Thursday, March 27, 2014

Buda Limestone Wells In Eagle Ford: $4 Million; 250K In 18 Months; Huge Bakken Competition

NOTE: oil is now up $2.31/bbl to $101.50. The spread between WTI and Brent continues to narrow. May natural gas rallies to new session highs on inventory data; now up 1.5% at $4.46.

Rigzone is reporting:
Terrace Energy Corp. announced it has reached an agreement to develop significant new acreage in Zavalla and Dimmit Counties on trend with recent, highly successful wells in the emerging Buda Limestone formation in South Texas.
The company announced it had entered into an agreement Feb. 24 to acquire a 75 percent working interest and a 56.25 percent net revenue interest in several leases, that cover approximately 10,000 gross (6,700 net) mineral acres, by drilling a series of wells. The Company has now reached an agreement to develop the remaining 3,300 net mineral acres on the same terms and conditions as the Farm-in Agreement. With this agreement, the Company now has the right to test and develop the Buda Limestone over approximately 10,000 net mineral acres.
The project acreage is located in the core of the Eagle Ford Trend in South Texas and in close proximity to a number of prolific horizontal wells drilled into the naturally fractured Buda Limestone, including the publicized Hughes Heitz 302 3H, which produced over 250,000 barrels of light sweet crude oil in its first 18 months of reported production, according to the Texas Railroad Commission.
Utilizing leading edge underbalanced drilling techniques and recently available 3D seismic data, operators have reported achieving production results comparable to or exceeding Eagle Ford Shale wells in the area at significantly lower capital costs.
Typical horizontal Buda wells in the area are being drilled and completed for capital costs in the range of $3 to $4 million as compared to Eagle Ford Shale wells, which typically cost in the range of $6 to $8.5 million.

2 comments:

  1. well as is typical there's more to the story. the Heitz is the very best well with many other attempts ok but farther out, not so ok. Still good to see

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    1. I don't know how "new" the Buda is. It was a couple of years and a lot of poor wells in the Bakken before it really got going.

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