I don't know about the Gas.. but HUGE TANKERS full of OIl going out Cubbison Rd ALL DAY LONG...!!
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Ok, thanks, Mike
Sorry.. dumb me.. ha.. cannot even "click" on things right...:)
I will wait till the 2nd Kamm platt shows up.
THANKS a bunch for all the help...
thanks,, Mike
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James,
I disagree with your assessment that "the results today don't look too good."
Get your calculator out and do the math. EQT's third quarter financials indicated they received $101 per bbl for oil.
Six months of sustained production at these levels pays off half the well investment costs including the $2 million dollars each spent on core sampling, special scientific tests, etc. EQT stated that each of the first three wells had extensive scientific data collected that added two million dollars to the cost of each well, the cost was $8.5 M each. Future wells are projected to cost $6.5 M each and economics look even better.
Sources indicate the 30 day IP rates were choked to some extent.
To answer your question: There are only a few weeks left in the year, and natural gas facility construction is a slow progress when you are working in rain, mud and cold weather. (Speaking form experience, it is not very much fun)
IMO by years end, about all they could mobilize would be a JT skid to yank out some of the NGL's, somewhere in their short system.
There needs to be a few more pieces filled in this part of the puzzle before anyone can make an educated guess.
A JT skid is a type refrigeration unit that cools the gas component ie. C3 Propane, C4 Butane, etc. below the boiling point such that it is condensed into a liquid form and separated from the residue gas stream.
Tony,
As much I'd like EQT to be successful, these wells currently don't look economic right now.
The little gas that they produced with the oil (on average around or less than 1MMCF/d) doesn't look good. The low energy (low reservoir pressure in the western part of the Utica combined with the low gas to oil ratio reported in their press release) puts these wells at a big risk of a very steep decline. It will be interesting to see what their IP90 is, but I'd expect them to be around half the IP30 rate, maybe at bit more.
Therefore these wells won't flow for 6 months even at close the rate they flowed the first 30 days.
Also you are using $101/bbl when you are doing econmics. I'd use 65$ to $70 dollars at best for what they'll actually keep per bbl produced. You need to include operating costs, royalties, taxes, etc.... The 101 dollar mentioned in their Q3 statement is just what they received when selling the oil, not including any costs.
Hopefully they'll find ways to improve productivity on future wells, but as of now things don't look too great.
Sources indicate tubing and a hydraulic linear rod pump are being used at least on one of the wells.
Using the LRP, How much longer do you estimate the IP 30 to hold until the decline curve becomes substantial?
EQT is within two miles of the KM pipeline and compressor station 209. I would not be surprised to learn there may be a potential future liquids outlet just waiting to be exploited.
That's really hard to say without the operating parameters, but in general having a rod pump installed very early (within a few weeks) is a sign that flowing pressure dropped rapidly after bringing the well on..... Currently it's all speculations, we'll know a lot more when (in case they decide to do so) they release 90 day production data.
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