Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen we will now be conducting the question-and-answer session. (Operator instructions) Our first question is from Scott Hanold with RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead with your question.
Scott Hanold – RBC Capital Markets
Good afternoon.
Jim Dearlove
Hi, Scott.
Scott Hanold – RBC Capital Markets
Baird, on the Fogle well, what can you tell us about that well right now? Can you say what the current flow rate is and whether it’s restricted or not, or do you have it open flowing? And then have you learned – what have you learned from your drilling and completing that well, and have you acquired anything differently to your subsequent well that you're drilling right now?
Baird Whitehead
Scott, that well is making right now – it’s essentially floating our line pressure about 500 tons. It’s making about 3 million a day but – I don't want to call it strange, but it is ironic because that well has essentially stabilized at that rate. I’m not going to say there is not still somewhat of a decline, but it’s a very, very low decline rate. Some of the numbers that are out there as far as 5 Bcf, 6.5 Bcf, 7 Bcf, with that kind of rates at the end of almost two months now, it’s very easy to extrapolate to these kinds of reserve numbers that you have seen. We’re not ready, as Jim said earlier, to say what our average reserves are going to be in this play but we still are very encouraged as far as what we have seen and remain so at least based on some of the drilling indicators that we’ve seen on the Brown well and even recently on the McKenzie well.
As far as what we have learned or what we may do differently, we’re going to try to get additional frac stages away on this Brown well. We, of course, not only because of additional frac stages, but because of each individual frac stages dealt, we will put more sand away per stage. One thing we’ve also learned and we think to some extent it may have a negative effect on the Fogle, is we shut that thing in for about two weeks right after it had been on line for two to three weeks. (inaudible) in those inflatable fracker systems that we utilize to do the stage jobs, the frac stage jobs. Probably, on the Brown, going forward, we’re going to go ahead and get those fracker sleeves drilled out immediately to keep that thing flowing after the frac, because we pump a lot of water away in these things. We think once you get these things flowing back, you need to keep them flowing back and not have to shut them in for any period of time to do anything. So that’s the plan going forward. I think that’s about it.
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