Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Update on Monster Well: The Petro-Hunt USA 2D-3-1H -- #16059 -- Charlson Oil Field -- December 29, 2010

Locator: 10010PH_CHARLSON

Updates

November 16, 2024:

  • 16059, 729, Petro-Hunt, USA 2D-3-1H, Charlson, t10/06; cum 2.014984 million bbls 9/24; recent production:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN9-20243019401929663821780080
BAKKEN8-20243121572107912907188550
BAKKEN7-202431173918361023102521000630
BAKKEN6-20243016521582842960193953
BAKKEN5-202431233023259881272612376134
BAKKEN4-20243021402142911115021128116
BAKKEN3-2024312023201698894218820415
BAKKEN2-20242299210045105952581060
BAKKEN1-20242812791337301822459612215
BAKKEN12-20233117081658565999398941
BAKKEN11-202330240924227841106110269617
BAKKEN10-202331284528421123110521082313
BAKKEN9-202330338233371406111011085240

Original Post 

A reader sent me the NDIC production history for this well, which I have on my "monster well" page.

This well began production in October, 2006. Now, exactly four years later (October 2010), the cumulative oil production for this well is 1,064,957 barrels. At $50/bbl, that's $50 million at the well head.

The well has shown minimal decline rate and is currently down to 13,000 bbls/month. At $75/bbl, that's $12 million/year. The well has been paid for. If it's on a pump (and I don't know that it is), it costs a few pennies a day to run the pump, and if there's a pipeline to the well now, there's minimal trucking costs.  But even if the oil is still trucked out, it's a heck of a well.

And that's why oilmen keep drilling: hoping for the big one.

The nice thing about the Bakken / Three Fork Sanish: there is seldom a dry hole, so even the less productive wells eventually pay for themselves and provide cash flow in the meantime. Can you imagine what it would be like if three out of ten wells were dry?

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