Exploration & Production | Operational Updates
Southwestern Provides Smackover Brown Dense Drilling Ops
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Southwestern has approximately 506,000 net acres targeting the Lower Smackover Brown Dense formation in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana. The company has drilled six wells in the play area to date. The company’s first three wells, which were completed earlier this year, are currently shut-in.
The company’s fourth and fifth wells, the Johnson #21-22-1 #1 and the Dean 31-22-1E #1 both located in Union Parish, Louisiana, were drilled to vertical depths of 10,507 feet and 10,503 feet, respectively. Both wells encountered higher pressures within the target formation and the company is using these wells to obtain additional log data and core samples and to optimize fracture stimulation designs in the vertical sections of the wells. The company currently plans to re-enter these wells as…
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