Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Nicholas Pope - Dahlman Rose & Co.
Nicholas Pope - Dahlman Rose & Co.
A quick question on first quarter production. I see Flatrock Number 3 had 9 million a day gross production. Can you explain why that number was so low?
James R. "Jim Bob" Moffett
That's the Operc well that is in one of the lower Operc [inaudible]. It's shown some depletion. It'll be recompleted to one of the other lower Operc sands. That's the well that has about five of those Operc sands stacked on top of each other. We started at the bottom and not all available Operc sands are as widespread as some of the Operc 1 and 2 or the Rob-L. So it's produced at a high rate and then it's just been coming down. It'll be recompleted to one of the Operc sands right above it and production will jump back up as you come up the hole and recomplete those Operc sands.
Richard C. Adkerson
And, Nick, that's expected to happen during the second half of this year. These are stacked pays and we're not producing from multiple zones, we're not dually completing them, so this will happen over the life of this field, particular zones will deplete. We want to capture those reserves and once they're completed, as Jim Bob said, we'll recomplete and other zones of production will come back.
James R. "Jim Bob" Moffett
I might add that's [rigorous] recompletion, Nick, where you just go in with a wire line and set it with a cement plug and perforate the upper zone, so it's set up in a rigorous recompletion. We see that happening while we go through this shut in period to bring in two new wells and upgrade the production because when we shut in for the upgrade we'll be at 235 million a day; when we go back on production we'll be at 335 million a day. And that's why they're having to make these different remedial actions to get us up that extra 100 million a day. So it's a step back for a couple of weeks to get ready to go to the next level.
And of course we've got the Gyrodyne development to the south of the 233 well we just drilled which we hope is going to outline a significant Gyrodyne potential in those big Gyrodyne sands to take us to the next level of production.
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