Wednesday, September 17, 2014
22989, QEP, Spotted Horn-Bakken, a) 24 wells on each of 2 1280-acre units; 48 wells on a 2560-acre unit; McKenzie
22993, QEP, Grail-Bakken, 24 wells on all of the 640-acre, 1280-acre, and 2560-acre units within Zones I, II, III, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XIII; 7 wells on each 1280-acre unit within Zone VI; McKenize
Thursday, September 18, 2014
23033, Enerplus, South Fork-Bakkn, 4 wells on each of 2 320-acre spacing units; 7 wells on each of 4 1280-acre units; Dunn
23035, Enerplus, McGregory Buttes-Bakken, 7 wells on each of 5 640-acre units; 7 wells on each of 4 1280-acre units; Dunn
23067, Newfield, Sand Creek-Bakken, 8 wells on an existing 640-acre unit;
23069, Triangle, Antelope Creek-Bakken, 12 wells on each of 4 1280-acre units; McKenzie
23070, Triangle, Timber Creek-Bakken, 12 wells an existing 1280-acre unit; McKenzie
23071, Triangle, Rawson-Bakken, 12 wells on each of 5 1280-acre units; McKenzie
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Case No. 23084: In the matter of a hearing called on a motion of the Commission to consider amending the Bakken, Bakken/Three Forks, Three Forks, and/or Sanish Pool field rules to establish oil conditioning standards and/or impose such provisions as deemed appropriate to improve the transportation safety and marketability of crude oil.
I noticed on the September 17th docket that Hess in case #22955 asks to drill a horizontal well into the Lodgepole formation in Williams County and in cases #22956 and #22958 asks to drill horizontal wells into the Red River formation in McKenzie and Williams Counties. I don't tend to follow the hearing dockets all that closely, but seeing requests for horizontal wells into these formations in McKenzie and Williams Counties seemed unusual. Aren't stratigraphic test wells drilled into formations other than the Bakken and Three Forks in these counties usually vertical wells?
ReplyDeleteYou are correct; generally (always [?] vertical wells, at least what little I know). However, Slawson and/or Oasis (I forget which/both) have been drilling horizontal Lodgepoles. Also, the recent articles elsewhere about Bakken technology being used on older formations suggests that operators are trying something new.
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