Random Look At Four New EOG Wells Still On Confidential List

Updates

January 20, 2013: IPs are not yet provided but production runs are now available for these four wells. It appears natural gas pipelines are not yet run out to these wells:

20577, conf, EOG, Bear Den 19-2116H, Spotted Horn, middle Bakken, running north; short lateral but sundry form suggests 1280-acre spacing if approved by NDIC,

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2012	11430	0
10-2012	15492	0
9-2012	11406	0

20578, conf, EOG, Bear Den 18-21H, Spotted Horn, middle Bakken, sMarch 15; TD, April 3;  short lateral running south, but sundry form suggests 1280-acre spacing if approved by NDIC;

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2012	16741	0
10-2012	22546	0
9-2012	9142	0

21688, conf, EOG, Bear Den 103-21H, Spotted Horn; sMay 22; TD, May23; Three Forks, short lateral running south, but sundry form suggests 1280-acre spacing if approved by NDIC; gas, 4,000 to 5,000 units with 5 - 10 foot flares:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2012	13303	0
10-2012	17150	0
9-2012	8842	0

21689, conf, EOG, Bear Den 104-2116H, Spotted Horn, short lateral, running north, Three Forks, but sundry form suggests 1280-acre spacing if approved by NDIC; running north:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2012	15165	0
10-2012	18395	0
9-2012	17345	0

December 19, 2012: I posted this video a long, long time ago, but with the incredible Bear Den wells (see below), I thought it would be "fun" to post this video again, for those who may have missed it:
Bear Den Trucking, North Dakota Bakken

Original Post

A reader alerted me to these four wells, confirmed at the NDIC website. It appears that October was the first month of production; I did not see these wells on the September report.

These are short laterals, but the NDIC GIS map suggests they are sited in the middle of a 1280-acre spacing unit. They will come off the confidential list in late February/early March, 2013.

• 20577, conf, EOG, Bear Den 19-2116H, Spotted Horn, monthly -15,492 bbls
• 20578, conf, EOG, Bear Den 18-21H, Spotted Horn, monthly - 22,546 bbls
• 21688, conf, EOG, Bear Den 103-21H, Spotted Horn, monthly - 17,150 bbls
• 21689, conf, EOG, Bear Den 104-2116H, Spotted Horn, monthly - 18,395 bbls

For newbies, these are huge wells based on the IPs, but eventually they, too, will experience a decline. And, again, these are short laterals. One can't simply double these production numbers for a hypothetical long horizontal, but some might do that to get a rough idea how these would compare to a long horizontal.

It looks like, based on the legal names, two will be short laterals running north, and two will be short laterals running south; based on legal names, it looks like two will be Three Forks wells, and two will be middle Bakken wells, but simply a hunch. I could be way wrong.

These wells are very, very close to the "Helis" Grail to the west.

Interesting, and coincidentally, I was running through the share prices of various Bakken-centric producers earlier today; EOG was having a pretty good day, flirting with it's all-time high.

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