Daniel Wilson
Analyst · SunTrust.
Absolutely, no. What we did on this well, Neal, in the area that we started out, in the Central Basin Platform, we had at the luxury of sitting and watching people for about 5 years as they refine the completion techniques in that area. And so we were able to pretty much hit the ground running when we started there. And in the area up in North Gaines, this is a new frontier for the San Andres. There's a lot of San Andres production up there, but nobody has drilled horizontally. And so what we're trying to do and what we're working through is what's the optimum completion technique? And so what we've done in this particular well, when we drilled it, we drilled a mile long lateral and we ran a series of sliding sleeves in the well, so that we can go in and we'll open a certain number of those, and then, say, in the first -- we opened up the first 10, earlier a bit in the quarter, or maybe last quarter. And went in and just did some light stimulation on it. We didn't want to -- we didn't want to overdo it right off the bat, and cause problems, so what we're doing is we're just kind of stepping up the completion each time, so we went into that first section, had excellent oil cuts, we were seeing 25%, 35% oil cuts. We just had somewhat limited entry. So what we did is, then we came in and did that the next eight -- I believe, we did eight stages in the next, or we opened eight sleeves, and went in that a larger frac job and still feel like we can go larger. But what we saw was, we got much better fluid entry on it. We're seeing extremely good oil cuts, even higher than the first stage. And so what -- it just -- what we're trying to do is make sure that we work through this process in a very diligent manner, but also a very structured manner so that we can see as we complete this phase, okay, here's the results, now we're going to move to -- I would say, we'll definitely be moving to the third phase of the completion trial. I would say towards the end of the month, of this month, and based on the results we see there, we may even get an additional phase done. We can probably get up to 4 different phases done in this 1 well. But, as I said though, I think we've seen enough right now, at least, in the area where we're working, I can say this across the whole 33,000 acres, but I can say in the area that we're working, we're very encouraged with the results we're seeing and we feel confident enough that we've gone out, starting staking additional wells.