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Gold/Mining/Energy : Bearcat (BEA-C) & Stampede (STF-C) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (654)	3/19/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: grayhairs	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2306

Hi BearcatBob, I was out to TV last night to clarify a couple of details. Tons of snow out there and even though the roads have been very well plowed, I managed to get stuck twice when turning around. Dumb City-Boys, hey! Minor shovelling did solve the problem both times. Hope that come next winter I'll be able to sell off a few STF shares and buy a new set of winter tires with the profits. (I will need "different" snow tires by then because I plan on buying a new car with profits on my BEA!) Yes, as you can see, I continue to have pleasant dreams, not nightmares. Anyway, Esso has vacated their lease-- no flare stack, test separator, tankage, trailers, etc. Everything is gone and the lease access road is blocked off. But, equipment is being moved onto the BKP lease so we should see some testing starting there within the next 24 hours or so!! With respect to other\phantom wells in the area, Shell 13-21-20-3W5 well has rig released sometime in the last 10 days (when I last was there) and it is standing cased (equipped with a Xmas tree). So they've got something there, but what?? There is also a rig "active" (last night it had a lot of stands of drill pipe(??) in the derrick) at about 6-33-20-3W5. This rig has now been busy for about 10-15 days. I did not drive past the Shell well site, previously talked about in this thread and located in section 29-20-3W5. IMHO, these wells really don't mean a whole lot to the BEA/STF/BKP/Esso/RCP play. Why? Although they provide some "encouragement", in the sense that rumors indicate they have found hydrocarbons at deep regional TV depths, because they all are located on the westerly side of the TV overthrust I believe that they target a distinctly different type of exploration play then do the BEA et al wells. (I try to explain this below.) BCB, I ain't no qualified geologist (Do they make em??) so it is with a considerable risk of long lasting embarrassment to my pseudonym that I try to provide you a "simplistic" picture of certain types of Mississippian Turner Valley ("MTV") structures that I think could be of interest to oil and gas explorers. Post deposition the MTV lay peacefully in a near horizontal position. Shallower\younger formations progressively developed above it. Then the "Rockies" started forming a way out to the west. As they developed, huge west to east compressive forces were applied on the MTV. In the vicinity that today we call TV, Alberta those compressive forces began to fold the MTV. But, the MTV is brittle and it sheared into two pieces. Sustained compression from the west was enough to push the westernmost piece of MTV up and over the eastern piece of MTV, and subsequently up and over each of the progressively younger formations. (The "overthrust" sheet of MTV hosts the huge old Turner Valley Pools still producing today.) Now, as that overthrust sheet was being pushed up, sustained compression also created some smaller folds\structural features in the westernmost sheet of MTV, quite away west of the main overthrust fault(s). (I think it is those smaller features\folds that Shell is chasing with their exploration in the area.) Also, as the overthrust sheet was being pushed up, frictional forces dragged up the western extremity of the eastern piece of MTV and that created the deep regional structures that I think BEA et al are targetting (excepting for wells 1 and 4(or 3?), I can't remember the numbers, which had to have targetted other features given their distance from the overthrust fault(s)). Below is an attempt at a schematic of what I'm trying to say. Sorry about the quality (ie.lack of same). You have to ignore all the periods to make any sense of it. ............................................../ . / ............................................./ . / ............................................/ . /<--Overthrust TV (Old .........................................../ . /.....Pools are in this ........................................../ . /......Type of Trap) ........................................./ . / <<<WEST......................./ . /......................EAST>>> ......................................./ . / ....................................../ . / ...................................../ . / ..................................../ . /_______ .........______............./ . //_______ . \. ____/ . ___ . \_____/ . /.................\ . \______ _____/.......\________/...................\_________ ..........^......................................^ ........Shell................................BEA/STF/Esso/BKP/RCP ........Type................................Type ........Target..............................Target If nothing else BCB, having gone through the above exercise trying to set out the geological setting for you, it should lay to rest some of the rumors that I've heard that "grayhairs" is actually none other than "John McLeod". What a laugh. Jack couldn't use that pseudonym!! He'd have to use "baldy". Ha! Ha! Gotcha, Jack :-) BCB, I'll try and answer some of the other questions you have raised later this p.m. In the meantime, I have to tend to a couple of items. Chow for now.