ground make use of the resulting soundwave data to render images of the rock formations below.

Seismic data can be used to computer generate or render 2-D and 3-D maps of the underlying rock formations up to a depth of 30,000 feet. A skilled analyst can gain some idea of the likelihood of finding gas in a particular area by reading these maps.

The conventional wisdom on seismic testing is that it won’t tell you exactly which locations to drill, but may help you figure out where not to. When horizontal drilling is to be employed, a good location for drilling is one that doesn't go across skips or faults. Such rock features can often be detected through seismic testing.


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