From September 201619 Sep 2018 21:49
Q: And why did you want to go horizontally and then go vertically?
DaveW: We thought we could skip a step in the normal process?
Q: And why did you think you could skip that step and then change your mind?
DaveW: Because we had obtained enough material and log and data that we thought we would be able to get to a point in our interpretation and analysis that we could reduce the uncertainty in where we would land that well, but we can’t at this point in time.
Q: Why not?
PaulB: We had log quality issues. We had washouts in the hole. Because the formation is very over-pressured. Where we had core we have certainty - there’s no uncertainty. But there’s part of the hole that we didn’t get all of the information that we need - and so in this vertical well we're also going to be able to acquire the additional information as well as the induction falloff testing, we’re going to actually to frack into these zones - we’re going to be able to measure the height growth and the embedment and all the other things like that.