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Custer/Roger Mills Counties, Oklahoma, USA

GORE™ Survey Area

Geology:

  • Anadarko Basin
  • Target: Pennsylvanian Red Fork gas – 15,000 ft
  • Hydrocarbon accumulations are trapped stratigraphically in an extensive channel system present over much of the basin

Structural Cross Section A-A’Map showing the GORE™ Survey grid area and the client’s paleo channel interpretation

Survey Summary

  • Nine GORE™ Surveys over three years included over 2,500 samples
  • Reconnaissance samples: 600-800 ft grid spacing
  • Detailed survey samples: 200-400 ft grid spacing
  • 120 mi2 coverage

Survey Results

  • Thirty wells drilled in conjunction with the information provided by the GORE™ Survey
    • of the 22 wells drilled in areas identified by GORE™ Survey as geochemically similiar to Red Fork gas: 21 produced commercial quantities of gas; one was dry
    • Of the eight wells drilled in areas identified by GORE™ Survey as having no hydrocarbons: five were P&A; three were gas (however, one failed to repay completion costs)
    • 87% success rate! GORE™ Survey is able to find charged areas of the sandstone channel
  • Client's net sand thickness isopach based on wells drilled post-survey closely matches the GORE™ Survey result

GORE™ Survey results showing high probability areas for finding Red Fork gas (in red)

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