XTO Inactive Status Permit

XTO has applied for "Inactive Status" well permits for a couple of wells drilled a little over a year ago. The Quinn and Zacherl well inactive permits for instance are pending. Would this be because of the pipeline and compressor station not being completed?

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Permalink Reply by Philip Thackray on October 19, 2013 at 4:40am

Does anyone know anything about "Inactive Status" for these two wells?  I can't find anything recorded - perhaps it is not a recordable event.

From Google Maps, it looks like Zacherl is on the pipeline.  I think it will be a while before the Quinn gets hooked up.

Phil

 

Permalink Reply by FairMktValue on October 19, 2013 at 4:59am

http://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eFACTSWeb/searchResults_singleClient.aspx...

Hey Phil,

The link should take to a list of XTO,s wells etc:

So far as I can tell, both are active at this time. I suppose that could change.

Cheers

Permalink Reply by Philip Thackray on October 19, 2013 at 6:44am

thanks FMV

I wonder how the story got started?

Phil

Permalink Reply by FairMktValue on October 19, 2013 at 8:21am
Permalink Reply by FairMktValue on October 19, 2013 at 8:27am

Phil,

I am not real sure what "inactive" status really means. Looking through some older wells it seem some of them bounce back and forth between active and inactive. May just be an administrative thing-no inspections etc. Don't really know.

Permalink Reply by Philip Thackray on October 19, 2013 at 9:20am

FMV,

Quinn is down your way.  That well is a LONG way and under a river from XTO's properties to the North.  Do you know that it is tied in?

I have some horsey friends down by the Quinn pad who think that XTO drilled that to test the limit of the Wet Marcellus.  Did you see it being flared?

The list you sent me contains permited and active well sights.  It actually shows 3 wells permitted in my name that in reality were moved next door to the Marburger Farm (now Marburger B).  While those three wells show up on the permit list they will of course never be drilled.  Believe me I’d rather those wells be on someone else's property.  The well pads are not desirable.

Regards,

Phil

Permalink Reply by FairMktValue on October 19, 2013 at 9:49am

Phil,

The Quinn that I know of is just off 228 before Saxonburgh Blvd. It was one of the first to be drilled right around here. It is not actually that far from XTO wells directly north. No I did not see the flare.

ENotice indicates a Quinn to NiSource tie in pipeline. I don't know who or what NiSource is.(will look them up) I am assuming a gathering co. I am guessing it made sense for XTO to ship that gas to someone else.

Rex is doing a Lynn to XTO line which I believe is going to XTO,s Hicks Rd Plant. There is also a Lynn to Stebbins line in process. Rex apparently is going to sell some to XTO.

Limits to the wet Marcellus may make sense. Maybe Quinn is dry gas so they sent it off the other way.  I know a few people over that way, I get a chance I will ask around.

Cheers 

Permalink Reply by Philip Thackray on October 19, 2013 at 9:37am

FMV,

If Quinn is going into NISOURCE then it must be dry.  They may get to NISOURCE by going East towards Saxonburg not north.

Phil

Permalink Reply by FairMktValue on October 19, 2013 at 11:06am

May have to take a little Sunday drive over that way (not very far away) and see what I can see!

Permalink Reply by Philip Thackray on October 19, 2013 at 10:24am

FMV

NISOURCE is the main methane line leaving the Hicks Road plant. It travels along Mushrush road along with the gathering lines to the Jefferson Township compressor and the output of the compressor back to Hicks Road.  All “wet” wells must go to the compressor.  NISOURCE leaves the local gathering fields and continues East.  The XTO Karen Foertsch well almost due North of Quinn is considered dry so the Quinn should be dry.  That is why they can produce it into the NISOURCE line.

An XTO well tender told me that indeed Rex is sending gas to the Hicks Road plant for processing.

Phil

Permalink Reply by FairMktValue on October 19, 2013 at 11:04am

Thanks Phil, now I don't have to look up NISOURCE !  LOL

Speaking of flares (above) - I saw the Reno flare and if the dark orange color theory is correct - it is wet.

If Quinn and Foertsch are dry that puts Reno right on the line. So maybe those Rex boys know what they are doing. Rex "is" after wet gas and to my knowledge has not tried to lease much further East than Middlesex. Range apparently is after the dry (as I believe it was you mentioned somewhere on the blog) so their activity to the east and slightly south maybe puts one of the puzzle pieces in place.

Cheers

Permalink Reply by Philip Thackray on October 19, 2013 at 11:52am

FMV,

I don’t think these wells “switch” from wet to dry.  There is gradation across some distance.  1300 BTU, 1250 BTU, 1200 BTU, 1150 BTU etc.  For example, I believe the Foertsch well goes to the Hick’s road plant (not sure but I believe I can find out).  And the first Godfrey wells (2 miles to the Northwest of Foertsch) are wet.  At some point a “dry-wet” well can be produced into a dry methane line since there is an averaging effect of BTU content and the condensate content of Butler County 1250 BTU wet wells is very small to begin with.

So the Reno well may be "wet" enough to burn yellow.

The record setting well in Butler County (at least how marcellusgas.org calculates them) is the dry Pajer 3H in Buffalo Township.  In Green County there are some blockbuster dry wells on the wet/dry border.

Regards,

Phil

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