Production By Association -- The Nathan Hale -- Spotted Horn -- November 25, 2018

The Grizzly wells are coming off the confidential list this next week.

The graphic:

The well of interest, has not been re-fracked according to NDIC data at this time, last sundry form of note received in 2013:

• 17978, 993, WPX, Nathan Hale 4-25H, 33-053-03007, Spotted Horn, t1/10; cum 359K 9/18, recent production profile, (full production profile at this post):

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	9-2018	1	0	52	24	2	0	2
BAKKEN	8-2018	23	12332	12543	2039	17767	16327	0
BAKKEN	7-2018	31	16105	16005	2444	19438	15898	1654
BAKKEN	6-2018	30	26589	26639	5557	32093	23505	5274
BAKKEN	5-2018	31	8377	8171	4914	10112	6117	2116
BAKKEN	4-2018	18	2243	2216	2896	2707	982	1291
BAKKEN	3-2018	25	6576	6761	4828	7937	4612	2386
BAKKEN	2-2018	23	17139	17228	6048	20688	11684	6583
BAKKEN	1-2018	22	14317	14981	6872	17280	10324	4721
BAKKEN	12-2017	31	22754	22034	11469	27464	10535	13741
BAKKEN	11-2017	28	19318	19146	18597	23316	1568	18995
BAKKEN	10-2017	5	923	931	310	1114	26	914
BAKKEN	9-2017	29	1155	1079	192	1394	610	84
BAKKEN	8-2017	11	362	357	102	439	114	69

Someone recently said that they could quit drilling new wells in the Bakken for a year or so, simply complete the DUCs and return inactive wells to production, and North Dakota would continue to maintain production at current levels. The example above supports that view.

Whatever happened to all that talk about the Red Queen?

I also remember all that hand-wringing by mineral owners upset that oil companies were going to be drilling new wells near their wells that were already producing.

Something tells me there is still a lot to learn about tight oil, unconventional oil, the Bakken.