Cubic starts Louisiana well recompletions

April 12, 2006
Cubic Energy Inc., Dallas, has begun staged recompletions of five wells in Bethany Longstreet gas field in Desoto Parish, La.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 12 -- Cubic Energy Inc., Dallas, has begun staged recompletions of five wells in Bethany Longstreet gas field in Desoto Parish, La.

The company is opening zones uphole from initial completions in the Taylor sand, the lowest zone of the Jurassic Cotton Valley. It plans new completions in higher Cotton Valley and Cretaceous Hosston intervals.

Cubic conducted a second stage completion in the Moseley 25-1 and the Moseley 26-1 wells, both of which are currently under testing or flowback (OGJ, Jan. 24, 2005, p. 40). It plans further completions in these wells it prepares the Kraemer 24-1 for additional completion work. It plans similar operations for the Johnson 20-1 and the Johnson 29-1 wells.

The company also has staked two locations for wells targeting shallow zones the occur in the existing wells.