re: Haynesville Shale North of Benton??

Yes, there is always going to be action up that way now. The smaller companies who cannot compete with the high bonuses in the HS will have to look for a prospect outside the HS. The 300-400 acre stuff and some good old fashioned CV wells will not make you the multi-millionaires that people in south Caddo are becoming, but they can definitely bring in plenty of mailbox money, which is nice.

I think it just depends on what area of town your land is in. If you have land east of town, your best bet is Winchester/Exco. Anywhere other than that, you"ll just have to wait and see. Where is your land located?

Per the Shreveport Times yesterday:

"Small towns like Haughton and the rest of us are always strapped for cash, so it could really be bonus money for us to use to improve infrastructure," Plain Dealing Mayor Dale Barnette said.

His town's government is in the same boat as most of its residents: Barnette and company have heard a lot about the Haynesville Shale but have yet to be approached by anyone.


So they have yet to be approached by anyone. Not a good sign I would say.

We're still waiting for evidence, and I have a feeling we are going to be waiting a long, long time.

Well like I posted a while back several suites of logs I have seen on many wells in the area, old maps, recent wells drilled by Samson and J-W, and direct statements from CHK, HK, etc. make me arrive at the conclusion that it's not present in North Bossier. The J-W Rumbaugh well in 20N-14W along with the Samson dry hole in 21N-13W have really turned oil/gas companies looking for the Haynesville shale away from the area. That's a lot of concrete evidence to support my claims. It's not necessary to get hostile because I don't share your opinion. Bring some evidence to the table and then things could be different.

HEY Flop....TD is so experienced he forgot about the 2 new wells in Sec.10 T22 RW west...lol....11600 ft. and they aren't dry??

You must be drankin' too, what is the range??

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Hey Flop...of course they will say they didn't hit shale, it is just sand...I saw where a poster told earlier today said that he "Personally" knew CHK employees that were headed to south Ark. to start leasing. They must have some of that sand up there too, huh? TD says that CHK told them it wasn't up here..Seems I remember them keeping a little secret for a couple of years before the cat got out of the bag don't you?

Thanks ole' buddy!