Mississippi Lime Production Rockets To Rival Eagle Ford & Bakken

Production coming out of the Mississippi Lime play has obviously rocketed in recent years, increasing by 112,000 bpd since January 2010; according to some recent reports, the Mississippi Lime even provides a better rate of return than the Eagle Ford.

The full commercial opportunity offeredby the play is however, still to be determined and reached and what we need nowis the latest well results; monthly production history versus time on individualwells and how these rates correlate to the completions techniques used.

Being a lime and chert formation insteadof a shale play, the Mississippi poses some unique exploitation challenges andgeological complexities that could challenge the economics of drilling andcompletions and indeed the entire play. Despite the unprecedented increases inproduction, the importance of keeping drilling days to a minimum and overallcompletions costs down is critical to making the play commercially viable and toensuring a healthy rate of return for producers.

The positive note is that MississippiLime operators in both Oklahoma and Kansas are now advancing sub surfaceunderstanding and innovating more than ever to find the frac design anddrilling techniques that can ensure production outweighs costs and lead theplay to being the next Bakken or Eagle Ford.

The first ever Mississippi Lime& Chert Drilling & Completions Summit is now coming toOklahoma and has been designed specifically to help drilling and completionsexecutives and managers establish an optimal drilling strategy and frac designby bringing together major operators to compare case studies and well results.The insight delivered in presentation by experts who are actively exploitingthe play, will provide unprecedented details on how to lower drilling days,drill through chert and lower completion design costs while increasingproduction.

In this two day congress over 20 E&Poperator speakers will provide case studies highlighting ultimate completionand drilling techniques with an added focus on the geology of the play and howit, in turn, influences completion techniques.

Day 1 of the event will start by hearingresults from the last 12 months to analyze what factors contribute to an economicwell in the high chert content Mississippi Lime. The day will the delve intopresentations on mapping chert, drilling sweet spots, assessingwhether production comes from fracture or matrix, completing inchert, how frac fluid influences production, optimal quantities ofproppant, the usefulness of acid fracs, optimal cluster spacing anda case study based cost-benefit analysis of open hole vs plug &perf completions.

Day 2 of the event will hear casestudies from operators that have reduced drilling time to under 21 days in theplay as well as looking at Kansas specific case studies drilling andcompletions. The day also hosts specific technical sessions on fastestwellbore, chert drilling strategy, horizontal logging, loss circulation,staying in zone and drilling fluids.

This isthe only event to focus specifically on drilling and completions in theMississippi Lime.

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