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Where is your Money Going?

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Drilling Costs

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  • Drilling Permit - $2,000.00

  • Legal - $6,000.00

  • Lease Hold Cost - $12,000.00

  • Liability Insurance - $8,000.00

  • Site Damages - $5,000.00

  • Roads & Location - $10,000.00

  • Drilling (Vertical) (Turnkey @ $25/ft. x 4,600ft) - $115,000.00

  • Drilling Rig Day Rate (30hr @ $450/hr) - $13,500.00

  • Drilling Water - $8,000.00

  • Electric Log - $8,000.00

  • Mud Log - $12,500.00

  • Drilling “Mud” - $10,000.00

  • Drilling Supervision - $15,000.00

  • Miscellaneous - $10,000.00

  • Roustabout Crew - $5,000.00

  • Total Intangible Drilling Costs - $228,000.00

  • Total Tangible Drilling Costs - $12,000.00
    Total Estimated Drilling Costs - $240,000.00

Completion Costs

Tangible Completion Costs

  • Production Tubing (2 7/8”)(4,600’@$5.00/ft) - $23,000.00

  • Production Casing (5 ½”)(4,600’@$8.00/ft) - $37,000.00

  • Production Wellhead/Flowlines/Valves/Fittings - $6,000.00

  • Production Equipment: (Oil/Water Storage Tanks/Separator)(Surface-Sub-SurfacePumps/Packer) - $94,000.00

  • Total Tangible Drilling Costs - $12,000.00

Total Tangible Completion Costs - $172,000.00

Intangible Completion Costs

  • Casing Crew - $10,000.00

  • Cement Production Casing - $18,000.00

  • Cased Hole Perforation/CCL/Acoustic Log - $8,000.00

  • Acid/Slick Water Frac - $20,000.00

  • Worckover Rig (5 Days @ $2,280.00/Day) - $11,500.00

  • Well Testing - $6,000.00

  • Location Clean Up - $3,000.00

  • Roustabout - $5,000.00

  • Miscellaneous - $10,000.00

Total Intangible Completion Costs - $91,500

Total Costs

Total Estimated Drilling Costs - $240,000.00

Total Estimated Completion Costs - $251,500.00

Total Well Tangible Completion Costs - $172,000.00

Total Well Intangible Completion Costs - $319,500.00

Total Year 1 IDC Tax Deduction - $319,500.00

 

Total to Drill and Complete 1 Well:

$491,500.00

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