Clearly the Barrow interview is old news, and he d

Clearly the Barrow interview is old news, and he disses the prospects up north not down south. A lot has happened since then. We now have a cased and cemented well but nobody has even suggested that a perforation operation has occurred, instead we hear about swabbing and open hole recovery. That tells you the target is the vuggy limestone where we lost our mud. Only nobody is telling me they are sniffing hydrocarbons either in the casing or in the water coming out. Obviously they have attempted to clear out some mud they lost down there. Next we should hear about a large scale acidizing operation to create an oil chamber. I've previoulsy asked how thick this formation is and nobody seems to know. San Juan's oil could be on the other side of the limestone, meaning we have to drill deeper. Is there water in this limestone? Where is the top of the oil, the top of the water and the bottom of the limestone, assuming we have hydrocarbons. There are a lot of unanswered questions here, so I can  see Max really has his hands full. Typically you shake your mud and look and your tailings to see what rock your in and if it contains oil. Open hole recovery requires us to pound our way down with the help of chemicals in this case. But if we do have oil in this formation then once we pound our way to the oil we just ascertain how the oil is contained in the formation, carve out a cavity and stick a straw in it. Its a little different I would think than Penny's sandstone, actually easier, bacause we can use acid which doesn't work on sandstone. So, I didn't post the Barrow article to intimate either he or I think San Jaun lacks oil. We need to assess all the information and hope this is the lull before the storm and the announcment of commercial oil. Because, if this formation is not the oil-bearer, then we would need to isolate it and drill deeper, which would make every well in the San Juan a very expensive prospect. So, how do you like wildcatting .... because ... i really love it. Something new around every corner, but we better make some money in Texas to suppor this third world operation. We need a very balanced approach. Oiljob