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Permalink Reply by bobcatt70 on February 12, 2013 at 8:58am

anybody?

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Permalink Reply by DDS on February 12, 2013 at 10:25am

I think it means stratigraphic test.

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Permalink Reply by bobcatt70 on February 12, 2013 at 11:18am

Yes I was wondering if these wells become producers or are they only test wells

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Permalink Reply by Brian Powers on February 13, 2013 at 4:45am

bobcatt -

The classification looks to me as if the operator is drilling the well to obtain cores, electric logs or maybe to perform a seismic "check shot" survey  where geophones are lowered into the well on electric wireline, a charge or vibrator truck is run nearby to generate the downhole sound waves, and then all the data is coalesced to create a more complete view of the subsurface.

 

Data wells like this are frequently "temporarily abandoned" with cement plugs that can be drilled out later to allow the well to be converted from temp. abandoned to production status.

 

Brian 

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