11,622 foot lateral

Antero is going to try and access their leasehold beneath Seneca lake in Noble County with a super-long 11,622' lateral.   Best of luck.   API # 34121244330000; Myron 1-H.   I had trouble obtaining the PLATMAP image and had to go to ODNR for it.   Maybe you will have better luck.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Powers on August 7, 2013 at 10:03am

Hiker-

Antero will need much more than luck to achieve an 11,622' lateral. They'll need a very stout rig with great mud pumps, strong drill pipe with high tensile strength and high torque rated connections, a well engineered drilling fluid system, robust bottom hole drilling assembly design and the drilling gods on their side, not to mention an ample supply of strong, black coffee and Tums

 

BP was working on a project to drill 50,000 ft. wells with 20,000 ft. laterals in Alaska awhile back but recently shelved the project even with a purpose built rig and rill pipe design.

 

Good luck to Antero, indeed

 

 

Brian

Permalink Reply by john goodday on August 7, 2013 at 11:10am

Not to mention $15 - $20M to drill, fracture 50 stages of perforations & complete.  That would require 10 BCFE to break even. 

Permalink Reply by Jim on August 7, 2013 at 12:21pm

How well would an Aluminum/Steel drill string confirguation work?

Permalink Reply by Tony Yurina on August 7, 2013 at 3:30pm

Common sense from the MWCD would have thought allowing two mutually agreeable pads would have made this a much easier engineering effort and increase revenue and royalty.

Go figure... 

Permalink Reply by Sticky Fingers on August 7, 2013 at 3:45pm

From what I saw on the DNR website it looks like the 1H is going to the center of the lake. They might have another location picked out on the other side but accessing the center of the lake from shore might be nearly impossible without drilling the 11,622' lateral. Just IMHO, I'm definitely excited to see the results.

Permalink Reply by Booger on August 8, 2013 at 9:37am

Tony,

that idea is way too "common" and "sensible" for the MWCD.

i think i read......not only do they not allow any drilling on the district land, but also no drilling on land bordering the district land.......i wonder how enforceable that is?

Permalink Reply by The Hiker on August 8, 2013 at 11:37am

Booger:  They can drill on land adjacent to MWCD land, but there are conditions attached that the oil company must adhere to.   I know of one pad just agreed to by a landowner bordering the lake property.

Permalink Reply by Booger on August 8, 2013 at 1:21pm

that's good news........will be even better news if this long lateral works........i am close to MWCD at Tappan and have been wondering how they will get across some of those areas........that is, if the state ever leases Tappan.

Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on August 7, 2013 at 4:18pm

At one of the Penn State seminars a couple of years ago they said that there was a 10,000 lateral in WV.  They didn't say where or which company nor what depth it was drilled.  But it has been done.

I guess that they could frac the farthest half of the length now and come back in a few years and frac the remainder.  If they do it all at once, seems it would produce such a huge volume that it would overload the well bore and the gathering lines.

This would make for some huge units if it becomes normal procedure. Could HBP a lot of land with just one well if they start doing this a lot.

Permalink Reply by Big Driller on August 12, 2013 at 12:59pm

10,000' laterals drilled in N. Dakota Bakken.

Permalink Reply by JamesG on August 12, 2013 at 8:09pm

EQT has a well in Greene Co. PA with a 8411 lateral.  It is Cooper well no.

590384.  It was drill at least two years ago. 

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