First Full Month Production From This QEP Grail Well Not Yet Reported; Still On Confidential; Better Get A Cup Of Coffee: This Is A Long Post

This should be a fun well to watch come off the confidential list; it should come off the confidential list on August 11, 2013 -- hey, that's this weekend. We will see tomorrow (Monday).

24827, conf, QEP, Hemi 2-27-34BH, Grail:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
6-2013	52639	9090

But it gets better. I suggest that readers over the age of 65 with a heart condition should be sitting down:

24826, conf, QEP, Hemi 1-27-34BH, Grail:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
6-2013	47290	12506

These two wells are on the same pad. There is a third older well on the pad:

19104, 1,203, QEP, Henderson 16-34/27H, t5/11; a Three Forks well, cum 215K 6/13;

The initial Three Forks zone to be targeted was set at 9 feet thick. 

Now it gets really, really interesting:

19104, the Henderson well, was taken off-line for the past four months, but is back on line now; it was taken off-line, I assume, while the other two wells were being fracked.

When it came back on line, look at what it produced in 6 days: 11,183 barrels. Either it was re-fracked (?) or fracking the other two wells on the same pad made a huge difference. [Later: Don points out that it's possible that the wells were placed on a pipeline and the chokes were wide open; or similarly, the tanks on the pad would have been empty after four months of being off-line and they could have opened the choke to fill the tanks. Also note the significant change in the natural gas to oil ratio.]

11,183 bbls in 6 days translates to 56,000 bbls in 30 days:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	6-2013	6	11183	11053	0	2186	2186	0
BAKKEN	5-2013	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	4-2013	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2013	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2013	28	0	228	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2013	31	4373	4371	1584	4345	4345	0
BAKKEN	12-2012	31	5677	5717	2044	6151	6151	0
BAKKEN	11-2012	30	6187	6025	1977	6235	6235	0
BAKKEN	10-2012	31	5659	5657	1830	4758	4758	0
BAKKEN	9-2012	30	5501	5619	1867	6553	6503	50
BAKKEN	8-2012	31	6088	5974	1937	6688	6608	80
BAKKEN	7-2012	31	6376	6436	2097	7576	6276	1300
BAKKEN	6-2012	28	6222	6262	1989	6885	6435	450
BAKKEN	5-2012	29	6787	6905	2179	7305	7275	30
BAKKEN	4-2012	29	7578	7554	2439	7008	7008	0
BAKKEN	3-2012	9	2399	2131	1007	2370	2370	0
BAKKEN	2-2012	28	7134	7398	2536	7233	1133	6100
BAKKEN	1-2012	26	7695	7889	2576	9894	9894	0
BAKKEN	12-2011	31	11563	11252	4178	16532	16532	0
BAKKEN	11-2011	27	10286	10993	3631	12857	12557	300
BAKKEN	10-2011	24	9663	8994	3197	11237	8587	2650
BAKKEN	9-2011	7	2003	3126	707	2215	965	1250
BAKKEN	8-2011	31	12911	12709	4673	15804	14894	910
BAKKEN	7-2011	31	14569	13851	6561	19215	19215	0
BAKKEN	6-2011	20	11528	12017	4658	15134	15079	55
BAKKEN	5-2011	30	22168	21520	13581	26896	25545	1351
BAKKEN	4-2011	28	15177	15790	6065	19567	15884	3683
BAKKEN	3-2011	21	16029	15038	9946	18778	17842	936

Prior to being taken off-line, for whatever reason, it was producing "only" 5,000 bbls/month.

And, if you have read this far, one more tidbit. Note: this well was taken off-line for four months. I forget, but a company, I think it was Triangle Petroleum, just mentioned that it can leave wells on-line while simultaneously fracking wells on the same pad. Not that it makes much difference, I suppose, when a well will be producing for 35 years in the Bakken, for individual mineral owners it has to be nice when a well is not taken off-line for several months.

This, obviously, has a number of story lines. Maybe we will know more tomorrow.

There are four other completed QEP wells in this section.

Memo to self: go back to the file report and note the QEP discussion about commingling; should be posted.