Posted on 02/10/2014 4:56:02 AM PST by thackney
Ground as in ground-up.
I am tying to figure that out too.
I just roughed out 10000 feet of 8.75” hole and another 10000 feet of 6.25” hole, recovering say 100% usable rock. that would be a typical Bakken horizontal. One could never recover 100% of the cuttings as usable, some are ground to dust, but that might be offset by out of gauge hole.
that’s right at 6300 ft3 of material. If the road is 16 ft wide and had 2 ft of fill, then you could make 200 ft of road. or a 60 by 60 foot pad, enough to park the drillers trailers, but not build a location.
I am not against innovation & business ventures in the patch, but I’m really struggling with how this makes anyone a buck.
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