club sugarloaf, page-121

agentm

no. I know of no reports. It will be excellent if TCEI can complete in record time what CoP managed to muff up twice in what appears to be (from the reports) similar conditions with pockets of high pressure causing the flaring against their carefully weighted drilling fluids. As you know, because I have stated before, I own a considerable number of shares in EME (plus some ADI) and I have every interest in successful completion of the wells. I was not challenging what you said or seeking to cast doubt on the successful completion but was a little incredulous that could drill so much so quickly in such difficult conditions. Perhaps the Baker twins have intersected natural fracturing of a different order. Perhaps that is why CoP has failed to complete twice. Frankly, I don't understand the engineering that is needed to deal with pockets of high pressure. If they pressurise to balance against the high pressure in the fractured regions, is there not a chance that the over-pressurisation elsewhere will clog up the well in those regions? But, anyway, my lack of understanding of how they do it won't prevent them from doing it. And it is their doing it that is going to make me (us) money. So good luck to them and good luck to us.