Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Dave Kistler - Simmons and Company.
Dave Kistler - Simmons and Company
Real quickly both kind on Haynesville, well Haynesville and Buffalo Wallow, can you talk through little bit about the science that you are still doing there, I guess 3600 foot laterals, we experimenting with going longer on laterals with the well results that you had what kind of chokes were you running, is that kind of optimal in terms of how you want to flow these out of the gates and kind of where are we on the learning curve for your experience in those place?
J.C. Ridens
I would say that in the Woodardville areas, we will look at longer horizontals there. We’ve got several under our belt now, successful at 3600 feet. One of the things we have been toeing with is how many stages of frac we are pumping that lateral to try to optimize the contact volume of reservoir rock.
In terms of the flow back, yes, we think that we’ve got pretty well nailed, because what we are doing there is allowing the wells to draw down until reach an optimal draw down bound and at that point we could open in the choke and just let the wells ride from there.
In Sabina I thank that we’re probably still on the learning curve in terms of what the optimal length and frac stages will be, we’ll see that evolve just as we have in Woodardville.
Granite Wash we’ve already move that along pretty substantially, because as I mentioned we’ve got a 4300 foot lateral, basically that’s as long a lateral as you can drill on the sections still on the 467 foot offsets that are bound to us Texas Railroad Commission. To increase the number of frac stages there as well, and also changed a little profit type up so that we limited the amount of sand fall back from that multiple stage horizontal completion.
Craig Clark
Dave, this is Craig, we are still using higher strength propp within the Haynesville and targeting lower cost and some because of the rigs and our efficiencies that we gleaned thus far, but we did use higher strength propp.
Dave Kistler - Simmons and Company
That’s helpful. I appreciate the clarification there. When I kind of look at your hedge profile for 2010 obviously gas a little less hedge that we’ve seen in the past, can you walk through a little bit with your comments of kind of a $6 gas handle as your expectation for 2010. Do you anticipate laying on more hedges to maintain the capital budget and keep within cash flow?
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