This press release shows how the difficulty of getting a well completed due to the fracking choke point.
Samson Oil and Gas advises that firm fracture stimulation dates for the Rodney #1-14H and Earl 1-13H wells have been established. In an earlier presentation Samson expected that the wells would be fracture stimulated in February after a service provider made a crew available, however, that crew was subsequently withdrawn.Do not take this out of context. This is nothing more than a temporary delay, but it has to be very frustrating.
Fracture stimulation operations are expected to commence March 14th for the Rodney well and March 28th for the Earl well. These two wells are the latest wells drilled to date in the North Stockyard field.
On another note, the press release refers to the "North Stockyard" field. To the best of my knowledge there is no "North Stockyard field." It is the "Stockyard Creek" field; at least that's the way it is still shown on the NDIC GIS map server.
This field has turned out to be a pretty good field. It is located about five (5) miles due east of Williston, in some beautiful, rolling prairie. The two wells, Earl and Rodney, could be nice wells based on previous results in Stockyard Creek. They are one mile apart from each other on the east side of this small field, smack dab in the center of field (north/south).
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The fracking bottleneck was also mentioned by EOG/CEO (Mark Papa), February 18, 2011:
On our last call, I mentioned the tightness and availability of Eagle Ford frac equipment. This continues to be a problem, although in EOG's case, we've been able to alleviate almost all bottlenecks relating to completions in frac equipment except proppants availability.
