Mega-Pads in the Bakken: QEP and WPX in Heart Butte and Deep Water Creek Bay

Mike Filloon mentioned that QEP has finished drilling all the wells on its 10-well pad. There are two fields in which QEP has a number of multi-well pads: Heart Butte and Deep Water Creek Bay.

Heart Butte is an interesting field, a very active field, and one with much history -- for a boom that's in its early stages. The oil field first caught my eye back in March, 2010, when I was transcribing the NDIC hearing dockets for that month:

• 12284: Questar, extending the Heart Butte Field and creating 24 640-acre spacing units in Dunn, McLean and Mountrail Counties, with two horizontal wells in each (48 wells)

This was before Questar split of QEP.

The Heart Butte oil field was also the focus for the Arrow Pipeline, a huge deal at the time for many reasons.

So, now we wait for the IPs for the ten wells that QEP has just completed.

Here are some multi-well QEP pads and WPX pads in Heart Butte and Deep Water Creek Bay:
Two 5-well pads, section 3-149-92:

23331, 2,282, QEP, MHA 1-03-34H-150-92, Heart Butte, 4 sec, t3/13; cum 42K 5/13;
23332, 2,348, QEP, MHA 3-03-34H-150-92, Heart Butte, 2 sec, t3/13; cum 48K 5/13;
23333, 2,310, QEP, MHA 1-03-35H-150-92, Heart Butte, 4 sec, t3/13; cum 40K 5/13;
23334, 1,949, QEP, MHA 3-03-35H-150-92, Heart Butte, 4 sec, t3/13; cum 35K 5/13;
23335, 1,791, QEP, MHA 2-03-35H-150-92, Heart Butte, 4 sec, t3/13; cum 27K 5/13;
23336, conf, QEP, Heart Butte,
23337, conf, QEP, Heart Butte,
23338, conf, QEP, Heart Butte,
23339, conf, QEP, Heart Butte,
23340, conf, QEP, Heart Butte,

Two 5-well pads:

• 23093, conf, QEP, Heart Butte, 
• 23094, conf, QEP, Heart Butte, 
• 23095, conf, QEP, Heart Butte, 
• 23096, conf, QEP, Heart Butte, 
• 23097, conf, QEP, Heart Butte, 
• 23098, 1,632, QEP, MHA 4-06-32H-150-92, Heart Butte, t2/13; cum 24K 5/13;
• 23099, 1,994, QEP, MHA 2-06-32H-150-92, Heart Butte, t2/13; cum 33K 5/13;
• 23100, 1,922, QEP, MHA 3-06-32H-150-92, Heart Butte, t2/13; cum 52K 5/13;
• 23101, 1,777, QEP, MHA 1-06-32H-150-92, Heart Butte, t2/13; cum 107K 5/13;
• 23102, 1,966, QEP, MHA 4-06-31H-150-92, Heart Butte, t2/13; cum 51K 5/13;

Two 5-well pads, 31-150-91
(I don't know if this is the 10-well pad Filloon is referring to), Heart Butte:

• 21551, 2,757, QEP, MHA 3-31-25H-150-92, 4 sec, t10/12; cum 89K 5/13;
• 21552, 2,351, QEP, MHA 2-31-25H-150-92, 4 sec, t10/12; cum 74K 5/13;
• 21553, 2,202, QEP, MHA 4-31-25H-150-92, 4 sec, t10/12; cum 85K 5/13;
• 21554, 2,430, QEP, MHA 1-31-30H-150-91, 4 sec, t10/12; cum 78K 5/13;
• 21556, 2,376, QEP, MHA 3-31-30H-150-91, 4 sec, t10/12; cum 70K 5/13;
• 21557, 2,140, QEP, MHA 1-31-36H-15-92, 4 sec, t5/13; cum 14K 5/13;
• 21558, 2,359, QEP, MHA 3-31-36H-150-92, 4 sec, t5/13; cum 18K 5/13;
• 21559, 2,032, QEP, MHA 5-31-25H-150-92, 4 sec, t5/13; cum 12K 5/13;
• 21560, 673 QEP, MHA 7-31-25H-150-92, 4 sec, t5/13; cum 19K 5/13;
• 21561, 1,731, QEP, MHA 1-31-25H-150-92, 4 sec, t5/13; cum 9K 5/13;

32-150-91, Heart Butte; one 4-well pad and one 2-well pad

• 20487, 606, QEP, t11/11; cum 160K 5/13;
• 20488, 1,571, QEP, t11/11; cum 182K 5/13;
• 20489, 933, QEP, t11/11; cum 141K 5/13;
• 20490, 2,609, QEP, t11/11; cum 243K 5/13;


• 22028, 2,737, QEP,  MHA 2-32-29H-150-91, t11/12; cum 91K 5/13;
• 22029, 1,961, QEP, MHA 4-32-29H-150-91, t11/12; cum 84K 5/13;

A 3-well pad, and two 4-well pads in 31-148-92, Heart Butte:

• 22649, 709, WPX, Charles Blackhawk 31-30HA, t11/12; cum 63K 5/13;
• 22650, 247, WPX, Charles Blackhawk 31-30HX, t11/12; cum 50K 5/13;
• 22651, 219, WPX, Charles Blackhawk 31-30HB, t11/12; cum 62K 5/13;

• 22652, conf, WPX, Charles Balckhawk 31-30HY, 
• 22653, conf, WPX, Charles Blackhawk 31-30HC, 
• 22654, conf, WPX, Charles Blackhawk 31-30HZ,
• 22655, conf, WPX, Charles Blackhawk 31-30HD,

• 21904, 1,542, QEP, MHA 4-06-07H-147-92, Heart Butte, t8/20/12; cum 101K 5/13;
• 21905, 2,223, QEP, MHA 2-06-07H-147-92, Heart Butte, t8/17/12; cum 81K 5/13;
• 21906, 2,142, QEP, MHA 4-32-33H-148-92, Heart Butte, t8/15/12; cum 75K 5/13;
• 21908, 2,180, QEP, MHA 2-32-33H-148-92, Heart Butte, t8/22/12; cum 83K 5/13;

5-149-90, Deep Water Creek Bay

• 21091, 499, QEP, t7/12; cum 54K 5/13; 
• 21092, 436, QEP, t7/12; cum 51K 5/13; 
• 21093, 878, QEP, t7/12; cum 72K 5/13; 
• 21116, 952, QEP, t4/12; ccum 70K 5/13; 
• 21824, 814, QEP, t4/12; cum 53K 5/13; 

18-150-90, Deep Water Creek Bay

• 17434, 880, QEP, t1/09; cum 145K 5/13;
• 17940, 1,217, QEP, t1/10; cum 211K 5/13;
• 18930, PNC, QEP
• 18991, 1,053, QEP, t9/10; cum 148K 5/13;
• 19683, 766, QEP,  t12/11; cum 115K 5/13;
• 20271, 592, QEP, t12/11; cum 102K 5/13; 

Some time ago I mentioned that I was no longer tagging/labeling "multi-well pads" because this was becoming too commonplace. I am now tagging/labeling "mega-pads"which have more than 5 wells on the pad. This is different than the tag "mega-units" which generally refers to 2560-acre spacing units, but at least 1,920 acres.

Note: there may be some errors on the data above; it was done quickly and not double-checked.