Crescent Point started the kick-off point early in the morning (before sunrise, 4:00 a.m.) on April 27, 2015, and reached total depth just after midnight (0003) on May 14, 2015. Took awhile. The lateral is the tough drilling; reaching vertical depth should be fairly routine. This well was 27 miles north, 3.5 miles west of Williston. D and C facies of the middle Bakken; target was the 10' D & C facies. Max gas was 6,482 units.
The geologist's report was brutally honest: the horizontal well path did a poor job of following the formation dip. With the exception of one shale strike resulting in a sidetrack, 100% of the cased production well bore was drilled within the middle Bakken formation. 1.8% was drilled within the productive E facies rock of the middle Bakken formation. 26.9% was drilled within the productive D facies rock; 41.7% within the productive C facies rock; 16.2% was drilled within the less productive B facies rock of the middle Bakken formation; and, finally, 13.4% was drilled within the productive A facies rock of the middle Bakken. Ability to follow our 10' middle Bakken target zone fared poorly with 39.1% of the lateral being drilled within our 10' target window.
We've talked about that before.
And then nine more permits yesterday, four EOG, four BR, and then one by Berenergy. But I think folks are missing the big, big story right now -- how much oil is being stored underground. During the boom, frack spreads had trouble keeping up with the drilling and the fracklog was generally around 400, all for operational reasons.
Now with the low price of oil, operators are drilling to total depth but not completing the wells, and the state started using a new acronym (DUC) -- or at least new to me. The fracklog went from 400 to 800 fairly quickly. I think many of us thought it would plateau or peak at 800 and then start to drop again, with the one-year rule, but surprise, surprise, it hit 933 in the August data (Director's Cut, October, 2015). Every day I'm seeing more and more DUCs, it seems, and fewer and fewer of these DUCs being completed (the "producing wells completed" daily statistic).
By the way, getting back to that Berenergy / Chatfield oil field well. I could be wrong, but I think the Chatfield is a "new" Madison oil field in the Williston Basin. See this September 29, 2014, post. The field is 20 miles NNE of Minot.
Look at the Ballard wildcat that "discovered" the Chatfield (as far as I know):
- 27319, 600, Ballard Petroleum, Fines 24-19, t6/14; cum 66K 8/15;
Pool | Date | Days | BBLS Oil | Runs | BBLS Water | MCF Prod | MCF Sold | Vent/Flare |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MADISON | 8-2015 | 31 | 4036 | 4001 | 413 | 250 | 0 | 250 |
MADISON | 7-2015 | 31 | 4118 | 4114 | 427 | 247 | 0 | 247 |
MADISON | 6-2015 | 30 | 4044 | 4135 | 430 | 248 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 5-2015 | 31 | 4033 | 4054 | 433 | 240 | 0 | 240 |
MADISON | 4-2015 | 30 | 4386 | 4447 | 436 | 239 | 0 | 239 |
MADISON | 3-2015 | 31 | 4479 | 4383 | 473 | 205 | 0 | 205 |
MADISON | 2-2015 | 28 | 4059 | 4078 | 439 | 149 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 1-2015 | 31 | 4417 | 4615 | 478 | 203 | 0 | 150 |
MADISON | 12-2014 | 31 | 4788 | 4420 | 494 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 11-2014 | 30 | 4337 | 4514 | 462 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 10-2014 | 31 | 4724 | 4718 | 528 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 9-2014 | 30 | 4716 | 4810 | 510 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 8-2014 | 31 | 5280 | 5164 | 557 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 7-2014 | 31 | 5548 | 5607 | 586 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 6-2014 | 13 | 3102 | 2839 | 438 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The other Ballard well in the Chatfield:
- 29807, 352, Ballard, Nelson 34-19, Chatfield, a Madison well, t3/15; cum 39K 8/15;
Pool | Date | Days | BBLS Oil | Runs | BBLS Water | MCF Prod | MCF Sold | Vent/Flare |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MADISON | 8-2015 | 31 | 6221 | 6144 | 1056 | 376 | 0 | 376 |
MADISON | 7-2015 | 31 | 6118 | 6081 | 1106 | 384 | 0 | 384 |
MADISON | 6-2015 | 30 | 5929 | 5924 | 1123 | 369 | 0 | 0 |
MADISON | 5-2015 | 31 | 6453 | 6423 | 1194 | 353 | 0 | 353 |
MADISON | 4-2015 | 30 | 6431 | 6492 | 1244 | 374 | 0 | 374 |
MADISON | 3-2015 | 31 | 7761 | 7627 | 1557 | 582 | 0 | 582 |
MADISON | 2-2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
See graphic below, to see where these two Ballard well are.
You know, if that Chatfield well works out, it brings us full circle. Shortly after starting the blog, I received a number of notes from readers -- no, that's not true -- I first heard it from a "hot shot" operator while I was visiting Williston. I was turning around on the road in front of his office, and actually got out of the Honda Civic to take a photo of the new Baker Hughes building west of Williston, and he came out and we talked, and he told me of the rumor of a "river" of oil NNE of Minot. I did not post that at the time for any number of reason. Mostly I didn't want to get him into trouble. Or me.
Sometimes I feel like I'm just beginning to see the light.
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