"No two wells are the same. It is really a matter of sensing how a given well will react."
M-C Productions and Drilling Co., Inc. is located between Dallas, TX and Shreveport, LA, in the East Texas Oil Field.
Founded by Mike Chandler in 1986, M-C is a leader among Independent Texas Oil Producers. The Company owns and operates 300 Texas oil and gas wells.
Currently, M-C is pioneering technology to replace the conventional method of pumping oil to the surface. With over 100 years of collective experience among our personnel, we are a company that "thinks outside the box."
Steve is a former District Judge of the 123rd Judicial District Court, Texas Appointee of George W. Bush, and former owner of Panola Abstract & Tile Company. He has seen three of his cases published and has represented numerous independent oil and gas operators, as well as Fortune 500 companies including Triton Energy Co., Basic Resources, and Moran Corp.
Chris, born in East Texas and a graduate from Kilgore College, LeTourneau University and Stephen F. Austin with a B.S. degree in Computer Science, has over 25 years of computer experience. He handles all office operations, oversees data entry, and has developed the Company’s entire process of System Programming. Experienced with System design, Logic Programming, and Research & Development of large scale network systems as well as industrial systems.
A proven successful executive with an extensive background as a manager within a multi-million dollar company. Richard has the ability to manage assets of the company including fiscal budget planning, inventory, asset protection, expense, and cash control with a high level of integrity. He excels at analyzing profit & loss and creating action plans and strategies to obtain the desired outcome, and has extensive knowledge in the production of the East Texas Oil Field.
James is a successful financial executive with broad-based experience in small market-cap growth environments. His skills include financial analysis, problem solving, cost control metrics, developing and sustaining budgets and business plans. James also takes care of cost accounting, general accounting, budgeting and strategic development, treasury, and taxes.
M-C Production and Drilling Co., Inc. is in the Oil and Gas production business.
We specialize in operating and reworking wells in the East Texas field to recover lost reserves. Mike works closely with other geologists in the area to define the details that make commercial production feasible.
Mike Chandler founded M-C Production in 1986 when he started buying and developing his own production after years of training with Dresser Atlas. His natural proclivity in the oil field coupled with his entrepreneurial spirit and good, old-fashioned guts have been the driving force behind the growth and success of M-C Production and Drilling. Today, the Company is a leader and one of the strongest independent Texas oil producers.
To date, M-C Productions owns and operates over 300 oil and gas wells in the field. The daily operations are primarily concerned with workovers on wells in the East Texas Oil Fields.
“No two wells are the same. It is really a matter of sensing how a given well will react.”
Mike is a hands-on President, and the East Texas Oil Field is his passion.
Soon after the discovery of the field in 1930, operators in the East Texas oil field (Woodbine Field) began to use conventional mechanical pumping units to produce the oil from this giant field.
Early in the development of the field, wells were completed by drilling to the approximate base of the Austin Chalk section, setting casing, and then drilling deeper into the Woodbine sand interval for open-hole completion of that pay section. As the field was produced through time, two important changes occurred in the reservoir: the pressure in the reservoir decreased and the level of the down-dip oil-water contact had been on the rise. The natural water-drive for the field was not sufficient to overcome the large amounts of oil and water being produced. Flowing wells became pumping wells in many parts of the field. Tubing, rods, and mechanical surface pumping units were then utilized to move large volumes of fluid per well.
At this point, large amounts of fluid (oil and water combined) would be produced in wells throughout much of the East Texas oil field. Injection wells were drilled to return the produced-water back to the reservoir. These injection wells were used to stabilize the reservoir pressure and to assist in removal of the large volumes of water being produced. This saltwater disposal system is now field-wide and is very efficient in returning the produced-water back to most parts of the field. Saltwater disposal in the field is relatively inexpensive due to this system being in place. This low production expense allowed operators to produce larger volumes of fluid, and wells with low oil-cut would still remain commercial although large amounts of water were produced.
When the water level encroached upon a particular well and that well would approach the point of watering-out, operators began to use the technique of plugging-back wells with gravel and plastic plug-back material to cut the rate of water production. This plug-back procedure allowed oil to be skimmed off the top of the water level surface. Although water and oil were produced together by this process, the oil-cut of the production from these plugged-back wells was higher than from similar wells that continued to produce open-hole without plug-back. As the oil-cut of the production would decrease, additional plug-backs would be performed until only a thin section of the Woodbine sand reservoir would be exposed just below the base of the casing. The highly permeable reservoir rock allows large fluid volumes to be produced from even relatively thin sections of exposed open hole below casing.
The production of large fluid volumes in many parts of the East Texas oil field caused water to be prematurely coned into wells, ahead of the movement of the down-dip field-wide oil-water contact. This premature watering-out of some wells created pockets of oil to be temporarily trapped between existing wells. The saltwater disposal system for fluid injection, plastic plug-back completions, and high-volume fluid production per well were utilized to attempt to recover this oil trapped by premature coning. Although these practices continue to dominate in this field, new approaches to production are beginning to be used.
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3389 FM 1844
Gladewater, TX 75647
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Longview, TX 75608
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