Random Update On An 18-Well Pad? Hess EN-Fretheim/EN-Cvancara In Robinson Lake, The Bakken, North Dakota; August 3, 2014

Updates

July 13, 2018: production data updates; see below.

February 24, 2016: all 18 wells have been updated; see below.

July 25, 2015: all 18 wells in place now:

June 11, 2015: an update with a photo from a reader. 

Original Post

Earlier I posted an incredible photograph, sent in by a reader, of eleven pumpers on one pad. Here is the narrative from the reader who sent the photograph:

In the photo of the mega pad you can only see 11 pump jacks but there is another well at the far end of the site that is not on pump yet. You can see that well head if you zoom in. This brings the count to twelve wells.

Currently there are permits for three more wells sited on this same pad making this a fifteen well pad.

I have never seen a fifteen well pad in person and it was quite impressive.

They are the EN-Cvancara/EN- Fretheim wells located in Robinson Lake oil field 155-93-32. Notice there are no oil storage tanks on site.

Yes, that was one of the first things I noticed: no storage tanks. Can you imagine all the trucks that would be necessary to service this pad?

Two section view.

Zooming in .. the two pads.

This was posted April 29, 2013, and now updated (as usual: the narrative is pretty much not updated; only the IPs and the cumulative production are generally updated):

 This started out as a 6-well pad, but three more wells have been added.

The original 6-well pad (the original post), 2560-acre spacing; this is the only 2560-acre spacing unit in the Robinson Lake. I assume there will eventually be overlapping 2560-acre spacing units in the rest of the Robinson Lake. Also, note how long ago the original Cvancara wells were put in -- back in late 2011, and they already had 2560-acre spacing units. The original wells are about 1.5 years old and already exceed 100,000 bbls total production:

• 19899, 603, Hess, EN-Fretheim A-155-93-3334H-3, Robinson Lake, t4/12; cum 198K 4/19;
• 19900, 1,037, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3231H-3, Robinson Lake, t12/11; cum 272K 4/19;
• 19901, 668, Hess, EN-Fretheim A-155-93-3334H-2, Robinson Lake, t11/11; cum 227K 4/19;  
• 19902, 1,132, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3231H-2, Robinson Lake, t11/11; cum 314K 4/19;
• 19903, 795, Hess, EN-Fretheim A-155-93-3334H-1, Robinson Lake, t11/11; cum 244K 4/19;
• 19905, 1,341, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3231H-1, Robinson Lake, t10/11; cum 359K 4/19;

Now, add three more:

• 24868, 553, Hess, EN-Fretheim A 155-93-3334H-9, Robinson Lake, 4 sections, t6/15; cum 116K 4/19;
• 24869, 868, Hess, EN-Fretheim A 155-93-3334H-8, Robinson Lake, 4 sections, t8/13; cum 181K 4/19;
• 24870, 662, Hess, EN-Fretheim A 155-93-3334H-7, Robinson Lake, 4 sections, t8/13; cum 175K 4/19; just went off-line 1/19; back on line 3/19; nothing unusual;
  

Also, note: for the Fretheim wells, the shorthand is Fretheim-1; Fretheim-2; Fretheim-3; Fretheim-7; Fretheim-8; and, Fretheim-9; suggesting that #4, #5, and #6 are yet to be filled in (and they were; see below). Doing the same for the Cvancara wells, and one quickly has an 18-well pad. Lynn Helms, Director/NDIC, recently mentioned that we will be seeing 18-well pads very, very soon.

• 25788, 762, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3334H-6, Robinson Lake, t4/14; 177K 4/19; 
• 25787, 758, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3334H-5, Robinson Lake, t4/14; cum 176K 4/19;
• 25786, 1,121, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3334H-4, Robinson Lake, t4/14; cum 188K 4/19; just went off-line 1/19; back on line 2/19; nothing unusual;
• 28576, 518, Hess, EN-Fretheim A-155-93-3334H-4, Robinson Lake, t2/15; cum 135K 4/19;
• 28575, 805, Hess, EN-Fretheim A-155-93-3334H-5, Robinson Lake, t1/15; cum 143K 4/19;
• 28574, 583, Hess, EN-Fretheim A-155-93-3334H-6, Robinson Lake, t2/15; cum 109K 4/19;

Add three more, July 25, 2015:

• 31000, 576, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3231H-7, Robinson Lake, 4 sections, t8/15; cum 135K 4/19;
• 31001, A, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3231H-8, Robinson Lake, 4 sections, no test date, cum 124K 4/19;
• 31002, 1,034, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3231H-9, Robinson Lake, 4 sections, t8/15; cum 129K 4/19; just went off-line, 1/19; back on line 2/19; nothing unusual;