I was also thinking that, like SAGD or THAI?
ROCKMAN wrote:The Russians didn't just invent sh*t.
ROCKMAN wrote:Radon - Perhaps English is your second language. LOL. From your link: "Russian scientists and local oil field services companies claim to have created a technology for thermochemical gas fracturing that could be an alternative to hydraulic fracturing..."
FYI: created = invented. Copying someone else's homework is not doing your home work. LOL.
radon1 wrote:ROCKMAN wrote:The Russians didn't just invent sh*t.
They didn't say they discovered anything. They said they built a technology that they tested and it produced certain results. It is probably based on some soviet time research anyway.
In effect, the fracking companies have been drilling into oil deposits already owned by conventional oil companies… and damaging the existing wells in the process. This is likely to result in lengthy court disputes that will add to the financial woes of the fracking companies.
rockdoc123 wrote:This has nothing to do with shale and marginally to do with fracking. What these group of independents in Oklahoma are complaining about is that a new regulation would allow long horizontal wells (not necessarily fracked) in multiple horizons that are considered conventional. Because the laws regarding competitive drainage are almost non-existent in Oklahoma this creates a major problem. As well because the independent producers almost certainly haven't provided a downhole survey to the State regulator it would be impossible for someone drilling a horizontal well to be sure of avoiding intersecting that borehole. When oil companies drill wells in active areas one of the first things they do is a wellbore avoidance study where downhole surveys from all wells are plotted along with the proposed trajectory of the planned well. The trajectory is adjusted accordingly.
In Canada, there are very strict regulations around competitive drainage and the regulators rule quite quickly when complaints are registered. The US industry had a long history of competitive drainage going unregulated with rigs closely stacked, all interfering production-wise with one another.
Fracked wells in tight sands and shales seldom interfere with one another because the average radius of frack extent is about 150 m maximum. So if well bores are situated more than 300 m apart there is little chance of interference taking place.
rockdoc123 wrote:the actual source of the study is the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance which is a group of independent producers of vertical wells in conventional reservoirs. The article linked to mentions fracking companies but it isn't the fracks that the OEPA are concerned about. It is the fact the long reach wells are intersecting their well bores or close enough that they are competitively draining from the conventional reservoir.
It isn't about fracking at all. Whether the well is fracked or not fracked doesn't matter if it intersects a well bore previously drilled and currently producing.
Here is the OEPA website which describes what they are about.
https://okenergyproducers.org/about/
the actual source of the study is the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance
pstarr wrote:rockdoc wrote:" It is the fact the long reach wells are intersecting their well bores or close enough that they are competitively draining from the conventional reservoir.
It isn't about fracking at all. Whether the well is fracked or not fracked doesn't matter if it intersects a well bore previously drilled and currently producing. "
Really, doc? No. Not after years of your lecturing and fine instruction lol We know better than to buy your BS.
pstarr wrote:There is no point to long laterals in that regions except to drain tight shale. And I would willing to bet there's some propulsive proppants involved. Really, doc?
ROCKMAN wrote:...
One thing I hope you and others understand: despite your eyes possibly glazing over half wag they I left out a huge amount of detail on this subject matter. So when you read short little blerbs like the one that started this chat don't for minute think you really understand what the f*ck is going on. Some tease about my long posts. But the reality is that the subject matters we discuss are z tad more complex then a few lines can do justice to. Doc and I can just tell some of you that you're just acting like ignorant and foolish children. But what would be the point of wasting our time to do that.
“At least 450 older vertical wells in Kingfisher County alone have been damaged economically because of bigger horizontal wells in the area, according to an interim report by vertical producers.
“The Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance released the interim study last week, saying it indicates that the older wells have experienced widespread well bashing and that damage has cost producers and royalty owners throughout the state.”
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