Monday, July 30, 2018

QEP Re-Fracks Its MHA Wells In Deep Water Creek Bay -- July 30, 2018

For newbies: I've always maintained the number of rigs in the Bakken was irrelevant with regard to the amount of production (do not take that out of context). For me, the purpose of tracking the number of wells was that it was a good indicator of the amount of activity in the Bakken. The other reason, of course: everyone tracks rig count, even if it really doesn't matter any more. LOL.

I digress.

If folks have been paying attention, the number of rigs in the Bakken has actually been decreasing these last couple of weeks after hitting a recent high of 70. And yet, we are going to see new production records for the next several months. What's going on? Re-fracks. And re-fracks are not reflected in rigs counts.

I assume QEP has been re-fracking for awhile; I don't know. But now we have some examples of QEP re-fracking. This was in a field not often followed by me. I will have to go back and check QEP's "Helis Grail" field. [Later: yup. QEP has begun re-fracking in the Bakken. Link here to Grail oil field.]

The well:
  • 20271, 592, QEP, MHA 5-13-14H-150-91, Deep Water Creek Bay, API - 33-055-00142; t12/17; cum 231K 5/18; no report of the re-frack in the file report, but at FracFocus, 10/16/17 - 10/25/17; 6.6 million gallons of water; 85% water;
Production profile:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN5-201824729372621034840562191801
BAKKEN4-20183010172102591387951203599362
BAKKEN3-20181660885866908535642160690
BAKKEN2-2018238117821011207480924071301
BAKKEN1-201831117121160026148751023853649
BAKKEN12-201731134741342240361880810476690
BAKKEN11-2017227098699147916445504163
BAKKEN10-20170000000
BAKKEN9-201772421956776760
BAKKEN8-2017316716702323213210
BAKKEN7-2017318688652878764551
BAKKEN6-2017293453349469974217
BAKKEN5-2017318869202276709242
BAKKEN4-2017304844634276382300

And I find this interesting. This well is pretty isolated. There are only three horizontal wells in this drilling unit.
  • 20271, above
  • 19683, on the same pad, and paralle with #20271, also re-fracked; 766, QEP, MHA 2-13-14H-150-91, Deep water Creek Bay, t12/11; cum 231K 5/18; huge jump in production; same profile as above;
  • 17940, a bit farther south on a separate two-well pad, also re-fracked, 1,217, QEP, MHA 1-13-14H-150-91, t1/10; cum 367K 5/18; production profile:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN5-20183111676117907444493526771011
BAKKEN4-20181968166562885326891733248
BAKKEN3-20181966906982595337352202670
BAKKEN2-20182491058923948048333508390
BAKKEN1-201830150351533916952835138343937
BAKKEN12-201731191391869737343908434575219
BAKKEN11-20171545194206418010850854
BAKKEN10-20170000000
BAKKEN9-2017624125216913491981151
BAKKEN8-20173114361446848105410540
BAKKEN7-20173115321588918166112382
BAKKEN6-201730165916659132095792895
BAKKEN5-2017311792175496920993211357

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