Three Great Wells Reported Today -- Timber Creek, Westberg -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Updates

Permits

2014

29727, loc, Whiting, Eide 41-13HU, middle Bakken, 4 sections, 

29726, loc, Whiting, Eide 41-13-3H, 

29725, loc, Whiting, Eide 41-13-4H, 

29333, drl, Triangle, Wisness 150-100-23-14-8H,

29332, drl, Triangle, Wisness 150-100-23-14-12TFH,

29331, drl, Triangle, Wisness 150-100-23-14-7H,

29330, drl, Triangle, Wisness 150-100-23-14-11TFH,

2013

26736, 766, Triangle, Wisness 150-100-23-14-6H, t4/14; cum 69K 8/14;

26735, 750, Triangle, Wisness 150-100-23-14-5H, t4/14; cum 62K 8/14;

26572, 881, Hess, BW-Sharon-150-00-2536H-4, t4/14; cum 53K 8/14;

25789, 2,495, Whiting, Lucky Lady 44-35H, t10/13; cum 69K 8/14;

25734, 1,253, Whting, Moen 41-26-2H, t8/13; cum 76K 8/14;

25733, PNC, Triangle,

25732, 3,046, Whiting, Eide 41-13-2H, t10/13; cum 105K 8/14;

25731, PNC, Triangle,

25522, 587, Triangle, Arnegard 150-100-23-14-2H, t10/13; cum 135K 8/14;

25521, 611, Triangle, Arnegard 150-100-23-14-1H, t10/13; cum 145K 8/14;

24867, 1,768, Whiting, Rovelstad 21-13-2H, t6/13; cum 116K 8/14;

24861, 595, Hess, BW-Sharon 150-100-2536H-3, t8/13; cum 65K 8/14;

2012

24689, 575, Hess, BW-Sharon 150-100-2536H-2, t7/13; cum 64K 8/14;

22517, 784, Hess, BW-Sharon-150-100-2536H-1, t9/12; cum 125K 8/14;

22457, 1,930, Whiting, Moen 41-26H, t8/12; cum 95K 8/14;

22379, PA, Whiting, Eide 41-13H,

Original Post 

Six wells came off the confidential list today. Three were not completed/fracked/placed on DRL status.

The other three had great IPs:

• 20595, 1,834, Newfield, Wahus Federal 152-07-13-24-1H, Westberg, Bakken, 38 stages, 3.6 million lbs sand; 28 drilling days; peak gas of 5,042 units in Upper Bakken Shale; t9/11; cum 187K 8/14;
• 20154, 1,671, Slawson, Neptune 2-15H, Van Hook, Bakken, 19 stages; 1.8 sand, t9/11; cum 160K 8/14;
• 20014, 1,880, Whiting, Rovelstad 21-13H, Timber Creek, Bakken, 30 stages; 2.6 sand; t6/11; cum 148K 8/14;

Timber Creek oil field was new to  me.  Timber Creek is just to the west of the Bakken bull's eye. It is about as small a field as one can find: it is eight (8) sections in size. The city of Arnegard, about midway between Watford City and Alexander is in this field, at the north end. US 85 runs west-east through this field between Watford City and Alexander.

Also, I seem to remember the Westberg oil field. Yes, this is it:

• 18691, 3,731, Newfield, Wisness Federal 152-96-4-2H  --- 35,849 bbls in first 25 days. Okay. Westberg field, Bakken. One section spacing. Middle Bakken at 10,573 feet.  26 stages. 2.2 million pounds of proppant (I don't know if this was sand only, which would be unlikely);  no acid. S4/11; T7/11; cumulative 61,336 bbls in 53 days (less than 2 months); total depth 16,012 feet; fracked "on time." Sand only. I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E. s4/11; 05,000 bbls in less than four months. I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E. Newfield may be complaining about the cost of a Bakken well, but this is an incredible well: 105K in less than four months, and a short lateral on top of that; t7/11; cum 297K 8/14;1. 

Westberg oil field is literally in the bull's eye of the Bakken, northeast McKenzie County.