No decline in well production

  I have land in a well that has been in production for over a year.  This well is in the volatile oil window.  The well is tied into a 4 inch dominion gas line that directly feeds customers homes.  My first question is what kind of production could this line handle?  Also the well has produced a about 30 barrels of oil a day and about 300 mcf of gas a day for the whole time of production.  I was told by an employee of the gas company who owns the well that it is choked a lot.  Is this well good or bad?

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Permalink Reply by Gusher on November 21, 2013 at 4:00pm

any oil is good but 300,000cf of gas a day is 10% of what the good wells at full flow are capable of....you are only looking at $1,200 worth of gas a day at todays price and $2,500 in oil a day..........not much for a 6 million dollar well. makes sense why your production has not declined as they must be choked way back

Permalink Reply by Gunner Ostergard on November 22, 2013 at 1:40am

If the well is tied into a 4 inch dominion gas line then it does not sound like a deep horizonal marcellus well that cost 6 million dollars.  The production numbers sound more like a shallow well.  As far as if choking is good or bad,  I guess they want to make money as much as you do so maybe they have it choked to wait for prices to climb

Permalink Reply by jeff on November 22, 2013 at 1:54am

It is a horizontal well in the utica volatile oil strip.  The horizontal lateral is about 5000 ft long.

Permalink Reply by Gunner Ostergard on November 22, 2013 at 2:51am

Wow,  thanks for the clarification,  I would not have guessed that.

Permalink Reply by Kangoo on November 22, 2013 at 3:51am

The issue is pipeline pressure. Many pads feed into pipelines that run at around 1000 psi. This is way too high for residential lines. It seems this well is either choked back severely or a really bad producer so that they can flow the 0.3 MMcf/d into a residential pipline system at much lower pressure. You could not economically do that with the dry gas wells (starting off at 30 MMcf/d meaning 100 times the production rate of this well) for example Gulfport or others are drilling.

Permalink Reply by Sam Moore on November 24, 2013 at 3:28am

I think it depends on the btu's of the gas coming out of the hole.  The high btu gas (wet gas) needs to be processed, dry gas does not.  I find the definition of "can't" is often DON'T WANT TO. With the old shallow wells the home owner took care of everything from the well head to the home.  With these new wells they do want anyone on the site.

Permalink Reply by Kangoo on November 22, 2013 at 2:44am

Jeff, does the well have a pumping unit or is it just a wellhead with no moving pump? If the well is choked back a lot then it should no thave a pumping unit.

Permalink Reply by jeff on November 24, 2013 at 8:59am

there is no pumping unit on the well and this well ties into a line that collects gas from the clinton wells in the area

Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on November 26, 2013 at 8:40am

EXACTLY WHERE IS THIS WELL LOCATED .........IS THIS THE CAIRNS WELL ?

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