As in testing a dry hole. That was drilled in an area which did not lend itself to a local trap. In a location no large oil company was interested in drilling at.
2. Median difficult - 2017 - drilling
A Shale oil well can be drilled in 6-8 weeks, and that includes fracing. The MJ1 a conventional vertical drilling was spud over a yr ago. They probably set a record for the slowest drilling for a conventional well. And the excuses the ZN scam came up with were what? Too many feasts in Israel?
i did an analysis showing they may have been prohibited working at the well for 9-11 days in a 22 day period from ca sept 8 to oct 1 during this one time period of the year heavy in high sabbaths
and the well was only a few thousand feet deep sept 2017-so didnt have the high temps of the present bottom-and wouldnt have been using packers to test zones
what do the packers cost- i posted 1 article re packers -said they cost 6k to 500k
would more expensive packers lost longer in the high well temps?
they no doubt have done a cost benefit analysis- weighing the costs of a 4-5 day roundtrip from td to change packers vs a higher cost packer