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To: for-q-clinton

I hope you’ll let me know when you find more of those magic wells that just start producing again. Barring a recompletion, workover, or some form of enhanced recovery like a water flood, when a well is dead, it is dead. Either too little pressure or too much salt water.


83 posted on 07/30/2025 1:48:02 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

I’ve got a well that went from 10bbl/day to 100.

Mind you, the neighboring operator did a huge frac 300 yards off the lease line, but that’s just a a coincidence.

j/k (Not about the well, that’s real. The “coincidence”. We also got a ton of water for two days.)


88 posted on 07/30/2025 1:53:52 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: crusty old prospector
I hope you’ll let me know when you find more of those magic wells that just start producing again.

I know of a few in the Gulf that dried up and were capped.

A few years later they were producing again.

93 posted on 07/30/2025 2:06:36 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: crusty old prospector

Well not quite what I thought I read, so my comment is wrong overall, but there are occurrences where dry oil wells do replenish.

https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_01aefe13-67f2-4b66-8674-5bc924f06170


102 posted on 07/30/2025 2:27:22 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (ui)
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