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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (2900)	5/31/1999 8:01:00 AM
From: 1st.mate	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15703

My understanding of this is that the water will fall back over several weeks....After the vaccum is turned off the dirt will fall that is 1/2 way to the nozel!!!!It will not be an issue!!!Matey PS..May take 2 months to settle completely but we have that now!!!

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (2900)	5/31/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: grayhairs	Respond to of 15703

Not very far at all Bob. If the water has been "coned", the apex of that cone is at the bottom of the wellbore, the point of maximum pressure drawdown within the reservoir during the blowout. There have been NO physical forces operating upon the water which would have caused the water to distribute laterally. It has, as of late Friday already started to "slump" and drop back down in the reservoir due to gravitational pull and the density difference between the gas and the water. (But, the water saturations established by the cone can not be completely reversed so the cone will not just "disappear" with time. It will always be there but in a modified state which will continue to change with time.) But, it does not matter as the cone only covers a few acres at its maximum breadth. Such is the nature of this phenomenon, Bob. Petroleum engineers run numerical models to simulate and study this behavior every day !! The technical interpretation that was touted at a "show and tell" by HTP (and which actually makes perfect sense) is very difficult for me to explain without the aid of graphics. But, it is their belief that the water is actually sucked up to the well through the top layer of sand that bends and plunges nearly vertically (as a function of the faulting action that created the reservoir). They know that the sand plunges from data acquired on the original wellbore (that was later whipstocked to the current #1 location higher on the structure). In their scenario, the well simply would not be perforated in the top few feet and water production would be prevented !! End of story. The gas IS there Bob. It will be tapped into. It will be produced. And it will be producing long after you and I have both gone on to other places (even though you are much younger than I). The target structure is 14 miles x 2 miles. There is plenty of room to locate a few producers on this thing !!! JMHOBWDIK. Have a good holiday. Later, grayhairs