Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Three Forks Formation Starting to Shine: WLL Announces Two Nice Wells; More On the Way

From a Whiting press release, dated September 28, 2010:

Whiting completed two new producers at its Lewis & Clark Prospect in Stark, Billings, and Golden Valley Counties, North Dakota (USA).
  • Three Forks Formation: Froehlich 44-9TFH, 1,832 bopd (24-hour test); 28 fracture stages
  • Three Forks Formation: Kubas 11-13TFH, 1,780 bopd (24-hour test); 29 fracture stages
These two wells are within five miles of each other. They are located about 32 miles southeast of Whiting's Federal 32-4TFH discovery well, which flowed 1,970 boepd on November 25, 2009.

For those who know North Dakota, the Kubas is about 5 miles northeast of Belfield, and the Froehlich is about 1.5 miles southeast of Belfield.

The Froehlich was on the very, very tiny Zenith oil field; the Kubas was a wildcat.

A third well, the Ellison Creek 11-1TFH is currently being completed, located about three miles east of the Federal 32-4TFH well. The results of this well and three other Lewis & Clark wells will be released in mid-November.

WLL has four operated drilling rigs in the Lewis & Clark and plan to add a fifth operated drilling rig by mid-November.

Comment: this was an exciting press release --
  • Three Forks formation wells near the WLL discovery well
  • One was a wildcat, potentially opening up a whole near TFS area
  • Remember: this is very southeast North Dakota, and where the Bakken ends in the southeast, the TFS continues to extend
  • WLL has even more wells soon to be announced
  • WLL going to add another rig to this area

2 comments:

  1. Did you mean to say very southwest North Dakota?

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  2. The Bakken, in North Dakota, extends from the northwest in a southeasterly direction towards South Heart, ending well north of South Dakota and well west of Bismarck. However, where the Bakken starts thinning out along the southeast edge of the Williston Basin (but still western North Dakota), the Three Forks Sanish continues farther south and east.

    The logo on the Bakken Blog (see sidebar on the right) has a nice drawing of what I'm trying to say. The important point is that even where the Bakken ends in North Dakota, the TFS continues, but, yes, it's all in the western part of the state.

    In the Belfield area, it looks like it will be TFS. Hopefully that makes sense.

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