Topps Oil Services In Williston -- Phone Number, Address Provided; More On Fracking Technology

Updates

Later, 3:07 pm: okay, here's the contact data for Topps:

Organization: Topps Fracturing Services LLC
Office address: 15046 49th St NW Williston, ND 58801-9040
County: Williams
General: Phone (701) 875-6513

Time stamp: 3:07 pm EST, January 3, 2012

Original Post 

Does anyone have a contact number for Topps in Williston, said to be a "small fracking company"?

Time stamp: 1:35 pm EST, January 3, 2013.

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Speaking of fracking, a reader sent this in as a comment which I will also post at the page on fracking. For context, read this post first. Now, the new comment:

I have been hauling sand in the Bakken for a year and a half, our company servicing Sanjel, CalFrac and Cudd. I can hopefully add a little clarity on a couple of points:

Zipper frac: the only type of zipper fracing I know of is when two plug and perf frac jobs are done simultaneously on a multiple well pad. I.E., the frac crew pumps one well while the other well has the "gun" downhole, then reverses the process. They're able to frac two wells at once without (theoretically) the down time a plug and perf normally engenders.

The zipper frac methodology is, in my experience, one of those ideas that works better on paper than in real life. We've had 6 or 7 multiple well pads in the last 4-5 months that were to be "zippered". None of them came off. They ended up fracing one well then moving to the other. Pressure problems, equipment problems, you name it.

Continental Resources has gone to almost 100% plug and perf on their wells that we service. Ball and sleeve is faster, on average, but also tends to more problems, especially with sanding off, or better put plugging up. Continental wants slower with fewer problems, this from a friend who is a Continental companyy on site rep.

BTW, Cudd is rumored to be moving their operations center to Billings, Mt. They have acquired a new contract for the east slope of the Rockies area (Shelby-Conrad areas)and also have quite a bit of work in Wyoming. Most of the Shelby-Conrad work will be existing wells. 

By the way, and please, no one, no one take this next comment "wrong" or out of context. I sometimes read these comments or show them to my wife to read: her first comment -- "wow, these folks really seem well educated." Yes, I agree. I am blown away by the professionalism, the well-written comments I get from folks in the oil patch. Thank you. 

That's a very, very interesting observation about Continental Resources.