发现于二叠纪盆地米切尔县:2.5 英里的 Wolfcamp Stepouts

Bayswater Exploration & Production 已将其米德兰盆地石油勘探区向东延伸至米切尔县,那里的高碳酸盐含量“让我们有机会真正与大公司竞争。”

Bayswater 从其孤独堡垒生产了 1.5 MMbbl。(来源:Bayswater 勘探与生产)

在米德兰盆地过渡到东大陆架的得克萨斯州米切尔县,水平井的数量用手就能数出来。

如果说米切尔以西的霍华德县东部地区在过去十年里似乎是那些冒险者的天堂,那么现在越过边境进入米切尔则是一个新的前沿。毕竟,县城科罗拉多城比二叠纪非官方首府米德兰更靠近阿比林。

德克萨斯州铁路委员会米切尔县 GIS 查看器中的直线是县道和剖面线,通常是同一件事。

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Found in Mitchell County, Permian Basin: 2.5-mile Wolfcamp Stepouts

Bayswater Exploration & Production has taken its Midland Basin oil play far east into Mitchell County where a high carbonate content “gives us a chance to really compete with the big guys.”

Bayswater has produced 1.5 MMbbl from its Fortress of Solitude. (Source: Bayswater Exploration & Production)

In Mitchell County, Texas, where the Midland Basin transitions into the Eastern Shelf, the number of horizontal wells can be counted by hand.

If far eastern Howard County, to the west of Mitchell, seemed a reach for tight-rock wildcatters in the past decade, jumping the border now into Mitchell is a newer frontier. After all, county seat Colorado City hews closer to Abilene than the unofficial Permian capital of Midland.

The straight lines in the Railroad Commission of Texas’ GIS viewer in Mitchell County are county roads and section lines—typically, the same thing.

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