RE: Rns out11 Nov 2021 09:44
Coho pipeline - expected completed Q1 2022 - started mid October - 60 days - Christmas holidays, COVID issues, has to be constructed and tested and commissioned for operation into Shell’s existing facility. I think it’s only natural to guide Q1, and getting all this done in 2.5 months before the end of the year with christmas and COVID isn’t very realistic. By Q1 I imagine they mean closer to 1 Jan then 31st March.
WD-4 - Hit a gas pocket and got stuck - these things happen, it’s not uncommon to either hit a high pressure gas pocket, get stuck, or both. There are many different types of sticking, and they didn’t say exactly what occurred here, but one can google stuck pipe if you want to learn more about it. Could be some form of differential sticking, collapsed formation, who know, but we don’t need to care. They tried to pull it, couldn’t get it, so they cut the drill string and side tracked further up a made a successful well out of it. These wells are sooooooo cheap it’s not even worth thinking about it. Offshore things like this are much more painful due to the high cost of the drilling rig day rates.
Cascadura - TXP still jumping through the paperwork hoops of joy. Things take time when every Tom Dick and Harry are allowed to be heard. What Paul has said before, and this is very important, TXP is only dealing with the top side facilities at the well site, and the additional well pads. NGC is dealing with the pipeline, and this is a separate paperwork exercise. Our paperwork will makes things go much faster when it’s done as it covers all that we want to do. Paul has said that NGC will have the pipeline completed before TXP is done with the paperwork and completing the top side facilities, so really this is on us to go as fast as possible.
Chinook - the Cruse formation tested here only had a pressure of 200 psi. One might have thought that was a typo and should have been 2000 psi, but it wasn’t and as such, there is nothing commercial in the Cruse gas right here. Cascadura is 4000 psi, so 20 times more pressure and gas volume per m3 than here, says a bit. The very positive reinforcing signal here though is that Chinook is in no way written in line with what many of us technical people have tried to convey in here. The updip drilling locations are on the presentation, there is every reason to drill here, and in my opinion a high chance of hitting commercial oil. We just have to hope for a nice deep oil water contact. The high pressure water coming in from the bottom here will be like a natural enhanced oil recovery injection from below, for free.
The guys that only last two minutes in a position will likely be leaving shortly, so bye bye. Come back when you learn to read and would like to sit in a long term fundamentally sound position of ownership. Your in and out trading does none of us long term holder nor the company any good, so don’t let the door hit you on the way out, and don’t come back for a quickie