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Gold/Mining/Energy : KOB.TO - East Lost Hills & GSJB joint venture

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To: jcole05 who wrote (15623)	5/15/2002 6:46:24 PM
From: John M	Read Replies (2) of 15703

Here is my two cents worth on WWD: - If my last information was correct on the water production, the #1 well is making 3000 BWPD/MMscfd gas produced. So if you want to flow at 20 MMscfd you have to get rid of 3000 BWPD/MMscfd X 20 MMscfd = 60,000 BWPD. That's a lot of water. - To do that, you have to find an old reservoir that has been depleted to refill with this water. It will take a very large old reservoir to give you any kind of time. a 100 million barrel reservoir, which is very big, will only give you about 5 years of disposal ability. While there are some large old oil fields in the area, they are still producing. If they are still producing they probably don't want to get flooded out by this water. - A good disposal well can suck down about 10,000 bpd of water. So we might need 6 or more wells to satisfy the requirements. - Depending on how clean the water is, we might need filters, floatation units and settling tanks to clean the water up before it goes down hole (very expensive capital cost and maintenance cost. If the water has a lot of garbage in it, it will plug off the disposal well reservoir usually requiring acid to fix it. - Typically, whoever owns the disposal reservoir gets paid by the barrel for disposal. It is not unusual to pay $1/bbl for disposal. If I owned the perfect reservoir for disposal in this area, I guarantee you I would charge what the market will bear for the service. Either that or I would sell APC the dead reservoir for lots of money. - Permits are required from the State for WWD wells to make sure the wells casings don't leak and that the water goes where it is supposed to go (not in a drinking water acquifer for example) All in all water is disposal is typically a major pain in the butt and very expensive. I'm not surprised at how long this is taking to sort out because of the volume of water that has to be handled. JMHO once again. but I have been in the business for 20 years if that means anything - probably not. JM

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