Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Joseph Allman - J.P. Morgan.
Joseph Allman - J.P. Morgan
Jim Bob, with the distance between the sidetrack—I'm talking about Blueberry Hill here—what's the distance between the sidetrack and the escarpment?
James R. Moffatt
The current sidetrack and the escarpment is somewhere in the vicinity of a half a mile. To the east. If you just look on your map and see the original hole, there's a about a half a mile between the wells we're drilling and frankly, based on the seismic, as I've said, we think we can now identify, and have even done that this morning as we got these additional two sands, as I explained to you, the stick that we can see into this escarpment is now obvious. It's always easier once you can calibrate it with a well. We didn't anticipate that the sands that we picked up would be so well developed.
But the wedging into this escarpment, as I say, the original hole was sitting up on a high ridge and this escarpment is about—it's not exactly vertical but it's a steep escarpment. In other words, I tried to say in my answer, just imagine sand going over an escarpment like water goes over Niagara Falls and the sand that hits right at the base of that escarpment gets deposited—some of it gets by the energy pushed on down into the little mini basin that we have between Blueberry Hill and JB Mountain, which is a significant basin. It's probably 100,000 acres big. So when we're together, and hopefully we'll have this log to calibrate it, you have seen it on some of our exhibits before, but we'll try to publish one in very graphic form—you can see this dadgum wedge.
The thing that's really amazing is how much sand in this current well, compared to the wells first few hundred or a thousand feet away, this sand is just really building. So, what we are hoping to do, since in another 100 feet we will be about 300 feet high to the main sand we had in the first well, we hope we will be able to report that we've got that thing, maybe even thicker than it was in the down-dip well if we continue this pattern.
And of course, if it's 300 feet high it ought to be full because that sand that we saw in the first sidetrack before we had to bypass had about 190 feet of gross section in it. So I hate to be sitting here telling you that we've tried to get this well so that we could talk about the complete sidetrack 3, but it just doesn't happen. But we're so close to getting that done now that it will happen sometime this week. If we don't get stuck or whatever, with all this sand in the hole.
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