Increasing Amounts Of Sand To Complete Bakken Wells Will Generate More Activity For Rail, Road

Readers may have noted the amount of sand Oasis is now using to complete their wells, upwards of 4 million lbs. Don noted: with a semi-truck carrying 48,000 lbs, it will require 90 semi-loads of sand/proppant for one well. At 200,000 lbs for a hopper bottom train car, that works out to 22 train cars. And this is just one well. And it can't get their any other way than by rail, and then by truck.

• 24927, 1,760, Oasis, Wayne Zumhof Federal 5300 44-15T, Willow Creek 1st Bench Three Forks, 36 stages, 3.8 million lbs sand/ceramic, t1/14; cum 32K 4/14;
• 25221, 2,074, Oasis, Aspen Federal 5300 24-15B, Willow Creek, middle Bakken, 36 stages, 3.7 million labs sand/ceramic, t2/14; cum 54K 4/14;
• 25740, 810, Oasis, Fairfax 6093 12-26B, Gros Ventre, middle Bakken, 36 stages, 4.5 million lbs sand; t12/13; cum 27K 4/14;
• 26182, 140, Oasis, Morgan 6093 12-6 1H, Gros Ventre, 1st Bench Three Forks, 36 stages; 4.3 million lbs sand; t1/14; cum 13K 41/4;

EOG uses upwards of 10 million lbs to frack their Parshall wells (and sometimes more)